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Team radio transcript

Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2024: Qualifying team radio

21 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2024, across 13 drivers. George RUSSELL had the most, with 3.

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

Every message, in the order it happened

  1. George RUSSELLMercedes

    George RUSSELL: literally like a Mexican standoff, as soon as one goes everyone pulls the trigger

  2. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, the car is jumping around like crazy on the rear axle.

    Engineer: Ok, copy.

  3. Franco COLAPINTOWilliams

    Engineer: Sorry mate, I just touched the wall, so have a look at the rear right. Rear right, where did you touch? Was it Gasly 6 pushing? Gasly 6 pushing. Turn 15 exit.

  4. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: Maya, I'm sorry.

  5. Oliver BEARMANHaas

    Oliver BEARMAN: Ah!

    Engineer: Alright, you're through. You are through. Awesome job, mate. Awesome job. Thank God. Thank God. Well done, mate.

  6. George RUSSELLMercedes

    Engineer: That was tight.

    George RUSSELL: Yeah, Piastri and Colapinto.

  7. George RUSSELLMercedes

    George RUSSELL: Let's get out there Riley, I think the track is starting to plateau

  8. Nico HULKENBERGHaas

    Nico HULKENBERG: Lost quite a bit of rotation turn two there. Every time turning in turn two, don't really have the front But it's just there

    Engineer: Copy, take a look

  9. Yuki TSUNODARB

    Engineer: We need a great lap and I know you have it somewhere so let's focus on that one

  10. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    Charles LECLERC: When will I have someone in front? Come on, we practice that all weekend not to be completely alone in qualifying.

  11. Oliver BEARMANHaas

    Oliver BEARMAN: How do I look up? Damn

    Engineer: it!

    Oliver BEARMAN: Ah mate, I'm such an idiot!

  12. Franco COLAPINTOWilliams

    Engineer: Okay, you're 3-2-3, you're 3-2-3 mate. Congratulations.

    Franco COLAPINTO: Let's

    Engineer: go!

  13. Oliver BEARMANHaas

    Engineer: You did a great job Olli, you should be very pleased with yourself. That was an excellent effort.

    Oliver BEARMAN: Thanks guys. Thanks so much for loading the car up because I really put you in the s*** this morning, but so close to have something to show for it.

  14. Sergio PEREZRed Bull

    Engineer: Yeah, saw that. It's not right.

  15. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Lewis HAMILTON: How far behind am I?

    Engineer: So to look like it's eight and a half tenths

    Lewis HAMILTON: Come on guys, get those temperatures up

    Engineer: Yep, copy

  16. Sergio PEREZRed Bull

    Sergio PEREZ: Okay, we do a quick turnaround because we don't want to be the last car. Yeah, go for it.

  17. Oscar PIASTRIMcLaren

    Oscar PIASTRI: The Williams still has the airbox fan in.

    Engineer: Understood.

  18. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    Engineer: And pole position no chance for anyone else that was beautiful.

    Charles LECLERC: Let's go Yes Nice good job boys

  19. Fernando ALONSOAston Martin

    Fernando ALONSO: I didn't get it.

    Engineer: You got both Williams, P8, good job. Nice and slow on the way in. Well done mate, good job. Yes,

    Fernando ALONSO: well done guys, see you tomorrow. Crazy race always here, but good starting position.

    Engineer: Exactly, you're only less than a tenth behind Hamilton as well.

  20. Alexander ALBONWilliams

    Engineer: Alex, you drove spectacularly through qualifying. Well done for that. I'm sorry for that incident. We're going to make sure that doesn't happen again.

    Alexander ALBON: Yeah, thank you James. We're

    Engineer: going

    Alexander ALBON: to fight tomorrow everyone, so don't stress. We can get points tomorrow.

    Engineer: Yeah, we win today. Together we lose together. Simple as that. But we have points on the table tomorrow.

  21. Franco COLAPINTOWilliams

    Franco COLAPINTO: Harry Mechanic, you were mega yesterday, I thought we were not going to go out in FP2 and you saved my life putting me out in that session to get confidence back, thank you for that.

    Engineer: Franco, well done, you've really epitomized what we're all about here which is pulling together when things get tough, you did a great job of recovering after that incident and it's really, really, really proud to see how you stepped forward across all of this session and these last few sessions, well done, you can be proud of that.

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