Italian Grand Prix 2024: Practice 3 team radio
29 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Italian Grand Prix 2024, across 13 drivers. 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
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 5 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 5 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · RB · 2 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 2 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 2 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 1 message
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 1 message
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 1 message
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 1 message
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 1 message
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Let us know if you'd like to come through the pit lane for a flap adjust.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yes, the ability seems a bit better, so I think maybe 2-3 clicks.
Engineer: OK, copy that.
George RUSSELL: Brakes sound a bit weird into one then.
Engineer: Okay, we'll take a look.
Engineer: OK, Esteban, recharge on, and we need to box please, we need to box the car now. So shifting is allowed, no concerns, but we are boxing this lap please. OK, what should I not do then? No, you'll find just a normal in-lap at this stage please, so you can shift, change gears, brake, steer as normal, but we do need to box please. We'll let you know if we need any other action, OK? OK, Esteban, so we're going to slow this lap down. We have seen what we were concerned about stabilise, so we're just going to slow the pace right down, we're going to cool these tyres down, we're going to see if we can continue this run. I'd like to drive through the pit lane please, just again to help cool these tyres.
Esteban OCON: Copy. OK
Engineer: mate, so I'll keep guiding you, you're good on traffic.
Esteban OCON: But what did you see?
Engineer: It was an issue that meant we would have had to box, so we've done everything correctly so far, but that issue has stabilised at the moment. OK? It's going to get worse again, in which case we will need to stop, as in come in, box, I'll keep you informed, alright? But just for now, continue the run as you normally would do.
Engineer: And sorry George, could you just clarify limitation term one?
George RUSSELL: Balance field okay, but I just don't think the tools are in the right place. Am I losing a little bit there or not?
Engineer: Negative. Term one, term four look good.
Engineer: It was a good lap, P1 at the moment.
Daniel RICCIARDO: To be honest, I was pretty, I'd say relatively happy with the lap, but I still struggle on braking for me. I didn't really feel an improvement there.
Engineer: Copy, we'll keep checking.
Engineer: Four tenths quicker than yesterday.
Alexander ALBON: Yeah, the tyres are so much better.
Nico HULKENBERG: A lot of fun to see you building up Apex 11, it really breaks up the corner.
Engineer: Yep, copy that.
Engineer: That's four complete, Max. Four more.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Left rear is audio, thank you.
Engineer: Copy that.
Esteban OCON: I got some decent vibration in the brakes.
Engineer: We do see that vibration, we're going to keep monitoring.
Max VERSTAPPEN: This Mercedes is driving on the normal, basic line.
Engineer: Yeah, fairly standard, Max.
Max VERSTAPPEN: No, it's OK.
Engineer: OK, keep it going. We're just learning on the PU, that is.
Esteban OCON: Quite a lot of vibrations increasing.
Engineer: Understood.
George RUSSELL: My seat is very high again
Alexander ALBON: So we'll
Engineer: get
Alexander ALBON: the Fox, the Fox is just nowhere.
Engineer: Copy that.
Oscar PIASTRI: Can't we put one and a half holes in?
Engineer: We certainly can't.
Engineer: Piastri pushing. Let Piastri through.
Charles LECLERC: I thought he was further away. Bye, bud.
Charles LECLERC: I would only sit with Oscar.
George RUSSELL: Felt pretty rubbery, balance is quite a long wheel.
George RUSSELL: Fronts were just very weak in 6, 7 and 11.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Car doesn't turn. Needing sleep.
Nico HULKENBERG: It was a messy turn 4-5 with traffic and gravel.
Engineer: It
Nico HULKENBERG: was a messy turn 4-5 with traffic and gravel. Yeah, copy that.
Esteban OCON: There's a lot of understeer again, every time we put a new set.
Engineer: OK mate, understood.
Esteban OCON: Can you have a look what happened last corner also? There was understeer everywhere except there. Yeah, we're looking at that right now. Also, I think I picked up front on the rotation because of the brake vibration.
Engineer: OK, understood.
Pierre GASLY: I don't feel good with this front brakes.
Engineer: OK, we'll take a look and see if there's anything we can do.
Engineer: Of
Daniel RICCIARDO: course.
Engineer: And for info, Leclerc also impeding Piers Street just before you.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, that was a mess.
Engineer: We have a bit of work to do on the balance, but we're not we're not far, not a bad position.
Yuki TSUNODA: I don't know, I don't think, I don't think it's
Engineer: too
Yuki TSUNODA: far, but at the same time it's not so close.
Engineer: Yeah, the car is in turn now,
Esteban OCON: and
Engineer: the brakes are square. Yeah, understood, understood. We know there's things we can do to help that.
Engineer: Stop, Kev, stop. Stop on the track, please. Stop on the track.
Sergio PEREZ: There feels, there seems to be some vibration coming from the front, from the engine.
Engineer: Copy that Jacko, we'll investigate.
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