Spanish Grand Prix 2021: Practice 3 team radio
36 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Spanish Grand Prix 2021, across 16 drivers. Pierre GASLY had the most, with 5.
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
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 5 messages
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 5 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 4 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Alpine · 3 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 2 messages
- Nikita MAZEPIN · Haas · 2 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · McLaren · 1 message
- Mick SCHUMACHER · Haas · 1 message
- Sebastian VETTEL · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 1 message
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 1 message
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Two
Fernando ALONSO: burnouts and
Engineer: the first gear start.
Engineer: How was the balance?
Fernando ALONSO: Okay, low grip.
Engineer: Copy that.
Sergio PEREZ: How's the balance? Yeah, I'm on
Engineer: the
Sergio PEREZ: street to the low speed finance sector. I'll be neutral to the high speed. Copy.
Engineer: We have new brakes on the car, if you can do a good braking turn one.
Engineer: Daniel it could be interesting to try the car with a bit more front wing how do you feel the front wing is great so you have 15 seconds behind suggest to box this lap
Engineer: Okay, so first lap of Nikita with a tow was 21.4 Get back to him some driving. How's the balance? How was the grip?
Mick SCHUMACHER: It's alright. I just need to get used to it. I think it's
Engineer: a
Mick SCHUMACHER: bit different. Yeah, the wood conditions. Yep, understood
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, I had a lot of front end, especially at the beginning of the lap, then last sector a bit on the understeer.
Engineer: OK, understood.
Engineer: Ok, we are still very early days but it looks like the balance is not too bad at the moment given first push, we have a look on the next one
Engineer: So Yuki, pull toggle off out of turn 12, we are happy with that, you can go ahead. And obviously you forget the push toggle in turn 5, but you understood yourself.
Engineer: It's a good charge on this lap, thinking only one call this time.
Sebastian VETTEL: Pairs won't be ready if I do only one call.
Nicholas LATIFI: Yeah, the first lab I just didn't get the deployment, this lab was proper
Engineer: And Luis at the toe in sector one.
Engineer: And you can use the brake warming function to keep the brakes in, the last sector. Yeah but I can't do both, the brakes are gonna be out of the window again. Use the brake warming, you cannot do the pitlane work if the PU is too hot. And if I have bad brakes again, then the next run is messed up. Just try to use the brake warming mate, use the brake warming, and brakes are good at the moment.
Engineer: Okay, so compared to the Mercedes on soft. We are slightly quicker in sector one Half a tenth down in sector two sector three was two tenths down
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, it would be too much worse out in 7, 10, 13.
Engineer: Yeah, we see on the second push a bit slacked yesterday, a bit more on the second push up.
Pierre GASLY: But the rear feels better in the 10, 10, 12.
Engineer: And good braking turn 10 with DRS. You always say late. Literally I'm in the entry, you know? Yuki, calm down. Okay, we'll improve for the next. It's fine.
Esteban OCON: With this grip, with the turn lap, it was probably a bit too rear limited now.
Engineer: Probably nice man, it's good we found the upper limit though.
Engineer: Hamilton opening the lap behind.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, I see him again behind. Unbelievable, this guy in the last sector.
Engineer: Let us know what you think of the change we made. I felt more oversteer, and
Fernando ALONSO: it's the main limitation, the oversteer.
Engineer: OK.
Engineer: In Form 4, we had a bit of a right-hand side comping and plate damage, so just watch out for Turn 7 exit.
Engineer: Get the front brakes up to temperature.
George RUSSELL: Copy, the pedal went long end at R1 for input.
Engineer: It was a good lap apart from the snap out of five. Well managed.
Nicholas LATIFI: Yeah,
Engineer: it's
Nicholas LATIFI: still just brakes. I mean, I have no confidence in turn one. There's no bite.
Engineer: It's
Nicholas LATIFI: pulling.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: I
Kimi RAIKKONEN: think I have a puncture, yeah. Yeah,
Engineer: yeah, watch for Latifi behind, two seconds. Yeah, I don't care because I... Yeah, no worries.
Nikita MAZEPIN: And in front of... Mick needs to go faster. Because I'm going to just fall backwards.
Engineer: Okay, copy, copy. We'll pass it on. Or can I overtake him? You can overtake him if you do it early. You can do it overtaking earlier.
Engineer: I just had Norris go off at turn 10, he may have dragged some gravel on.
Engineer: Easy on the tyres, right hand turns.
Nicholas LATIFI: The brakes are in a ****** window, so I still haven't pushed the pit entry once.
Engineer: Okay. For me, the brakes are good. The temperature, they're good. If you do a hard stop turn 10, they should be alive for the pit entry, mate.
Nicholas LATIFI: Yeah, but if they're good, why is the alarms on?
Engineer: We'll discuss that later, but for us, they're good.
Engineer: So I'd expect Schumacher behind to go for another charge lap, but we never know
Pierre GASLY: Why do I have so much understeer at 10-4?
Engineer: Yeah, it's where we lose all the lap.
Pierre GASLY: Same 10-13, it's like, can't turn the car.
Pierre GASLY: What's happening in the last shake-in with the Riaz, I still have this handbrake feeling
Nikita MAZEPIN: It's
Engineer: a
Nikita MAZEPIN: one-lap siren man.
Engineer: Copy that, copy that, all clear.
George RUSSELL: Keep an eye on the brakes, I feel like I'm losing them.
Engineer: So there's quite a bit of traffic, let's see if we can cross the line, you've got 20 seconds.
George RUSSELL: These guys are waiting way too long well over five seconds
Engineer: Just keep an eye on the brakes obviously. Affirm, so the material's coming off.
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