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
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 5 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 4 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 3 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 2 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 2 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 2 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 2 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Kick Sauber · 1 message
- Franco COLAPINTO · Williams · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Kick Sauber · 1 message
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 1 message
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Daniel RICCIARDO · RB · 1 message
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Pierre GASLY: Smoke's coming out of the front brakes.
Carlos SAINZ: Hold on a moment.
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.
Engineer: So Oscar, turn one, there was a bit more tailwind than P3. You braked 10 metres later and with less peak pressure.
Alexander ALBON: A lot of smoke on the front brakes into Turn 1.
George RUSSELL: Tires are nowhere, sliding massively.
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
Max VERSTAPPEN: I think we almost crashed. Yeah,
Engineer: I saw that Max.
ZHOU Guanyu: So many cars going off ahead of me. Unbelievable.
Franco COLAPINTO: Yeah, sorry for that
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Oh my god, man!
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?
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
Engineer: Man,
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: the guy went off in front of me.
Engineer: Understand.
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
Max VERSTAPPEN: Um, somehow I just had a big one that's here in 6, 7 and 8.
Engineer: Okay, understood.
Sergio PEREZ: I'm I'm installing a bit for entry copy that which corners medium and the final
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.
Lewis HAMILTON: These tires are really hot mate.
Engineer: Copy.
Charles LECLERC: Eka is not turning at all, again.
Fernando ALONSO: I think P11 is better than expected.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, honestly, that was about all it had.
Engineer: Yeah, great. Good job.
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.
Engineer: Okay, you're free.
Alexander ALBON: Yes!
Engineer: We saw that one as well
Engineer: There's not much to find Lewis, so maybe a little bit mid-speed exit to turn 11, but yeah, not much.
Nico HULKENBERG: You started it doesn't feel bad at all actually.
Engineer: Yeah copy that
Max VERSTAPPEN: Alright, we've had all of this set. Shocking!
Sergio PEREZ: Keep pushing, keep pushing.
Engineer: Max is four seconds back
Sergio PEREZ: I f***ed up, it wasn't over the tyre So picky
Engineer: Copy that mate That's P8
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Engineer: So pole position was Norris nineteen point three two. Yeah, I don't care
Engineer: Mobs will un-charge off, B4
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, f***ing at this speed And
Engineer: B5
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