Bahrain Grand Prix 2024: Qualifying team radio
77 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the Bahrain Grand Prix 2024, across 19 drivers. 75 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Carlos SAINZ had the most, with 9.
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
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 9 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 8 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 7 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 6 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 6 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 6 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 5 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 5 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 4 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 4 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 3 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Kick Sauber · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · RB · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Kick Sauber · 1 message
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 1 message
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: The wind is very similar to FP3
Engineer: Okay, keep pace up after 13, introduce weaving please, down to 14.
Engineer: Let's push.
Engineer: and charge button on, box D slap
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, it was a strange thing also with drivability,
Engineer: change,
Carlos SAINZ: etc, drivability turned on.
Engineer: Esteban did a 32-0.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, please don't put me again behind you like that, because it's...
Engineer: Yep, copy that. Sorry, I swear too cold.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, they're all stopping. Can I go or not? I don't want to stop.
Engineer: Okay. Cap is very close to the cars ahead.
Engineer: Yeah, I see him, I see him. Don't worry.
Nico HULKENBERG: Very noisy, huh?
Engineer: You can weave a bit more between 8 and 10 and 10 and 11.
Engineer: Is anyone coming on a fast lap? Sir, Albon will be first car on a lap, 17.15 seconds now.
Engineer: Oh, no, I'm past. Five, four. I'll throw up one. I see him. Seven then to Ricciardo behind him.
Engineer: Okay, so DRS and weaving down to 11. Increase pace through 12 as well. Stroll one second behind.
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, very good luck.
Logan SARGEANT: Where's the four tenths?
Engineer: mostly turn nine ten I think it's close to two tenths
George RUSSELL: All right, if
Engineer: it
George RUSSELL: was okay, we'll
Engineer: do another run. Yeah, copy that. Understood.
Sergio PEREZ: I ran out of battery.
Engineer: It
Sergio PEREZ: was the end of the lap.
Carlos SAINZ: I think we're safe guys
Logan SARGEANT: That Mercedes was slow to move I
Engineer: mean slow to move
Engineer: In terms of relocking and stability, do you think we have margin for offset minus 2? In the data, it looks like we could go minus 2.
Engineer: Okay, there's going to be a bit of waiting here.
Engineer: we want to get in this key to be as in sync as we can be there's about five cars in front
Engineer: That's okay, we can only hold the car 20 more seconds and then basically we're gonna have to overtake on the outlet
Charles LECLERC: I do not agree with this.
Engineer: We need to go, we are just checking the track evolution and all, so we need to make sure.
Engineer: Yeah, we're in a good place at the moment now Max in terms of timings
Engineer: You can't afford a gap here.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, wasted set, no.
Engineer: Don't worry about it. Let's think about the next one.
Logan SARGEANT: Yeah, the rear's still nowhere starting that lap. I'm quite confused.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, disaster outlab
Engineer: Okay, Belgian, we are in P16, but we'll keep you in the car for a few minutes as we're the one on the edge, just in case someone gets a lap diluted.
Engineer: We're out. Yeah, I confirm. At the moment we are, there is about 16, we are 17.
Logan SARGEANT: I don't know what
Engineer: happened.
Alexander ALBON: I don't know who that Aston is, but he's left such a huge gap to the car in front.
Engineer: See, it's definitely getting warm.
Engineer: I think you've got some margins. Keep up the accommodation, Max.
George RUSSELL: Stroll.
Engineer: Stroll eight seconds behind on a lap. Just keep building that temp.
Engineer: Three seconds, don't turn, back off, let him by.
Yuki TSUNODA: It's already started.
Engineer: So overall that was that was a good lap as a reference science lap time 30.4
Engineer: He
Carlos SAINZ: had a good foot load.
Engineer: And so currently P6, it's 9 tenths of a step. He took a U, as did Perez and Alonso. Everyone else used.
Engineer: The guys in front of Carlos are stopping, we are not allowed to stop normally. Understood, we will report that.
Engineer: 1.5.
Yuki TSUNODA: Science is slowing down. Two.
Engineer: Front temperatures are coming up if anything we can work the front left bit more as well
Engineer: So just same out lap as we did in FP2 should be good to go
George RUSSELL: And off the stroll.
Engineer: Seven seconds to Ricciardo then. So now you've got stroll on your dash. Six and a half seconds.
Engineer: Charles did a very good lap, I'm at 29.16
Engineer: We are safe.
Engineer: OK, UKP 11, it was not a bad lap.
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah.
Engineer: That's our taps looks like we want to work the front right a bit more
Engineer: You should be good on traffic
Engineer: and the wind is the same than the previous run
Engineer: Okay, press in button box now you're in sync with cars behind
Engineer: That was a good lap, and box now box.
George RUSSELL: Right, it's really poor, turn 6, almost lost it.
Engineer: So you can use a bit of energy out of ten
Engineer: So let's go where the lead car which should help with the consistency so prepare the tyres as you need
Engineer: and you'll be all clear on exit
Engineer: wind looks like it's died down we straight out track is clear
Engineer: Keep working the tires
Engineer: Drive to the delta in lap driving
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, talking is normal
Engineer: I
Nico HULKENBERG: don't know
Engineer: if
Nico HULKENBERG: it's not great now, but trust me, it'll pay off tomorrow.
Engineer: Well Miko, and really good job getting to Q3. The Q2 lap was awesome. Alright, we'll see you in a bit.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Time-ups, please.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, imagine what
Engineer: it could have been, eh?
George RUSSELL: Good job. Did a great job from testing to improve the car. Important one tomorrow.
Engineer: Yeah, hey Phil. Good effort everyone. Yeah, got a lot of laps ahead of us tomorrow.
Carlos SAINZ: Probably, yeah, decent quality, not quite there, but, really.
Engineer: OK, Oscar, that's P8 in the end for us. Just went quick of an S on that last run.
Oscar PIASTRI: Not too bad, see what we can do tomorrow. Thanks guys and hell of a lot better than 12 months ago
Engineer: Yeah, the sun is probably not quite there, but nearly. Yeah, good iPhone there, 1 tenth.
Sergio PEREZ: let's keep it up guys, well done, well done, good start
Oscar PIASTRI: Thanks guys and hell of a lot better than 12 months ago
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