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
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 7 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 6 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 4 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 3 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 3 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 3 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Kick Sauber · 3 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 3 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Kick Sauber · 2 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 2 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · RB · 2 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 1 message
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Uh, you're not that clear.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Just, uh, check.
Engineer: Copy that. Any better? Not ready. Okay, understood.
Engineer: GX3 please Kev, GX3.
Engineer: Then we have wind phase 11, 10 kph.
George RUSSELL: Trying to fill in a much more front than yesterday.
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.
Engineer: And we need multifunction errors position 10 when you can errors position 10
Lewis HAMILTON: Ray's got Hulk on
Engineer: that last one. Yeah, copy. You've got Hulkenberg at four seconds.
Logan SARGEANT: How are my break times?
Engineer: I just want to put that in front.
Engineer: CSL 6 before turn 15, please.
ZHOU Guanyu: Okay, but he's going so slow.
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.
Lance STROLL: My attire is not feeling too good.
Engineer: So I have to make a bigger call, so let's get all the temporary canout lead sires.
Logan SARGEANT: Sorry, it was blue one position. What was blue one? I just changed it on accident.
Engineer: Let me just pull up outside the garage, Lance. Just look out for the crew. Let's pull up outside.
Engineer: And how's the balance?
Pierre GASLY: That's pretty tricky in sector one lost a bit of beer the last chicane
Engineer: N1313, aim for the white line and not the curve. Suggestion.
Esteban OCON: No, look at the bouncing a little bit, I think it's increased.
Engineer: OK, understood, we'll check that.
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
Engineer: I believe in turn one, you are status four for info. That is good. Keep going.
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.
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.
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.
Engineer: Multi-A, pedal 8, pedal 8.
Engineer: Maybe engine one next lap, engine one, sergeant is 30 seconds in front
Engineer: Focus on rear tyre recovery now.
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
ZHOU Guanyu: Yeah, I have
Engineer: a
ZHOU Guanyu: little bit of the same limitation. I also turned 6 times in the open block.
Oscar PIASTRI: So I was a pretty finished now
Engineer: You can do private default alpha 07 off, SOC 3, and upload out.
Engineer: So we've got Russell just opening a lap. He's the only car we'll have to worry about.
Engineer: Might just be a little bit of bunching a final chicane. You're gonna have George at 15
Engineer: Gatley just left 11, happy to go again this time round.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, I can't go again this time round.
Lance STROLL: Tires are going to be tuned. They're already done, the tires.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, that might have been a snap, almost lost it.
Engineer: same engine settings as you 3115 3115
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.
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.
Engineer: It was a bit of a traffic paradise, that one. Yeah, I saw. Copy.
Sergio PEREZ: I keep losing my left mirror.
Esteban OCON: Did I improve the second lap?
Engineer: Yeah, I did not improve the second lap.
Engineer: And we need to push a bit more on this lap.
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.
Engineer: Okay, so a couple of switch changes. Can we go scenario one, please? Scenario one.
Yuki TSUNODA: Second page I got to understand more, quite a lot actually.
Engineer: So we need Strat6, Strat6, and RunSwitchForm.
Engineer: You keep pushing behind you now.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, sorry
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, what he's doing, man? He
Engineer: apologised.
Engineer: You can go purple C7 position 1, unlimited speed now.
Engineer: Purple C3 position 2. Purple C3 position 2, third gear.
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