Styrian Grand Prix 2021: Practice 2 team radio
75 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Styrian Grand Prix 2021, across 15 drivers. Sergio PEREZ had the most, with 12.
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
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 12 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 9 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 8 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 8 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 7 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 6 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 4 messages
- Nikita MAZEPIN · Haas · 3 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Aston Martin · 3 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · McLaren · 2 messages
- Mick SCHUMACHER · Haas · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Alpine · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Okay, that's 50 seconds under the green light.
Engineer: And let's also just work the brake on these, on this outlap to build some temperature.
Engineer: Okay, good to push next lap. Fronts minus three, rears plus one on target.
Carlos SAINZ: Reading a bit earlier now.
Engineer: And strat 8. Too
Max VERSTAPPEN: many things too late to do this. I'm already going uphill.
Engineer: You can keep up the pace on this charger lap. Wouldn't let the tyres cool down too much.
Sergio PEREZ: It's raining a bit, but the track is okay.
George RUSSELL: Copy, we've got level 1, turn 4 and turn 9-10.
Engineer: Copy, 4-9-10, level 1.
George RUSSELL: I mean the rain level's getting more and more now,
Engineer: it's uh... Look like within two, cars are still improving.
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, the rain, the condition is tricky really.
Engineer: Three seconds Yes,
Kimi RAIKKONEN: yes,
Engineer: so again you have Ricardo Russell behind I guess they will be pushing
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, I had a spin, I don't know, maybe I touched a gravel, strange one.
Engineer: So Daniel turn four you can exploit a bit more phase one braking and then don't demand quite so much of the turn in Turn three front locking was because you broke very hard initially But then released and then carried too much in phase two Perez is close now
Max VERSTAPPEN: Unbelievable. I don't know why it keeps fucking in for a while. I'm trying everything.
Engineer: How is the entry stability?
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, I feel a bit more comfortable with it. Some front locking happening in the tree.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: Now 3 seconds for Antonio, 2, 1, ok, no one else pushing, all these people behind Faze, so mode push.
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, I think back offset 4 is too much.
Engineer: Copy, don't do it.
Engineer: So we'll box at the end of this lap and get onto the soft tyre.
Engineer: Max, no immediate danger with the weather at the moment.
Engineer: Ok, traffic is good, and we would like to do a mini launch from the pit stop position, so practice people. I wouldn't want to wait, but
Kimi RAIKKONEN: I'd rather concentrate on driving now, before it rains.
Engineer: Copy, box then, box. So box? Yeah, copy, no problem. Box, stop on position and switch off.
Yuki TSUNODA: I want to have rotation and two to meet in the fastly corner turn six turn seven
Engineer: Okay, you keep box box
Engineer: What time did Latifi do on the soft? Yeah, he did 107.7, so 0.1 quicker. And Russell was 107.2. And Russell was on the soft. Latifi was on the same tire as you, so you're 0.1 off Latifi on the same tire. We have Russell coming on a push now for behind.
Engineer: Okay, so currently we've got fronts plus six, rears minus two, fronts plus six, rears minus two.
Sebastian VETTEL: We'll go double cool. Can I go through the pit lane for tyres?
Engineer: Yeah, yeah, box, box.
Sebastian VETTEL: Copy, I was on the right of the line, so yeah, copy.
Engineer: Just checking any flapper jumps. Change front wing.
Sebastian VETTEL: Yes, please, half up.
Engineer: Stop in the box.
George RUSSELL: I mean when it was spitting out I wasn't pushing to be honest, it was a bit pointless, so I'll probably save the tyre life quite a lot in those early laps.
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, that wasn't a great lap, but a lot more difficult to make those tyres look.
Engineer: Copy, understood.
Engineer: OK, so let's concentrate on tyre prep for another push lap. Can we go to Scenario 7? Correction, Scenario 9 and Sock 6. No traffic behind at the moment.
Engineer: I
Kimi RAIKKONEN: don't know where the f**k I should go when two cars are going slow in the middle or both ends of the track
Engineer: I don't know, I don't know, well ok, anyway So we have a slippery track turn 5 apparently So no one pushing behind and it's yellow turn 5
Engineer: So that's got us P7, but we think quite a few cars have turned up the power unit.
Engineer: We think quite a few cars have turned up the power unit.
Engineer: I
Yuki TSUNODA: went first neutral
Engineer: What's the limitation now, Yuki? Front or rear?
Yuki TSUNODA: I said no tires, front.
Engineer: Okay, no front tires means you need more rotation. Is it high speed only or also low speed?
Yuki TSUNODA: High speed and the traction also was already degrading from turn three, so impossible.
Engineer: Where are we on the timings currently? Oh yes, a couple of cars have improved, so Verstappen P1
Engineer: Yeah, traffic is good. So either you stay on track for another charge or you go in the pit lane for a mini launch
George RUSSELL: Can we reset the delta? 0-3 OK?
Engineer: Screen default 0-3 OK OK
Yuki TSUNODA: I don't know why I got false neutral, but it was really stressful.
Engineer: Yo, we asked for a double downshift together and we got the false neutral.
Engineer: So McLaren's on a soft predicted pace 10.4
Engineer: Mode push, mode push.
Engineer: Okay, this pace is probably too quick. We're going to start lifting coast level 1 at turn 9 and 4. And let's not use the DRS, please.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Still getting some under...
Charles LECLERC: Can we do plans 2 at the boot stop?
George RUSSELL: What's
Engineer: the
George RUSSELL: gap I had?
Engineer: I
George RUSSELL: want to see if I can overtake. 1.3
Engineer: got a higher wind intensity in general, higher wind intensity
Engineer: Let's go defend as well. Go defend. He's lifted off in turn three. Slow at three.
Engineer: Third gear rolling clutch procedure. Third gear rolling clutch procedure.
Engineer: So three more laps and let us know how the tires are.
Engineer: It's the better place to be in terms of car pace out there so you can let Hamilton through as well. Hamilton currently at 2.5
Engineer: Ok, I'm
Sebastian VETTEL: just mini-racing here, it's a bit pointless, I back off, he's a bit faster than us, he's faster than us.
Engineer: To a white line on exit.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Ah, still tired woman.
Engineer: Not great, turns out.
Engineer: So Verstappen on the hard tyre lap 1 was a 1.10.0
Daniel RICCIARDO: Sorry, I misunderstood. No,
Engineer: what you did in turn three is good, what you did in turn three is good.
Engineer: Hamilton last lap after a 1 minute 12 was a 9.3, 9.3 on soft, that was 6 laps in
Max VERSTAPPEN: I have a lot of runners here, in high speed
Engineer: OK, let me know if you'd like a front flap adjustment, we can do that
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah OK, as you read, do 3 clicks
Engineer: Understood, boxing this lap, 3 clicks up
Sergio PEREZ: What is the pace like?
Engineer: So the pace is good so far. Max has boxed for a flap adjust but his lap time is 1.099, 1.09.6
Engineer: Not really any option other than to catch and pass, please, Rick.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, I'll try that.
Engineer: Starting last timed lap.
Nikita MAZEPIN: Just so you know, it's impossible to make laps like this one, consistently. Just so you know.
Engineer: Try the red button for more aggressive tip-in locking.
Lewis HAMILTON: for this. I'll take out one hole for this run.
Engineer: Okay, copy.
Engineer: Can I have an aerobalance check, aerobalance check? A
Sebastian VETTEL: little bit more front.
Engineer: OK, just watch the rear snaps out of the low speed. How's the brake pedal?
Esteban OCON: Not going well so far.
Engineer: Copy that, all looks OK outside.
Engineer: So the lift and coast is good at one max, but try to hit your braking point. There is a bit of margin
Engineer: What is your status at the moment? Got a 4 second gap behind you.
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, I don't know. Because the car in front. So I don't know what lap time I can do.
Engineer: OK, understood.
George RUSSELL: Nobody go in lap or?
Engineer: Yeah, I've got Norris within one and PU cooling is fine. We're fine as we are and we're boxing this lap stopping box engine off
Engineer: What's the
Lewis HAMILTON: pace people are doing on this side?
Engineer: Verstappen are doing mid nines, mid nines.
Yuki TSUNODA: I need rotation, not a stability.
Engineer: and last time lap with this compound
Engineer: OK, Kimi, MOD box, we go to soft, front wing, question? Yeah,
Kimi RAIKKONEN: plus 3. Copy,
Engineer: plus 3.
Engineer: And flap update when you can.
Charles LECLERC: Press 2.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: And the battery's in a good window.
Engineer: Let's cancel liftoff mate cancel liftoff
Engineer: Okay, clutch drop was 30% and 11 meters early to the pit entry line.
Engineer: So we've gone on to the soft tyre to do the start, so science is the car will be going to 4 seconds.
Esteban OCON: So can I cool down now?
Engineer: Yeah, let's cool the car now please Esteban, cool the car.
Engineer: Max running on the hards, 109.6, 109.8.
Sergio PEREZ: A lot of front locking on this tire, and quite a bit more understeer.
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