Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2024: Practice 2 team radio
62 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2024, across 17 drivers. 61 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Max VERSTAPPEN had the most, with 10.
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 · 10 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 9 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 6 messages
- Jack DOOHAN · Alpine · 5 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 5 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Kick Sauber · 4 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 4 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 4 messages
- Franco COLAPINTO · Williams · 3 messages
- Liam LAWSON · RB · 2 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 2 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 1 message
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 1 message
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: We have a green light so we can go recharge off after turn five just to help sync gears as well
Lance STROLL: Yeah
Engineer: Brake warming off.
ZHOU Guanyu: Let me know when they recover. Doesn't feel too good in D-5. Let me know when they recover. Doesn't feel too good in D-5.
ZHOU Guanyu: Let me know when they recover. Doesn't feel too good in detail time
ZHOU Guanyu: It feels really long, the pedal, but we'll see later.
ZHOU Guanyu: But did you get what I said? I mean, yes, yes, we are looking into it Through the corner. I'm pushing it more down and down more deeper deeper
Engineer: First up and for behind you're pushing
George RUSSELL: The vibration of the rest
Alexander ALBON: I'm just mainly mid-corner. I think a bit of that was just the front not being ready at the start of the lap.
Engineer: What's your thoughts on the flap adjust? Plus 4?
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, that's right.
Yuki TSUNODA: I think the Palace is not too far away, just building up pace I guess.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: It's
Engineer: a
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: bit of a still some understand mid-corner a few places 25 12
Max VERSTAPPEN: Are there any cars in front?
Engineer: Just gasoline.
Engineer: Actually, it was just about to say, actually slightly quicker than PA on that one, a couple of hundredths quicker, so good job.
Liam LAWSON: At this rate we won't be what is he doing?
Max VERSTAPPEN: The front wing like we have, is it a bit underweight for good normal or not?
Engineer: We have no reference really, Max, as you're aware.
Max VERSTAPPEN: But a bit of reference from last year and out of tracks
Alexander ALBON: We do an outlet like that, we call a single call by the time I've done half the track.
Engineer: I can't control the cars ahead.
Alexander ALBON: I know, but if we called earlier than that, we would have been okay.
Yuki TSUNODA: If I make a reference for last push, we're missing, maybe it's not too far away to be honest.
Engineer: You need fast charge, fast charge, you need to do the in-lap for the charging.
Franco COLAPINTO: Yeah, I think I braked on the car or something
Franco COLAPINTO: It felt like I looked at the front or right bottom when I braked or something.
Engineer: Ok, we're looking.
Engineer: Okay so on this outlet once we get going we're going to be looking to keep our top speed at about 200 kph going down to turn 5 so nice and steady down there and then we're going to look to be nice and gentle throttle application out of 5 and 7.
Charles LECLERC: What's going on? I
Engineer: don't know taking ages. Yeah taking ages
Charles LECLERC: I don't have tire temperature.
Engineer: Copy.
Sergio PEREZ: A bit of a limitation. Fanac Moner is quite in the rear now.
Lando NORRIS: I don't know if it was just traffic, had a lot of traffic at 9, so I didn't feel as bad.
Engineer: Purple C13, position 12. Purple C13, position 12. We've boxed this lap.
Carlos SAINZ: It's just a scrappy lap with the traffic in
Engineer: Sector 1 and Sector 3.
Lewis HAMILTON: 61 is only a few corners, where is that time?
Engineer: Turn 1, mid speed
Engineer: Okay
Engineer: Try and learn what you can, but happy to bail.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, I will bail.
Charles LECLERC: And box Charles, box. It's
Engineer: a
Charles LECLERC: very short preparation, we need to anticipate things a bit more, so yeah.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, I think I'm not too sure about the front bar we're having at the moment. It just feels a bit lazy, the front.
Yuki TSUNODA: I would say a bit better, I would say similar balance as first push, but it would go better a little bit.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: We're looking at 11.11 time lapse please Max.
Engineer: DRS off.
Charles LECLERC: I was overtaking.
Engineer: Should I just follow Max or back off? I think you can follow Max. He's going to open a gap.
Alexander ALBON: Luke, can we try something for 13 and 14?
Engineer: Test orange pork 10, orange pork 10. And Oscar, your turn nine is very strong. Just make sure that doesn't start pushing to understeer.
Engineer: can you let me drive without modes or i get to get into a real movie yeah that was a test item and then we can do what we want
Engineer: OK, much better than 6.7 Z-slop, reminder track limit is 21, marginal.
Liam LAWSON: Yeah, if it's marginal, it's not a track limit.
Jack DOOHAN: Easy, can I make
Engineer: it
Jack DOOHAN: more room or do I have to stay this close?
Engineer: Just keep your pace up please, let's make sure we get the flag.
Charles LECLERC: I think we did too many laps on those tyres before long running them. They were quite a bit damaged
Engineer: And once you've got that, C12 for 240 kph.
George RUSSELL: Quite a lot of vibrations with the rack.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: Was that too much pressure? Is that why I locked the front right? Yeah, you locked both front and rear there. So just being a little bit too ambitious I think on that braking point
Engineer: Sorry, engine drivability low RPM, was that Max?
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, it's not powering. It's still the understeer, it's ridiculous.
George RUSSELL: Copy, it's still reasonably toasty.
Engineer: Copy that.
Engineer: Max, how is the ride, please?
Max VERSTAPPEN: Well, it's bad. It's really my problem. The front axle is not working.
Charles LECLERC: I don't know if I destroyed the black.
Engineer: And we'll check box Charles box.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, the front axle still doesn't grip up.
Charles LECLERC: Ah, half of the grid is freaking slipping.
Engineer: Copy. They are in the middle of the way. Four.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Um, R23, I hit the quite hard, like, on the blank, for your information.
Engineer: Information received, thank you.
Engineer: The
Charles LECLERC: installs
Engineer: are
Charles LECLERC: very much great.
Engineer: Currently, you are managing turn 15 more than others.
George RUSSELL: What do you mean, currently? I've done one lap.
Engineer: Piastri 29.2
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, they are so close
George RUSSELL: Three is just moving everywhere, just sliding their shoes about.
Oscar PIASTRI: If we can have two stops like that on Sunday, we'll be pretty happy.
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