Chinese Grand Prix 2024: Sprint Qualifying team radio
72 radio messages were recorded during sprint qualifying at the Chinese Grand Prix 2024, across 18 drivers. 70 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
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 8 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 7 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 7 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 6 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Kick Sauber · 6 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 5 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 4 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 2 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 2 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · RB · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Kick Sauber · 2 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 2 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 1 message
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
George RUSSELL: Here's what Gapook does. What Gapook
Engineer: does
George RUSSELL: is cover gold.
Engineer: And we have wind phase 6, same as FP1, with lower intensity.
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, some drop, some rain, so need to push.
Engineer: Yep, copy.
Oscar PIASTRI: So, light drops are bright.
Engineer: Understood.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, some drop, some rain, so need to push.
Engineer: Yep, copy.
Engineer: Let
George RUSSELL: me know if
Engineer: I
George RUSSELL: know what I
Engineer: should
George RUSSELL: do now, spit it more.
Lando NORRIS: 11. Yeah, just 10-2. I don't know. I mean, I don't really want to do the left paddle, but I just get this massive wash of understand 10-2.
Pierre GASLY: I need to let him pass even for the Delta Laptop
Engineer: And the priority is exit turn 6 and turn 10.
Oscar PIASTRI: Yep. No, okay. Just a bit of a mistake, but I think going quicker is going to be a
Engineer: bit tricky.
Logan SARGEANT: My Ghazli impeded me. Yeah, understood.
Sergio PEREZ: From what I can see, it's very obvious, right? We should box.
Engineer: Yeah, we just wanted to get an idea on Track Evo.
Engineer: Got a traffic head. Yeah, copy. No pressure. We've got time. Yeah, we have time. So, no pressure. You've got Perez's car behind.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Are we tight on time?
Engineer: No, we're not. We're okay. We're all good. You're one second safe on Delta at the moment.
Engineer: Well, then you have some shocking grip
Lance STROLL: and balance.
Engineer: How far off are we? So it's one second to Perez.
Yuki TSUNODA: Zero grip, honestly.
Logan SARGEANT: Yeah, sorry man, I gave you everything I had.
Engineer: What
Daniel RICCIARDO: the f*** is he doing? I don't know what Sainz was doing I
Engineer: have no words
Engineer: Everyone's down here already mate. Yeah, Aether. We have to start pushing our way through when we get out of track.
Engineer: Can you push me back to the garage for a different set of mediums on once that'll be hot not that we've been queuing for four minutes
Engineer: It will take us most of that time to get you back here, George.
Engineer: And we're not allowed into the fast lane, obviously.
ZHOU Guanyu: Okay, so in the lab if you see some heavy raindrop, let me know even though it's a flying lap You can let me know on the back straight or some short straight
Engineer: No problem At the moment is still dry
Engineer: And we believe the rain will hit us at the end of the time-lapse
Engineer: Okay, that should be the green lights. Remember to build your gap in the pit lane. We'll need a pushing out lap.
Engineer: That should be letting you through.
Engineer: Ogbeg is right behind us so he's going to fight on the outlap, so we do want a hard outlap
Engineer: You can use a bit of energy out of here and then cancel it halfway down that's also fine
Engineer: And just keep working as much as you can.
Engineer: Bit of bunching in the final sector.
Engineer: So you've got seven ahead, so you're good to go. No pressure behind.
Engineer: Mode in box this lap, please make it a fast in lap
Engineer: OK, sensibly fast, not super fast, we're just trying to save a little bit of time, but don't want to hurt the tyres too much, OK?
Engineer: Lando, how much or do you think you'll go quicker with the second lap?
Lando NORRIS: Unlikely, I would say.
Engineer: And we remind the time on the dash. And at the moment, you have U1.
Nico HULKENBERG: There's more right now than 13, 14, or 15.
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, it's raining
Engineer: So compared to Bottas who is through into Q3 so far, we just lost a bit of time through turn 9 He was able to carry more speed through turn 9. That's the only place we really lost to him
Engineer: Okay, Daniel is training too hard now, sorry, that's it
Nico HULKENBERG: There weren't
Engineer: any when we went out, but understood, Nico, yep.
Engineer: So good effort. It turns out that we would have gone for the extra lap, I think, but it's a difficult call because of the conditions. Anyway, I think you did a very good job there.
Engineer: It's
Lewis HAMILTON: wet, it's
Engineer: wet.
Lewis HAMILTON: Okay, copy.
Lando NORRIS: Thinking push, push, push, or push, pull, push. And turn the car on. Drats.
ZHOU Guanyu: You think it's better I go getting a gap rather than getting bunched up with all the guys?
Engineer: So Oscar, we're currently in Strat 2, that's good for push-cool-push, which we have time for, but if you think it's continuous laps, we'll need to make a switch change.
Charles LECLERC: I'll let go Carlos in turn one, just so he knows. I'll go on the outside.
Engineer: Into turn one and you will be outside.
Engineer: You can pass anyone but just keep an eye on the white lines on the way
Engineer: And the rain is expected to continue at this intensity.
Engineer: We suggest EB3.
Engineer: Mina, purple C6 position 1, purple C6 position 1, still three cars ahead of you to go.
Engineer: And are you happy to go with push-charge-push? We still recommend it. Yeah.
Charles LECLERC: I think the front wing is broken, is it?
Engineer: We are checking
Lewis HAMILTON: That's
Engineer: not
Lewis HAMILTON: working.
Engineer: Yeah, copy. We'll go with another set. We'll
Lewis HAMILTON: pop them up. Yeah, let's get the
Carlos SAINZ: Let you manage the shock? Yeah, it's going to be constant pushing until the rears come up, and then pushing the last lap. Let me know when there's two laps to go.
Charles LECLERC: You confirm everything is fine, right?
Engineer: Yes, confirm everything is fine
Engineer: and white h11 position one white h11 position one
Engineer: I'll get one more lap right? You will get another lap, but complete this one.
Engineer: The pace is very good Lando, very good
Engineer: Mode charge now to get ready for the next battery, but keep your pace Daro.
Carlos SAINZ: impossible. Rears never came up.
Engineer: We are in a good position for tomorrow, Joe.
ZHOU Guanyu: Yeah, I'm so wet, man. Soaked.
Engineer: Okay, you're on pole. Well done. Yeah baby. Beautiful. Recharge on please. Simply beautiful. You had me worried.
Charles LECLERC: No, not much flow in the ring, but a bit of flow in the straight.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: Yeah, hi there, Checo. It was looking pretty decent there.
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, yeah, unfortunately.
Engineer: Anyway,
Sergio PEREZ: let's get them tomorrow.
Carlos SAINZ: So what happened with Lando?
Engineer: So they drop deleted and then back in, so we are checking for track limits, last corner
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, that was so good. I had very low grip and the engine was misfiring in some places as well.
ZHOU Guanyu: Yeah, it's super wet now. It's like boat riding.
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