Emilia Romagna Grand Prix 2024: Qualifying team radio
37 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix 2024, across 18 drivers. 36 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Max VERSTAPPEN 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
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 5 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 4 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Kick Sauber · 3 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 3 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 2 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 2 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 2 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 2 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Kick Sauber · 1 message
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 1 message
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 1 message
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 1 message
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 1 message
- Daniel RICCIARDO · RB · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
ZHOU Guanyu: I pulled it up and I thought Anthem's dead.
Engineer: Coming down, I'm going to charge.
ZHOU Guanyu: Can you pick the car? Go on, just do it. On the curb.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, I can go a lot quicker in the second push.
Engineer: Okay, good.
Engineer: And Lando, thoughts on the lap?
Lando NORRIS: Pretty average.
Charles LECLERC: If we go again on soft, I will stay where we are, flapwise.
Engineer: If you agree? Yes, I do.
Engineer: At the moment we are at P18. We are getting there, but
ZHOU Guanyu: the car feels a little better now. Let's see what happens at the snap in sector 1.
Engineer: Yeah, not good, I'm afraid. We just got bumped to P16. Down.
Alexander ALBON: Yeah, that's a bit of wind in and hot tyres in the last corner there's nothing we
Engineer: can really do That was a pretty good lap for a used tyre
Pierre GASLY: Out of form, shift out of form.
Engineer: And currently P1, max 15.38, signs 15.7.
Yuki TSUNODA: Do we need to put second set?
Engineer: We'll let you know.
Yuki TSUNODA: Ok, I think balance was pretty good, let's aim for the same. Copy, ok.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Uh,
Engineer: I
Max VERSTAPPEN: need tires.
Engineer: Understood, Max.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I have
Engineer: a
Max VERSTAPPEN: look what we can do for turn 7, I have a little bit too much understood on entry.
Engineer: Ok, understood.
Engineer: So we'll leave in order
Engineer: It's a good result, UK. Peace out. What the f***
Yuki TSUNODA: is that?!
Charles LECLERC: They're all getting more than what I felt in the last, uh, Q3.
Engineer: Yeah, but you did a good job.
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, thank you. Good job anyway to you two guys.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, not the assists
Engineer: Good
Carlos SAINZ: progress
Engineer: Yeah, good job throughout. Yeah
Engineer: It was two very good laps in Q1 and Q2, Nico, tough to beat. So good job on Q3, ended up P10.
Nico HULKENBERG: Not amazing, Q3, far from that.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: I can't believe this, man. It's unreal. Unreal.
Engineer: Sorry Kev, that means we're out. I'm really sorry. I don't know what to say, that's just awful.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: No, it's just out there, not even looking a little bit.
Engineer: No, Fernando, we've got to box, please. Box, box. Lance, finish in his lap.
Fernando ALONSO: Sure. Can I go? No, box. Why? Okay.
Engineer: Box, eh? Yeah, box.
Logan SARGEANT: Sorry, I made our lives harder than they need to be. This weekend's been a grind, but we'll keep pushing.
Lewis HAMILTON: Where is everyone?
Engineer: I think they're still setting the garages with the engine running.
Sergio PEREZ: What a mess
Pierre GASLY: Something's damaged at the rear.
Engineer: We'll take a good look when you're in.
George RUSSELL: I don't know why he sent me on a youth set to start with, just because of the pressure but not necessarily for that last lap
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Uh, look
Engineer: at that, they just release into the trailer. Yeah, that's not allowed.
Engineer: And that is a hard-earned pole position this weekend, Max. Enjoy it. Fantastic. Wow,
Max VERSTAPPEN: let's go. Wow, that's definitely a really good pole position. Wow, what a difficult start, but we turned it around. Thank you, everyone. That's fantastic. Really happy.
Engineer: That is P2, Oscar. P2.
Oscar PIASTRI: Yep. Cool. Well done. Thank you, everyone.
Engineer: Decent lap, mate. Really good.
Engineer: So Oscar, you're boxed this lap and pull up at the boards in the pit lane.
Oscar PIASTRI: Yep, I like the boards, it's been a little while.
Engineer: So
Oscar PIASTRI: yeah, thanks everyone.
Engineer: The
Oscar PIASTRI: car's feeling pretty sweet this weekend, so thanks for all the hard work on the upgrades. It's nice to have all of them.
Engineer: Yeah, and great job by you as well today, well done.
Engineer: OK, that's P9, yeah, Hamilton is in P8, Onyuki in P7. OK, good job, very good job.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yep, yeah, thanks, obviously thanks to the patience. Obviously first sector's still one I need to look at. Sorry I couldn't get more out of that.
Engineer: It was two very good laps in Q1 and Q2, Nico. Tough to beat. So good job on Q3, ended up P10. Not
Nico HULKENBERG: amazing, Q3, far from that.
Engineer: Yeah, it's P7. It's a good result, UK. P7.
Yuki TSUNODA: What the f***
Engineer: is that?
Yuki TSUNODA: Ah, John. F***ing sorry. What is...
Engineer: That's P6. One millisecond in it mate.
George RUSSELL: One? Ah ****. I've had a really good lap. That's almost everything I had today.
Engineer: Yeah, that's an amazing, amazing performance. Great turnaround Max. It's also a record. Eight in a row. That's a new world record. So well, well done.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, great stuff. Great stuff.
Engineer: Yeah, I think we were within our rights to celebrate this one for once Max. It's been a hard weekend, but we did a great job in the under. Then we look forward to tomorrow mate.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, exactly. Tomorrow is another challenge.
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