Saudi Arabian Grand Prix 2021: Practice 2 team radio
51 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix 2021, across 17 drivers. Yuki TSUNODA had the most, with 7.
These are transcripts of real team radio audio, produced by speech recognition and presented as an archive rather than as edited prose. Radio is clipped and noisy, so wording can be imperfect. Each message is attributed to the driver or their engineer, and the original audio is playable in the archive.
Who was on the radio
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 7 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 5 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 4 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Aston Martin · 4 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Nikita MAZEPIN · Haas · 3 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 3 messages
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 3 messages
- Mick SCHUMACHER · Haas · 3 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · McLaren · 3 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Alpine · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 1 message
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Can we go recharge on please, recharge on.
Engineer: Good warm up on the brakes.
Engineer: okay so all cars that have gone out so far apart from Norris are on the medium or the hard mostly medium
Engineer: And the wind is similar to a previous one, previous session.
Nikita MAZEPIN: I will need a helmet change before the next run. Need something less dark.
Engineer: Understood. We'll get that prepared.
Esteban OCON: It was pretty similar to this morning, a little bit more front end in the first high speed section but still
Engineer: the limitation. Just watch for Raikkonen coming through now, Raikkonen coming through, he's just behind Sainz now, he's pushing.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Right, hello, GATS?
Engineer: No more threats.
Valtteri BOTTAS: The tires were not ready, especially the rear.
Fernando ALONSO: The sky is completely cold. All
Engineer: that was thermal.
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, I didn't know the car in front gap. It was too close with us. Come on.
Engineer: That was a good line last corner, good line last corner, he should be clear behind for now. A lot of traffic. Yeah, copy traffic, we saw Checo, he was cruising.
Lance STROLL: Yeah, Hamilton.
Engineer: Hamilton's starting his lap now.
Engineer: You can consider back to zero brake balance, that's just one click rearward.
Engineer: So Leclerc's going now, one in front, two, three, four, five, six ahead now, you're good to go.
Engineer: Verstappen there has just gone purple again, it's half a second ahead, it's three and a half tenths sector one, and then a tenth in the final sector.
Engineer: For info, nobody is doing double cooldown, just for info.
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, but Gutsley is doing double cooldown because of a mistake.
Engineer: Let's get some temperature back in those tires and brakes
Yuki TSUNODA: The car feels quite good.
Engineer: Copy.
Yuki TSUNODA: I think it's still quite understeery, I mean high speed, low speed, especially medium and high speed, considering soft tyre, maybe we need three steps.
Engineer: Yeah, very clear.
Charles LECLERC: What is the zero on the dash? I'm pushing and I'm like 5 seconds off.
George RUSSELL: BBW failure I believe. Pedal went to the floor.
Engineer: Alright Roger, just looking at it.
George RUSSELL: No, coming back to me. The pedal was so long it went straight to the floor. Yeah, copy that.
Engineer: So you're good on front temps, don't let the front right drop anymore, rear we're happy to be a bit warmer.
Engineer: And target is slightly negative at the front, zero at the rear.
Engineer: And track, there's a half a second improvement between track and tyres.
Engineer: Mate, I can't drive this one, it's too much understeer! Copy, Flap Adjust, Box Box, Leclerc is face to you, behind.
Mick SCHUMACHER: I had a small contact with the wall, exit of turn 37
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Ah, it's a f***ing joke with the traffic.
Engineer: Yep, yep, we saw, saw. No one, I think we need to do another charge lap, probably. Yeah, we need to do another charge. I can't see anyone pushing at the moment. But you will have a lot of cars starting a lap.
Engineer: Got f***ing
Lewis HAMILTON: traffic, someone's going a really slow exit of 10.
Engineer: what's
Sebastian VETTEL: going on ahead what's going on ahead there
Engineer: will be some bunching six cars
Engineer: For whatever reason, quite a few cars have not hit their first time lap on the soft.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Ah mate, lost the rear.
Engineer: Ok, let's do it again.
Engineer: And if you want we can do another push lap, just let me know, track is clear behind. Double cool you mean?
Charles LECLERC: He said double push. Double cool you mean?
Engineer: Another push lap. We can push another time. I
Charles LECLERC: heard double instead of another.
Engineer: It was me maybe, sorry about that.
Engineer: Do you want to either go at this max or not? I'm happy to box if you don't want to. I have the same problem again on the front and
Max VERSTAPPEN: that with cold tyres combined.
Engineer: Let's go for a double slow but it will compromise our number of laps at high fuel so it's up to you.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah I don't care.
Yuki TSUNODA: Parents don't know how to move away from the f***ing truck.
Engineer: Ok Pierre, we think the car is ok, we think we understand the issue, we think the car should be ok Copy Good braking last corner, good braking last corner
Pierre GASLY: I think it would be good to check the front right tyre when I come back
Engineer: just
Pierre GASLY: to see if with the first lap because I had quite a lot of understeer just to see if it has damage to understand for the race Ok
Engineer: we will check and in the meantime we will go back to the other compound Ok
Pierre GASLY: how was that in terms of cornering?
Engineer: Compared to Alonso it was strong, turn 16, turn 13, yeah very good
Fernando ALONSO: Copy. How many laps do you plan on this tyre?
Engineer: Probably about 8 or 9 then, including the pit stop and a few laps on mediums.
Fernando ALONSO: Copy. Maybe with the mediums we don't need any, eh? Yeah, copy. Just straight this run, yep.
Engineer: OK, copy that.
Engineer: Clutch drop was on target and initial throttle very good.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Understood.
Engineer: Best place to improve, 7.8 APEX speed, copy that
Nikita MAZEPIN: Cannot, I almost put it in the wall Yeah, I think you saw it man, but I was almost in the wall two laps ago OK,
Engineer: for the next set would you like a balance adjust?
Nikita MAZEPIN: GBC? Yeah, 02 less
Engineer: Yellow flags turn one at the moment. Yellow flags turn one. Track clear.
George RUSSELL: What's going on turn 4? I keep hitting the rear!
Engineer: Sorry about the no yellow. It's six more timed in the session. We're just deciding what to do. How's the tire holding up?
Mick SCHUMACHER: It's alright.
George RUSSELL: The deployment feels pretty inconsistent.
Yuki TSUNODA: I don't know why, but Leclerc is not so fast, just he is in DRS to overtake me.
Engineer: Okay.
Engineer: Ok, so do a lot of engine cooling please, engine cooling on the lane. Schumacher is 4 seconds behind, and when you can, I know balance is difficult, but thoughts for aero balance? I would go down, because it was getting tricky for the rear at the end. So Schumacher 2.5 behind, there's a 5 second gap behind him. Two clicks down? Yeah, two clicks down.
Engineer: Four more timed in the session. How's the tire?
Engineer: Yeah, this pace actually looks decent and on other cars the soft tires at high fuel look okay
Engineer: Are you okay?
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, I am.
Engineer: Red flag, stay positive, and box. Enchant stop at turn 22, 23. He hit the wall. He is ok, he is ok.
Carlos SAINZ: Ok, good.
Engineer: Enchant button on.
Engineer: I'm sorry
Charles LECLERC: guys
Nikita MAZEPIN: OK, I hope he's fine, he's not too big.
Engineer: And the Kirk is OK.
Nicholas LATIFI: Is he okay? He looked like a very good
Engineer: one.
Nicholas LATIFI: Yes, he's okay. He's jumping out. Copy.
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