Las Vegas Grand Prix 2024: Practice 3 team radio
62 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Las Vegas Grand Prix 2024, across 15 drivers. 53 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Sergio PEREZ had the most, with 11.
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
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 11 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 10 messages
- Liam LAWSON · RB · 7 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 6 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 4 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 4 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Kick Sauber · 3 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 3 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 3 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 3 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 2 messages
- Franco COLAPINTO · Williams · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah. Massive.
Liam LAWSON: Yeah, it's very slippery.
Engineer: Love it, Cleo.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Our front left is dead, and I think we'll die as soon as well.
Max VERSTAPPEN: It's only getting worse, the car isn't drivable.
Engineer: Yeah, just a couple more laps please Max, we have to try to make the best of this.
Max VERSTAPPEN: This is not it can't drive it I'm gonna crash my left foot is completely please
Engineer: box
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Same bloke again, two days in a row.
George RUSSELL: Yeah nice ecosystem.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I could have felt miles better, much better.
Liam LAWSON: The brakes, I can't stop. I have no brake right into Turn 1. Every time I brake into Turn 1, it's just, I go straight.
Liam LAWSON: Wait, Yuki just about rear-ended me.
Engineer: And then it'll be left-hand side and three burnouts.
Lewis HAMILTON: I'm going to the right side man, every single time you have me go to the left.
Engineer: Car is good and window car is zero
Engineer: You can stay in mode race, stay in mode race, some nice straight line here and box.
Sergio PEREZ: It's super off the truck is nowhere
Engineer: We'll skip the rest of this one and get on with the program
Sergio PEREZ: There will be much, much point in running, doing the sustainable running.
George RUSSELL: Can we try and pull the tape off the vents at the front of my helmet, please? Aye, come.
Engineer: You can go to Strat 1 for now, Strat 1 and BoxBox. Happy with that now?
Engineer: Ok, good job Liam, thank you. Copy and track conditions, Perez went for one push up and straight back in. He said it was nowhere.
Engineer: Press and hold overtake, five seconds.
Lando NORRIS: Reach out, Joe.
Engineer: You can do recharge off, we'll turn it back on a bit later.
Engineer: And let's hit the tires a little bit harder with weaving, if we can.
Engineer: Just confirm it's still in position. It's just the setup changes have made it harsher
Sergio PEREZ: Yep, correct
Max VERSTAPPEN: Our front left is dead, and I think we'll tie as soon as well.
Engineer: GX3 please, GX3.
Engineer: Mode K2+, K2+, for stop in 2 behind, sustain running.
Engineer: Opportunity, turn three, minimum.
Engineer: Oscar final corners the main opportunity looks like you braked a bit late. Maybe you know that already
Engineer: For turn five, suggest top right toggle. Turn five, top right.
Engineer: Hey, good luck you can charge on
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Lewis HAMILTON: Turn 1, go TSA, Naomi, doesn't feel great
Esteban OCON: I see like a bit of front end ready. Ok, understood. The first turn in.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: It
Franco COLAPINTO: just feels like I'm sliding around over here quite a lot, but...
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Yeah
Engineer: Just feedback from my reference that felt spot on on the max.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, this f***ing science is a pain in the f***, man.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, this science is a pain in the ass, man.
Engineer: We're opening the lap as if we're going for it.
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, I'm still struggling a bit for the rear.
Engineer: The
Nico HULKENBERG: grip is not bad actually now.
Liam LAWSON: Yeah, I tell you, it's not really... Loud
Engineer: and clear, we're converts.
Engineer: Yuki, we convert to up-build, we convert to up-build, the tires were not ready on the first lap. How do you know? The other car.
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, but what are they doing?
Engineer: Yuki, we convert to up-build, we convert to up-build. I
Yuki TSUNODA: feel the tires ready though.
Engineer: Okay, Yuki, we push, we push. No, no, it's too late, it's too late. Okay, stay calm.
Engineer: Five seconds check the light. I'm good. I'm good. Cool
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Sergio PEREZ: Boys
Engineer: are
Sergio PEREZ: on their way.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
George RUSSELL: Did you manage to get the full fuel load in?
Engineer: Negative, but we're pretty close.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Boys, we're on our way.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
George RUSSELL: Did you manage to get the fuel load in?
Engineer: Negative, but we're pretty close.
Engineer: Avoid full load. Avoid full load to protect the temperatures for the launch.
Engineer: Try to have some pace to get the gap to Alex for the pit stop and session
Engineer: And that was a good middle sector Liam. That was pretty good there. We'll have a look, get some conclusions.
Liam LAWSON: For me, I like it more, honestly. For me, it's better to have the car like this.
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