Las Vegas Grand Prix 2024: Qualifying team radio
81 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the Las Vegas Grand Prix 2024, across 19 drivers. 76 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Yuki TSUNODA had the most, with 10.
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
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 10 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 8 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 8 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 6 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 6 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 6 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 6 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 5 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Kick Sauber · 4 messages
- Franco COLAPINTO · Williams · 4 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 3 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Kick Sauber · 2 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Liam LAWSON · RB · 1 message
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Okay, so if we can add a little bit of weaving down to five, just going to try and boost these temps a little bit on these laps.
Alexander ALBON: Track reset's quite big.
Engineer: Front left, well front brakes is smoking a lot considering it's low, quite low temps
Engineer: Special 2, corner 1, corner 12, big gap behind you, but we want to keep, we want to keep temperature here.
Engineer: We maintain front, especially front left
Engineer: But don't let the tyres call too much, you can charge on the straights.
Engineer: How's the tyre, Oscar?
Oscar PIASTRI: I think it's okay, it looks okay, so I'm happy to go for another attempt.
ZHOU Guanyu: Ok, one step left because of the problems, because of the truck.
Yuki TSUNODA: The second lap was a step or so, the half a step got a bit understeer side compared to first push. If I talk about first push or second push, maybe we can add a bit of rotation more.
Engineer: Oscar, are you happy to stick to our plan of getting first-timed on the next set?
Max VERSTAPPEN: Let me know if you'd like...
Engineer: The
Max VERSTAPPEN: tires still feel quite cool mate, to be honest.
Engineer: So single cool?
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah.
Engineer: Okay, understood.
Engineer: This first sector is down.
Lewis HAMILTON: How far are we off?
Engineer: targeting 80 front 76 rear 80 front 76 rear
Engineer: Yeah, where does that put me this lap? So that lap P8
Engineer: The back straight we need to go, PU13 position 6.
Engineer: I mean, if we're going to be safe, we don't need to finish. I know, Oscar, I know. Perez is six seconds behind.
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Engineer: On the back straight we need to go PU13 position 6.
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Engineer: I mean, if we're going to be safe, we don't need to finish. I know, Oscar, I know. Perez is six seconds behind.
Engineer: I'm slower Ok well then let's save the tyre, if we're definitely slower save the tyre, Tsunoda 3.5
Engineer: currently we'll be going ok remember, leg cross attention, not in lap
Engineer: 100s behind. Okay, so we are safe. I just wait for cars to complete their laps, but just for 100s behind George so the locking turn nine and then
Engineer: Thanks, Pastor.
Engineer: Cool down. Everyone behind now is slow. Lance is pushing. 12. I had a cool
Fernando ALONSO: down brake balance forward.
Engineer: Lance pushing 9 seconds back.
Fernando ALONSO: I let him go. Yep.
Engineer: I
Fernando ALONSO: let him go. Yep.
Engineer: Zero. So Esteban's lap was a 13.
Engineer: Stroll coming through. Okay, into the pit lane.
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Engineer: 14
Engineer: I
Yuki TSUNODA: think balance was good a bit on this fair side a little bit, maybe if I had one more run I would add 1.5 to 2.
Engineer: Okay Lance, you're clear behind. Good lap given the situation and great job by everybody in the garage to get the car out.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Yeah, super messy with the traffic yeah wasn't ideal for sure
Fernando ALONSO: I think in 5, causing the yellow, then Leclerc is missing turn 7, instead of letting me go, he goes straight, causing another yellow.
ZHOU Guanyu: In creative we keep it like default or go minus one maybe we default for now we decide for later
Engineer: Those are a bit colder. Use overtake out of turn 12.
Engineer: Let's go
Engineer: and no pressure from behind, go prep, push, charge, push
Yuki TSUNODA: I would say, I think I had a bit of a understeer, just in turn 3 I would say, but other than that was okay. It's hard to tell because probably the tyre was f***ed up. How's
Engineer: the
Yuki TSUNODA: balance? Yeah, maybe we can add 1.5 to 2.
Engineer: And Liam, let's move to mid 4 please, currently mid 5. Let's go mid 4.
Franco COLAPINTO: Could I have a horse?
Engineer: Nope.
Engineer: OK, it's been a crash after turn 16. Everyone's taken the checkered flag anyway, almost. We are P11, unfortunately. And out was the gap to P.
Yuki TSUNODA: By the way, yeah, so far, good job, guys. Good turnaround. Good turnaround.
Yuki TSUNODA: By the way, yeah, so far, good job, guys. Good turnaround. Good turnaround.
Engineer: Lando just bear in mind that Max Ahead has done warm-up laps every time
Pierre GASLY: Face to rear tires, rear tires is so cold
George RUSSELL: Are these guys pushing or prepping? They're pushing.
Engineer: Gasly pushing and then seven seconds behind him it'll be Strat 2
Yuki TSUNODA: I don't quite understand what you're saying. Do you think it's that warm-up related?
Pierre GASLY: Considering the tires were cold, so think about what you want to do.
George RUSSELL: Is there time for a prep lap now or not?
Engineer: We think all of you are going to probably do the same thing.
Engineer: No pushing cars behind everyone's doing prep
George RUSSELL: Are we good for time?
Engineer: Yeah, I'll feedback you once we get on track. I've got the number ready. It will be tight, but plenty of space. So clear on track.
Engineer: So just give yourself a good braking stop now, build yourself some margin, and then pick up the pace again. Another braking stop.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, what is the gap in front?
Engineer: Eight to Tsunoda.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, I'm sorry What's bad? Bad all day, my bad, help me
Engineer: We're P7 man. We are P7. Well done.
Yuki TSUNODA: Well done. Well done. That was an okay lap?
Engineer: Yeah, it was an okay lap
Engineer: Sorry, that will be P-10
Lewis HAMILTON: Yep, that was a pig
Max VERSTAPPEN: Okay, I gave it all I had, it's
Engineer: at
Max VERSTAPPEN: the slippery.
Engineer: Yeah, it was a good effort, Max. It's all about tomorrow. That's fine.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, let's see. It's always tricky, you know, to probably erase someone here, but it's okay. Let's see.
Charles LECLERC: What was, what was going on with the tires? Where were we in terms of... It's all so s***!
Engineer: Copy Charles, we'll have a look at it
Engineer: So where are we? P7? P10? Well, I gave you all the lap times, but we are P4
Engineer: We just made a knockout. Ok, knocked out by seven hundredths.
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, unbelievable. It just doesn't get any better. Couldn't find any grip.
Alexander ALBON: The what?
Esteban OCON: Yeah, that's all there was in the lap. That was a good lap, so I'm
Engineer: pleased with myself. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, but we are four tenths of where we should be, so... Yeah, I know, I'm just giving you some information and some encouragement. It was a good lap, well done.
Engineer: I'm in Q3, mate. Well done.
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, let's go, baby. Yeah,
Engineer: Vegas, baby. Come on.
Yuki TSUNODA: Vegas is hometown, of course, man.
Engineer: You know.
George RUSSELL: I want to be at the back, that was too early I think Track is going to be ramped up
Engineer: Affirm, affirm
George RUSSELL: Yeah, I hit the wall exit of five
Engineer: Zubaba! Hold position mate, well done!
George RUSSELL: Zubaba! That's
Engineer: a
George RUSSELL: new one! Come on!
Engineer: Nice one! Brilliant job, well done mate!
Lewis HAMILTON: That's it guys
Engineer: Douglas, yes, sorry about that, will we P10?
Lewis HAMILTON: Yep, that was a big mess up
Charles LECLERC: Nop. F***. Tires felt completely different, I don't know why.
Engineer: So
Charles LECLERC: much understeer. F***.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, okay,
Engineer: I
Carlos SAINZ: guess.
Engineer: Ah, no bad, two, front row.
Engineer: Mega quality mate. Really proud of you. Good job. Well done guys too. Amazing.
Yuki TSUNODA: It was an amazing, incredible turnaround.
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Lando NORRIS: Yeah, sorry What's bad
Max VERSTAPPEN: Okay, I gave it all I had, it was super slippery.
Engineer: Yeah, that was a good effort Max, it's all about tomorrow, that's fine.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, let's see, it's always tricky, you know, probably I had
Engineer: to
Max VERSTAPPEN: race around here, but it's okay, let's see.
Engineer: let's go baby
Pierre GASLY: love that it's
Engineer: well done mate
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