Bahrain Grand Prix 2024: Race team radio
146 radio messages were recorded during race at the Bahrain Grand Prix 2024, across 20 drivers. 144 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Lando NORRIS had the most, with 15.
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 · 15 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 13 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 12 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 11 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 10 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 10 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · RB · 9 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 7 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 7 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 7 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 6 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 5 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Kick Sauber · 5 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 5 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 5 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 4 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 4 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Kick Sauber · 3 messages
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: I
Pierre GASLY: had a really poor drivability out of turn one.
Engineer: Copy that, we'll take a look.
Engineer: Limit your clutches. Avoid pulling forwards.
Engineer: I had to move my microphone. It was a bit out of place, so I expect the mic to be better now. Yeah, it's much better.
Daniel RICCIARDO: I got a flat spot but it's fine for these laps.
George RUSSELL: Feeling a bit of bottoming into 11.
Yuki TSUNODA: The balance so far is pretty... a little bit understated in high speed, but I think it's good. Most of the time, it's also actually a bit of a rotation style in slow speed, so it's not a bad place to...
Engineer: Cake's sliding.
George RUSSELL: 12.
Engineer: Oh, sorry.
Engineer: Happy to do a launch, no burnout.
Lando NORRIS: Well, it's too late now, isn't
Engineer: it
Lando NORRIS: mate? Sorry, sorry.
Engineer: I'd like to stick with this green 9
George RUSSELL: setup
Engineer: Put the chair of your car, but be mindful of the tires.
Engineer: You know how to manage this. Very good thinking P2. Good management. Let's get on top of everything and we'll have a good race. Good one buddy.
Daniel RICCIARDO: The wind has obviously changed direction a lot from yesterday, so just let me know if that changes through the race.
Engineer: Who knows what can happen. So we'll race hard, race clean. All cars are on salt. So let's see what we can do out there.
Engineer: The drop was minus two
Engineer: Okay, Pierre, front wing looks okay from our side.
Engineer: Rack surface slippery, turn 4, could be debris, car's behind Pierre, then Vettas.
Engineer: Okay Nico, we'll just go as long as we can on this one and see what we can make of the race, so give us a good introduction here.
Engineer: Green 3, position 4, urgent.
Engineer: okay Oscar now's our chance let's follow him through
Lando NORRIS: I'm just struggling with the rear, I have no rear.
Alexander ALBON: The drivability is totally... is at... the temp's.
Engineer: Russell has been instructed to settle into time management max, but not sure how far he will be able to do that with Leclerc and Perez behind.
Engineer: Oscar's now the car behind, Strat 11 please, Strat 11.
Sergio PEREZ: I have a lot of fun to be on the final corner.
Engineer: I have more base than the guys in front. Hey, good to know.
Lance STROLL: Yeah, it's
Engineer: a
Lance STROLL: bit starting to lose the rears, but nothing bad.
Engineer: Thank you guys, come on, seriously, what do we do, is it critical or what, because if it's not critical, then let's just stick with it. Yeah, stick with it. We'll accept the couple of tenths lost, but we are running on our terms.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, tyre's fine. I'm just struggling with this front ride a lot. Sorry, the rears. My front's still fine.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: I have a tear-off stuck on the right side part.
Engineer: Oscar, this pace is good. You're faster than Lando and the Ferraris ahead.
Engineer: And Daniel Sargent ahead has been told to open the gap, they have a critical cooling issue. Heads up.
Engineer: So Oscar Objective, we just want to use whatever pace you've got now. Let's keep extending, extending some Alonzo.
Logan SARGEANT: Oh
George RUSSELL: Think about plan A minus one.
Engineer: Let's try to push one step more at 10-12, we are good on tires.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Let's make the dialogue 600, yeah.
Engineer: Okay, so the people that pitted early like Joe and Lance are close to our pit window, but we'll try and keep going
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, where they don't race.
Lewis HAMILTON: I'm getting the battery and I've got one percent.
Engineer: Okay, so I'm based on tyres. We think status zero from now, please. Status zero from now.
Engineer: I just cannot get out of the blocking everywhere
Engineer: Can I get the thing to charge before?
Engineer: That's the best mode.
Engineer: And you are doing a good job on tires.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, let's just let this come back.
Engineer: The motor will now lap in front battling with those guys. It'll slow them down
George RUSSELL: Guys, you need to advise me what to do here. I'm tired but I've got all of this to do.
Engineer: A balance update on the hard. How is it?
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, it's
Engineer: a
Sergio PEREZ: little bit more front. Limited. Medium and low speed.
Engineer: Sorry about Albon, I didn't see he boxed, well done Keith, in front of him.
Engineer: Clerk is reporting braking issues. He's a car ahead of Lando.
Engineer: and just be careful of over pushing turn one the general wind speed is reducing
Engineer: That's a beautiful sight.
Engineer: Back to your pace.
Engineer: Higher temperatures are just about stable.
Esteban OCON: We're better now. It's okay, I thought we were better on the stairs. We're better now.
Engineer: Understood.
Esteban OCON: It's okay, it started a little bit around the stairs, it's
Engineer: a
Esteban OCON: bit better now.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: Rattlerhead is struggling a bit, last lap was a 37.2
Engineer: Suck six, suck six.
Engineer: It tires a little on the cool side. Use it a bit more. 10.6, 10.7, 10.12.
Sergio PEREZ: You are super quiet, man. Speak louder. Sound. We need sound.
Engineer: There's a lot of containment going up, but you're doing a good job
Engineer: You can come down on dip high speed if turn 6 understeer is a problem.
Sergio PEREZ: What's
Engineer: up,
Sergio PEREZ: Peter and Max?
Engineer: And a minor white h2 position one please white h2 position one
Engineer: Okay, Pierre, you're doing a good job with Lipton Coast. Esteban, last lap, 38.4.
Logan SARGEANT: I need at least plus two tires are okay just
Engineer: Biggest loss you'll ever see is broken. Okay, copy.
Lance STROLL: Yeah, well, this is okay. It was the biggest limitation, but I'm unsettling.
Logan SARGEANT: Tracks in the exit of 8, 10. Very poor, but coming from a lack of rotation.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Is the wind still the same?
Engineer: On turn 12, cars ahead are doing one step less liftoff. We are losing 1 tenth and a half turn 12, last couple of laps.
Engineer: Looking at plan A on target at the moment, got us a couple of tenths a lot quicker at the moment.
Engineer: I'm not ever going to overtake him. Roger, got a bit of a woody dub at the minute.
Alexander ALBON: It's already tripping, it's already clipping at like a, it's already clipping halfway down every straight, it's so bad.
Engineer: Yeah, roger.
Engineer: UK just reinforced, no need to take any risk, race is long, be patient, we are faster.
Fernando ALONSO: I'm driving to get to target now, in the fastest way possible.
Engineer: Lando, be patient. You are quicker than I am.
Engineer: Ayuki, second strike, turn 13, black limit, no more now, no more.
Engineer: Flandre, what would you think about red A11, a red A11 suggestion?
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, I agree. I'm happy to try something different.
Engineer: OK, Lando, suggest then... If I get ahead, I'll be able to pitch a lot more. I just can't in the studio. OK, suggest red A11 then, red A11.
Engineer: Both windows at the same time are open.
Engineer: I'm going to stop you, please, and six minutes, and then we'll come.
Lewis HAMILTON: Oh, that's so good.
Engineer: So I copy that loose and so prioritize lifting coast turn four that'll be needed when we get a bit closer
Engineer: That puts us on plan A, target plus five. Plan A, target plus five.
Engineer: Good stuff the gaps growing
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, I'm just so I can't see nothing in the minutes
Alexander ALBON: I've got absolutely no power at all.
Charles LECLERC: I think we can forget about driving, pulling everywhere, I don't know what the car is going to do every time I brake.
Lewis HAMILTON: I raised it to start it.
Engineer: So now they're yet to stop.
Engineer: and a launch show in front still needs to stop
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, these guys are losing
Max VERSTAPPEN: Do you know the fastest lap, if someone goes for it?
Engineer: Yeah, it's mode 5 for now please Max, mode 5, sockets full.
Engineer: You will get through before turn four
Engineer: Okay, can we try and let him through before turn four and then he's got Sonota 1.2 behind
Nico HULKENBERG: Well, I don't know what is optimum, but I think in a few laps, well, optimal, but you know what I mean.
Lando NORRIS: Let's not forget about her
Lewis HAMILTON: These guys are possibly
Esteban OCON: I've got a big push after I've done the gale behavior.
Esteban OCON: Can I have
Engineer: a
Esteban OCON: look for next week?
Engineer: Yep, understood mate, we'll have a look.
Engineer: and then minor white h8 position 5 white h8 position 5
Engineer: Joel and Joe, P9, P10. They're on 10-lap older hard tyres. They'll come back to you towards the end of the race.
Carlos SAINZ: When do we expect the hard to be quicker on the soft?
Engineer: I'll just come back to you.
Lewis HAMILTON: Let me know if
Engineer: I
Lewis HAMILTON: need to pull back the last, the brake in the last corner.
Engineer: No, good gain there. Keep on that.
Engineer: And sliding speeds are still good for us in 10.6, also with this pace, good job.
Engineer: You can back to motor race and speed up in turn 12, you can reduce the management tires are fine.
Engineer: Okay pier that last lap was deleted so we'll be mindful of track limits turn four
Lance STROLL: Still too far away, but we still made it straight.
Engineer: Yes, mate. He's going to take DRS now. Do it in one.
Engineer: And we go Bravo zero zero off fail Bravo zero zero off
Engineer: We can get PU1 position 6, PU1 position 6.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: No more lift and coast needed for fuel happy no more lifting coast
Daniel RICCIARDO: Whatever the advantage I have, let's try something cool.
Engineer: We will do a driver swap this lap.
Engineer: Windows, safety car windows are closed. Safety car windows closed. Copy
Lando NORRIS: that.
Engineer: And a cross car six seven and twelve is faster than us on the tire saving places
Engineer: Yuki driver's whoop driver's whoop.
Yuki TSUNODA: Are you kidding me now?
Engineer: Okay, Sonoda's arguing on the radio, so 0.6 behind Sonoda DRS.
Sergio PEREZ: I'm traveling quite a bit with the riddle of engine braking in the tent.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, I don't need to say anything.
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, thanks guys. I appreciate it.
Engineer: Alonso now 1.3 behind, we will get blue flags for Alonso soon.
Alexander ALBON: In terms of breaking, it felt very strange.
Engineer: You too, buddy. Tiny job. Yeah, good job, guys. Checo, thank you very, very much for that. That was a very strong drive. Well done. 1-2 finish for the team. Maximum points. Best way to start a year.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: That's
Engineer: the
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: way to do, but already a good job, so it's only the first race Yeah, let's keep focused 10th direction forward
Nico HULKENBERG: Apologies for 2-1, that sucks real bad, but I guess the positive news is that we are in the mix and everybody else, so we take that as a positive into the season.
Engineer: You drove very well today Alex. We didn't give you the car you needed there. Well done for juggling really frankly a number of issues in the race. We're going to get that right next week and come back. The car isn't bad, we're just going to give you a proper package to work with.
Alexander ALBON: I don't think the car was that bad during the race. I felt like we were more limited by issues.
Engineer: That was a difficult race for us today. B19 in the end.
Engineer: Yeah, top luck.
Engineer: Close to the point. Also a good job for your side, solid race.
Engineer: Yeah, it was a good race, guys. I think we maximized everything. Honestly, with Joe, we missed a bit the circ level. So he got me, but his pace was too quick for me in the end, man.
Engineer: Logan, well done for covering that situation. We'll have a look at it. It's been a tough, tough race, but it's good learning for us all to take forward to Saudi. Let's come back stronger next week.
Daniel RICCIARDO: I've got some good, let's say, reference points to describe the feeling that I was getting, particularly in traffic. But, yep, understood.
Engineer: We're gonna try again straight away next week. So thanks for your help this weekend. It was a tough one, but you're right It's a long year
Fernando ALONSO: Okay, yeah, not an easy race, but first of 24.
Lance STROLL: OK, Lance, let's check with
Engineer: the
Lance STROLL: edge.
Engineer: Got to enjoy
Lance STROLL: a nice fireworks show there on the last lap.
Engineer: That was definitely for you. Recovery drive knocked off turn one and point. Well done. That's a very strong recovery. Well done.
Engineer: Good job managing the issues
Engineer: p8 in the end oscar i know you'll be a bit underwhelmed with that but i think points on the board are always good uh we know the circuits coming up are gonna suit us and uh the race time management we've been working on i think you'll be pleased with that so uh i think a good afternoon or evening in general good job
Oscar PIASTRI: Yeah, it's nice to start the year with double points. Yeah, I hope you can start like that.
Engineer: We can see you later in the year, so thanks, everyone.
Engineer: Well done Lewis, I think that's P7, it was a difficult day in the office but a really strong race pace at the end, really Norris in, just needed another couple of laps.
Engineer: Difficult afternoon, lot to learn there, need to look at that data and understand what happened with those temps, that was quite hampering in the end.
George RUSSELL: Yeah really challenging afternoon, that first still and a half was very very tough.
More from this weekend
Every session of the Bahrain Grand Prix 2024Search the full archive