Chinese Grand Prix 2024: Qualifying team radio
54 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the Chinese Grand Prix 2024, across 17 drivers. 52 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Kevin MAGNUSSEN had the most, with 5.
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
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 5 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 5 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 5 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 4 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 3 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · RB · 3 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 3 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 3 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 3 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Kick Sauber · 2 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 2 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Kick Sauber · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Can we do anything with niko there to let me out and then i'll let him pass on track
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: I'll get back to you on that, Nico. And then just, can you see, Kevin is to your right. Can you try and hold the gap and let him in when we go? Copy.
Engineer: And he was asking if you can overtake the cars ahead before we get to the exit. That would be great.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: If I can overtake the cars?
Engineer: Yeah, I think you're allowed to overtake them before you get to the pit exit line, if possible, if they're slow to go away.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Okay, if you're sure about that, I'll do it.
Engineer: Standby. No, you can't do that. You can't do that. You can't do that. Do not do that. You can only overtake after the line. Copy.
Engineer: Special one of
ZHOU Guanyu: Why is my battery not fully charged?
Engineer: We expect that you will charge now, John, back straight, no problem with that.
Pierre GASLY: I know I'm gonna be stuck behind the officer
Engineer: No, they are still. Play a toggle and then go off to plus one.
Engineer: So the wind is 15 kph tail out of 6, 15 kph.
Engineer: Copy that. We'll box this lap. We'll have a quick chat and go again.
Pierre GASLY: We should be careful because we're waiting three minutes.
Engineer: What the f*** was that?
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, what was he doing there?
Engineer: Okay, that's nice.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, I lost quite a bit of efficiency, 14, and then I had a smoke front right. We
Engineer: are checking. We are checking.
Logan SARGEANT: My front's ready for one and two and
Engineer: three. I'll be back, Russell, within seven pushing.
Alexander ALBON: God's will just die completely on me.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, you saw turn 8.
Engineer: Yep, we saw turn 8, so we'll discuss that. Esteban behind, he did a 35.8.
Engineer: I
Yuki TSUNODA: think we can aim for similar, but if I have
Engineer: to
Yuki TSUNODA: choose either, I'll choose 0.5 steps more stability, or just a tiny bit.
Alexander ALBON: It's also gone again
Nico HULKENBERG: Still quite a bit of understeer. TFC turn 3, turn 3. And 9. I don't know, the wind on the inside is completely killing the front.
George RUSSELL: Yeah, just looking to keep it on the track, for the sake of that, I lost a lot.
Engineer: Yeah, AFIRM sir, that's P6.
Logan SARGEANT: I don't know what happened to our high-speed stability. It's
Engineer: completely gone.
Logan SARGEANT: Wait...
Yuki TSUNODA: Literally, literally no grip. Literally no grip. Didn't saw anything, honestly, just...
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, I mean definitely something going on. I can't be f***ing 19 honestly. That was pretty good.
Engineer: And we'll keep the weaving before the last corner for the front tires.
Engineer: And make sure we have good weaving where you are and enough minimum speed in the last corner for the surface temperatures.
Nico HULKENBERG: If you see that snap in turn 8, that's right on the join of the two car marks from the pump, so it's a little nasty.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: Double yellow 16.
Engineer: Uh, same spirit I think again, with the bird. Okay, understood.
George RUSSELL: Rears seemed a bit too cold, I think.
George RUSSELL: Troubled a bit with traction through two and three.
Engineer: Yeah, copy that mate apologies been an issue for us this session. So let's save fuel on the in-lap
Alexander ALBON: We are so on a knife edge with everything.
Engineer: Yeah, well managed Alex. We can see from the video it's just difficult to get between the high speed and low speed, but well done today.
Alexander ALBON: Yeah, thank you.
Esteban OCON: Yeah, it's probably our best starting position this year, so yeah, small progress is not negligible. Let's keep going.
Engineer: Absolutely.
Engineer: Alright, we can do a lot from the 13th tomorrow.
Esteban OCON: It's probably our best starting position this year, so yeah, small progress is non-negligible, let's keep going.
Engineer: Okay, that was good because it's 0.2 quicker than Russell, who's the other used tire runner, so good lap on used.
Max VERSTAPPEN: It didn't feel the same.
Sergio PEREZ: We seem to have picked the tire, the flap. I'm not getting any more from that.
Engineer: Did he compromise anything? Did he take it back out? Yeah.
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, he did compromise really empty the pool.
Charles LECLERC: We lose a lot in 2-1-2-3, no?
Engineer: Yeah, so let's just confirm in that last statement, most drivers slower beginning of Q3 than they were at the end of Q2 on new tyres.
Charles LECLERC: Okay, I completely lost it in order to film.
Engineer: So Oscar, time's all good. You can make a gap.
Engineer: So just for info on the last run, the other car turn three was a slightly tighter exit line, just for your awareness.
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, it was a mistake.
Engineer: Copy,
Charles LECLERC: everything is fine now.
Engineer: I'll just go for reference measured wind speed looks a bit higher than the previous outlap.
Engineer: If you don't want the limiter to control the gap to Perez, go to L2.
Engineer: But it is pole position mate, so just over three tenths. Nice job, ChecoP2.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, very lovely that. I mean, the car was definitely very quick in quality, so well done. Well done, Max. Fantastic performance. That's number 100, so fantastic performance. Yeah, nice stat that for the team as well. Well done.
Engineer: P3, sorry Perez just got you at the end.
Fernando ALONSO: Yes, well done.
Engineer: Stopping at the P3 board. I was missing that.
Engineer: Okay Valchi, that is E10 for us. Hulkenberg was 0.06s faster.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Oh damn.
Engineer: Okay, good
Valtteri BOTTAS: job still.
Engineer: Yep, still a really good job today, and we'll get him off the line tomorrow. Copy.
Charles LECLERC: It's crazy. It's late winter. We seem to have lost a bit.
Engineer: Good job, Niko. P9, you beat Baltas by 0.06, and then Norris was P8.
Nico HULKENBERG: Yeah, good job, guys. Good recovery from this warning. Hopefully tomorrow is a bit better than this warning.
Engineer: Yeah, copy that. Good drive, Niko.
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