Austrian Grand Prix 2024: Qualifying team radio
46 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the Austrian Grand Prix 2024, across 18 drivers. 43 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Logan SARGEANT had the most, with 4.
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
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 4 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 4 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 3 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 3 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 3 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 2 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 1 message
- ZHOU Guanyu · Kick Sauber · 1 message
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Kick Sauber · 1 message
- Daniel RICCIARDO · RB · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Logan SARGEANT: Locking a lot the rears, T3, T4.
George RUSSELL: Lewis is going very slow.
Engineer: Yeah, he's clear in sector 3, doesn't need to be quite so slow. Let's build a gap.
Charles LECLERC: Okay, I did a big mistake in trick
Engineer: Aoki lap time deleted, turn 6, drop limit
Engineer: Lando we need to do another one please we need to do another one if you want to drive through the pit lane you can do plenty of time for that
Engineer: Lando, we need to do another one please, we need to do another one.
Lewis HAMILTON: Yeah, just slow mate.
Engineer: okay sadly i think that's us out i'm afraid so run to its delta keep it negative
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Sector 1, Sector 2 were very good. What happened Sector 3?
ZHOU Guanyu: Here, copy. They've thrown the best lap one, but they're now struggling after it. Copy that. They've thrown the best lap one, but they're now struggling after it. Here, copy. They've thrown the best lap one, but they're now struggling after it.
Alexander ALBON: We did a good job with the car, it's just we don't quite have the pace.
Logan SARGEANT: We know our limitations in this condition, isn't it? I mean, it's such a shame, man.
Logan SARGEANT: Honestly, man, it's so frustrating, man, this.
Engineer: I'm
Valtteri BOTTAS: a little bit distracted by Zunoda in turn 1.
Carlos SAINZ: I picked up a little bond signal up.
Engineer: I
Carlos SAINZ: picked up a little bouncing a lot
Engineer: Ok, so you're all clear behind C. Ah, I'm happy.
Fernando ALONSO: Nearly crashing 7 and 10. Yeah,
Engineer: I know mate.
Fernando ALONSO: Ah f***, nearly crash in 7 and 10 Yeah I know mate
Engineer: Okay, so that Haas is not in the pit lane, not in the first lane.
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, he didn't let me by.
Engineer: He doesn't follow the regs, but that's his problem.
Engineer: How much did we miss out by? It's like, yeah, nothing, 10 minutes, we're gone.
Engineer: Okay, we are through as well. Yes!
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, that's me. Good effort anyway, trying something different.
Nico HULKENBERG: Not bad. Very good recovery. Not in a hectic session.
Engineer: Yeah, good job Nico.
Max VERSTAPPEN: We're a different group to be honest, a little lower initially.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: Currently p3 max
Max VERSTAPPEN: Six in the last corner.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: Oh
Engineer: Main loss to Carlos Tentful.
Engineer: behind to worry about.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Yeah, we'll run the new
Engineer: Oakberg does have a new set, yeah. It's alright, lot can happen here.
Engineer: A
Oscar PIASTRI: couple of ebooks.
Sergio PEREZ: Front end as the run progresses. I'm losing the front end as the run progresses.
Sergio PEREZ: I'm losing the front end as the run progresses.
Lewis HAMILTON: Need more front wing, go down the sail.
Engineer: OK, copy.
Engineer: Well, I make that was mighty absolutely mighty
Max VERSTAPPEN: Fire that will thank car was really strong guys. Nice again Really really good
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, I think I broke everything under the car.
Carlos SAINZ: So I think I could have lost it in one, but good job, Chris. I think we maximized that.
Engineer: P3,
George RUSSELL: P3 good job. Yes, nice one
Nico HULKENBERG: Yep, solid job, gents. Let's bring this through tomorrow. There's something on offer.
Engineer: Yep, copy that.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Well done.
Engineer: Yeah, well done Max. As I say, 4.10s to Lando, 4.5s to Piastri, then over half a second to Russell.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, that's amazing.
Engineer: OK, so that's P6, that's five and a half tenths off the stappen. We may have a lap diluted, but we'll see where that puts us. So, P5.
Lewis HAMILTON: Oh, for a second there, this track is crazy.
Engineer: Oscar, correction, the lap has been deleted, the lap has been deleted, we're P7, P7 Sorry mate We'll go forwards from there
Oscar PIASTRI: How? Where was it deleted?
Engineer: Turn 6
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