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Team radio transcript

Japanese Grand Prix 2024: Practice 3 team radio

53 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Japanese Grand Prix 2024, across 17 drivers. 52 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Lance STROLL had the most, with 7.

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. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas

    Engineer: Uh, you're not that clear.

    Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Just, uh, check.

    Engineer: Copy that. Any better? Not ready. Okay, understood.

  2. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas

    Engineer: GX3 please Kev, GX3.

  3. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    Engineer: Then we have wind phase 11, 10 kph.

  4. George RUSSELLMercedes

    George RUSSELL: Trying to fill in a much more front than yesterday.

  5. Sergio PEREZRed Bull

    Sergio PEREZ: Just a little bit cautious into 13-14 with the still a little bit down the curves. The chicane, the low speed was not so good. But I think part of that was the drivability, very good drivability.

  6. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    Engineer: And we need multifunction errors position 10 when you can errors position 10

  7. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Lewis HAMILTON: Ray's got Hulk on

    Engineer: that last one. Yeah, copy. You've got Hulkenberg at four seconds.

  8. Logan SARGEANTWilliams

    Logan SARGEANT: How are my break times?

  9. Logan SARGEANTWilliams

    Engineer: I just want to put that in front.

  10. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas

    Engineer: CSL 6 before turn 15, please.

  11. ZHOU GuanyuKick Sauber

    ZHOU Guanyu: Okay, but he's going so slow.

  12. Lance STROLLAston Martin

    Engineer: Sires, if I happen to take a bigger call, so let's get all the temp we can outlead Sires.

    Lance STROLL: Sires not feeling too good.

    Engineer: If I happen to take a bigger call, so let's get all the temp we can outlead Sires.

  13. Lance STROLLAston Martin

    Lance STROLL: My attire is not feeling too good.

  14. Lance STROLLAston Martin

    Engineer: So I have to make a bigger call, so let's get all the temporary canout lead sires.

  15. Logan SARGEANTWilliams

    Logan SARGEANT: Sorry, it was blue one position. What was blue one? I just changed it on accident.

  16. Lance STROLLAston Martin

    Engineer: Let me just pull up outside the garage, Lance. Just look out for the crew. Let's pull up outside.

  17. Pierre GASLYAlpine

    Engineer: And how's the balance?

  18. Pierre GASLYAlpine

    Pierre GASLY: That's pretty tricky in sector one lost a bit of beer the last chicane

  19. Carlos SAINZFerrari

    Engineer: N1313, aim for the white line and not the curve. Suggestion.

  20. Esteban OCONAlpine

    Esteban OCON: No, look at the bouncing a little bit, I think it's increased.

    Engineer: OK, understood, we'll check that.

  21. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: so yeah just that turn 13 pushing level looks a little bit high but the rest of it looks good pace are pretty happy with that if we can hold it where it is

  22. Carlos SAINZFerrari

    Engineer: I believe in turn one, you are status four for info. That is good. Keep going.

  23. Esteban OCONAlpine

    Esteban OCON: Take what I think, but it doesn't match, I think, the number of my rotary.

    Engineer: We see that change as being correct. I think we'll let you know if we need you to do anything else. We've got one more time-lapse, please. One more.

  24. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Lando NORRIS: And the gap behind Oscar is

    Engineer: about five seconds, then there's a tight group. So this is probably our best place, if possible, backing up to Oscar before we launch.

  25. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas

    Engineer: Okay, please use DRS up to turn one at the start of the next lap, then we are going to box to give us time to do setup changes.

  26. Valtteri BOTTASKick Sauber

    Engineer: Multi-A, pedal 8, pedal 8.

  27. Carlos SAINZFerrari

    Engineer: Maybe engine one next lap, engine one, sergeant is 30 seconds in front

  28. Oscar PIASTRIMcLaren

    Engineer: Focus on rear tyre recovery now.

  29. Fernando ALONSOAston Martin

    Fernando ALONSO: And you want me to drop it back?

    Engineer: Yeah, I think that's good for now. No, you've got 10 second gap behind

  30. ZHOU GuanyuKick Sauber

    ZHOU Guanyu: Yeah, I have

    Engineer: a

    ZHOU Guanyu: little bit of the same limitation. I also turned 6 times in the open block.

  31. Oscar PIASTRIMcLaren

    Oscar PIASTRI: So I was a pretty finished now

  32. Valtteri BOTTASKick Sauber

    Engineer: You can do private default alpha 07 off, SOC 3, and upload out.

  33. Sergio PEREZRed Bull

    Engineer: So we've got Russell just opening a lap. He's the only car we'll have to worry about.

  34. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: Might just be a little bit of bunching a final chicane. You're gonna have George at 15

  35. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: Gatley just left 11, happy to go again this time round.

    Lando NORRIS: Yeah, I can't go again this time round.

  36. Lance STROLLAston Martin

    Lance STROLL: Tires are going to be tuned. They're already done, the tires.

  37. Pierre GASLYAlpine

    Pierre GASLY: Yeah, that might have been a snap, almost lost it.

  38. Esteban OCONAlpine

    Engineer: same engine settings as you 3115 3115

  39. Esteban OCONAlpine

    Engineer: OK mate, we'll have a look and see if there's anything we can do to help with switches. Let's do what we need to for tyre prep on these slow laps.

  40. Lance STROLLAston Martin

    Engineer: So happy with front temperatures now, Lance, don't need to drop them too much, let's just focus on dropping the rears, maintaining the fronts if you can.

  41. Valtteri BOTTASKick Sauber

    Engineer: It was a bit of a traffic paradise, that one. Yeah, I saw. Copy.

  42. Sergio PEREZRed Bull

    Sergio PEREZ: I keep losing my left mirror.

  43. Esteban OCONAlpine

    Esteban OCON: Did I improve the second lap?

    Engineer: Yeah, I did not improve the second lap.

  44. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    Engineer: And we need to push a bit more on this lap.

  45. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    Charles LECLERC: Tell Carlos to do so as well, otherwise I'm not going to make it.

    Engineer: Copy, he is doing it I believe.

  46. Esteban OCONAlpine

    Engineer: Okay, so a couple of switch changes. Can we go scenario one, please? Scenario one.

  47. Yuki TSUNODARB

    Yuki TSUNODA: Second page I got to understand more, quite a lot actually.

  48. Lance STROLLAston Martin

    Engineer: So we need Strat6, Strat6, and RunSwitchForm.

  49. Daniel RICCIARDORB

    Engineer: You keep pushing behind you now.

    Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, sorry

  50. Daniel RICCIARDORB

    Audio only, no transcript available for this message.

  51. Yuki TSUNODARB

    Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, what he's doing, man? He

    Engineer: apologised.

  52. Oscar PIASTRIMcLaren

    Engineer: You can go purple C7 position 1, unlimited speed now.

  53. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: Purple C3 position 2. Purple C3 position 2, third gear.

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