Belgian Grand Prix 2024: Practice 2 team radio
46 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Belgian Grand Prix 2024, across 16 drivers. Daniel RICCIARDO 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
- Daniel RICCIARDO · RB · 7 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 5 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 4 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 4 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 4 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 3 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 1 message
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 1 message
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 1 message
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Pierre GASLY: There's quite a bit of dead band
Engineer: Okay, Pierre, we can see what you're talking about. We do believe it's safe to run.
Engineer: UK suggest we box too much traffic otherwise box for traffic will come behind Albon 5
Engineer: Let me know if you'd like to come through the pit lane for a flap adjust.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, I think three clicks
Sergio PEREZ: The low speed in general was on the understeering side, sorry, oversteering, so it's quite neutral. Apex exit, really. I'm using quite a bit of the rear to get through there.
Esteban OCON: A little bit of rear locking, turn 1.
Alexander ALBON: My main limitation is this falling understeering. 7, 10, 12. It was better on
Engineer: the
Alexander ALBON: second fish for some reason.
Alexander ALBON: It felt like the fronts on the second push held on, started with a little bit less grip but finished with more grip.
George RUSSELL: The seven still watching now with understeer
Engineer: Ricciardo at four seconds,
Lewis HAMILTON: there's
Engineer: a
Lewis HAMILTON: lot of time now,
Engineer: Ricciardo car behind, George found a reasonable amount
Engineer: Time in the carriage on look at data on things our people practice. Yes, happy
Daniel RICCIARDO: to talk
Engineer: Do you think the tires are still good to open another one? Alonso 2 and
Logan SARGEANT: 1. Yeah, I think we can get one more out of them.
Engineer: And Perez 5. Ok, we'll open another one and that will be a push about.
Engineer: OK, so we are going to box this lap Esteban, if we can have aero P3 after turn 4 please, aero P3 after turn 4.
Engineer: Ok Pierre, so the back right modifier is useful in those places, the back right will give you more front.
Pierre GASLY: Back right is not going to change, John 7.
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, there's a lot of grounding for Norris into a ruse copy
Engineer: Imagine complete the lap
Engineer: So the track should be clear at turn 18, Max will be able to wake the tyres and attack 18 as you wish.
Engineer: Feel a bit alone out there?
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, lonely.
Engineer: I
Oscar PIASTRI: just need to check the floor, turn into a skateboarder at turn 7.
Engineer: Copy.
George RUSSELL: Still bouncing a lot through 10-11
Engineer: Ok Daniel, sorry about the traffic. Plenty of cars aborted their lap. Magnussen pushing 3.5.
Alexander ALBON: Got anti-stall in the last corner or something. I don't know what it was.
Engineer: Yeah, looks like it's a rear lock I think.
Engineer: And the other suggestion is to maybe try and back off the entry to 14 a little bit to get a better apex and exit.
George RUSSELL: Hopefully we've
Engineer: got
George RUSSELL: more jack in now in this session versus P1.
Charles LECLERC: 10-14, there was quite a lot of dirt on the outside
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, I mean, I would like to have break time, but I cannot do tires and brakes at the same time.
Engineer: Stefano, would you like to drive one more, or are you keen to get onto high fuel? Oh, it's okay. The same for me.
Engineer: Live pit stop we go to the soft
Daniel RICCIARDO: Mode 6 Mode
Engineer: 9, Max in turn 1
Engineer: We are going to change it now, offset 2.
George RUSSELL: But the rate into one is far too big
Engineer: We've got the rest of the front runners in the 49s, so mid to high 49s.
George RUSSELL: Yeah roger that mate, I did that in FP1, trying something different.
Engineer: Copy, we'll take a look. The
Pierre GASLY: front is not working and turnpokes out in.
Engineer: fail 10 fail fail 1-0 fail
Engineer: Brake 1. Brake 1, yeah, on the switch. Brake 1.
Daniel RICCIARDO: It's just like the car feels wobbly, like I've got a broken robot or something
Alexander ALBON: Let's go, let's go.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Something feels strange.
Engineer: Give us more information please, where?
Daniel RICCIARDO: Just like the car feels wobbly, like I've got a broken roll bar or something. Copy, slow in,
Engineer: we're checking.
Engineer: And Lando, no rain expected. There's three more time-lapse. We'd like a little lift through Eau Rouge, please. Just a little one. Less than P1.
Charles LECLERC: Ah, front completely gone.
Engineer: Okay, I propose we box to the other set and then we get a bit of free clean air. Okay, copy, box.
Engineer: We can see the problem. We can see the problem.
Lewis HAMILTON: Yeah, I got a big deck.
Carlos SAINZ: I'm happy to box for a soft.
Engineer: Understood.
Yuki TSUNODA: Blue flag is annoying, why the **** are you
Engineer: going
Yuki TSUNODA: to sleep?
Yuki TSUNODA: The last lap is unrepresentative by the way, yeah, previous two or three laps, a bit of mistakes with the traffic.
Engineer: Understood.
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