Bahrain Grand Prix 2024: Practice 3 team radio
45 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Bahrain Grand Prix 2024, across 17 drivers. 44 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Charles LECLERC had the most, with 7.
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
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 7 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 5 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 4 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 4 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 4 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 3 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 3 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 3 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 2 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 1 message
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 1 message
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 1 message
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 1 message
- ZHOU Guanyu · Kick Sauber · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Lance STROLL: I'll do one more whatever
Engineer: They're pushing to 14, recharge off, and good to go, single timed lap.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: What's the drop-off from that one to a second push?
Engineer: times are almost the same yeah I'd say there's no big difference I can see quickly
Engineer: Here we've got some time to gain with Esteban on exits 1, 10 and 13.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, what's going on with the shift guys? It's really bad third to fourth
Engineer: Yeah, we're working on that
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, I had a quite long look up last corner. Ended up quite deep.
Engineer: Miyuki was turn 8, pushing better this lap.
Yuki TSUNODA: I think a little bit, not massively.
Engineer: Diff mid minus one suggestion and the wind is the same than previous run
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, 0.2% of the world on mechanical, it is too much. Understand that, Cal.
Engineer: Copy that. We were thinking the same.
Engineer: Out of turn 10, I'd like purple C3 position 2, purple C3 position 2, third gear.
George RUSSELL: Checked turn 12, feels much better there. Difficult to take a read anywhere else.
Engineer: Do you need those cruisers again? I didn't worry. No, next if they're good enough. Thank you.
Engineer: Okay, let's run some slow frequency or low frequency weaving on the back straight, please, 13 to 14.
Engineer: and we can reduce the peak into turn 6
Charles LECLERC: How is the second time up?
Engineer: Overall good, just losing out of turn 10 and 11.
Engineer: compared to science.
Engineer: no time for another push we need to box now
Engineer: Manage your tyres Max, don't get into a race with the sergeant please
Engineer: It
Alexander ALBON: feels very odd, it's just, I felt like my fronts were overheating a lot through the lap. It just felt like it, I don't know if it's just the track evo.
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, into eight and ten, certainly, yeah, I think we are on the aggressive side.
Engineer: One much II to it. Yeah, I
Logan SARGEANT: need help blue speed man. I I need what can I do?
Engineer: No rotation
Engineer: So the moment where you still have a slight in margin on breaking point and turn one
Logan SARGEANT: Just to reiterate, I think the flop's in a good place for medium-high speed, so I don't really want to take more just for low speed.
Alexander ALBON: Can you check why, since I have so much understeer suddenly, is this that wind thing? Like my balance shift from 1st
Engineer: set
Alexander ALBON: to 2nd set?
Engineer: I could open the diff, but
Logan SARGEANT: I would need a bigger diff stabilizer for the corners I need it.
Engineer: Yeah, copy.
Fernando ALONSO: Another step better. I'm connected with the car. It's good.
Engineer: You're currently P1, a tenth quicker than Verstappen.
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, copy. Another step better. I'm connected with the car, it's good.
Engineer: Copy, mate.
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, I mean, it's not very representative, but let's do it anyway.
Engineer: Yeah, copy that.
Sergio PEREZ: Who's fascist?
Engineer: So Alonso fastest with 30.9, Max 31.0, Norris 31.1, Russell 31.1, Piestri 31.2. Currently P6, just under three times off Fernando.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Traffic in turn 1 and lock up in turn 10.
Engineer: So Kevin is first pushing car, 12 behind. We're good on timing for double back-offs. So he's not in sequence with me? No, I take it back. He's on the back-off. So he didn't push the first time, so this must be... I'll find out when he's going to push again.
Engineer: we set go race and we unbox this lap for a stop short and they rub you've got Magnussen in three on a push Magnussen in three on a push
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, very tricky out of turn two again
Engineer: so mode slow please kev mode slow so we need to and spark two please spark two no threats behind
Nico HULKENBERG: No, not happening. That is not happening.
Charles LECLERC: And I struggled with the altitude in the last corner as well. The sun is, I think, low.
Engineer: I just drove past because I didn't know. Yeah, no problem.
Engineer: I think we've got a couple of things we'd like to look at with you, but other than that, everything control-wise looked pretty sensible. How are the brakes now, please?
Esteban OCON: It's still vibrating, stop's okay.
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