Turkish Grand Prix 2021: Practice 3 team radio
53 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Turkish Grand Prix 2021, across 17 drivers. 52 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Pierre GASLY 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
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 8 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · McLaren · 6 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 5 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 5 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 4 messages
- Mick SCHUMACHER · Haas · 4 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 4 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 3 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Alpine · 2 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 1 message
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 1 message
- Nikita MAZEPIN · Haas · 1 message
- Sebastian VETTEL · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Antonio GIOVINAZZI · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Only if you can, to help you with the shift, fail 1, fail 2, only if you can, and keep me posted with the track if you're happy to stay out.
Engineer: We think sector 2 is close to Inter.
Engineer: Okay, reminder, sleep repeat lane, sleep repeat lane, it's not good time out here.
Engineer: and we need a good warm-up on the brakes
Daniel RICCIARDO: Do you want recharge on? Yeah,
Engineer: recharge on is good. Gasly reported overheating after the first lap.
Engineer: Okay Lando we expect the rain to ease in seven minutes time. How's the track and how far from Inter crossover?
Lando NORRIS: Yeah not too bad, the track I think will quite quickly get better when more people start running.
Engineer: I
Daniel RICCIARDO: think we can afford to wait a little bit, so box and see what happens.
Engineer: Okay Lando, if we learn what we need to, we don't want to burn this set, so if you've learnt then we'll box now. Yeah, I'm happy to box. Okay, we'll box now for an inter, we're going to box for an inter.
Engineer: How are the conditions?
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, definitely enters now, all good.
Engineer: We are the quickest car on track, and Norris did a 38.4 first time lap.
Carlos SAINZ: I will take one more, the stars are working fine.
Engineer: Okay, so Daniel Lando is green in sector one, but he had a big snap in turn three It looks more difficult on inter even though the tire is quick
Engineer: So Inter on Lando looks good everywhere except 9 and 10 bit slower in 9 and 10
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Yeah, we can box this one.
Engineer: Ok, what we could do, which is what Antonio did, we can do pit stop, we change to inter, and you go again. Yep. And Latifi... I'm not sure that we get the front lane in the road, but if it's correct now, so... Sure, sure, don't worry, we will do that then. So Latifi behind is out lap.
Pierre GASLY: What the hell was that
George RUSSELL: I'm beached. Yeah.
Engineer: You're fully stuck.
George RUSSELL: Yeah. Engine off.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: So far, the fastest lap, watch for Giovinazzi, fastest lap is Sainz on full wet. He's just pitted for Inter, that's a 36.299, so conditions close to crossover.
Engineer: So this red flag is Russell car's beached in the gravel turn to exit it didn't go in the barriers We shouldn't take too long box now
Nikita MAZEPIN: Still a lot of standing water, man. Are you okay? Did you hit anything? Negative, but f*** me, that was close.
Engineer: but was then slightly too wide so then in where it was where it is more wetter than that span him as well so turn 11 there just looks like there's a slim line which you run which is fine and turn two yeah if we're just trying to avoid that white line.
Mick SCHUMACHER: So Russell was on the white line?
Engineer: That's correct Russell was on the white line so just be careful as they have Bottas, Ocon, Vettel ahead Alonso behind and there's 32 minutes remaining in the session and it's not raining again
Engineer: Ayuki, suggestion to do a build lap, suggestion to do a build lap for tyres temperature.
Yuki TSUNODA: OK.
Engineer: And just to be complete, vibrations are coming from the rear pier. Front doesn't look too bad.
Max VERSTAPPEN: And what do you want me to do?
Engineer: Keep pushing please, Max. You can push again.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Nice 360
Engineer: Tires are actually a bit on the warm side here Max, so maybe spend a lap cooling them down, just cool the tires.
Engineer: Ok let's go for a cool down, keep working on your brakes, and easy on the rear And that's P3 without lap, my track is still getting better
Engineer: OK, let's go to mode charge, please. Now it's a pretty good lap, we are P2 at the moment in this condition. Yeah, the big step on the exiting
Kimi RAIKKONEN: line.
Engineer: Do you think you've damaged anything?
Sebastian VETTEL: No, nothing. All good.
Engineer: I think we should stay off the apex kerbstone 7
Engineer: So some feedback, we can stay off the turn 7 kerb, stay off turn 7 kerb and we can... Yeah, yeah, it's okay, just let me drive.
Engineer: Ok, so we need some feedback on track on tyres please. Track on tyres, which axle is limiting you on track conditions?
Pierre GASLY: I think the balance is quite nice, just turn 9 for whatever reason. I'm sliding completely and losing a lot of time there. Balance is quite good in all the other places.
Engineer: Ok, copy that. Keep working on your brakes for front tyres.
Charles LECLERC: Can we box? I want to try something.
Engineer: Copy. Box. Now box.
Engineer: What?
Yuki TSUNODA: Man, come on!
Engineer: So it's turn 1, we can brake 5 meters later, and release, brake, then turn 3, brake 5 meters later, and then turn 8, 10 kph faster, we can upshift to 7th very early in the corner.
Engineer: It's
Lando NORRIS: drying out quite a bit. I'm just destroying the currents now.
Engineer: How far off dry do you think this is now?
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, miles. Very near.
Engineer: All OK from your side. Clear behind.
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, I will see him. Brake 12.
Pierre GASLY: Okay, the front starts to be a bit damaged box
Engineer: box box box copy that
Engineer: Yeah, Yuki agreed. We tried and we got the cliff of the tyre. It was good information.
Engineer: Really good improvement there, just the wheel spin last corner. How are the tires holding up? Is the front right looking bad?
Mick SCHUMACHER: Yeah, it's not looking great, but it still behaves okay. It's just the last corner where right now I had a bit of a difficult moment to bring it back, but otherwise it's okay. Okay.
Engineer: And you can still keep going on EB, that's about all you have left. You could try shape 5, it's a bigger step, but you can try it. I'll
Mick SCHUMACHER: try EB 7. Okay, and
Engineer: then Norris on a push 12 behind.
Carlos SAINZ: He's starting to have a bit too much understeer. OK, box then. We balance it and watch for a bit behind. I don't know if he's pushing or not. Copy. There's no pushing.
Engineer: Is the tire getting worse or is it still staying the same? Looks like it's getting more understeer every time, is that right, or not so bad? It's getting a bit more understeery but it's still drivable.
Mick SCHUMACHER: We had a bit of derailing too.
Engineer: OK, understood, yep, I see it. I'll get that rebalanced for quality, so it's good we tried SOC 1.
Engineer: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait! Okay, you had a stop sign from a... Okay, go now.
Engineer: OK, the rope. Speed brake bar plus 4.
Engineer: Ok Kimi, if you think the track conditions are ok, you can do a push, if not, a box for a mini launch.
Engineer: What do you think on track condition? We can try slicks if you want It's quite tricky but
Charles LECLERC: yeah, we can try Good reference for quality
Engineer: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Engineer: okay so you should get the checkered flag at the end of this lap
Engineer: It will be a wet start 210, wet start 210 target. And
Lance STROLL: second gear?
Engineer: And second gear, AFIRM.
Lance STROLL: Why don't we just do a dry start since it's going to be dry tomorrow?
Engineer: OK, Lance, we're happy with a dry target, dry target, but keep the gear for the inter, keep the gear for the inter and do dry target. The checkered flag is now out. You will go past the checkered flag and round for the start.
Engineer: What are your thoughts generally on conditions?
Max VERSTAPPEN: Well, I'm getting pretty dry
Engineer: So a crossover or not?
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, getting closer and closer, but few corners are still a bit tricky, also in the last sector
Engineer: and mode formation, mode formation
Engineer: This separation is good, just keep up the pace on the end lap.
Engineer: Position pretty good, just a little to the right.
Engineer: Max could you back out of this please back out just trying to increase the time for the lads here it will still be a live pit stop but just give us a bit more time
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