Saudi Arabian Grand Prix 2021: Practice 3 team radio
50 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix 2021, across 17 drivers. 47 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Nikita MAZEPIN had the most, with 6.
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
- Nikita MAZEPIN · Haas · 6 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 6 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 5 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 4 messages
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 4 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 3 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 3 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 3 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Aston Martin · 3 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 1 message
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 1 message
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 1 message
- Antonio GIOVINAZZI · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Daniel RICCIARDO · McLaren · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: We'll get a tow for the next run, we'll just get the balance wheel on this run.
Engineer: So Lance, track is clear behind you. You're good to push as Jun explained. So it will be out and straight back in, out and straight back in.
Engineer: Kamaz, charge on, charge on. No traffic threat from behind and shouldn't be any queuing at the end of the slowdown lap. The
Nikita MAZEPIN: car has a tendency to over-rotate in sluicey corners.
Engineer: Looking at 2, Edward's looking at your kerb usage in 2, I'll come back to you with more feedback. Any other places where you feel that sensation?
Nikita MAZEPIN: I think the car, I'm not struggling with understanding anything at all.
Engineer: Copy. So I'm going 22 depth. Understood.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Is the wind different direction today? I don't
Engineer: know.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: It's
Engineer: a
Kimi RAIKKONEN: little low.
Engineer: Exactly. So it's different. There is virtually no wind at all today. No wind at all.
Engineer: So there's an extended Y line on exit. Just have a look at that.
Nikita MAZEPIN: last corner rear looking level feedback pretty
Engineer: balanced front and rear with where you're braking so pretty balanced front and rear wouldn't probably push forward for there
Engineer: M123 radio check, can you hear me? Closing the lap.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, I can hear you, OK.
Engineer: OK, good. All clear from behind, currently P3, both pass on the hard 30.3 and Kimi on the soft 30.1.
Engineer: Fail 1, fail 2, fail 1, fail, fail 2, fail. Can Hamilton abort the traffic?
Nikita MAZEPIN: Yeah, I don't think it's working
Engineer: Okay, if we're interested to keep as much as we can pushing these cars around you will push this next lap on low fuel So hopefully yeah Yeah, the
Nikita MAZEPIN: thing is the tires are really going off Because I'm pushing
Engineer: Yeah, I knew that would happen.
Engineer: I need to
Nikita MAZEPIN: cool down, man. I'm gonna crash in a minute.
Engineer: Okay.
Engineer: Right toggle turn one and two, all clear from behind, good warm up on the brakes.
Engineer: 2 tenths in sector 1 to science and medium, and 1 and a half in sector 2 to science and medium. We are checking now.
Engineer: Okay, so main losses we're seeing to max, exit 16 and exit 22. Let's try and give up a little bit on the entry to help the exit. Yeah, as Woody ran through with you overnight.
Engineer: First possible car on a timelap is Hamilton, he has only done one cool lap this time though, I'll let you know, it does look like he is pushing.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Yuki TSUNODA: Check the light rear. Maybe I touched the wall.
Engineer: and improved combined entry into turn 13, so minimum speed turns 4, 16 and combined entry 13 that's compared to Sainz with medium
Charles LECLERC: okay, lap times, so
Engineer: Sainz lap time 29.3 and Bottas with hard 29.4
Engineer: So I'm happy to lean on the rears a bit in this phase and then we'll cool them later.
Engineer: We're going
George RUSSELL: to push to the top one. Copy that.
Engineer: Can
George RUSSELL: we, high speed balance is okay, still through a little bit, 27, rear does not feel great through 13 either, let's consider rear ride height out, rear ride height, sorry.
Esteban OCON: Gain some front grip, definitely, but because of the balance previously I think it's a little bit too much.
Engineer: Copy that, do you want to go for a second lap or do you want to come in?
Esteban OCON: I think it's fine, let's come in.
Engineer: Copy that, ok let's box now then please.
Engineer: So good job on the tyres. We can prioritise the exit of 10 a little bit more and you can brake a bit later for 27. A bit later last corner. Yeah, good job on bringing the front tyres down. So a bit of brake temperature and it'll be go one last corner.
Engineer: And we'll need a good warm up on the brakes when you can.
Engineer: And we have tailwind into turn 22, 5 kph, quite low
Engineer: I
Valtteri BOTTAS: forgot the start mode.
Engineer: Very firm, and the knob I think is, there's a bunch of cars ahead of you, you would have hit them. So now you're in sync with these cars around you.
Engineer: Puncture, engine off, engine off, engine off. So we think we have a puncture Lance, we think we have a puncture, so we're aborting.
Engineer: Mode push and you can push
Nicholas LATIFI: I think I tapped the wall, front left, I'm backing off.
Engineer: Ok, ok. Is
Nicholas LATIFI: the steering still straight? It's
Engineer: a
Nicholas LATIFI: little bit right hand down. Ok,
Engineer: I'll check, try to keep speed for the tyres, don't push in the corners.
Nikita MAZEPIN: Hell man, just
Engineer: watch for make three behind would charge watch for make two behind make coming past you now on a push
Pierre GASLY: I don't know he just stayed on the line
Engineer: So that's been car behind and then you're going to have a Schumacher. He
Lewis HAMILTON: didn't tell me man, I had no idea he was coming.
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, it didn't feel great,
Engineer: yeah. Let me know if you want to do another try. Oh
Charles LECLERC: yeah, I would like to.
Engineer: Okay, so let's push again.
Engineer: We'd like to consider boxing for a bit on the start Okay, if we don't have time for it, yeah, let's do that. Yeah, it's a bit tight and we'd like to do some stuff for tomorrow Good for you. Okay, push into the lap, please. Yeah, I think it's okay. Shift 3
Engineer: Traffic is 25 Ok copy, so you've got Mazepin behind, maybe starting a lap, behind him Schumacher So you've got Schumacher behind then Ricciardo, he's also starting a lap How
Lewis HAMILTON: much longer have we got left?
Engineer: We have 11 minutes
Engineer: Diff mid zero, diff mid zero, and mode push, mode push.
Engineer: No problem on traffic. Look at this f***ing guy. What the f***
Kimi RAIKKONEN: is he doing?
Engineer: Yeah, I was told. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but did you see? You can slow down a bit to create a gap. You have nobody behind.
Engineer: We will double cool, we will double cool, you're clear behind for now, we'll double cool Can
Lance STROLL: I do a flap adjust as well? Yeah, we can box for flap adjust, yeah, how much do you need? Another half Copy half, even three quarters,
Engineer: copy three quarters
Engineer: Yep, so cool. Let's call it why I didn't yeah, it's a snow dog lap is another behind his out lap So we'll push the next lap
Engineer: Your tyres are not too hot, but we're happy to cool them a bit. Battery's good.
Engineer: Ok Kimi, no problem on traffic, so that's the plan, I suggest box, we do a start on pit exit and then you do another lap and you go on the grid for the start please.
Engineer: And we have tailwind into turn 22, low intensity, same as before. Track is clear in front.
Charles LECLERC: Ah, the McClone!
Engineer: Copy, we've seen that.
Engineer: Charge off, charge off, and we need to select 8th gear before turn 13, before turn 13.
Engineer: And we can push in the corners to warm up tires when you can. So 8th gear in 10.13 and speed in the corners.
Engineer: Just a reminder as well Max after your launch to back off in second back off in second
Engineer: Okay, fight point find is not needed, so it's just two burnouts and a second gear launch, right hand side preferred. Understood, what strat do you want? Let's have the strat 14 recharge off.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I love gear sync somehow, I don't understand.
Engineer: OK, copy.
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