Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2024: Practice 3 team radio
22 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2024, across 13 drivers. 20 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. George RUSSELL 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
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 4 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 2 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Franco COLAPINTO · Williams · 2 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 1 message
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 1 message
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 1 message
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 1 message
- Oliver BEARMAN · Haas · 1 message
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 1 message
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Sergio PEREZ: It is a little bit damp, the truck.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: I got a problem. Okay, understood. Don't think I can make it.
Charles LECLERC: Do I have time to go to the toilet quickly?
Engineer: If it finishes quickly then we need to go out so I would not go
Charles LECLERC: Okay
Oscar PIASTRI: Sir, very light drops of rain.
Engineer: Understood. So far we have not seen them affect the track at any point.
Engineer: Lando, we need to box this lap please. No fall low for now and call the car.
Engineer: OK, so we'll go for a double call, so currently P2, not many cars have set times, but Piastri, 1.4 ahead.
Lewis HAMILTON: 1.4 seconds.
Engineer: 0.14, 0.14.
Engineer: Alex, 44.4, all the lap time, sector 2 mate, speed sector 1 and 3, but mostly sector 2, can you help me with anything? No, at the moment I'm happy with the car. Copy.
Engineer: Okay Oli, you
Oliver BEARMAN: okay? Oh, I'm such an idiot. Ah!
Engineer: Is the car damaged?
Oliver BEARMAN: Yeah, I couldn't tell out of the time. I'm so sorry.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Any thoughts on the balance though?
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, that I would say, or however you like it.
George RUSSELL: Uh, this guy's just in the middle of the road. I see him.
George RUSSELL: 12M aero, mountain number 3 Marker
George RUSSELL: Just check the P.U. Something feels and sounds a little bit funny. Mainly under braking and off throttle.
Engineer: Hey, fam.
George RUSSELL: The ride feels terrible, down the straight and then breaking.
Carlos SAINZ: This was huge, oh what he just did was crazy
Sergio PEREZ: You told me too late, mate. Yeah, sorry.
Engineer: Okay, so we've got science behind, so science behind on a time-lapse, take the cut road, take the cut road.
Engineer: Stop along the box, big collie, turn around, change your tyres and send it.
Charles LECLERC: That's f***ed up.
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, that was a bit messy session
Engineer: Yeah, it's cool with traffic
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, but also last push, yeah
Franco COLAPINTO: Mate, mate, mate My throttle My throttle got stuck
Engineer: Ok, copy, ok, copy I just saw, so easy in, easy a pit entry, don't push too much I will still be
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