Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2024: Practice 1 team radio
79 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2024, across 19 drivers. 70 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Isack HADJAR had the most, with 11.
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
- Isack HADJAR · Red Bull · 11 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 9 messages
- Arthur LECLERC · Ferrari · 8 messages
- Ryo HIRAKAWA · McLaren · 7 messages
- Jack DOOHAN · Alpine · 6 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 6 messages
- Ayumu IWASA · RB · 5 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 4 messages
- Liam LAWSON · RB · 3 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Luke BROWNING · Williams · 3 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 2 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Kick Sauber · 2 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 1 message
- Franco COLAPINTO · Williams · 1 message
- Felipe DRUGOVICH · Aston Martin · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
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Engineer: Okay mate, we're holding that all the way down to turn six.
Lando NORRIS: The radio is shocking and you can just go back to normal, please.
Isack HADJAR: Wheel clearance is bad, I'm struggling.
George RUSSELL: Do you think Drew Mitchell is going to box?
Engineer: Unsure of his run plan, so we'll build a gap to him.
George RUSSELL: Stopping power into 6th didn't feel great.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: I still think I prefer to do another push after this and then a double after that
Engineer: Currently P3. It's half a second to George in P1. We missed the DRS with the yellow down at 6.7.
Arthur LECLERC: I think we'll do a small step of front lap, or not small.
Engineer: Yeah, we can speak in the garage, we've got 10 minutes, turn around, 12 minutes, and box, speed confirm and box.
Sergio PEREZ: The high speed feels a little bit too much from the wing, I'm braking at 12, 12 and 15, a little bit on the left side.
Sergio PEREZ: Let me get a proper read now.
Engineer: Push up to turn 5, don't wait for the moment just push up to turn 5, 6, good at turn 9
Engineer: So unsure of Browning's program, so we'll just keep building a small gap to him.
Liam LAWSON: Yeah, okay, I have for some reason very low efficiency on the initial break just going deep
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Engineer: You should come out just now.
Engineer: So we're going to go nice and steady on this lap jack to help bring those tyre temps down.
Isack HADJAR: Yeah, 4th left was not ready for T1. Had to lock up.
Engineer: Yeah, copy that. Then, short thing. Doing it, 4 seconds.
Lando NORRIS: The radio is still shit comparing to normal, but it's too much still, it's just crackling and you're not very clear. The radio is still shit comparing to normal, but it's too much still, it's just crackling and you're not very clear.
Lando NORRIS: The radio is still comparing to normal, but it's too much still, it's just crackling and you're not very clear.
Liam LAWSON: I still feel like I have quite poor efficiency on brakes
Engineer: Is it everywhere or specific corners with wind?
Liam LAWSON: For me it's turn 5 and turn 6 so it can't be wind Loud
Engineer: and clear, we're checking
ZHOU Guanyu: Why am I not full factory of the energy?
Engineer: And Lando, do you want to press black button?
Engineer: do the same out of turn 7 multi b1 position 4 5th gear
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, a bit of front locking, I feel, and a bit of understeering with corner, slightly snappy traction out of the low speed.
Engineer: You mean now or at the end of this lap you can go for your second push?
Arthur LECLERC: You mean now or at the end of this
Engineer: lap?
Engineer: Very good. Okay, we will get some initial comments when you're plugged in back in the garage. Stand by.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, can I just push the next stop? Yeah, okay recharge on
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George RUSSELL: Yeah, whatever.
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Engineer: Niko we're thinking of adding 0.4 Yeah,
Nico HULKENBERG: I was going to say 0.5 but...
Engineer: Opportunity, turn 9, back off entry for throttle pickup
Engineer: Turn 12 this year. Yeah turn 12, 2 tenths and then turn 16 also 2 tenths. Is that under braking still?
Engineer: Let our tyres cool a bit, the rears especially, well in fact all four tyres can cool a bit
Isack HADJAR: Ah man, anything left for our third push?
Engineer: No, we don't have the time. We think it was probably about two tenths.
Isack HADJAR: Yeah, and I was way too early on the brakes in T6. It's a shame.
Isack HADJAR: Yeah, clearly lacking rotation mid-corner. Joe at three seconds
George RUSSELL: Yeah, the soft tyre, I didn't like it as much as the medium, obviously a lot more grip but the balance went away.
Luke BROWNING: I think the soft side definitely comes off quite heavily at the end.
Engineer: We are expecting a C5 to drop, but we'll give it a go. We've got Colapinto behind on an outlap.
Ayumu IWASA: Still quite understeer on medium-low speed corners. For me, it's coming from more the tyre. Front is starting to degrade. But still, if I can have a bit more rotation on middle of the corner, let's say, course timing, it should be good for me. OK.
Jack DOOHAN: But I was also struggling with the front under 12 and 13.
Engineer: So Rio line through turn two three looks good Braking into six the braking point is good, but not necessarily getting the car stopped well enough. There's another ten bar available there
Engineer: And for turn nine, suggest fourth gear. Turn nine, fourth gear.
Engineer: Turn six that lockup was not the peak pressure peak pressure was good. There's still five bar potential peak pressure
Pierre GASLY: The mapping...
Engineer: Okay, copy that.
Engineer: So you'll be looking for it right in the mechanics all right nice and steady
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Ryo HIRAKAWA: Sorry, it wasn't clear if I could go.
Engineer: Okay, no problem. We're all good.
Engineer: And opportunity, turn one, turn five, later braking.
Ayumu IWASA: I want more rotation everywhere, actually. Paris 3.
George RUSSELL: For the high speed bounce in.
Engineer: Keep up the management turn 2, don't let the liftoff in turn 2 drop.
Felipe DRUGOVICH: Anything I can do with the controls there, please?
Engineer: Balance update.
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, it's going more on the rear.
George RUSSELL: But I was going up with the stability at the moment, so I won the seat on the last lap.
Pierre GASLY: It was that guy in the Alpha tower, because he did a start with cars in front of him.
Engineer: That was Iwasa, so reminder for recharge off at the start.
Engineer: Remember to stay off kerbs and target clear air where possible for the best data.
Ryo HIRAKAWA: Yep, all good.
Isack HADJAR: Wheel clearance is bad, I'm struggling.
Engineer: Okay.
Isack HADJAR: Yeah, zero efficiency, sorry copy
Engineer: that
Engineer: All okay in the car?
Isack HADJAR: Well, as I said, I'm struggling with the wheel clearance. Everything with the slit is fine, except that I'm limited with my legs touching.
Engineer: Copy that.
Luke BROWNING: I looked through his Netflix.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, just
Engineer: be careful of the behind you.
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Arthur LECLERC: Yeah, I feel a big dig for the second half already.
Engineer: Okay, understood.
Isack HADJAR: Man, the Williams destroyed me in the chicane, didn't know what he was doing
Engineer: Copy that
George RUSSELL: Yeah, whatever it is, I'm not liking these brakes even coming into the box. Just not feeling the normal deceleration.
Engineer: Yeah, copy that.
Isack HADJAR: Yeah, f***, man. You had to back off last corner, man.
Engineer: Mate,
ZHOU Guanyu: send me issue guys, come on, understand like f***ing crazy.
Engineer: Thank you, Luke. Good session. Lots we can do in the test together, but good to see the progression across it and good underlying foundations. Hope you enjoyed it.
Luke BROWNING: Yeah, I loved it.
Fernando ALONSO: Worst car ever and worst traffic preparation ever. Next time I do my out lap myself.
Arthur LECLERC: Just saying hello to my brother. Yeah, I've seen. That's quite good.
Engineer: Thanks for the session. It was full of procedures and rake and a lot of data collection that were very useful. Thank you very much for your help.
Ayumu IWASA: Thank you very much from my side as well. That was a very good session for me. Yeah, also I had a good experience from this session and I will use this experience for the future in the sim and for the real car.
Engineer: Absolutely. Arigato.
Ayumu IWASA: Arigato.
Ryo HIRAKAWA: Yeah, I just want to say thank you for all the opportunity. Yeah, it's really, really, really nice to work with you guys. And also to the TPC team in the factory. They work really hard to get ready for me. So thank you, everyone.
Engineer: Yeah, well done, Rio. Well executed session from your side. Thank you for that. Very good job.
Engineer: Switch off, please. Switch off. Switch off. No shift. Thank you. We have a possible hydraulic issue.
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