Turkish Grand Prix 2021: Practice 2 team radio
52 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Turkish Grand Prix 2021, across 17 drivers. 51 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Max VERSTAPPEN had the most, with 8.
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 · 8 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 6 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 5 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 5 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 4 messages
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 4 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 3 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Alpine · 2 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · McLaren · 2 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 2 messages
- Nikita MAZEPIN · Haas · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 1 message
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 1 message
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Okay, let's go.
Yuki TSUNODA: Target temperature
Engineer: and we have tailwind into turn 12 same as FP1
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, what a disaster.
Engineer: How's the balance, Max?
Max VERSTAPPEN: Quite a lot more now towards the front.
Engineer: Let me know if you'd like an air balance adjustment.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I'll just try again like this.
Engineer: Okay, understood.
Engineer: Got
Lewis HAMILTON: that front
Engineer: So Gap to Lando is pretty much all in sector 3 Daniel
Lewis HAMILTON: I think there's
Engineer: a
Lewis HAMILTON: stop for weighing.
Engineer: OK, copy. Let us know what you need.
Lewis HAMILTON: Plus two.
Engineer: Copy, plus two.
Engineer: So the loss is to Bottas, two tenths in sector one, tenth and a half in sector three. Turn four stands out as the loss.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I'm getting some weird slants now, mid
Engineer: -corner. OK, understood.
Engineer: So I recommend cancelling the handbrake for turns 12, 13, 14. Cancel handbrake for 12, 13, 14.
Lewis HAMILTON: Front tyre's not working.
Engineer: OK, copy.
Pierre GASLY: Where am I losing?
Engineer: Turn 7. It's still turn 7. It's a lot there.
Pierre GASLY: Minimum entry, exit.
Engineer: Minimum speed. Match breaking, match exit, minimum speed.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: I think we should box this lap. How's the balance there? Oh there's no front end, I can't turn the car especially turn one. Okay understood, is it all mid corner? Yeah turn one, it's all mid corner. Okay understood. All right so currently most cars out there are on medium and hard tyres at the moment so we're sat in P18 as it stands, about half a second takes you up to about P10, P9, P10. Watch for Norris four seconds back, he is pushing now. Norris two seconds. Also the high speed is not easy flat for some reason. Understood, did we degrade entry stability when we added front wing?
Esteban OCON: No.
Engineer: Understood. Okay let's box now, we've got time to make an adjust and talk about it, so let's box now please, no traffic behind currently, all cars on slow laps.
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, I think for the hard, not much, because I increased the drift rate, but I think if we pull soft, it's going to be understeer. Copy, box, box.
Fernando ALONSO: Negative. It was worse.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: Your thoughts on car balance very
Sebastian VETTEL: poor tons of understeer
Lance STROLL: I think we can consider doing another call.
Engineer: Yeah, we're happy to do that. We're happy to do that.
Engineer: Traffic is good, yeah, I can see I have plus six I will have a look
Engineer: And track improvement we think is 6 tenths, 6 to 7 tenths. And we have tailwind into turn 12, same as first run. Get a good warm up on the brakes when you can.
Engineer: Let me know if you like a front flap adjustment?
Max VERSTAPPEN: No, I don't, but it's still the same behaviour, mid-corner, the car is like a slingshot or something, it keeps losing the radar then.
Engineer: OK, understood.
Engineer: Okay, nice cool down on the front nice cool down on the front
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Yeah, I have water running in my f***ing foot, because your drinking system is leaking like s***.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: There must be a lot of water, because every braking I can feel water in
Engineer: my shoes. We'll have a look. You need to jump out for that.
Engineer: so
Pierre GASLY: i don't know if it's the wind but my steering is bent right inside down
Pierre GASLY: I think my arms are too short to turn the wheel.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: How is so f***ing difficult to do simple things, correct?
Engineer: I don't know Kevin, I don't know. Let me investigate, the pump apparently was not running, so
Kimi RAIKKONEN: maybe it's leaking somewhere else. We are having a look. Because I disconnected, it kept leaking in my f***ing
Engineer: helmet.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Yeah. So I disconnected, and now it's almost like it's on. I don't know what the f*** is happening. The most f***ing simple part in the whole car and we cannot f***ing fix it.
Daniel RICCIARDO: okay yeah it's worse okay
Engineer: copy so Lando did find two tents he was quicker in sector one and sector two do you want to try one more lap start
Daniel RICCIARDO: another yeah I'll try
Engineer: copy
Engineer: So straight into the management, stay on top of that front right.
Engineer: Ok, pace is still good, we need 5 kph less in turn 8, another 5 less in turn 8 please
Engineer: I've got the yellow and the red light on all the time next to my desk. Please press and hold the overtake.
Engineer: so high 28 pace is really good if you can sustain that that's really good
Engineer: I recommend Diff Mid 6, Diff Mid 6.
Lewis HAMILTON: What times?
Engineer: Valtteri 28.3
Max VERSTAPPEN: Uh, what are the LUTs?
Engineer: Hamilton 27.9, 28.1, 29.3, BOTAS 28.4
Engineer: He's half a second quicker, so you'll be doing Lyco level 2 from next lap and you can use the RS to defend Perez if needed.
Engineer: OK, go back to mode race please, mode race. It's a joke, it's completely wrong. Yeah, something went wrong there.
Max VERSTAPPEN: There are a couple of places that are picking up on the right front.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: and mid 28 paces matching Aston and Ocon
Engineer: The
Nikita MAZEPIN: fronts are dead, man.
Engineer: And Lando, you will get one time lap on this tyre.
Engineer: Okay, check off log, check off log, we go to grid to do our practice start
Nikita MAZEPIN: Okay, mode
Engineer: It's okay for now to keep pushing
Engineer: So we're into formation lap practice.
Engineer: OK, back round to the grid. Mode 12, please. Mode 12 and tyre 5. Let's try to target zero on the rear.
Engineer: So target minus five on the dash on the rear tires target minus five for those rear tires So scoped back it out. What's the mode 12 mode 12?
Sergio PEREZ: The car is pointing a bit to the left on the straight line
Engineer: Okay, copy
Esteban OCON: I can select G, yeah I'm in neutral
Engineer: Release the clutch, then pull it again and try selecting first Oh Understood
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, on my side I think, once I pushed a little bit too much behind, I can't remember what that was... Geminazi? Yeah, Geminazi, to overtake Wolleberg, that's how it is later.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: OK, so we're going to have to switch off, fortunately.
Engineer: So there is a Renault on the right hand side that's stopped for a long time so I'll let you know when he goes. The cars are starting to go but the Ocon at the front of the grid on the right hand side is stopped. So you can do your start but just be careful of Ocon.
Engineer: Okay, keep up the pace, Max.
Engineer: Ok Kimi, can you slow down a little bit, we will do a live pit-stalk with the guys.
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