Chinese Grand Prix 2024: Sprint team radio
78 radio messages were recorded during sprint at the Chinese Grand Prix 2024, across 17 drivers. 70 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Lando NORRIS had the most, with 12.
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 · 12 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 9 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 8 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 7 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 6 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · RB · 6 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 5 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Kick Sauber · 5 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 4 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 3 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 2 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 2 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 2 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 1 message
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Yuki TSUNODA: Man, I don't think they're serving us right.
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, it's quite going left.
Engineer: Okay, we check it.
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, what people are saying on the medium the grip level
Engineer: We'll discuss things back in the garage.
Engineer: Wind speed, wind direction, all looks as forecast.
Carlos SAINZ: Steering wheel is down to the right still quite a lot even with the wind change so maybe worth checking
George RUSSELL: Grip feels better than everyone.
Engineer: We had a little bit of a front brake temperature split on the lap screen. So a bit of straight line braking into the obvious places. So it's 14.
Engineer: oscar tar info most cars on medium only russell on new soft have a good spring race
Lewis HAMILTON: Does that wind or head wind into 206?
Engineer: That should be headwind into six. So tailwind.
Logan SARGEANT: Mate, they're backing it up so much. It's
Engineer: a
Logan SARGEANT: joke.
Engineer: Energy if you need, Lance. Energy is available.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, push me up, talk.
Engineer: Engine 11, position 7, minus 2. Engine 11, position 7, minus 2.
Engineer: Engine 8, position 14, thrust 2. Engine 8, position 14, thrust 2.
Engineer: Okay, Kev, appreciate you're in a fight, but we're just overusing the right-hand front in Turn 7 a little.
Engineer: Lando Minor, white h2, position 7, white h2, position 7.
Engineer: I recommend also closing up this bit
Engineer: Okay, Kev, we generally see some entry instability, so suggest reducing EB or maybe coming up on diff entry.
Engineer: Botas is about to lose DRS, just about a tenth away from losing DRS.
Engineer: Overall good job on the tires. Continue like this.
Engineer: Okay, Pierre, can we get fail B05 off? That's B05 off.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, fun. Definitely a lot of passion.
Engineer: Keep hitting us with cheers.
Engineer: And so obviously we've got a bit of breathing space with Hulkenberg now. He's racing Ocon on Gasly. So just focus ahead. Focus on exits. Turn three and turn six if you can.
Engineer: Strat 11, more energy. Strat 11.
Lando NORRIS: I think we're a bit better than some others, but it'll be very difficult.
Engineer: So those compared to cars behind pace isn't bad. So we've got Lonzo 42.0.
Engineer: Others are struggling as well. Car behind now, Russell, two and a half seconds on the softs. He's managing a lot.
Engineer: He's now 3.5, Zou is still dropping, he's now 3.5 ahead of you.
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Engineer: You can drop your diff mid one or two step
Engineer: you can drop your diff mid 1 or 2 step
Engineer: for the understeer. Can do offset minus 1 for the understeer.
Engineer: Sauber on a medium. Some information on the soft with Russell it looks to be about similar pace about two laps ago he did manage to overtake a Sauber on a medium.
Engineer: some information on the soft with russell it looks to be about similar pace about two laps ago he did manage to overtake a sauber on a medium yeah
Lando NORRIS: i'm just struggling with rears just probably have a lot more traction than we do
Engineer: Some information on the soft with Russell it looks to be about similar pace about two laps ago He did manage to overtake a Sauber on a medium
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, I'm just struggling with rears. The Ferrari have a lot more traction than we do.
Engineer: Repeat the last message. We are very happy with your tyre management.
Engineer: We suggest EB7 and BMG4.
Engineer: Looks like cars are starting to enter graining phase, generally.
Engineer: Engine 8, position 12, when you can. Engine 8, position 12, not your chance.
Engineer: If entry upstairs becoming an issue, head 7 might help.
Logan SARGEANT: My fronts are just too unloaded a lot of the time. I need the front to hold the ground better.
Engineer: Okay, let's try back to EB8 to give a bit of a breeze to the rear tires. EB8.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Not a lot to add. Where am I losing time anyway?
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Engineer: George, green one, position nine. Green one, position nine. That's more deployment.
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, because they're stuck behind something there.
Engineer: to position nine white
Charles LECLERC: I'll have some derating.
Engineer: Copy, we are checking.
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Engineer: B-Bell 10 is available as a test max if you want it.
Sergio PEREZ: I don't have any traction.
Engineer: So the green shape three inside front looking a bit more on the limit into nine and 14 now
Engineer: It's three laps to go, three to go, Renfro, Fernando stopped behind, he had a puncture.
Engineer: The clerk behind at 1.7 for aggressive tip-in locking, aggressive tip-in locking.
Engineer: Possible debris turn one. Two to go.
Engineer: One more lap after this. One more when you cross the line.
Charles LECLERC: Suck a f***.
Engineer: Ok, good job Max.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Kept it clean and clinical. Yeah, that was good. Yeah,
Engineer: well done Max. Another sprint win and really good data for tomorrow.
Engineer: Well, those qualifying this afternoon we get to do all again
Engineer: You see debris in the nose and front wing area.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, but it was only for the last lap
Engineer: Okay Kev, checkered flag, well done mate, well done for hanging on there. P10, that's a very good effort mate, appreciate the car wasn't it sir, all you'd want it to be.
Engineer: We finished very close to the point today, let's repeat the same tomorrow at the point at the end of lap 1.
ZHOU Guanyu: Thank you, man. It's great to be home. Let's keep working. Thank you.
Engineer: OK mate, unlucky, so that's the flag there.
Lance STROLL: Oh man, that was fun.
Yuki TSUNODA: He's Zasta honestly
Daniel RICCIARDO: Quite a bit to make from that, so yeah, some good info, I guess.
Engineer: Okay, good job Alex. So he's 17 today, but I think you got the most out of it
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Lando NORRIS: Did my lap get deleted? We are saying the lap will be reinstated. If it's reinstated, you're on pole. I didn't go off anywhere, so...
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