Belgian Grand Prix 2024: Practice 1 team radio
77 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Belgian Grand Prix 2024, across 20 drivers. 63 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Pierre GASLY 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, and the original audio is playable in the archive.
Who was on the radio
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 8 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 7 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 6 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 6 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 6 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 6 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 5 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 5 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 5 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 4 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · RB · 4 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 4 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 2 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 2 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 1 message
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 1 message
- ZHOU Guanyu · Kick Sauber · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Kick Sauber · 1 message
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Oscar, there is a roughly 50-50 split between medium and hard tyres at the moment. We should get some info on the hard from competitor cars. Red Bull are on hard, as are Aston Martin.
Engineer: Box the car please Esteban, box the car.
Esteban OCON: Will I stop?
Engineer: No, box the car please, box the car now.
Engineer: Are you driving normal, are you sure? Yes, for the moment please, I'll let you know if we want you to do anything different.
Engineer: So biggest losses to the Missapan, it turns 10-11 with mid-speed and also 5-6.
Engineer: minor white h8 position five white h8 position five
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Engineer: You got me Ian, I'm ready. Okay, copy.
Lewis HAMILTON: This tire doesn't feel great, the other is quite quick now.
Engineer: And Lando, the main opportunity is timing of braking, turn 18, brake later.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yep, yeah, I started a lot with the with the real second
Engineer: sector sergeant four and he's got Hamilton directly behind him
Max VERSTAPPEN: Ah, front tires are overheating a bit.
Engineer: Ok, copy that.
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Logan SARGEANT: I just feel like my rears are overheating massively.
Logan SARGEANT: It's getting worse and worse through the lap.
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Pierre GASLY: The ride's not great, and a bit of touching on the back straight.
Engineer: Opportunity carry more entry speeds turn five
Engineer: Yeah, just a lack of feeling. Lack of feeling, understood. Yeah, steering wheel, yeah. Like the low speed, okay. Okay, so you've got Max ahead of Gasly, who's ahead of you, so it's two cars to open ahead of you.
Engineer: On Daniel Kelly, low grip at the moment, balance across the car is very much similar.
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, really. It's really the pass.
Engineer: Okay, so without talking about it on the radio, I think we do not do the setup changes discussed pre-session. We'll go on to the soft so you can get a better feel for this.
Engineer: S1 turn 8
Charles LECLERC: What did he say Ryan? Please don't... I didn't get what he said, but don't speak in fast drafts
Logan SARGEANT: Guys, there's no point to keep pushing on this tire, so we have to go back now forward immediately.
Engineer: Oscar, based on the data, it looks like we have opportunity to drop rear ride height. Does that agree with your feeling?
Alexander ALBON: Maybe we can open the diff a bit.
Engineer: So there's two cars to go the first is Russell who's basically in the bus stop and Verstappen's about six seconds ahead of you
George RUSSELL: P.U. is struggling out for the last corner.
Engineer: What are they doing?
Logan SARGEANT: Honestly.
Engineer: Okay just make sure you make a bit of a gap to them, maybe you have the gap to them.
George RUSSELL: Can you just check the fronts through 6 and 7, they're just not biting
ZHOU Guanyu: That was quite a nice traffic for the Haas ahead, in the 267.
Engineer: Yeah, copy Joe. The moment in time we lost it, we have is 62027.
George RUSSELL: Can you just check if high speed turn 10 and how much influence it's having?
Sergio PEREZ: I'm really struggling to know what the guy is doing on entries. Is
Engineer: that mainly low speed?
Sergio PEREZ: All speeds, low speed and medium. I don't have the feeling of what's going on.
Engineer: We need full throttle, Daniel. Reminder, we need full throttle.
Engineer: Oh, you won't have the battery?
Nico HULKENBERG: Good spot for Kevin there.
Oscar PIASTRI: I hit something with the right tires on the way into the pit lane, like it wasn't a wall but there was something in the pit entry and like a bump or something and I hit it.
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Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Sergio PEREZ: What if we try another lap and we don't complete it?
Engineer: Yeah, copy. Okay, open this lap and wallbox at the end of it.
Engineer: Hey, what do you think our timings are?
Max VERSTAPPEN: You tell me the timings
Engineer: Apologies Max.
Max VERSTAPPEN: All good
Fernando ALONSO: Is the engine okay? How we can be slower on the first sector?
Engineer: We are checking everything, Fernando.
Fernando ALONSO: Is the engine okay? How we can be slower on the first sector?
Engineer: Charges coming through now.
Engineer: We are checking everything Fernando
Fernando ALONSO: Is it better to come for your checks? I don't know. Yeah,
Engineer: just watch Leclerc two behind. And after him, there's four seconds of Piastri also pushing.
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Pierre GASLY: The ATAR is not ready first lap, I just have better grip everywhere second lap
Engineer: no management we push on these tires we push on these tires target one minute 52
Engineer: silver entry five silver entry five
Engineer: Front flap for the next step, please, Max.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, it's maybe just like this. Maybe a bit less.
George RUSSELL: I have no command at all.
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Engineer: Front flap for the next step, please, Max.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, it's like this. Maybe a bit less.
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Yuki TSUNODA: This car is very open.
Lewis HAMILTON: I've got to come in for a bounce, it's really bad me
Engineer: OK copy Lewis, let us know what you need
Yuki TSUNODA: Top corner is a very obvious thing. Top corner is a very obvious thing. Unpredictable.
Engineer: Copy that.
Engineer: Suggest Orange Talk 10, Orange Talk 10.
Yuki TSUNODA: Top corner is
Engineer: a
Yuki TSUNODA: very obvious thing. Top corner is
Engineer: a
Yuki TSUNODA: very obvious thing. Unpredictable.
Engineer: We
Nico HULKENBERG: got some straight line bouncing. Especially before all the way from 4 to 5 it's just jumping up and down.
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Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Piastri now digging on mediums as well, 51-1, 51-3.
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Engineer: And Valtteri we are looking at it in detail, best action for now is going up a bit on SoC, so SoC 7.
Pierre GASLY: Check and two of five and eight, they're in the ball.
Pierre GASLY: The crazy bomb signal I intend to tell you is disastrous.
Engineer: If you box, we have only one lap. Yeah, we're not boxing. Oh, it's down. Copy. We stay out. Next car, Paris 3.
Logan SARGEANT: My tires look like they've been through the gauntlet. They look destroyed.
Sergio PEREZ: I kind of think it's got a little fun to see with it.
Engineer: And Lando, opportunity, turn eight, careful of dog-legging, focus on throttle pickup.
Engineer: And Lando, opportunity, turn eight, careful of dog-legging, focus on throttle pickup.
Lance STROLL: So we're worried about mileage, like why?
Yuki TSUNODA: This guy is so open, open balanced, like saw a sharp turn in, a lot of understeer.
Pierre GASLY: Vibration was still present especially like this last lap try to pay a bit more attention and I can still feel it's it's there yeah
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