British Grand Prix 2024: Race team radio
45 radio messages were recorded during race at the British Grand Prix 2024, across 14 drivers. 42 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Max VERSTAPPEN 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
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 9 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 7 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 4 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 3 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 3 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 3 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 2 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Kick Sauber · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Charles LECLERC: The tractor that you saw earlier, that's what I saw.
George RUSSELL: There's no standing water whatsoever but the track feels very slippery, quite strange
Engineer: No more rain, maybe one hour into the race, but nothing till then.
Alexander ALBON: I think we've got front left damage, maybe.
Engineer: Copy, we've got some aero damage. Pressures are okay.
Logan SARGEANT: Alex had a big piece of body work come off.
Engineer: And there is a small shower that might appear on lap six, but it might just affect turn 15. We'll keep that dated.
Engineer: Expecting the increased rain around lap 16.
Engineer: Rain expected in seven laps, lasting for 10 minutes.
Engineer: And Lando, when the rain comes, it's going to be a racing decision of when is the right conditions to take it, so we'll keep it simple.
Engineer: So expect the rain to last around five minutes, then there'll be a window of ten minutes before a longer cell.
Nico HULKENBERG: Just spitting or you expect to have to go in just
Engineer: spitting initially, but we think it could become real a lap or two in
George RUSSELL: Just keep me posted if anyone's going off, that's
Engineer: going out slightly harder now Will do
Engineer: We expect heavy rain now. It's gonna happen soon
Engineer: So target would be to try to survive this pocket of rain, Max, if you can. Obviously your call if conditions worsen too much.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, they both rejoined very unsafely.
Engineer: And Luce, we think it's time to jump to inters, let us know what you think.
Lewis HAMILTON: Nope.
Engineer: OK, copy. It's dry in a lot of places. OK.
Sergio PEREZ: Oh, it's too dry, man. It's too f***ing dry.
Engineer: This is the beginning of this 30 minute batch of rain, so we just have to find the right time to stop
Oscar PIASTRI: It's too early for it to see up
Engineer: Great call for the Inter. Come on, we're back in the race here.
Engineer: Okay Lucy, this is our time.
Max VERSTAPPEN: The tires are taking a lot.
Engineer: Copy that, Max.
Engineer: So we need to box box, we're tired of the car George
Engineer: Just info, George retired with a suspected water system issue.
Lewis HAMILTON: Suns coming out
Engineer: Still happy staying out for the moment, Max? Yeah, for the moment, yeah. You're faster than the cars ahead. Keep it going.
Engineer: Competitor cars do not have medium, currently we think medium is the right tyre, 15 laps to go. Yes, yes, it's the best.
Engineer: So Norris, same tyre.
Lewis HAMILTON: Hello, leave me to it mate.
Engineer: We're seeing signs of damage on the front left for the cars ahead
Lewis HAMILTON: Get in there, Lewis! You're the man! You're the man! Oh, mate, I have been waiting for this. Jeez. Thank you so much, guys. It means a lot. It means a lot to get this one.
Engineer: And
Lewis HAMILTON: a big thank you to all the fans here. Love you guys.
Engineer: Lewis, we will prevail. We never give up. And what a sign off for our joy and trajectory here on the British Grand Prix. We couldn't wish for anything better.
Engineer: This one means a lot to us all. Love your photo.
Engineer: It was worth taking the shot on that first inter, hit the cross over, just dried up enough after that. Ah,
Sergio PEREZ: didn't work, the gamble.
Lance STROLL: Yeah, good effort.
Engineer: It
Lance STROLL: was tricky there at one point in the race. I couldn't see very well with the visor and stuff, so I felt like that cost me a lot of time, but still good points.
Engineer: Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it made the right decisions at the right time to like Canada really so run switch warm-up run switch warm-up
Engineer: Yeah, fast as that good job.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, very solid guys. Very good job. Oh, you did the best you could do
Engineer: Good
Carlos SAINZ: job, I'm happy with this race.
Engineer: Yeah, it was awesome
Oscar PIASTRI: Yeah, good points So many what-ifs from this weekend Yeah Car was quick. Thank you everyone. Thanks for the effort still a lot of points. So a good weekend
Engineer: But
Oscar PIASTRI: we can make them better. So let's get pushing
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Ah, hard luck Max. Not a bad chase that, well done.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Ah, well, I mean, we were not the quickest, but we did everything right today with the strategy and time, so we can be very pleased with that.
Engineer: Yeah, well done Max, great last in there, you were hunting him down, so big points, well done.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: P15 for us, it was a really difficult race Valtteri, but you did well, I
Valtteri BOTTAS: think with the tyre changes and with the course I think we're spot on, we're just lacking some pace.
Engineer: Yeah I was going to say the exact same thing.
Engineer: Checkered flag, Niko, checkered flag. P6.
Nico HULKENBERG: Brilliant. Bam, bam, bam, bam. Bloody stressful. Ah. Heh.
Engineer: I
Nico HULKENBERG: think the soft... Yeah. Need to reconsider, but made it a little bit more challenging. But awesome job, guys. Very well done on the updates team. They really make a big difference. We'll be good from here. Good ride.
Engineer: Okay Kev, good job keeping it on the island through the wet stuff, it's pretty tricky. Good step from P17 to P12. It's a shame we didn't quite have the pace to get that last point but good job.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Yeah very well done guys, great car, really good job.
Engineer: Is
Logan SARGEANT: that it?
Engineer: Yep, that's P11 mate, P11, that was a hell of a fun race, good job out there, good job. Alex P9, so that P10 was nine seconds ahead of us.
Logan SARGEANT: Yeah good job guys, it's a shame we got caught out a little bit with that inter-stop, but yeah it is what it is, good work this weekend, I think it was a good recovery considering we missed P1, so thank you guys, let's keep pushing. Well done Logan, good really strong race, good calls in those tricky conditions, but those were tricky and you got it right, well done. Congratulations on the points as well.
Engineer: Thank you buddy, appreciate it.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: No, good job P9, lovely work.
Alexander ALBON: Yep, yep, really good guys.
Engineer: Great job. And thanks to Strategy for the two mediums, I think that was great, well done.
Alexander ALBON: Yeah, well done everyone. Well, we didn't give up there, that was really good, well done.
Engineer: Well done Alex, I may have closed my eyes slightly when you overtook through Stowe, but really impressive drive, well done on those tricky conditions, good call on the tyres, and points on the reward, good work.
Alexander ALBON: Yeah, well done everyone. All your names on the car there, so that's for you. Very proud to have you on my car.
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