United States Grand Prix 2021: Practice 2 team radio
69 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the United States Grand Prix 2021, across 19 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 · 7 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 6 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 6 messages
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 5 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Aston Martin · 3 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 3 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Nikita MAZEPIN · Haas · 3 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 3 messages
- Antonio GIOVINAZZI · Alfa Romeo · 3 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 3 messages
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 2 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · McLaren · 2 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Mick SCHUMACHER · Haas · 1 message
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Five seconds. Let's do burnouts and a start, please.
Nicholas LATIFI: classic, classic, classic
Engineer: So rear tyres are on target, fronts can be cooler.
Engineer: Are we second this weekend? We will be first. That's in qualifying. Today we do our things.
Pierre GASLY: Copy.
Engineer: 0 at the rear, plus 10, 0 at the rear, we are on the cold side
Lando NORRIS: Something's come loose on my elbow. I can't turn properly.
Engineer: OK, understood. I suggest we box this lap to check it.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, confirm. It's left side.
Charles LECLERC: Let me know the lap times, please.
Engineer: Copy, will do.
Engineer: So losing 10-4, 10-6, apex speed, and last corner. Let's see a bit of front locking in the last corner for you.
Sergio PEREZ: What was the lap time for Max?
Engineer: Max did a 35.9
Max VERSTAPPEN: Ha! Stupid idiot!
Engineer: Ignore it and don't worry about it.
Engineer: Just keep your front tires awake
Engineer: So there's a handful of cars in front that are doing double cool, so I think quite a few of them will be pushing next lap, so we should be in sync with them. Ricciardo in front, slow lap obviously.
Sergio PEREZ: It was quite a bit loose, but it was moving quite a lot more through the bumps this second lap.
Engineer: Ok, copy that.
Engineer: Ok Pierre, at the moment what we see is that we are braking very late, trying to carry too much entry speed, braking entry compared to others. We need to try to make a step back on braking and really focus on exits because it's a main limitation for many people.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I feel like when I brake quite hard there's still rear locking even in the slow laps
Engineer: Understood Max
Nikita MAZEPIN: When I'm back in the box, I need to change the helmet. My eyes are watering like crazy.
Charles LECLERC: There's something that is moving in the paddles.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Ok, yeah I don't know, I hit the bottom of Bad Lindt at like 4 or 5 and then it was just disaster after that, the rear. Copy, copy that, at the moment mechanically everything looks sound but we keep checking.
Engineer: Okay, box now, mic box now, mode T4, big adjust to rearward.
Engineer: OK, Landon, no cars behind to worry about. Do you want to go for another one?
Lando NORRIS: If so, recharge on. Pretty flat spotted again.
Engineer: OK, suggest we box this lap then.
Lando NORRIS: Pretty flat spotted again
Engineer: So we have to be mindful about sector 1, we'll lose a bit of rotation, but hopefully we'll recover some time where we have big problems with the rear.
Engineer: okay we'll take the slow target plus 55.55 need the good stops on the brakes though to keep the brakes in the window
Lance STROLL: Okay, I got something in my eye, but Yeah, it's okay.
Engineer: I
Lance STROLL: can continue, but I think we should box for the tires
Engineer: So Lewis currently two and a half tenths up sector one and one tenth sector two. So main places looks like six and seven.
Engineer: ... and synchronize it, and
Carlos SAINZ: transynchronize it.
Engineer: Okay, that's got you, P1.
Engineer: Recharge off. Go now.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Ah mate, that's f***ing... Where the f*** do you always go in traffic?! Jesus!
Engineer: Recharge off.
Engineer: So how are the tires opening the lap? Yeah, they were a
Sergio PEREZ: bit on the cooler side, lacked a bit of might still.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I'm boxing with this
Engineer: So how are the tires opening the lap?
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, they were a bit on the cooler side, lacked a bit of might still for turn one Lost a bit of lap time there, then through the high speed They were quite good
Engineer: And
Sergio PEREZ: throughout the lap
Max VERSTAPPEN: We just did a long run, I'm over this short run.
Engineer: So for the next push focus on turn 12, don't over push, in braking focus mid exit.
Nikita MAZEPIN: Losing temperature. I don't want to over-sign it, because you'll get upset, but...
Engineer: It's okay, it's not about this temperature. It's alright. Okay, remember more to push.
Nikita MAZEPIN: What was that man? What was that? Just avoided a crash?
Engineer: Okay, we're looking to it. Man,
Nikita MAZEPIN: it's impossible to get a lap on this track.
Engineer: We're happy with the pace for now Lance, wind is picking up turn 11, wind is picking up turn 11
Engineer: How's the balance that time?
Esteban OCON: Hold up okay for the first part of the lap but towards the end not
Engineer: And last time was ok with track limit, we were very close in turn 9, but all ok. And pick confirm, pick confirm please.
Yuki TSUNODA: We
Engineer: are
Yuki TSUNODA: tired, we need to go next, sorry for that
Engineer: Copy Yuki, so Gasly 36.2, we did the 36.9 Mainly turn 1 and 1st sector 2nd and 3rd sector are good
Lewis HAMILTON: Take out another another hole-and-a-half piece copy
Engineer: So it looks like we're expecting I-42 on
Nicholas LATIFI: feedback ladder, expecting for the I-42. There's no way, I mean the tyres have no grip, sliding all over the place.
Engineer: So straight into fuel management and pace management.
Engineer: Ok, can you go to shape 3 please? Shape 3, box, box.
Engineer: correction Vettel is high fuel just new tires because he has an engine penalty Vettel high fuel he's now six seconds behind
Daniel RICCIARDO: Okay, I'll start pushing. Are you happy with Strut 14?
Engineer: Yeah, we'll change to Strut 7 on start finish.
Engineer: If you want a more aggressive push toggle, display 11 position 5, display 11 position 5, that's plus 2.
Engineer: Uh,
Carlos SAINZ: traffic, one second, I'm
Engineer: gonna back off.
Engineer: These
Lance STROLL: tyres are pretty bad.
Engineer: We'll do two more, so after this lap do two more laps pushing hard, two more laps pushing hard.
Engineer: So lap two you are still the fastest of Red Bull and Mercedes
Engineer: So you can use an energy button out of turn 11 on this lap. Use an energy button out of turn 11. Copy.
Engineer: Charge lap time 41.7 and lap time deleted for track limits turn 9.
Engineer: and no S2 for turn 12, and previous lap time was deleted for track limits turn 9
Esteban OCON: There's something at the end of the cockpit to take my leg in the corner.
Engineer: OK, understood. OK, Svenja, we think it's just the end of the leg padding. Let us know if it gets any worse or changes, OK?
Lewis HAMILTON: How's that pace?
Engineer: Just need to see where it stabilises.
Yuki TSUNODA: I have too much to understand, high speed, 6.1
Engineer: Copy
Engineer: Yeah.
Carlos SAINZ: Big relation.
Engineer: Quite high now.
Engineer: Move your tires which is in the middle position and we are happy to stay out till the end
Engineer: I
Antonio GIOVINAZZI: have to take to the serviette
Engineer: Copy Antonio
Engineer: Think about third gear in turn 11 third gear turn 11
Engineer: And double lift and coast. Double lift and coast.
Engineer: Suspension somebody went off at 19 and it's probably dragged gravel exit of 19. So just take care exit at 19 for gravel copy
Engineer: Let's stay on Bottas and have a good look at running in the tow.
Engineer: Might be some gravel on track turn 19 exit for info
Engineer: Okay, that last lap was deleted for track limits, turn nine.
Sergio PEREZ: A lot of engine braking through there. I push the mark button.
Engineer: Okay, take the chequered flag, keep up the pace on the end lap.
Engineer: Once plugged in we'll get some comments and that'll be a good session all in all I think.
Antonio GIOVINAZZI: Yeah Petraean, the brakes were too cold. Yeah,
Engineer: no problem.
Carlos SAINZ: I hit a car very hard. Check the front right. Suspension in turn 8.
Engineer: Copy, understood.
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