Mexico City Grand Prix 2024: Practice 1 team radio
71 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Mexico City Grand Prix 2024, across 19 drivers. 69 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Oscar PIASTRI had the most, with 8.
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
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 8 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 8 messages
- Robert SHWARTZMAN · Kick Sauber · 7 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 7 messages
- Felipe DRUGOVICH · Aston Martin · 7 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 7 messages
- Oliver BEARMAN · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Patricio O'WARD · McLaren · 4 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 3 messages
- Liam LAWSON · RB · 3 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 2 messages
- Kimi ANTONELLI · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Kick Sauber · 1 message
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 1 message
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 1 message
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 1 message
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Alexander ALBON: Idiots
Robert SHWARTZMAN: Oh my god, big one, big one, big one, big one.
Engineer: Oh
Robert SHWARTZMAN: my god, I think a beer went or did something to someone.
Engineer: Copy that.
Engineer: Oscar, what are your thoughts on having another go versus getting more continuous laps in?
Oscar PIASTRI: I don't know. I mean, it feels pretty terrible still, but yeah, I don't really know, to be honest.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: So it will be a constant speed out of turn three which will be engine 11
Pierre GASLY: The steering is slightly bent, right hand side down.
Engineer: Okay mate, we can see that. So you've got four cars on track ahead of you, some of them with rakes.
Engineer: Everyone currently on the hard time out there.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, it's quite bad the steering
Engineer: Yeah, just ignore the front brake split warning on your dash. So just ignore anything on the brakes. We'll let you know
Engineer: It's slowing down. Yeah, I know we've seen we'll open up the gap into last corner
Engineer: Try avoiding the slipstreams when you can.
Robert SHWARTZMAN: Yeah, I tried, but there is always cars.
Engineer: Yeah, it's really crowded.
Engineer: There's some debris on the pit straight, so it should go back green soon. We'll just get ready to go right back out
Engineer: And you can do a bite point and weight phase check.
Felipe DRUGOVICH: Just hold the clutch a bit longer before
Engineer: selecting gear.
Alexander ALBON: A bit of paint on my tyres, front right and rear left, rear right
George RUSSELL: I think a single push on the soft will be alright.
Engineer: A reminder to focus on the fronts, we have shape 5 available if you need it.
Engineer: Exit turn 3 is limited to 5th gear, limited to 5th gear.
Engineer: I wouldn't drop too much tire temp here.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, I go for a warm blow, the front's too cold.
Engineer: Okay mate, so let's watch out for cars behind Magnussen is slow, Sainz slow as well.
Sergio PEREZ: In sector 1 the love?
Engineer: Yes, sector 1, also in sector 3. Three temps in both of them were purple in sector 2.
Engineer: And stop in front for a nose change.
Engineer: Okay, we'll have cruise mode two, cruise mode two.
Engineer: We've got some time breaking for turn 7 and apex of turn 9 compared to Esteban.
Pierre GASLY: It smells like something is cooking in the car Okay, mate Yeah,
Engineer: we have an idea what that might be no issues from our side
Yuki TSUNODA: And high speed still is kind of understeer, especially mid-corner entry to mid, I think slow speed is okay
Engineer: I'm boarding this lap, I'm right behind another car. Okay, understood. Just be careful of cars behind us then. The first I think will be Colapinto, who's approaching turn one. Colapinto in turn one now.
Nico HULKENBERG: I lost the gears in the turn 1-2
Engineer: Okay, yep, we are looking into it.
Robert SHWARTZMAN: Oh my god, I think a beer went or did something to someone.
Robert SHWARTZMAN: Oh my god, I think a beer went or did something to someone.
Engineer: Sorry, that was Albon, native crew. He
Oliver BEARMAN: hit me. He hit me and... I'm out. Are
Engineer: you okay?
Oliver BEARMAN: Yeah, I'm fine. The car is damaged.
Engineer: Emerson is two ahead, car behind will be on new soft so that'll be a slow out lap Magnussen three ahead, Magnussen four ahead
Engineer: Signed in front is on the soft.
George RUSSELL: I just think we have a trapped position of the two of us.
Engineer: Tyres are below targets a caution on the first lap
Felipe DRUGOVICH: Yeah, copy that.
Engineer: Okay, recharge on, recharge on. Let's watch out for Esteban behind.
Engineer: You can do Tire Green Dry Art. Tire Green Dry Art.
Engineer: suggest less peak pressure less peak pressure seven and ten
Engineer: So, Oscar, to competitors, lap time losses are a little bit everywhere, plus the last corner traction.
Engineer: Engine grade 13, position 8, plus 1.
Engineer: There might be a bit of waiting. We can make the gap early and then try and push 13, 14, 15 if we can.
Engineer: Ok, all done? What are you doing? You are good and we are doing two consecutive pushes. You are good on pushes.
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, what if we stay for another lap at low fuel?
Engineer: It's keen to get some laps at high fuel. This is our one chance on the race compound.
Engineer: Out of turn three, it's purple C3 position four, purple C3 position four.
George RUSSELL: That's
Engineer: a
George RUSSELL: 9 and this is what surprised him
Engineer: So Verstappen also out there on high fuel hard tyre. His lap one was a 22.7
Engineer: So we lost 2 tenths through the high speed, we overpushed a little bit too much the entries globally. So entry turn 7, we overpushed a bit and then lost on exit.
Engineer: Changing the time available, I'm afraid, so that'll be for you too.
Engineer: I can manage pace turn 10, no snaps allowed in turn 10.
Max VERSTAPPEN: There's something wrong with the engine, mate. I don't know. Not behaving nice. Stand by. Yeah, I have no power.
Engineer: Just laying the rear around a lot here. Yeah, AFIRM.
Engineer: Good job on tires and brakes
Engineer: I'd advise not hesitating on this start. You should come out in clean air.
Engineer: Keep the pace up. Push, push. Let's try to get the practice start.
Felipe DRUGOVICH: Yep, that was not ideal.
Engineer: And launch map off. Launch map drivability check.
Sergio PEREZ: Okay, are you ready to go in the high speed?
Engineer: And Pato, zero risk through 7, 8, 9, 10.
Felipe DRUGOVICH: How much off was I two lots so
Engineer: you lost two tenths on the first lap to him and that was really all the traffic Felipe
Felipe DRUGOVICH: I mean I'm still way too far from the limit, but it was good. Thanks guys
George RUSSELL: Four upshifts past that
Engineer: Oscar, could you stay in the car? Would you like to do a little bit of clutch practice before you get out? Just a standard drop, natural.
Engineer: You could do that while they're bringing you back if you like.
Patricio O'WARD: Thank you, everyone. Thank you very much.
Engineer: Yeah, thanks, Pato. I appreciate the work there. And you were on target at the launch.
Patricio O'WARD: Wonderful. That's the first time I hear that.
Liam LAWSON: I was, uh, yeah, that was locked. Copy.
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