Canadian Grand Prix 2024: Practice 2 team radio
72 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Canadian Grand Prix 2024, across 18 drivers. 69 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Fernando ALONSO 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
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 9 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · RB · 9 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 8 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 6 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 6 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 4 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 4 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 4 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 4 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 3 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 2 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 2 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 2 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Kick Sauber · 1 message
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Lando NORRIS: I'm just going to stay here. Okay.
Engineer: Kill it then, please.
Lando NORRIS: There's about eight cars down there already. It's about one minute.
George RUSSELL: Yeah, it's coming down much harder now.
Engineer: So everyone is on soft other than scientists on the medium
Engineer: So it would be good to straight line speed in the out lap where we can, if it does start to get quite wet then just let us know, don't take too much risk.
Engineer: So at the moment it looks like just sector one showing rain from the marshals posts
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, do it for the medium.
Engineer: Is it too wet for now, then?
Fernando ALONSO: Oh, I mean... I don't know, man. So difficult to guess. It's very bad, yes.
Engineer: I don't know. For one lap, maybe OK. I don't know. Put the most temperature you can in and we'll have a look.
Charles LECLERC: That's too dry, 4 inches, so I'll stop at the end of the lap, if you want we can try the medium, but yeah, shake the
Engineer: lap off Russell first. Yeah, he's not pushing.
Charles LECLERC: It surprises me that that is too wet for slicks to be honest, it
Engineer: doesn't look... Do we need to box?
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Hey Lewis, call that a box box. I'm going to
Lewis HAMILTON: keep going up there while I'm driving.
Charles LECLERC: We are boxing. Yes, we need to box. What do you mean we need to box?
Engineer: Box, please. Box, please.
Charles LECLERC: I'm boxing, but let me know if there's a problem so I slow down. No, no problem. Just box, please
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, I just have no temps
Pierre GASLY: Is it gonna rain later or not?
Engineer: Still rain on the radar, happy to keep going.
Engineer: OK Pierre, so how's the track?
Pierre GASLY: Getting better.
Engineer: Okay, so temps are low, just need to keep building as best we can.
Engineer: And Gasly last time was on the crossover 22.6, so track OK for drive based on lap time.
Engineer: And five and six look the wettest to us, and you can go to go one, go one, still got all the cars behind us slow.
Engineer: Okay Pierre, you have the back left available for turn 10. Back left for turn 10.
Pierre GASLY: Okay, so it's raining more now
Engineer: Okay, so as long as the track is still safe and you think you're learning something we can stay out But if it gets difficult we can come in
Yuki TSUNODA: Let's be ready now copy
Engineer: you keep take no risk
Engineer: We thought you'd take no risk, so you did well.
Engineer: We expect the rain rate to stay similar We expect the rain rate to stay similar to turn to now turn 10 looks one of the trickiest parts
Engineer: Yeah, okay, raining crazy. A little change.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Okay, yeah, yeah, it's increasing.
Engineer: Copy, box, box. Yeah, it's raining too hard now.
Logan SARGEANT: Rain's coming down. Hard now, turn 10. Copy.
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, Leclerc is slow, especially in the last corner, no mirrors. Typical Ferrari.
Engineer: We're in the morgue. Yeah, SOC 3 suggested, keep the tiles up, there should be a gap next lap.
Engineer: So Lance, we think we've got another two laps like this and it might start to increase.
Engineer: Okay, Logan, very good job. Mess lab now is 18.0. You can keep pushing, build up temperature.
Engineer: We think about five minutes more at this terrain level, five minutes more at this terrain level.
Fernando ALONSO: Do you want to change tyres or something?
Engineer: Not yet, not yet.
Engineer: My rear tyre temps are stable, happy to go again, where we can I'll get mode 8 in, slightly uplifted mode.
Engineer: Rain coming in four minutes
Engineer: Try to keep the 10% of the tires though.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Can we get the fans? I smell a bit of smoke.
Engineer: I'm happy to stay on this set. So Fernando, because the session's been declared wet, we can carry over the other set of tyres to FP3. So for the moment, I'm happy to stay on this set.
Engineer: Okay mate, the rain's looking sporadic, could be anything from two to five minutes from now. If we recharge, go one scenario seven up, that might be our best chance.
Logan SARGEANT: My rears are very great
Lewis HAMILTON: These guys keep backing up in the last corner
Nico HULKENBERG: Is it raining here now?
Engineer: We think it's increasing from now in sector 2, so I guess so. I
Nico HULKENBERG: think I got some raining on the tires already, that's
Engineer: the
Nico HULKENBERG: other thing that's going on.
Engineer: Copy.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Fernando ALONSO: It's raining a little bit more.
Engineer: Okay, expect similar rain like this for the next 10 minutes.
Daniel RICCIARDO: I mean, no one's getting out the way. No one.
Engineer: We have 30 meters margin breaking turn 8, but you're gaining a lot minimum speed. So I'll leave it to you if that's the best approach
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, it's just taking the d*** off. Yeah, saw
Engineer: that.
Daniel RICCIARDO: What's the weather doing? Because it's hard to see if it's raining or not.
Engineer: Intensity 1 in the pit lane, it's raining now. It's raining harder now. People are starting to box. Okay, I'll box, I'll box. Box, box.
Nico HULKENBERG: Shower is going to continue like this?
Engineer: Okay, yeah, we think it's going to continue and get worse from here.
Nico HULKENBERG: That doesn't feel good.
Engineer: I
Nico HULKENBERG: think I'm
Engineer: going
Nico HULKENBERG: to come in.
Engineer: Okay, copy that. Fox now.
Daniel RICCIARDO: I'll wait probably, but for now same comments as FP1,
Engineer: same conclusions. So in terms of balance, because it's hard to read on data, so it's very interesting to hear from you, on data with this condition as you know it's always difficult to read the balance.
Valtteri BOTTAS: What's happening with the rear brakes? They are super hot.
Engineer: Yeah, we see that. Let's go forward on brake balance, plus 4. A
Valtteri BOTTAS: bit more rain here now.
Engineer: Understood. Let's box this lap. Box Valtteri, box.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Okay, box.
Engineer: Steering is very
Lance STROLL: left hand down.
Engineer: So focus on brakes, good straight line braking on what we've got on the car is going to help us
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, getting quite dry for Inters.
Engineer: Yeah, copy that. So we think there's this level of rain for the next seven minutes and then maybe heavier for the final five minutes.
Engineer: do we still have a wet configuration? yeah we are on the wet settings, let me know if you need more info, all clear from behind, 10 time lapse to the flag.
Engineer: So now all okay, so Alcon did a 28.7, so you were still fastest on map 2.
Charles LECLERC: I don't think that was great for times.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: And Lando, just be careful, peak brake pressure over the bump into turn one. Tyre's still at the bottom end of the window.
Fernando ALONSO: For me it's box. I'm not learning much. Track is just getting drier and drier.
Alexander ALBON: Can this Ferrari get out of the way? They could every
Engineer: single day. Yeah, it could be.
Logan SARGEANT: Massively under-flopped and it's getting quite dry.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: Ok so watch for Claire, 4 seconds behind What we have a choice obviously now is drying so
Esteban OCON: it's gonna go quicker until the end
Engineer: Yep, understood What do we do now, so up to you Ok so stand by for the moment, prepare to do another lap and I'll get back to you We have to gauge you about what we're learning here as well with these drying conditions, do you think you're learning anything on this time?
Esteban OCON: Um, wildness
George RUSSELL: Just do half a back-off?
Engineer: Yeah, just let me know if you want to come in and make an adjust We're quite keen to make an adjust in the pits Copy You've got a sight 10 seconds behind
George RUSSELL: I mean this dry line's appearing now so it's... We're only going to be damaging the tyre currently I'm not learning a huge amount more
Engineer: Yeah, copy that
Engineer: Shape 4 for the next lap. We have too much rear locking now, with the track getting quicker.
Engineer: Our tires are much hotter than his right now, so good to take a cool down, should be this condition for a couple of laps more.
Engineer: We can try and cool the tyres on the straights where we can.
Engineer: The rate's picking up now as well. Copy.
Nico HULKENBERG: There's something wrong with the brakes into sixth. It was like not going well at all
Engineer: Just now or in general?
Nico HULKENBERG: No, all run already. Okay Okay understood
Lando NORRIS: yeah it's just getting drier and drier so it's just gonna get quicker
Engineer: okay potentially silly is it anywhere near a dry this would be a now or never type decision no okay
Engineer: OK, that is the checkered flag, so we are going to the grid to do a start.
George RUSSELL: Let me know what you want on tyres compared to current.
Engineer: We think minus five is more realistic for where you'd be on this tyre.
Engineer: All right, so for the start we'd like to do on the left hand side again. We'll do three burnouts this time out of turn 14. Then we'd like a static bind point learn on the grid and a second gear start.
Engineer: Orlando, as you approach the back, it will be two burnouts please. Second gear, conservative, right hand side.
Engineer: No need to push on the enters. Let's look after them.
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