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Bahrain Grand Prix2024 · Practice 1 team radio
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52 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Bahrain Grand Prix 2024, across 17 drivers. Sergio PEREZ had the most, with 8.
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.
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- Practice 262 messages
- Practice 345 messages
- Qualifying77 messages
- Race146 messages
The session, message by message
ZHOU GuanyuMy brake is not working
EngineerGo to tire on the multi please, tire on the multi
EngineerAnd Landon, I'm sure you will have realised by now the wind is very strong.
Valtteri BOTTASEverything as expected and working, just the steering is still a little bit right hand down as per the test. And on the way to the pit box I got the BBW failsafe.
EngineerApart from all
Valtteri BOTTASthat it's all okay with the car.
George RUSSELLSteering feels very light.
Sergio PEREZYeah, at the moment the brakes were on the side
EngineerBut beside from the starting position maybe a little bit too far away I think let's see what the issue was because yeah, I had no breaks into turn one basically
Daniel RICCIARDOYeah, so turn 1 had no rear, so very weak late turn in and traction.
Sergio PEREZYeah, at the moment. The brakes were on the good side, they didn't feel the same as in testing, apart from the final corner.
Sergio PEREZAnd I'm traveling with front end pretty much, very much at all speeds, apart from turn 4 on the way in.
George RUSSELLTire is raised with cold, exit at one.
EngineerOK Span, the lap compared to Pierre looks good all the way through the lap, so let's just keep feeling the balance on the way round.
Esteban OCONOverheating but the wind is the biggest factor.
EngineerOscar, opportunity turn 8 minimum speed, we can go unlimited CSL, purple C7 position 1.
Max VERSTAPPENE-everything is ****ed, like, miles off.
EngineerUnderstood.
EngineerOK Joe, we are ready to start our proper session, we have a start going out, so you can select ready mode FLAP, and we suggest one burnout going out.
EngineerSo aero P5 after turn 10 down to 11 and then we're going to do one more aero cruise and box
Max VERSTAPPENStill very bad nonsense, Adam, since cars literally jump you.
EngineerOK, thank you. See if we can sort that out in the garage.
EngineerI
Carlos SAINZthink I'll break the last one.
EngineerThat was a good lap.
EngineerRecharge on is good, red button press, double cool down lap.
EngineerAny problem corners that we can help with toys? We don't have any reference at the moment on the soft tyre for here
EngineerUh, no. I think
Oscar PIASTRIit's
Engineerall
Oscar PIASTRIokay.
EngineerFronts are on the low side so a bit of weaving and a bit of brakes before 10.14
Pierre GASLYLet's check is not just the wind is something of that reaction is not working
Sergio PEREZI wish I could fly, but still...
EngineerSir, an open question.
Sergio PEREZYeah, we got two clicks
EngineerIt's what you need. It's what will make a faster race car for you
Yuki TSUNODAI think it was a little bit too much for Perfetti, I had massive understeer there.
Max VERSTAPPENMild throttle or something on the braking.
EngineerDoesn't look like it, Max.
Max VERSTAPPENThen the engine is giving positive torque. Really weird.
EngineerOK, let's have torque 6 for the next lap. Torque 6. What is that going to do? I'll get back to you.
Daniel RICCIARDOI don't think we will improve, unless you see others improve, but I don't think so.
Carlos SAINZHe's struggling with the first part of throttle pickup, turn one.
Charles LECLERCI was 900m slower on my dash
Esteban OCONYeah super inconsistent the car at the moment
EngineerYeah, copy that we think it's largely down to the wind and the big changes and gusts around the track
Lando NORRISHappy with Strat 7?
EngineerStrat 7 is correct.
EngineerCar feedback, we can push minimum speed turn 6 and turn 12 more, minimum speed increase.
Engineerstill clear behind and we'll get the pedal mount changing that is green four position two green four position two
Lewis HAMILTONHad a strange downshift
Engineerto
Lewis HAMILTONturn 10
EngineerCopy that, we are checking.
EngineerOk straight into the run, you keep mode 3 for 1 lap Behind you is PS3, he's doing 38.5
EngineerFeedback 10-12, very good to start so keep this level
Alexander ALBONPedal went long. Very long.
EngineerBrake pedal.
Lance STROLLCar's super snappy turn one and two, my god, horrendous.
EngineerSector 2, the main losses, turn 8, turn 10.
Yuki TSUNODAI'm just getting by quite a lot of gusts of wind and I keep doing mistakes, that's
Engineerit.
Max VERSTAPPENVery increasing send down temps again.
EngineerUnderstood.
EngineerPress and hold while you are overtaking.
EngineerIt's breaking turn one and four place to focus
EngineerJust every time we leave the pit lane we lose gear sync now
EngineerBut try to cool the rear tires
Charles LECLERCYeah, that was a good start.
EngineerI
Charles LECLERCfelt a bit lazy when I went on power and released the clutch
EngineerAnd
Charles LECLERCthen I went way too aggressive just because I wanted to check if everything was fine