Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2024: Qualifying team radio
42 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2024, across 16 drivers. 39 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Carlos SAINZ had the most, with 5.
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
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 5 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Kick Sauber · 4 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 4 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 4 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 3 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Liam LAWSON · RB · 2 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 2 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 1 message
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 1 message
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: So main lost to sight, so turn 6-7.
Alexander ALBON: I don't
Engineer: know
Alexander ALBON: why he backed off so much, I started my lap way too close.
Engineer: And the wind is the same than the run before, charge is free in front.
Engineer: Delta on and keep up the pace, keep up the pace.
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, I'm f***ing confused with the car. It's just spitting in.
Engineer: Yeah, it wasn't an easy one, but we got there so you should be pleased Good effort. Copy. Yeah, I mean Unfortunately, it would have taken Obviously we aim for the perfect lap Sorry, I couldn't give it to you, but that's what it would have taken to just those few hundreds to get up Yeah, it's very very small things very small
Charles LECLERC: No freaking way, so turn one?
Engineer: Yep, turn one.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Yeah, don't know where the performance went
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, I couldn't go any quicker, just double check the Ferrari was on his delta because I caught him like 5 seconds.
Engineer: Yeah, we'll check that Sainz was on his delta.
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, it's good. That's good, that's good. Well done, guys. Last one of the season. Congratulations.
Engineer: I
Fernando ALONSO: think we did good qualifying, good Saturdays. So thanks for the car. Good improvement since yesterday.
Engineer: Good driving man. Really good. He won. Really nice Niko. Good
Nico HULKENBERG: job team. One more to go.
Engineer: In front of Perez, great job Valtteri, great job. Nice,
Valtteri BOTTAS: good job, that's all, all of you.
Engineer: Thank you, Valtteri. Nice surprise for my last qualifying on this side of the pit lane.
Engineer: All right, well done. We should be happy with that.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah. That was very good.
Engineer: Still all to play for tomorrow.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: All right, well done.
Engineer: It was closed.
Carlos SAINZ: It was close,
Engineer: yeah, it was close, good improvement.
Engineer: Ok, we lost that lap time for track limits at turn 1.
Sergio PEREZ: Is it clear mate?
Engineer: We believe it's clear.
Sergio PEREZ: Hold on Luke, because I don't think so.
Nico HULKENBERG: This is unbelievable, this.
Engineer: So this will be tight.
Lewis HAMILTON: Yeah, I messed that up big time, guys.
Lewis HAMILTON: Yeah, that was bad, man. Jesus.
Engineer: Yeah, Louis,
Lewis HAMILTON: that was better.
Engineer: You were right, the 23.5 from the first round has been reinstated.
Sergio PEREZ: I told you man, why the **** you don't check? We just wasted a set.
Engineer: Everyone apart from Max has gone back out on the new set. Everyone apart from Max. Max is pushing up first.
Sergio PEREZ: It's irrelevant what...
Liam LAWSON: That was a f***ing f***ing trip. Wait, what was that? You sat on line, on entry. Ok, ok, copy that. We'll review.
George RUSSELL: Yeah, I was trying to get out of the way of Lawson and went as wide as I could without going off the track Otherwise, I've got my lap deleted
Charles LECLERC: Another question, two times fourteen.
Carlos SAINZ: But it was on my way to Antwerp.
Charles LECLERC: The AlphaTauri there was over 30 minutes.
Engineer: And the lap was deleted. No
Charles LECLERC: freaking way. So turn 1?
Engineer: Yep, turn 1.
Engineer: Good luck. Good luck as
Valtteri BOTTAS: fast as she goes
Engineer: Yeah,
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: don't know where the performance went
Engineer: Well done mate, that was a pole.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, beautiful job. Well done guys, one,
Engineer: two, well done. Yeah, good effort, very strong.
Engineer: Oscar, that's P2.
Oscar PIASTRI: Yep, yeah, well done guys. Cars look good. I'll take P2, thanks everyone. So, let's go finish the job tomorrow.
Engineer: The hand pops. Oh,
Max VERSTAPPEN: it's no balance.
Nico HULKENBERG: Clean. It was clean.
Engineer: Indeed, very clean.
Engineer: Okay, box.
Max VERSTAPPEN: What the f**k
Engineer: happened there?
George RUSSELL: A tricky day today. Well, we can't really, but let's make the most of it tomorrow. Cheers.
Engineer: Yeah, any fun. Thank you.
Fernando ALONSO: Well done guys, last one of the season, congratulations, I think we did good qualifiers, good Saturdays, so thanks for the car, good improvement since yesterday.
Nico HULKENBERG: Clean I was clean indeed very clean good job team one more to go
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