Italian Grand Prix 2024: Practice 2 team radio
22 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Italian Grand Prix 2024, across 10 drivers. Lewis HAMILTON had the most, with 6.
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
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 6 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 4 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Kick Sauber · 2 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 2 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 1 message
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 1 message
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 1 message
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 1 message
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Alexander ALBON: Oh, mate, this is just...
Valtteri BOTTAS: A lot of understeer in turn 6. That's why I went white.
Engineer: Okay, understood.
Engineer: How did you find that gap at plus five?
Alexander ALBON: Yeah, it felt good. I just don't know if I got much of a toe effect.
Alexander ALBON: That was pretty good. Just put on the tires and that's it.
Lewis HAMILTON: Yeah, there's no one out here mate, got no tow.
Engineer: Yeah, copy that.
Engineer: So cornering is strong, just to make losses are the lack of toe, maybe a little bit to be found at turn 1-2.
Lewis HAMILTON: Here's someone laughing in the background.
George RUSSELL: I've got something moving around in my cockpit.
Engineer: OK, copy that. Whereabouts in the cockpit is it?
George RUSSELL: I think it's a nut, which is just going into my seat. I think it's OK.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Some trapping at
Engineer: the
Valtteri BOTTAS: last corner.
Engineer: Yeah, lowest in turn 1 now Yeah, completely, yeah, late I see, so hot mate OK, roger
George RUSSELL: My seat feels very hot.
Engineer: Yeah, AFILM judge getting the same reports from Lewis.
Engineer: What's the situation Kev?
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: I'm in the wall
Engineer: Copy
Engineer: Max, question, same issues as the previous run, out of interest?
Max VERSTAPPEN: I mean, I would say it's maybe worse, in the higher speed corners.
Engineer: OK, thanks.
Nico HULKENBERG: There was a car at the apex there. It was very irritating.
Engineer: Sea's got really hot again, bottom of the sea OK copy
Esteban OCON: OK mate, understood. Quite
Engineer: a
Esteban OCON: lot of understeer in 6 and 7. OK
Engineer: mate, understood.
Lewis HAMILTON: Who's at 25-0?
Engineer: No, we'll try and target at 25-0, 25-1 last lap. Yeah,
Lewis HAMILTON: that's
Engineer: a
Lewis HAMILTON: good target.
Engineer: That's the front left
Engineer: Starting last timed, use DRS, no lift and coast.
Nico HULKENBERG: I don't know what you've asked me to do at the end of a stint.
Engineer: Lando, there's 45 seconds to the flag, why don't we just cool the tyres and try and not take the flag? Try and not take the flag? Yeah, 30 seconds to go, Stroll's about 3 seconds behind you. You mean try to take the flag? Yeah, you know what I mean.
Engineer: Let's
Lewis HAMILTON: see it as well, it's so hot.
Engineer: Yeah, copy that, we'll have a good look around it this evening.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, we have a serious problem with the grid.
Engineer: That's
Carlos SAINZ: why we finished there at the end.
George RUSSELL: Thanks for fixing my car between the sessions, guys. My seat is still exceptionally hot, for whatever reason.
Engineer: Yeah, understood.
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