Austrian Grand Prix 2024: Sprint team radio
85 radio messages were recorded during sprint at the Austrian Grand Prix 2024, across 20 drivers. 60 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Oscar PIASTRI 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
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 10 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 6 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 6 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 6 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 6 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · RB · 5 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 5 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 5 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 4 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 4 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 4 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 4 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Kick Sauber · 4 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Kick Sauber · 4 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 3 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 3 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 2 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 1 message
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Pierre GASLY: Brakes vibration 10-3
Pierre GASLY: Some pretty big vibration
Engineer: Yeah, we're looking into it. So we pull up on the left-hand side of the grid. Let's look for the mechanics
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, only thing I said everything felt fine, but I think there was just a bit of pulling to the right
Engineer: Okay, Nico, everyone is on a used medium except Baltas and Joe behind you on a new medium.
Engineer: The back is low, on the top. Copy, SOC 8 when you can, SOC 8 when you can.
Yuki TSUNODA: My front lock is so batting.
Engineer: Understood. Shape 2.
Logan SARGEANT: What's wrong with the engine no power
Alexander ALBON: The traction isn't really poor after Turn 3.
Engineer: Ok, copy, we'll have a look.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I'm glimping way too high to s**t.
Engineer: Yeah, we'll sort it out, Max.
Alexander ALBON: No, just massive variability in turn three.
Engineer: Okay, so I'm happy to do another 20 meters into turn three, same as Pierre, should help the rears.
Engineer: It's
Alexander ALBON: still a massive river you take the herbicide to throw.
Logan SARGEANT: Turn 3 is a joke how bad we are.
Sergio PEREZ: Ah, it's
Engineer: a
Sergio PEREZ: little bit all over the place in turn 6.
Engineer: The
Sergio PEREZ: rear cannot get back on throttle. The rear cannot get back on throttle.
Engineer: The rear cannot get back on throttle.
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Engineer: Let's see all this now.
Engineer: Okay, the clerk's losing DRS here. He's only just got it.
Engineer: Six, release phase three.
Engineer: 10 seconds ahead.
Charles LECLERC: Tonight was not. That's
Engineer: a
Charles LECLERC: bit tonight was not.
Engineer: All right.
Engineer: BB-8
Engineer: Gap to Bottas 2.2
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Engineer: and position three green time position three watch out sleep on x
Yuki TSUNODA: Six, when I can go more six.
Engineer: Same as you. Stroll two seconds behind now.
Engineer: or if you can, we'll help deployment.
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Engineer: And how are the tires? Ah,
Pierre GASLY: they're new.
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Engineer: Seconds, same pace as Piastri. Lando on DRS to Piastri.
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Engineer: Yes, I leave it to you
Engineer: nor the fuel messages.
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Engineer: but brakes but is
Charles LECLERC: the lifter for brakes or for tires
Engineer: 0.8
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Engineer: We'll have DRS.
Engineer: So you've got 0.7 ahead, 1.7 behind.
Engineer: 2.3
Engineer: If you want it, strap 13.
Engineer: 5.6.1
ZHOU Guanyu: Son of a bitch.
Engineer: Six.
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Engineer: It's good to see you.
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Engineer: Talk 11, that's to help instability turn three, so think about talk.
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Engineer: Let's buy UK.
Engineer: and six manager snaps, and six manager snaps, and six manager snaps.
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Engineer: Minor, ACF button press, and we've had our second strike, again, turn one.
Engineer: And recommend beaming three only for turn three
George RUSSELL: Have a staring break
Engineer: copy
Engineer: Okay, so an overtake available for two straights this lap and then the whole last lap.
Engineer: And let's try brake balance two steps rearwards and more brake release in turn one and three to increase minimum speed.
Engineer: Okay, solid effort. Well done, mate.
Max VERSTAPPEN: It was spicy, but a good result.
Engineer: Yeah, that was very spicy on the first couple of laps, but well done. Very, very good pace and well managed.
Oscar PIASTRI: Well done, nice bag of points and we'll go again this afternoon
Engineer: Yeah, it's not easy to lose the free taxi ride around here, is it?
Max VERSTAPPEN: The arrest is very strong, especially in the beginning.
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, there's no pace.
Engineer: Yeah, it didn't seem to reward us. Everyone just converged onto our pace.
George RUSSELL: It's very hot under my bottom now, but I'll go ahead
Engineer: and
George RUSSELL: slow. Right, good job, let's see what we can do this afternoon.
Engineer: Eh, on to QALY.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah it does, let's try and improve for later, we can try the MRX2 more.
Engineer: Yeah, tough one there.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Yeah, no pace.
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ZHOU Guanyu: Yep, I mean when you talk later about it, it was not great. I have to manage my tire from lap two, man
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Engineer: Well Alex, it's a good recovery from the pit lane, I think. We'll talk about the turn-through traction when we can see it, but there's probably things we can do, but good job to recover today. Yeah, it's, honestly it's a bit surprising how bad it is. Copy that.
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Engineer: Well, Logan, good race. Really good defending with Daniel as well. I think lots of good learning we'll take forward to this afternoon.
Logan SARGEANT: Yeah, we need to work on some stuff for sure. But yeah, we'll get on top of it.
Engineer: We are
Esteban OCON: very slow in the thread line.
Engineer: Yeah, absolutely.
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Engineer: Well yeah
Daniel RICCIARDO: quite a bit to take away so it's good to get some laps fighting as well.
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Yuki TSUNODA: It's P13, no?
Engineer: 1-3. P13, 1-3.
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, well, whatever. It was difficult, it was all easy. Yeah,
Engineer: clear. But I think you managed it well.
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