Canadian Grand Prix 2024: Practice 3 team radio
49 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Canadian Grand Prix 2024, across 17 drivers. 48 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. George RUSSELL 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
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 7 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 6 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 6 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 5 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 4 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Kick Sauber · 3 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 2 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Kick Sauber · 2 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 1 message
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Daniel RICCIARDO · RB · 1 message
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 1 message
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
George RUSSELL: I've not managed to do any burnouts so I think we just go straight out
Engineer: So the boss has the car behind we think is high fuel running he's three seconds back if he comes past We'll need to leave a gap to him
ZHOU Guanyu: The brakes, those are quite bad efficiency.
Engineer: There we go, they are counting the time to work a bit more before opening the lap.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Wait, I don't know why but the whole weekend already this steering super weird for me
Engineer: Got a bit of front
Esteban OCON: locking in
Engineer: the last corner. Understood, so we've got a car off somewhere, Joe, off at turn 1.
ZHOU Guanyu: But I have no idea what's happening with the car, but the car is so strange by just lock up all the rears
Engineer: So we've got Joe off track, so this may go red. So red flag, red flag, keep that positive, no overtaking. And we'll go to strap mode one.
Engineer: Yeah, red flag, red flag. Stop the car, pit exit. Stop the car. Engine off. Engine off. Guys, we come to pick you up.
Engineer: Red flag, Oscar, red flag. Delta positive, no overtaking. We box this lap. This is for Joe, who has clipped the barriers in the pit exit on the outside of turn two.
ZHOU Guanyu: Man, I have no idea what's happening with the car
Engineer: All ok All ok, you can continue Joe
ZHOU Guanyu: No, I'm a little bit stuck with the rear wing But the car is so strange man, it just lock up all the rears
Engineer: Ok, switch off, Brazil
ZHOU Guanyu: Yeah, sorry, but something is real wrong, strange here
Engineer: Come here, we'll double check
Engineer: tie attempts still on the low side so mode is good to double push if we need
Charles LECLERC: Rear brake hot we
Engineer: ignore it lost sensor
Engineer: Was that a call for Hamilton or tyres? It's just the tyres are graining like crazy, so there's no point to push it. Copy.
Yuki TSUNODA: How come the tire like this cold? Like ridiculous. I need a build.
Engineer: Ayuki, you can go for a build.
Alexander ALBON: Are we okay with the brakes? Like everything feels off. Stopping power feels terrible.
Engineer: So, tried to keep the tyre temp. It's currently P2 overall. Ricciardo is four behind. I think he's backed off.
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, bouncing into five.
Engineer: Yeah, saw that copy. Also eight, I think.
George RUSSELL: Front left is open and up
Sergio PEREZ: Eh, what the f*** the hell is that?
Alexander ALBON: I think our cooldowns are way too slow, the tyre is so stiff, especially on the front, every lap
Engineer: I suggest we box and we'll move on to the tyre No, no You still want to keep going on this one? We do want more though Alright, switch to the RSL3 then
Engineer: And the pace looks good. I've
Lewis HAMILTON: got some rear graining.
Engineer: Yeah, copy, we can see that inboard shoulder. A little bit on the left.
Sergio PEREZ: It's all wrong, don't get it. Hold on.
Engineer: OK, Daniel, do you need one more lap or are you happy to move sustainable?
Daniel RICCIARDO: Um... We can move sustainable.
Engineer: Copy that. Mode 6, charge off. Currently P2. Two tenths ahead of Norris. Entry 7. And you can go back up in space. Charge off. And many cars have boxed now. So let's do the sustainable now.
Yuki TSUNODA: It's so strange, the VR is so strange. Yeah, let's
Engineer: do
Yuki TSUNODA: the hospital boat now.
Engineer: Copy.
Yuki TSUNODA: Ejector variable, there's a field stall strength sliding like hell. Very angry.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: And Carlos behind on an outlap on soft.
Charles LECLERC: How many laps do we have with this?
Engineer: Not many, I would do maximum push, charge, push and then we get another push, charge, push on the two softs and that's it. With quick turnarounds.
Charles LECLERC: Still lots of pulling to the ass, and still **** on the brakes.
Engineer: Copy.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: And Carlos behind on an out lap on...
Engineer: And then you've got Hulk on high field.
Engineer: And then you've got HULK on high fuel Oh I need a gap here mate Two and a half, eight and a half I've got HULK Ok There's a big gap behind HULK You've got seven seconds to HULK
Max VERSTAPPEN: I had
Engineer: the
Max VERSTAPPEN: left hand tyres on
Engineer: Yep, understood Back to mode 6 please Max, mode 6
Max VERSTAPPEN: I've already hit it, we're one lap
Engineer: And then Strat 7, Strat 7
Engineer: Do you think you need a change in the garage, Alex? Yeah, but we are way out of sync. Yeah, I know, it's a bit of everything at the minute, so we've just got to work our way through it and push in. We certainly don't have time to do a double cool now. Stroll pushing in three. Let's get the anti on where we can, please.
Alexander ALBON: Oh my god, man.
Engineer: We can do a double cool, but we're going to be tight on time for any change you need in the garage. Hamilton as well then, clear eight seconds.
Alexander ALBON: No, it's okay, let's just box. I honestly don't really need the four-wheel drive now. I'm front-locking, but it's all front-locking because of bumps. And I feel like the car itself is rear-wheel drive now. But all the bumps are making me front-lock everywhere.
Logan SARGEANT: Man, what is this guy doing man?
Yuki TSUNODA: Really starting a run, man.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: Okay, Yuki for the rear do you do you have understeer issues or zero?
Yuki TSUNODA: No, I have understeer Like turn one for example turn two Just generally grip lacking grip
Max VERSTAPPEN: The car is jumping around a lot, like up and down. Perspective breaking into one.
Engineer: Understood.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Also turn three, four.
Engineer: So currently P5, main loss turns 1-2, 8-9, and last she came. Main one is turn 1-2, 3-10.
Charles LECLERC: I feel like we are not doing something right on 1-2.
George RUSSELL: I'm sorry, can I make that ball out?
Engineer: Yeah.
Engineer: Drop for science science the car behind on a push map.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, it's yeah,
Engineer: I'm sorry
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, I'll be.
Logan SARGEANT: What's he doing man? Honestly, that's nearly huge
Charles LECLERC: We are extremely slow.
Engineer: 40 seconds remaining. I'm not sure with the traffic if it'd be able to start a push or not. But in either case, go into mode push and try and just try the apex curve of three. Four cars ahead on back off.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I hit a little bit of wall on the right rear.
Engineer: Okay, understood.
Engineer: Bit of traffic paradise there in the last corner. Yeah, I saw that. Cars were bunching up.
Engineer: Bit of traffic in paradise there in the last corner. Yeah, I saw that. Cars were bunching up.
Engineer: Last was a good lap, finally. It doesn't look very fast, that's clear. No, no, it's not, but at least it was your best.
Engineer: Last was a good lap, finally.
Carlos SAINZ: It doesn't look very fast. No, no, it's not. But at least
Engineer: it was your best.
Engineer: I
George RUSSELL: wonder how is Ocon doing, he's f***ing fending half way down the straight
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