Chinese Grand Prix 2024: Race team radio
150 radio messages were recorded during race at the Chinese Grand Prix 2024, across 20 drivers. 142 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Lando NORRIS had the most, with 21.
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
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 21 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 14 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 13 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 12 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 10 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 9 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 8 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · RB · 8 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 8 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 7 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 6 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Kick Sauber · 5 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 5 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 5 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 5 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 4 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Kick Sauber · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Yuki TSUNODA: So far, it's quite a lot to say, but I'll be happy.
Logan SARGEANT: I don't know. Freaking five. Five. Five.
Logan SARGEANT: Yeah, break migration feels a little bit aggressive. What's the, uh, where should I go?
ZHOU Guanyu: My drink pipe is a bit too short by the way
Engineer: Okay, so a dry through and a start from the end. Temperatures are okay there. I think we will need a lift into 14 on the next lap as well.
Engineer: Ok mate, how is the balance? It's ok at the moment, the track seems to be rubbed in quite well Understood
Engineer: A lot less wind is on the outside of the M6.
Engineer: Okay, Pierre, if we can get clutch six, clutch six, that's three o'clock on the multi.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, there was a little bit of smoke on the decks when
Engineer: I stopped them.
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, maybe for the reference probably like two steps up or whatever I think Around there. I think especially first stint. We don't want to put too much I think
Esteban OCON: I think the balance was really good. We just need to think about the new tires
Logan SARGEANT: I can't push up. Something wrong with my settings.
Engineer: Green 11, position 6.
Engineer: before you do your practice start, so you don't get caught by the red light.
Engineer: And this last lap, we're quicker everywhere.
Logan SARGEANT: Sorry, I just fucked my VMAG rotary too much.
Engineer: That's fine.
Logan SARGEANT: Yeah, I'm happy. Some good tests there.
Engineer: Thank you. Dave's just noticed that your brake balance is not as it was when you left the garage. He's just making sure it's okay.
Esteban OCON: It does smell of fuel quite a bit.
Engineer: Yeah, let's be on it guys long
Pierre GASLY: race different strategy Skip the communication
Engineer: So trying to make a space before Turn 1 if you can. We're happy to lean on tyres on the way into Turn 1.
Engineer: And let's go, we need lift into turn 11 and then no more full load after turn 11.
Pierre GASLY: Okay
Engineer: All right, no concerns on our side from energy also no concerns on gears
Engineer: Okay, Kev, one way to go. Let's just let go for those tires. DRS is enabled.
Engineer: Ok Daniel, one at a time. We've got the top speed compared to the Alpine. One at a time. Let's get them.
Engineer: Board pick and release for braking. Board pick and release.
ZHOU Guanyu: Okay, I'm sitting at the front of the phone.
Engineer: And consider offset 20 forward for turn 1, back for turn 6.
Engineer: So you can use the Overtake button earlier for a bigger effect.
Alexander ALBON: It's for defending, not for overtaking right now.
Logan SARGEANT: All right open up front
Lance STROLL: Yeah, it's not great in
Engineer: the
Lance STROLL: rear.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Similar to yesterday, some low speed fun, but that's
Engineer: the
Daniel RICCIARDO: rest of it.
Alexander ALBON: The traction is really bad out of 30, so I'm actually quite okay. I just don't have the grip. Very vulnerable.
Engineer: And Lando, how are the tyres and who are we racing?
Lando NORRIS: I think who we expect for now, hard to know as a priority.
Engineer: Beaming five, beaming five.
Engineer: Sector 1, same pace. You are easier on the tyres in 1 and 2, so more management in 1 and 2. You recover it in turn 3, so all good.
Yuki TSUNODA: With dirty air, I think I understand, but I think clean air is okay. I feel like. Copy.
Engineer: More from Limited than yesterday.
Alexander ALBON: I don't feel that bad. I'm trying to be okay. Gasly can't get me!
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Lewis HAMILTON: I got my rear end on it, otherwise, okay.
Pierre GASLY: If you push me wide, don't drop me off crack.
Lance STROLL: Thank you. Sorry.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Don't get with Kevson Niko. Top 10.
Engineer: Lando suggests left hand paddle turn nine. Left hand paddle turn nine.
Engineer: Let's make our race now.
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, just please come down.
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Lewis HAMILTON: That was the worst time
Engineer: It's no problem, Alex. You can get them.
Alexander ALBON: Yeah, with my tires destroyed, yep.
Alexander ALBON: Sorry, but our predictions of where people are on track are just absolutely nowhere.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, pace is good, but Pacing's wrong. Let's maximize our race. Let's not get too hung up on the people who have boxed
Charles LECLERC: Happy to go longer if we need to, but the pace is decent.
Engineer: and Lando we agree the pace looks good last lap Leclerc did a 41.9
Engineer: Yeah, we're just trying to balance the deg loose. Deg is high. Gap to Ocon is now 2.3
Nico HULKENBERG: Yeah, that is stable. Feels much more solid than the medium. Now let's...
Engineer: So George just make sure you're looking after these tires to make this stint length required recommending more lifting coast turn 11
Engineer: Okay, Valtteri, we can reduce the amount of management in turn one and try to match Hulkenberg in turn one.
Logan SARGEANT: This tire is much better.
Lando NORRIS: I think extend with them
Engineer: 100%
Engineer: So starting lap 17, we still need plan A minus three.
Engineer: I don't know, this year just hasn't been a good year for me.
Alexander ALBON: How much later do you become a pit? Why is
Engineer: it
Alexander ALBON: so fast?
Engineer: He's got five laps after us
Engineer: Leclerc and Sainz are incentivized to go long. Leclerc might even try the one-stop.
Engineer: Let's not waste too much time with Piastri, but let's not make it too easy for him.
Engineer: I
Yuki TSUNODA: feel like a James Spaceman, honestly.
Lewis HAMILTON: I got no grip mates. I don't know what's wrong
Engineer: Yeah, it looks like rear tyre temperature just through the roof, so lifting coast will help.
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Engineer: And for him, Beaupierre, we're thinking plan B, plan B. How are the tires?
Engineer: Would you be happy behind one car? Would you be happy behind two cars?
Lando NORRIS: I think I'd overtake both.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Engine is gone, engine gone.
Engineer: Copy, copy.
Logan SARGEANT: Tires are okay, I just need some clean air.
Yuki TSUNODA: There's no point saying that, I know, but compared to Daniel Fairstein, especially, the amount of traction he has is crazy, losing a lot in traction, as well as expected from MP1.
Lando NORRIS: Joking me tell me about it. Oh
Yuki TSUNODA: Why we don't box too
Engineer: early for us, but
Yuki TSUNODA: how about the boxer you
Engineer: can we stay out we think is better double yellow 1011
Engineer: some
Alexander ALBON: huge glitches on my uh on my throttle response surging out the pit lane
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Engineer: everyone will go to the or try and get to the end on a hard apart from Alonso
Engineer: And Lando, think about brake balance. Think about brake balance.
Engineer: What do you think about break-off set, Danil? 0 or minus 1? Do you have a view?
Engineer: I
Daniel RICCIARDO: think zero. Zero should be okay. All right.
Engineer: Offset zero, when you want.
Fernando ALONSO: We cannot overtake until finish
Engineer: line. Yeah, finish line, exactly.
Engineer: uh the contact was all at turn 14. i don't know if you spotted anything as you got there there's any debris
ZHOU Guanyu: Last corner today, I find it quite tricky to get it right. The car is sliding a bit too much
Lewis HAMILTON: Okay, where have I been slow?
Engineer: Yeah, so the main point is braking, so it's turn 11 and turn 14 stand out.
Engineer: Plan D for Delta for both cars. You
Carlos SAINZ: think it's our best bet?
Engineer: Yes, we do, right now.
Lewis HAMILTON: And give me a scan of the lap, please. Just need more info. The car won't turn so I'm trying to figure out Do bounce wise?
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Can you see any damage?
Engineer: Negative Kev, no damage seen.
Engineer: All right Pierre, looks like there's some debris on track that's still being cleared up. Just be careful with the cars around, there's been a couple collisions in the safety car period.
Engineer: Yes, ma'am. Fail B-0-0, OK. Fail B-0-0, OK.
Lewis HAMILTON: How many laps did I manage before? I reckon I can make as far as
Engineer: the
Lewis HAMILTON: last 26.
Engineer: Suggestion SOC 5.
Engineer: I have no words Daniel, but it was really strong there before the safety car.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, I could go off, but I'll save
Engineer: it.
Engineer: If we can lean on the front a bit in turn 1 and 2 might help calm the car with this aerobalance.
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Engineer: for low speed understeer suggest engine braking
Lando NORRIS: no thank you understood
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Kevin MAGNUSSEN: The brake pedal is very long.
Engineer: So box this lap, it'll be a 10-second penalty. Unbelievable Matt, such a joke.
Engineer: Okay, so this is a hard tire. We can push this. We'll try and drag some people in later. Okay, so it's clear at FedExit. Let's crack on.
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Engineer: We're going to need everything you've got to manage these rears.
Engineer: George, there is some scope to push entry turn 7 a little more.
Engineer: On no opportunity, the wider line, turn 3, might be better for pace and rears.
Engineer: Alex, we think cars around you are also struggling here to make the end.
Fernando ALONSO: Doesn't feel too bad to the woman
Lando NORRIS: If there was a safety car, we would lose two places, two Perez and Leclerc. Therefore, we would be keen to take it. What do you think? Probably after lap 44 or something, yes.
Oscar PIASTRI: How much damage do I have?
Engineer: Oscar, damage is significant.
Engineer: And Lando suggests yellow G3, yellow G3 for late understanding.
Fernando ALONSO: You told me plan B, I guess.
Engineer: Is
Lewis HAMILTON: this the right?
Engineer: Keynote.
Engineer: So you will be racing everyone on old hards. We still think it's the new medium. But would you prefer one lap old soft?
Fernando ALONSO: No, no, medium.
Engineer: Yeah, copy, good.
Logan SARGEANT: Wait, the front tire is gone, yeah?
Engineer: Vote 11, vote 11, so Alex 41-5, you are doing 41-8
Engineer: And we need secondary KEC position 2, KEC position 2.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I've
Engineer: been
Max VERSTAPPEN: unreligible so far.
Engineer: Can we have margin on front left temperatures to use the front left a bit more just keep taking care of the rear
Engineer: Okay, mate, so we need to lose as little time as possible. Fernando comes through as much quicker than us. Let's see if we can capitalize when he attacks Hülkenberg.
Esteban OCON: Okay.
Engineer: Good job at turns 1, 2, 3 this lap.
Engineer: Yes, so Pierre is four cars back on nine lap old mediums. He's lapping just over a second a lap quicker at the moment. Let's keep pushing.
Nico HULKENBERG: It's okay Gary, I see it. I don't
Engineer: need
Nico HULKENBERG: to know those things.
Engineer: Okay Lando, be careful with that. Six laps to go after this one, full concentration.
Logan SARGEANT: That's non-existent, mate.
Engineer: face to a lot so it's looking good at the moment gap currently 10.6
Engineer: Give me up 0.7 to prepare better 0.8 and 0.9. Yeah, fine, thank you.
Engineer: And Lando, just confirming, if there was a safety car, we would stay out by default. Perfect.
Lando NORRIS: Has the wind changed a bit? I feel like it has.
Engineer: Directionally similar, potentially calmed down a little bit.
Engineer: Full concentration, you know.
Engineer: And Lando, the only thing we're getting worried about is locking up. So be conservative, turn six breaking. Yeah, I feel...
Lando NORRIS: I got it.
Engineer: So that Debbie is on this straight stay on the racing line
Engineer: Well done Max, great day's work, kept you on your toes, but nice job.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah that was fantastic, I was on fire, the car was really really good. Yeah fantastic job guys, everyone, well done, great pit stops, I think we did really really well this weekend.
Engineer: Okay, Kevin, it's the checkered flag. So we are a real P16. Sorry, it's such a tough race. All comes down to get qualifying wrong. Yesterday. Sorry about that.
Nico HULKENBERG: Yeah, good job guys, solid race, not very spectacular but a better one than none, right?
Engineer: Yeah, good clean job by you, nice one.
Nico HULKENBERG: Yeah, you're right, I think it was actually one
Engineer: of
Nico HULKENBERG: my cleanest runs ever. Let's get it better.
Engineer: Well done, Max. That bookends a fantastic weekend. Sprint race, pole for the main race and victory. So, yeah, 15 years after the first one. Very well done.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, two cars on the podium as well. So, really good weekend.
Engineer: And you know your engineer's into the stats, so he's just informing that since the last Chinese Grand Prix, you've won 50% of the races that have existed. So, yeah, very, very well done. An incredible achievement.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, that's a good stat. I mean, yeah, it's just incredible what we are doing as a team. So, we can all be very proud of that.
Engineer: We'll go through here together. It was a good race for Gasly today and it's difficult circumstances but lots of learning which is mainly what we need. Let's come back stronger in Miami together.
Lando NORRIS: Yes, Will. Should be on the grid.
Engineer: My bad. Concentrate, Will, concentrate.
Lando NORRIS: Breathe, Will.
Engineer: Why would we stick with that time? I didn't talk to you because it was not really relevant, but we had a 10 second time penalty,
Logan SARGEANT: so...
Engineer: For
Logan SARGEANT: what?
Engineer: For an under-safety car, we have a two-kick comeback, I don't have all the details.
Logan SARGEANT: No, I didn't.
Engineer: Okay, copy, we can review, but I think that's why we got the 10 seconds.
Logan SARGEANT: Well, I passed the line ahead of him, so...
Lewis HAMILTON: Yep, I won't make that setup change again, but my bad, yeah, thank you guys, good job on the pit stops.
Engineer: It was a tough race out there today Alexis, the best we could have done. We just needed a tiny bit more pace. We'd be there in about five seconds for the points, but well managed. Thank you everyone, thanks for all the hard work.
Alexander ALBON: I think we'll be ready in Miami.
Engineer: Yep, well said. Let's come back stronger.
Engineer: Unlucky there mate, that was going really well to start with. Yeah,
Lance STROLL: so ridiculous man, just the whole train in front of me just stopped twice, even down the main straight there was like someone that braked trying to get in the hairpin.
Engineer: Yeah, no we saw it, so it definitely wasn't just you, it was kind of chaos wasn't it.
Esteban OCON: Yeah, yeah, okay
Engineer: well done
Engineer: Ok mate, well done, so the 11, our best result so far. Yeah,
Esteban OCON: fair result, looking at our weekend really, so sorry for that guys, but yeah good effort this weekend, it's been our best result, so yeah, as you said, we keep going and yeah, thank you for the quicker car this weekend.
Engineer: Good job with the damage sustained on the car there. It was significant what we see in the data So good job to get points from the weekend for us.
Oscar PIASTRI: Yeah Tough race Yep Not much else to say. Well done to Len on the podium Very good effort
Engineer: Yep,
Oscar PIASTRI: let's go again in Miami. Thank you
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Engineer: Yep, top race out there. We had to try that at the end. It looked like it was worthwhile giving it a go. You put in some good laps. But yeah, a couple things to review from this one.
Pierre GASLY: Where did we finish?
Engineer: So we came in in P13, Esteban in P11. A
Pierre GASLY: couple of situations where we should have done better, but yeah, we'll work on it. But I think with the upgrade, we would have been in the fight with Ilk, so we just need to keep bringing more, keep developing, keep finding performance, and we'll get closer to these guys.
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