Styrian Grand Prix 2021: Qualifying team radio
54 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the Styrian Grand Prix 2021, across 18 drivers. Max VERSTAPPEN 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
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 7 messages
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 6 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 6 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 5 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 4 messages
- Nikita MAZEPIN · Haas · 3 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 3 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 2 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · McLaren · 2 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 2 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Alpine · 2 messages
- Mick SCHUMACHER · Haas · 1 message
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 1 message
- Antonio GIOVINAZZI · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Sebastian VETTEL · Aston Martin · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Nikita MAZEPIN: in your opinion five seconds let's
Engineer: go four second gap four seconds
Engineer: Let's work the brakes a bit on this first out lap.
Engineer: Okay, let's go.
Engineer: Confirmed, Tailwind turn 3
Engineer: We're going to do a double cooldown lap and try again. So far 15 cars have set lap times.
George RUSSELL: Lots of traffic. Lots of
Engineer: traffic. Box, Box, watch the two cars behind.
Engineer: But there's a lot of cars in front it's going to back up opening the lap
Engineer: Main losses turn 7, 9 and 10, mid-corner speed.
Engineer: How
Lewis HAMILTON: bad was the time?
Engineer: Sir, P4 at the moment, 2 tenths for Stappen P1, we think that time is just about safe but we'll go again.
Engineer: In terms of sectors, four thousandths, sector one, three hundredths, sector two, tenth and a half in the final sector. Yeah, copy, you got it.
Engineer: Go new soft one time lap, and update for flat angle when you can.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, I'm happy. Maybe 0.1, but maybe not.
Engineer: OK, understood.
Engineer: Just
Valtteri BOTTAS: lost two tents with Rostov-on-Don on the way. AFL, sold out.
Mick SCHUMACHER: Ah, I lost it.
Engineer: Nice lap, Maz. Nice lap. Let's use the in button, the in button. So that was a 1.06.2. Mick was 1.06.0, so really close. Nice work, mate. Good to pull that back. Nice job.
Engineer: Okay, unfortunately we are out.
Engineer: OK, we are out, I'm afraid, P17. OK, box, give me.
Engineer: More push, more push.
Engineer: And tyre 5 please, tyre 5
Max VERSTAPPEN: Er, tyre 5 no?
Engineer: That's correct
Engineer: So time is not safe
Engineer: It's a whole train of outlap traffic
Engineer: off the main place turn 3, but 6.10 for the other areas, exit How
Lewis HAMILTON: much earlier is it at 3?
Engineer: So 0.6 loss in turn 3
Engineer: So lots of cars waiting to open laps We're boxing. Yep, we're boxing. Just make sure you don't block anyone opening a lap
Engineer: So, box this, Lachlan. This is the potential race start set.
Max VERSTAPPEN: What's
Engineer: up? Potential race start set.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, I clipped the kerb a little bit in the last corner, that's alright, just check everything. Yeah, ok, we'll take a look.
Engineer: How much more? We think it's a very very good lap, we think it's very good. How much more you think from you if we have another set?
Pierre GASLY: Maybe I can get a half
Engineer: a tenth, a tenth. Ok, copy that, I keep you posted.
Yuki TSUNODA: I go snap exit of turn 4, maybe because of understeer a little bit, but
Engineer: turn 6 I have an instability in the entry. Box, box, Yuki, box.
Yuki TSUNODA: I don't know what Giovinazzi is doing
Engineer: Yeah, I saw that
Charles LECLERC: Why is Carlos so slow?
Engineer: Can you repeat? I will come back to you on that.
Engineer: So it's a Verstappen half a tenth up in sector one, so it's down 0.606 in the middle and just two hundredths in the final
Engineer: Cancel DRS and Delta on.
Engineer: OK, P11, P11. It's not bad, free tyre choice. Nice work. How close? 104.66 to 104.67.
George RUSSELL: Oh, you're kidding me. That's annoying.
Max VERSTAPPEN: You are unbelievable. So blind. I can't fish right.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, I cannot get these tires to bite on the front. And the lap time was deleted for turn 9, track limits, we are P3. Yeah, yeah, I had a lot of fun last time.
Engineer: OK.
Fernando ALONSO: Beautiful.
Engineer: Nice that mate. That
Fernando ALONSO: was good man, so enjoyable whatever the position will be I did enjoy.
Engineer: OK Daniel, that was a good step, but I'm afraid we're P14. Box this lap. OK, understood. I don't have much of an answer for today, but we'll figure it out. Yeah, don't worry mate, this is a Sunday race circuit. There's plenty of action to go on, so don't worry, we'll fly back from here.
Engineer: Afraid we're out, Sebastian P13
Pierre GASLY: Let's try to go with the pack.
Charles LECLERC: at the
Engineer: moment low intensity tailwind into turn one I will keep you updated
Engineer: Tires are in a good window at this stage.
Engineer: Ok, that's a good lap, yeah, good lap. Think about what you need for the next lap, please.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, I think it was a good lap, just a little too. I know we did our best, but I could see the last time in the straight just
Engineer: dropping massively. Yeah, I understand. Ok, we'll have a look.
Lando NORRIS: OK Lando, so as we bring the car back, just think about front wing. Yeah, did it go up?
Engineer: Yep,
Lando NORRIS: another half.
Pierre GASLY: Ok, I let you deal with the traffic, but that's
Engineer: not
Pierre GASLY: going too early. We
Engineer: do, we do,
Pierre GASLY: we'll deal with it. Focus on your left.
Engineer: Yeah, copy that.
Max VERSTAPPEN: We're safe with the timings, yeah?
Engineer: Yeah, 30 seconds to a normal out lap You do what you need to do for your out lap mate. It's been every man to himself at the moment
Engineer: So currently 50 seconds to red light, final sector is normally 20, so it's still 30 seconds margin, that could get eaten up pretty quickly though.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, just tell me the cars.
Engineer: 20 seconds, I think we're going to have to start getting ready to go Max, if we run the lap, there's not going to be enough time in the queue.
Max VERSTAPPEN: How many cars?
Engineer: Three cars ahead of you. Okay, still 23 seconds, 55, no threats behind, V-VAL 3, V-VAL 3, and we are off, 15 seconds, 25.
Engineer: Pole position mate, pole position. Ah yes, nice job, nice job. Righto mate, both laps were good enough for the pole, well done. We call that simply lovely.
Engineer: Okay, so boxing this lap and you stop again park for me when you stop in park for me the usual procedures, please, so Stop the card and wait a few seconds will be p1 and then wait another few seconds and then go to p0, please
Fernando ALONSO: Okay Saturday guys Was enjoyable.
Engineer: See you tomorrow. Nice work mate. I'll get some good points tomorrow
Engineer: See you guys.
Yuki TSUNODA: What is this beep go
Engineer: quicker go quicker and we'll disappear
Engineer: OK, Yuki, P8, good job, not too bad.
Yuki TSUNODA: How about Gosli?
Engineer: Gosli, P6. You did a 4.2, you did a 4.5. And box, box. Stop FIA Bridge, stop FIA Bridge.
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, not too bad, but... Um, yeah, couple of mistakes. But yeah, I think it was
Engineer: a
Yuki TSUNODA: good start from there last week, thank you. It was a good car.
Engineer: Yeah, yeah, thanks to you, it was a good day.
Engineer: OK, P4, P4. Awesome. I messed up turn 1, but the rest of the lap was decent. Good job, good position for tomorrow. Yeah, so we'll start P3 tomorrow, so Bottas qualified second. So with his penalty, we'll start P3 tomorrow. Great job, mate. P3 tomorrow. Good job, mate. Well done. Well done, mate. Good lap. Very good quality.
Charles LECLERC: Good job guys, that's the very best we could do today, so there wasn't much more on my fast lap.
Engineer: Copy, understood. Positions?
Sergio PEREZ: It was too cold, it tired me.
Engineer: Ok, that's P6 Pierre, P6. Another top 6 for you. Nice job.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, that was a good lap, nice one. Very well managed with the traffic, so thanks for that guys. That was very well managed, thanks. Good car, good balance.
Engineer: We
Pierre GASLY: made up for lost ground yesterday, so thanks for that. What was the gap to Norris?
Engineer: So gap to Norris is 2 tenths. 2 tenths.
Pierre GASLY: F***, they
Engineer: are
Pierre GASLY: fast.
Engineer: Yeah, they are
Pierre GASLY: fast.
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