Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2024: Race team radio
62 radio messages were recorded during race at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2024, across 20 drivers. 61 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Lando NORRIS 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
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 10 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 9 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 7 messages
- Franco COLAPINTO · Williams · 5 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 4 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 4 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 3 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 2 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · RB · 1 message
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 1 message
- ZHOU Guanyu · Kick Sauber · 1 message
- Oliver BEARMAN · Haas · 1 message
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 1 message
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Kick Sauber · 1 message
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Esteban OCON: Steering a little bit to the right.
Engineer: OK, understood. Everything's still on the cool side.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
George RUSSELL: The brakes just don't feel like they have great deceleration.
George RUSSELL: The brakes just don't feel like they have great deceleration. Hopefully they improve, but similar feeling to the start of Q1.
Engineer: Understood.
Lewis HAMILTON: Umbrella if you can, it's roasting
Engineer: Yeah, should be on its way
Engineer: We had a quick chat outside, but I'm just going to reiterate, 51 laps, Baku can be very crazy, it's never the end, so whatever happens to you, if you lose position at the start, if you gain position, remember we need to stay focused and everything can happen. So we have a quick car, you're driving well, we talked a lot about what to do for the time management, if you apply everything, it's going to be payday today, okay? So just focus on everything you've learned, and you're going to be doing great.
Franco COLAPINTO: Yeah, copy that. Yeah.
Engineer: Okay, so we're now effectively on plan B, so gentle introduction.
Engineer: Ok Daniel, the carway has got damage, there's going to be a bit going on in the straight.
Lance STROLL: Sonona, close the door on me.
Engineer: Lando, how are the tyres?
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, they feel alright at the minute.
Franco COLAPINTO: Let me know when you want me to put him under pressure I have four points. Okay
Engineer: Affirm, we'll keep an eye.
Engineer: The medium is not graining yet. If anything, it's suffering from thermal deg. You are doing a better job than the other car. They're struggling with rays.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I have zero bite in the car.
Oscar PIASTRI: Throttling here now.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: Lando, can you do anything to hold Perez up in the middle sector without hurting yourself?
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, for how long?
Engineer: One or two laps, this lap.
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, we see that.
Engineer: Have
Yuki TSUNODA: you seen the investigation? At least.
Engineer: Unfortunately there is no investigation in the UK at the moment. I see it's frustrating. I'm sorry if we didn't call you in earlier. We were trying to do a bit of teamwork. You will see how the car is when you jump out. We have a big hole on the right side. I'm really sorry buddy.
Esteban OCON: I'm struggling a lot with the reins at the moment
Engineer: I'm
Lando NORRIS: struggling a little bit.
Engineer: OK mate, the pace might feel **** but you're doing a really good job.
Charles LECLERC: They are pushing like crazy. Or they have more grip than us.
Engineer: Copy. Just keep doing a good job on tyres. It's still very long.
Engineer: There's everything you can do to get the surface temp down.
Lewis HAMILTON: I'm trying.
Max VERSTAPPEN: All right, brakes are not working.
ZHOU Guanyu: Car feeling good at the moment.
Engineer: So we're thinking at least another 10 laps for them.
Engineer: The tyres are looking really good here mate. 25 laps remaining. We'll just let it play out ahead.
Engineer: Can you
Lewis HAMILTON: see now how I have to drive this thing?
Engineer: Copy that Lewis, yes it's effective though.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, I just don't have the pace to advance this, mate. I can't get close.
Engineer: Okay, mate. We're considering doing something different, then.
Engineer: Keep it nice and tidy. This is good fighting
Engineer: Okay, mate, this is our time
Engineer: If you can keep this pace up, it's mega.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I know we're good. The car is just jumping on the rear, losing contact.
Engineer: You're one second quicker than Alonso and Colapinto in eighth and ninth.
Engineer: The Clerks tyres look worse than yours at the rear, slightly better on front.
Engineer: Come on Charles keep it up
Engineer: Box opposite McLaren.
Engineer: We're thinking about Plan C. What do you think?
Charles LECLERC: Not stupid.
Engineer: Best pace to the end in order to catch Verstappen.
Charles LECLERC: Let's just stop this struggle.
Engineer: Copy, keep it up.
Engineer: P-10, 12 to go at the line. Good job.
Engineer: And Lando, imagine Andrea on your shoulder saying zero wheel spin every exit.
Esteban OCON: Attention all left side, check the left side Understood,
Engineer: all looks okay at the moment, understood, we're looking
Franco COLAPINTO: Let's use all the energy we're having to get out of here, it's
Engineer: a
Franco COLAPINTO: bit compromised later. Let's try to get from behind.
Engineer: There's back markers coming up. It's going to get messy.
Engineer: Come on
Engineer: Yeah, Ricardo still 10.6 behind, so you're doing a good job, we're going to just hang this out towards the end, we have soft or medium available for the last stint, do you have a preference? We'll have a...
Charles LECLERC: Don't realize don't realize at all
Engineer: He's weak, we're gonna go for him, gonna go for him. Be patient if you need to.
Sergio PEREZ: What the f*** is this idiot doing, man? What the f***? Is he crazy or what? F***ing idiot.
Carlos SAINZ: What happened there? What happened?
Engineer: Are you okay?
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, but I don't get it.
Engineer: Yeah, boy, lovely. Lovely job, Oscar. Great afternoon. Fantastic.
Oscar PIASTRI: Well done, everybody. That was probably the most stressful afternoon of my life. So well done. Yeah, that was that was a big move. So thank you very much for
Engineer: the
Oscar PIASTRI: car. What a day that was. Thanks, everyone. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Engineer: P2, not what we wanted, but some good points, thank you Yeah,
Charles LECLERC: not what we wanted and obviously very unlucky in the last laps with Carlos
Engineer: We were
Charles LECLERC: struggling so much more with the car, we were struggling so much more with the car on hards
Engineer: George, the second part of the race, we're really rail driven, there's so much to learn here.
George RUSSELL: Yeah, thanks George. Tyres, tyres, tyres.
Engineer: Yep.
Engineer: and uh you are driver of the day as well oh
Oscar PIASTRI: thank you i don't know what the thank you is but i'm not even going to attempt it thank you
Engineer: And that is P6 mate, well done, that was a hell of a drive
Fernando ALONSO: Are the drivers okay?
Engineer: Both drivers got out themselves, yep, both drivers got out
Engineer: Lewis, good to make it to the end, it was a horror race, I can so relate to it, we all can relate to it, let's, at least we've taken the penalty now, let's move forward, look forward. That was P9, and yeah, I understand your frustration.
George RUSSELL: It was crazy with that crash and the sun right in my eyes. I literally could not see a thing driving into into a haze Glad everyone's okay
Engineer: Yeah, I felt pretty scary trying
George RUSSELL: to pick up some rubber but all I can find is leaves
Engineer: So P16 finish for us?
Valtteri BOTTAS: Yes, still overall just lacking pace on that medium tyre in the beginning just didn't last
Engineer: Okay, sorry Nico. We'll see you back here. We'll get on our way to Singapore
Nico HULKENBERG: You don't have to be sorry, mate. I'm sorry. I let you guys down. I let us down today And the irony is one of
Engineer: the
Nico HULKENBERG: best races here and just 120 seconds from the end unbelievable Yeah,
Engineer: Nico, it's brutal. We're all in it together man
Franco COLAPINTO: Oh my god, mate, oh this is an amazing result for us, oh my god, well done, well done on keeping Hamilton behind as well, it was tough, but we'll double it up. Yeah, that was good, congratulations, hell of a first weekend, hell of a last weekend, Monza, Azerbaijan, it was amazing, you've been everything to do your seat in Formula One, to be honest, amazing pass to race weekend, stellar job throughout this weekend, on the track you didn't know where the tyres are now, Daisy, where everybody got caught and a lot of guys crashed or made mistakes in this low grip, dirty condition, and you did amazing, taking every session, improving, I'm really happy with it, thank you so much.
Engineer: Ramos, Ramos, well done, just amazing. Really, really proud of you, that's a weekend, you executed perfectly, really from start to finish, you finished just behind Alex on a different strategy, you managed tyres again that were in a difficult situation, and you're now a Williams Grand Prix driver with points to your name, that will never change, no one can take that away from you, well done. Thank you, James, thank you so much, mate, I am so, so happy for
Franco COLAPINTO: these points, for giving to the team, a little bit back of what you guys gave me. Totally trust, so, yeah, it's just, I'm so, so happy, let's see if we win in Singapore, another nice challenge, but I'm sure we can, we can do a good job there as well.
Engineer: Yeah, we definitely can, when you go into the factory, you're going to see a sign that we put up which has your name on it and points to it, can't wait to see how we move forward together.
Franco COLAPINTO: Yeah, yeah, me too, I've seen the sign last week and I was like, I think that was the biggest motivation to win points this weekend. I wanted my name there, not only Alex's one.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, congrats. Well done. Nice to meet you.
Engineer: Yeah, good effort mate. Your bit in the middle there helped that, so thank you very much. You also got the fastest lap.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, well done everyone. Awesome points, nice result. Good comeback from yesterday. Nothing we could have done, but nice to get some points back. Thank you.
Engineer: Yeah, good effort mate. Great race. And do you mind if I dedicate this to someone?
Lando NORRIS: Go ahead Will, of course you can.
Engineer: My dad passed away 10 years ago today as I was on the way to Singapore, or just about to leave to Singapore, so this is to him who would be very proud of us all.
Lando NORRIS: Of course he will. Thanks mate. Awesome team result, so everyone should be very proud. Well done. Cheers dude.
Engineer: Well done mate. Holding up Perez was what made the race for Oscar, so thank you from the team.
Engineer: That's P7, Franco P8. Great team effort. Well done. Alex, absolutely incredible. Well done. P7 and well earned on that point. It was a brilliant race executed from start to finish. We'll have more performance, we'll keep moving forward, but amazing. Really, really happy.
Alexander ALBON: Yeah, well done everyone. When I saw how little people went hard, I was a bit worried, but we made it work.
Engineer: Yeah, we have some more work to do, but we're going our own way.
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