Australian Grand Prix 2024: Practice 1 team radio
86 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Australian Grand Prix 2024, across 20 drivers. 82 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. George RUSSELL had the most, with 13.
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
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 13 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 10 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 7 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 7 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Kick Sauber · 6 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 5 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 5 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 5 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 4 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 4 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 4 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 2 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 2 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 2 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · RB · 2 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 2 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Kick Sauber · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Fernando ALONSO: Breakpedal is going on.
Engineer: Looks like there's two cars ahead of you, Oscar. Expect Fernando to drive straight out. He's got some aero rakes fitted.
George RUSSELL: I'm afraid that was a little bit long.
Engineer: A
George RUSSELL: bit of vibration through the steering rack.
Engineer: There you go.
George RUSSELL: The brake pedal is a little bit long.
Engineer: That's good, we'll have a look.
Pierre GASLY: The pit exit is too tight on the exit.
Engineer: Copy that.
Engineer: Okay, so we'll go recharge off, reset your shape, and let's go for our first push.
ZHOU Guanyu: It's
Engineer: a
ZHOU Guanyu: vibration, Mr. Swans.
Engineer: Have
ZHOU Guanyu: a look.
Engineer: Copy, Joe. We try to have a look.
Engineer: If
George RUSSELL: I break it, I'll break it.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: He has a face to you behind.
Yuki TSUNODA: What happened to us?
Engineer: Stroll 7 is a...
Engineer: Max. Gasly is at 6.5, Max.
Engineer: Pushing behind we have Stroll, Russell now six seconds, Russell
Engineer: So I'm going to turn behind.
Engineer: Gasly at 3.
Engineer: no push increase the gap to a cone at the moment we have two seconds gap is okay
Engineer: that reach hold off when you're ready let's not see if ghazly yeah let's get parted to ghazly
Engineer: to worry about just oscar ahead to go and no one else behind
Sergio PEREZ: I'm generally very happy with the car. I'm just lacking a little bit of rotation. I'm very happy with the car.
Engineer: I'm
Sergio PEREZ: really happy with the car. I'm just lacking a little bit of rotation.
Lewis HAMILTON: Yes, brake pedals are really long.
Engineer: OK, copy.
Engineer: At last, we think left toggle for six and nine on the next lap. Left toggle for turn six and nine on the next lap. Tsunoda seven behind.
George RUSSELL: Do you want to do one more lap or did it make no sense?
George RUSSELL: You want to do one more level? It makes no sense.
Engineer: Good boxes, man.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, all the talk is wrong
Engineer: Yep, copy that mate, so we'll box this lat Let's go recharge on if you can do an aero P4 fifth gear out of two P4 fifth gear
Nico HULKENBERG: Well, we're smoking the plank on the back straight there.
Engineer: Okay, understood.
Esteban OCON: It wasn't too bad, just feel like I lost the reels a little bit in the
Engineer: second to last corner Understood, so now we're done
Engineer: Oscar, for a pit stop flap adjust, what would you do?
Oscar PIASTRI: I wouldn't go up, it's quite pointy, so if anything I'd go down, but I honestly think it's in a reasonable place.
Engineer: if possible out of turn ten purple c3 position four purple c3 position four fourth gear careful of Perez who's about two seconds behind
Sergio PEREZ: I can see that potentially we will have a problem getting into the high speed.
Engineer: Most cars are on the medium. There's a couple of soft runners at the front I was balanced that time watch for Joe behinds, please His GPS location doesn't look to be accurate. So keep your eye on your mirrors. He's on a slow lap
Engineer: i lean on the front left it's on the low side but we're getting there so okay to push
Engineer: Okay, Kev, so it'll be mode in once you cross the line. And then can we have a CSL2 after turn two? That's 100 kph. Next car is 12 seconds behind.
Engineer: But I got confused with the sign
ZHOU Guanyu: I thought you told me to go ahead.
Yuki TSUNODA: Yes, I feel like I'm already looking at the end of the braking in turn 3.
Engineer: Ok, so let's do entry 7 instead of the offset.
George RUSSELL: Brakes feel better.
Engineer: Copy.
Fernando ALONSO: Yes, that was the core activity intent, yep.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Alexander ALBON: Generally the car's quite lazy, lacking quite a lot of fun bite, fun initial braking, feels like I'm down on load on
Engineer: the
Alexander ALBON: front when
Engineer: I hit the brakes. We'll just watch POTAX F5 then it's quiet.
George RUSSELL: I have lots of sparks, 8 out of 11, I think I'll run over some stones.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, I would just check the floor because I bottomed out pretty bad. Yeah,
Engineer: okay.
Sergio PEREZ: I'm picking up a bit of understeer. Let's
Engineer: go
Sergio PEREZ: help my plan.
Engineer: Yeah, copy. Norris at five seconds.
Engineer: There's something very slippery in the pit box. I keep locking the front sort of halfway through my braking
Sergio PEREZ: Shall we try the engine
Engineer: braking? So, we have an engine braking Black
Sergio PEREZ: does it
Pierre GASLY: Alright, just have it pull on grip.
Engineer: We'll just keep working the tires. The surface temps are on the cold side.
Engineer: so we're happy to go rearwards on the offset so we could go offset minus three
Nico HULKENBERG: We're using, I guess, a lot of lap time there going down to 2.9.
Engineer: I
Nico HULKENBERG: think that error balance is scrubbing the front more.
Engineer: Some weaving and nice braking.
Engineer: The wind is similar to the one before, all clear from behind, all clear.
Sergio PEREZ: I think we're just working on a very new style, but yeah.
Engineer: 3 behind Call report Ok what's happening Daniel? Let's ride with the front 3 behind, start pushing 3 behind
Engineer: Okay Lance, cool, cool, P2, purple middle sector, do you want to third push Lance?
Lance STROLL: It's really difficult on three and four.
Engineer: I
Lance STROLL: don't know if you have any ideas. Help me with tools. Just feels like a balance is a bit everywhere.
Engineer: Yeah, copy what I think.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, the feeling on landing at higher is not greatest, similar to 22.
Engineer: and just throw TAS aborted in front, and just throw pushing 6 seconds behind
Engineer: Just confirm everything alright with the car?
George RUSSELL: Yeah, fine.
Engineer: Can I help you?
Valtteri BOTTAS: Yeah, I'll get it.
Engineer: Okay, copy.
George RUSSELL: Hold on, front under rotation into turn three,
Engineer: Scott.
George RUSSELL: Ooh, what did the high speed look like there?
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yes, so turn 6 is where I had a lot of understeer.
Logan SARGEANT: Well, I don't know what's happened with the tire.
Engineer: Okay, yeah,
Alexander ALBON: sorry
Engineer: Albon's on the outside of turn 8.
Lando NORRIS: Yes, Mitchell Sturbury, worth checking the tyres. Is he alright? He looks pretty large.
Engineer: He said he's okay, yeah.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Lando NORRIS: Well, you should have green lights earlier. I want to be first and now I'm f***ing lost.
Engineer: Magic for front lockup.
George RUSSELL: That's what I felt on the fast
Engineer: lap before.
Engineer: It's quite clear ahead. You're looking good. Ocon's still nine seconds back.
Engineer: Gasly, for a second, we'll go for a live P-stop, live P-stop.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Oh, but they're not quite hard there.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: Can you repeat the job, please Vibration
ZHOU Guanyu: quite a lot
Yuki TSUNODA: I would say both are so different from how I mainly left off.
Carlos SAINZ: Oh, I just got that, by the house behind, I think, with his front wing.
Engineer: Copy.
Yuki TSUNODA: I started to see a pond left crying.
Engineer: Daniel is low fuel. Low fuel, correct.
Engineer: and mode raise when you can mode raise when you can
Logan SARGEANT: I think flap was okay. I feel like I needed more flap to protect the front. I have the front left opening up. But the problem was this veer snatching again. And the problem is it's not just low speed, but also high.
Pierre GASLY: Is the first gear learned?
Engineer: We're still missing first gear. Still missing first. We have it now.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I think my floor is damaged.
Lewis HAMILTON: 5 damage to floor.
Engineer: OK, we'll take a look.
Engineer: Oscar, in lap, out of turn 6, could we have purple C7 position 3, 160 kph?
Engineer: It's
Oscar PIASTRI: probably the worst place, that Red Bull could have stopped.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: Now the ewer target plus two, initial throttle slightly aggressive.
Engineer: No pit stop, no practice pit stop, so just follow the directions of the guys.
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