Spanish Grand Prix 2021: Practice 1 team radio
34 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Spanish Grand Prix 2021, across 16 drivers. 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
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 4 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 4 messages
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 3 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Robert KUBICA · Alfa Romeo · 2 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · McLaren · 2 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 1 message
- Mick SCHUMACHER · Haas · 1 message
- Antonio GIOVINAZZI · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Sebastian VETTEL · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 1 message
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: So stay off the curbs.
Lewis HAMILTON: Car's put to the right.
Engineer: Are you okay? Are you okay?
Nikita MAZEPIN: All good, cannot get into the gear.
Nicholas LATIFI: Copy. Just check before I stopped for the start, there was an increase in revs as I pulled the clutch. And that's Leclerc pushing, Leclerc pushing within three, so I think Bottas might be in sync with you.
Engineer: We'll look at tyre vibration watch for Sainz, Sainz close behind, Sainz after Sainz. It's all good, the
Nikita MAZEPIN: balance is really oversteery.
Engineer: Copy that, I think it will improve a lot as the tyres come up, so let's just try and work those tyres back up.
Nicholas LATIFI: Is everything okay with the brakes? Feels very strange on the front axle.
Pierre GASLY: Didn't feel great, but open balance. Yeah, we can see that, it's 30 days, it's 30 days.
Engineer: So what's obviously the rear isn't great, but what's the balance like do we need to reduce understeer somewhere?
Mick SCHUMACHER: Yeah, some places I've got to be understeer like turn 1, turn 5 Okay, so we'll come back to you on that. Yeah, understood. Car steer's a bit weird also, turn 10, but I think that's
Engineer: a
Mick SCHUMACHER: new tarmac.
Charles LECLERC: What's a people never change
Nikita MAZEPIN: The tires were going off man. I mean it's really frustrating driving this car because it snaps on you when you really don't expect it.
Pierre GASLY: I have to go compressing Yeah,
Engineer: that's what it is
Engineer: That turn five was better.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, just a lot of front under rotations into turn five causes a lot of understeer.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: First car behind is Latifi, 31.
Lando NORRIS: You don't need to tell me the speed, just tell me one position I need to go in and that's it.
Nikita MAZEPIN: I have very little clearance of turning in this seat. I don't know what change it's from last night.
Engineer: I
Nikita MAZEPIN: can keep driving like that, but it's very
Engineer: difficult. Okay, in which case we'll get you out and we'll change the seat.
Engineer: Is
Antonio GIOVINAZZI: there any picker I can use for more rotation, Andrea? Use
Engineer: special 3 for turn 5.
Nicholas LATIFI: A lot of pulling under brakes. Which is the axle that's off? That's
Engineer: the
Nicholas LATIFI: front right. Front right is low.
Engineer: The tires are very cold out of the blankets. Yeah, copy that.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, just check everything is okay, because for me the car behaves quite strange, same as... It's a bit better this run compared to the previous run, but still...
Engineer: Okay, copy that.
Engineer: We think Max did some front wing damage on the exit kerb at turn 7, apex turn 8.
Pierre GASLY: Can you see in turn 2, 3, 9, it's just like when I turn, I get big variation, tons of front potential, and Debra is not following.
Engineer: Yeah, we can see that. We have to find the reason. We can see that in the balance.
Pierre GASLY: It's better now compared to last run. I think this does feel a bit better.
Engineer: how was the balance on this tire?
Nikita MAZEPIN: normal back
Engineer: to normal again but there is no understeer in the car even slow speed
Sebastian VETTEL: I lost the piece, probably front wing,
Engineer: exit of 7.
Daniel RICCIARDO: OK, he's still pushing, it got messy with the Red Bull as well so I'll do another call
Engineer: First car on a time-lapse, yeah go on, yeah go on, no you, no you go on first, okay Latifi 20, time-lapse
Lando NORRIS: Um just 10, 10, a lot of understeer through the apex, is it diff, do I need to come down on diff?
Engineer: Ok Yuki, until turn 10 the lap is fine, we are losing the last sector, we need to bring more speed in entry of almost all the corners, if you need stability we do the diff entry step that we spoke about, so entry 6 plus pull toggle before turn 10.
Robert KUBICA: Try to restock. I'm stuck. You're stuck? Sorry, yeah.
Engineer: No starts here. Yeah, let's go no start. Let's just concentrate on getting a decent read on this run, please.
Engineer: You should get one timed lap on each front wing. One timed lap on each.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Understood.
Engineer: Cars queuing, waiting to do their low fuel laps, you can just go.
Nikita MAZEPIN: Yeah, you tell me that when I'm there.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, this is so
Max VERSTAPPEN: Is my battery fine?
Engineer: Battery is okay, obviously tyres are a little bit hot now but we'll see how we go.
Charles LECLERC: Big mistakes. Well, two big mistakes.
Engineer: Nice one.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Got properly flocked there.
Engineer: I
Lando NORRIS: can't drive it, I've got way too much cramp. Okay, understood.
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