Australian Grand Prix 2024: Practice 3 team radio
84 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Australian Grand Prix 2024, across 18 drivers. 67 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Oscar PIASTRI had the most, with 9.
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
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 9 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 9 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 8 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 7 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 7 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 7 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 5 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 4 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · RB · 4 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 4 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 3 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 3 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 3 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Kick Sauber · 1 message
- ZHOU Guanyu · Kick Sauber · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: And we can have purple C7 position 6, that's 200 kph, we want that up to turn 9.
Engineer: Turn 11 to 13, purple C7, position 8.
Engineer: The Sauber ahead is scrubbing tyres so expect it to pit at the end of the lap.
Engineer: Good speed on the straight all the way up to nine. We'll focus on a gap in the last sector
Engineer: OK, that's slow now for now. You can back off.
Max VERSTAPPEN: My brakes are not working. They're not biting.
Engineer: Understood. Can you continue or do we have to replace it?
Max VERSTAPPEN: I'll try again, but just check.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, I don't
Engineer: know
Max VERSTAPPEN: about this, but let's try again.
Engineer: Okay, I'm watching but you might back off a bit early before 10-9 this time
Engineer: Purple C7 position 6, 200 kph into turn 9.
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Engineer: And we have wind phase 5, 7 to 10 kph, lower than yesterday.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, LaFront, LaSat, LaSector, basically from 11 onwards.
Engineer: Yeah, go further.
Alexander ALBON: Feels like the rears are grainy a little bit and the front two weren't ready to turn to one or ten three
Engineer: And you can drive this out like exactly like you want it
Engineer: Doing a good job with the turning, keep focusing on the sharp turning, good warm-up on the brakes.
Engineer: OK Lewis, so that's 1.5 off Verstappen, he was on the medium tyre, quite a lot of straight line difference there.
Lewis HAMILTON: 1.1 on straight line.
Engineer: urgent blue seven position five blue seven position five
Engineer: So all the losses were coming in the second half of the lap there, turn line onwards.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, so for that lap, I did still have a bit, yeah, too much lap.
Engineer: Yeah,
Alexander ALBON: I mean, I'm not going to learn much. It's going to lose me confidence with this long one, basically.
Engineer: And if we can go recharge off for a couple seconds.
Engineer: Yeah, so we think that's a pretty good for a single collapse so happy to push next time
Engineer: OK, mate, we have Verstappen seven seconds behind. He could well be high fuel.
Engineer: So currently P6, 1.3 to Sainz
Lewis HAMILTON: Where is all that time at?
Engineer: 7 tenths straight line
Alexander ALBON: The driver's ability is really bad, in my opinion. What caused it? Everywhere.
Engineer: And Valtteri, we have now Joe four tenths quicker, and most of that is in turn nine. Focus on earlier braking and earlier brake and release.
Charles LECLERC: There's one thing that is certain, is that you get an Aston Martin at one point in the middle, all the f***ing time.
Engineer: Copy.
George RUSSELL: What do you suggest by that? The mediums
Engineer: quicker?
George RUSSELL: I
Engineer: can't say the medium runners have got the top four positions.
Engineer: And are you happy with the front wing?
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, I just need more grip like it's not a okay
Engineer: copy that
Engineer: What you did there was good for Tyus.
Engineer: And there's a little bit of time to gain turn four compared to Esteban
Engineer: Pass gear, click overtake, two-tire whammy, target two shallow.
Engineer: Very good. Back to position one, please. Position one. We come through the pit lane for practice start. Science is at seven.
Engineer: That's restarting.
Pierre GASLY: That was a pretty scary snap in 10-9.
Yuki TSUNODA: I think the balance I had in the second push was better.
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Pierre GASLY: Yes.
Engineer: And we have same direction in terms of wind, slightly higher intensity.
Engineer: And red button.
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Engineer: so you've got a little potentially i'll get the deck he's in three seconds back now let's get behind him thermal thermal thing
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Engineer: Do
Charles LECLERC: we have one more lap or not?
Engineer: No, not one more lap. If you push next lap, yes.
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Engineer: And so I've got opportunities, tenth in turn one.
Engineer: Straight out. Track is clear.
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Alexander ALBON: The rays are totally gone, totally gone after 10-9.
Alexander ALBON: It feels like we put a lot of energy on the car, on the wheels, on braking everywhere.
Engineer: It's an 11, there's a lot of rail locking and it's feeling there is intersectionary.
Engineer: That is P3 currently. Purple Sector 1.
Oscar PIASTRI: It's amazing what happens when you stop being an idiot in Term 1.
Engineer: Understood.
George RUSSELL: Guys, I always find Lewis has **** points in the track, every time.
George RUSSELL: The final downshift into turn 11 is really poor. Can you give me a switch change?
Engineer: 10.13 was the wind difference there. I just got a much bigger understeer there. We'll get back to you, Guzran. Yeah, understood. Hamilton six seconds behind time lap.
Engineer: So I'm about to understeer by a
ZHOU Guanyu: massive understeer, guys.
Engineer: and minor white eight nine position or white eight nine position or
George RUSSELL: Tower ship, who's better?
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, so because of the instability, I come off the brake, and that brings me with too much speed, but yeah, the problem's still that instability.
Engineer: Good, we keep checking.
Engineer: The reminder to reset your shape and then we'll go recharge off and we'll go for our first push
Engineer: I
Sergio PEREZ: was too close to the science attic.
Engineer: Right, so after turn 8 we would like to use DRS just to try and bring some temperature to the front
Engineer: When the purple first sector or reference on that soft good job
Engineer: Easy on rear left. That's good job. This is the gap. Let's pull the rear left down in 11 and we need good brake temp.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I don't know why in the house it's kind of faster, compared to the medium, the tires move around too much
Engineer: OK, understood
Engineer: And then just same toggle usage around the left.
Sergio PEREZ: Oh, they don't seem to be really good.
Engineer: Two. No break. Gasly at two and a half seconds.
Sergio PEREZ: We will not get another lap.
Engineer: We won't get another lap, but I want to have a look at sector one. Got Magnussen and then Leclerc, two and a half seconds. One coming through, Leclerc just behind. And then turn.
Engineer: Russell Outlap coming on DRS.
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Engineer: So that was quite a good lap. I saw that you had to be the traffic at the beginning for sector But yeah overall good traffic everywhere
Engineer: Okay Kev, so let's go to the cool the car, cool the car please, cool the car as much as you can.
Engineer: I was going to launch feedback. That was 1% shallow and timing was late.
Engineer: Weybridge, Weybridge, that's an official call to the Weybridge marks.
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