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Team radio transcript

Italian Grand Prix 2024: Qualifying team radio

40 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the Italian Grand Prix 2024, across 19 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

Every message, in the order it happened

  1. Pierre GASLYAlpine

    Pierre GASLY: Smoke's coming out of the front brakes.

  2. Carlos SAINZFerrari

    Carlos SAINZ: Hold on a moment.

  3. Pierre GASLYAlpine

    Engineer: I just have no front, which is very annoying, I've absolutely no front. OK, we'll have a think what we can do for the next one. Front brakes, smoking, turn 1, no deceleration. Alright, copy that.

  4. Oscar PIASTRIMcLaren

    Engineer: So Oscar, turn one, there was a bit more tailwind than P3. You braked 10 metres later and with less peak pressure.

  5. Alexander ALBONWilliams

    Alexander ALBON: A lot of smoke on the front brakes into Turn 1.

  6. George RUSSELLMercedes

    George RUSSELL: Tires are nowhere, sliding massively.

  7. Esteban OCONAlpine

    Esteban OCON: Is

    Engineer: that

    Esteban OCON: the back of the queue?

    Engineer: At the moment yes, but these cars should clear quite quickly so should be okay

  8. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: I think we almost crashed. Yeah,

    Engineer: I saw that Max.

  9. ZHOU GuanyuKick Sauber

    ZHOU Guanyu: So many cars going off ahead of me. Unbelievable.

  10. Franco COLAPINTOWilliams

    Franco COLAPINTO: Yeah, sorry for that

  11. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas

    Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Oh my god, man!

  12. Esteban OCONAlpine

    Esteban OCON: For f*** sake guys, we had to drive offline all the way around

    Engineer: so we can't do this. Yeah, unfortunately it's due to our position on track, there's nothing we can do about it when we're in that situation, okay? Okay, let's try and not do that, if we can. We're gonna try our best, all right?

  13. Valtteri BOTTASKick Sauber

    Valtteri BOTTAS: Got this big cut off

    Engineer: Cut off was two tenths faster than our first push. I think we would have had it. Yeah, I think

  14. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas

    Engineer: Man,

    Kevin MAGNUSSEN: the guy went off in front of me.

    Engineer: Understand.

  15. Yuki TSUNODARB

    Engineer: At the moment we are P16

    Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, man, I'm just saying it's so just ridiculous. It's so difficult drive. It's so ridiculous

    Engineer: Let's keep it clean on the radio and bring the car back in

  16. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: Um, somehow I just had a big one that's here in 6, 7 and 8.

    Engineer: Okay, understood.

  17. Sergio PEREZRed Bull

    Sergio PEREZ: I'm I'm installing a bit for entry copy that which corners medium and the final

  18. Alexander ALBONWilliams

    Alexander ALBON: There's a totally different balance, so it was

    Engineer: a

    Alexander ALBON: bit difficult. But that was better, the fonts were way better in that lab.

  19. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Lewis HAMILTON: These tires are really hot mate.

    Engineer: Copy.

  20. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    Charles LECLERC: Eka is not turning at all, again.

  21. Fernando ALONSOAston Martin

    Fernando ALONSO: I think P11 is better than expected.

  22. Daniel RICCIARDORB

    Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, honestly, that was about all it had.

    Engineer: Yeah, great. Good job.

  23. Esteban OCONAlpine

    Engineer: Unfortunately we are out, we are in P15, changing circumstances through the the session. Yeah but look, look, look the entry switch, that's where I was for the whole lap. Yeah sure. So yeah we messed up. Okay.

  24. Alexander ALBONWilliams

    Engineer: Okay, you're free.

    Alexander ALBON: Yes!

  25. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Engineer: We saw that one as well

  26. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: There's not much to find Lewis, so maybe a little bit mid-speed exit to turn 11, but yeah, not much.

  27. Nico HULKENBERGHaas

    Nico HULKENBERG: You started it doesn't feel bad at all actually.

    Engineer: Yeah copy that

  28. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: Alright, we've had all of this set. Shocking!

  29. Sergio PEREZRed Bull

    Sergio PEREZ: Keep pushing, keep pushing.

    Engineer: Max is four seconds back

  30. Sergio PEREZRed Bull

    Sergio PEREZ: I f***ed up, it wasn't over the tyre So picky

    Engineer: Copy that mate That's P8

  31. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Lando NORRIS: Oh, f***ing lap, I'm sorry, my bad. Okay mate, I'm sorry, your f***ing lap was good enough for pole. Cool, that means your setup was amazing. Well done boys, lovely 1-2, congrats.

  32. Nico HULKENBERGHaas

    Nico HULKENBERG: That new tire just turned 1, 2, and 4, 5. It feels kind of worse than when I used it. It just doesn't have the grip somehow.

    Engineer: Yeah, copy that, Nico. Good job on Q3. Good place to start for tomorrow.

  33. Alexander ALBONWilliams

    Engineer: It's P9, P9. Just picked the hulking mode by 40 milliseconds with P9, nice job.

    Alexander ALBON: Yeah, well done, that was really good. I lost the video a bit and I'll ask a winner, but we did a really good job there, the tyre actually came to us throughout the session, so well done Jack. Good work Alex, really good laps, and there's a good position to start from tomorrow, we've got a good car.

  34. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, I don't

    Engineer: know

    Max VERSTAPPEN: what happened mate. The card just didn't work at all anymore on key 3. Zero, rip.

    Engineer: Roger that Max.

  35. Oscar PIASTRIMcLaren

    Oscar PIASTRI: P2 well done mate. Yep yeah thanks everyone last lap just wasn't uh I wasn't good enough I think turn two set the tone but great effort there's definitely no guarantee of that result so well done on the execution let's go have some fun tomorrow

  36. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: OK, listen, that's P6, it's 0.18, it's at Norris.

    Lewis HAMILTON: Close to the people ahead of me.

    Engineer: So it's just 46 milliseconds to Sainz and then another 6 milliseconds to Leclerc, another 21 milliseconds to George.

  37. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    Charles LECLERC: Car is so difficult in the slow

    Engineer: speed. Please target zero, it's a request, target zero.

    Charles LECLERC: Yes, yes, yes, yes, I know, I

    Engineer: know. I'm just telling you what they tell me.

    Charles LECLERC: Yes, but please, um, it's okay, I'm checking the dash, don't worry.

    Engineer: Thank you.

  38. George RUSSELLMercedes

    Engineer: OK, Strat 1, box, box.

    George RUSSELL: What's

    Engineer: that? P3, P3 at the end. How close? Behind Norris, but 4 milliseconds to Yacht Street.

    George RUSSELL: All right, good plays guys, well done. Nice job. Well done, well done. Sorry, Q1 and Q2 was a bit rubbish. Good work, Tiger Group, everyone involved there.

    Engineer: You

    George RUSSELL: gave me some really good info. What was the exact delta to Orlando?

    Engineer: 113 milliseconds.

    George RUSSELL: Game on.

  39. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    Engineer: So pole position was Norris nineteen point three two. Yeah, I don't care

  40. Carlos SAINZFerrari

    Engineer: Mobs will un-charge off, B4

    Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, f***ing at this speed And

    Engineer: B5

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