Mexico City Grand Prix 2024: Qualifying team radio
72 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the Mexico City Grand Prix 2024, across 19 drivers. 70 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Pierre GASLY had the most, with 9.
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
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 9 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 8 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 7 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Kick Sauber · 6 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 6 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 4 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Liam LAWSON · RB · 4 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 3 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 2 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 2 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Franco COLAPINTO · Williams · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 2 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Kick Sauber · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
George RUSSELL: What do you say?
Engineer: Uh, negative.
George RUSSELL: Negative?
Engineer: Oscar, we've been knocked out, I'm afraid. We've been knocked out.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Rear tires were a bit tricky, 62. What does that mean Max? It's low grip.
George RUSSELL: Think about reusing this set, I'm
Engineer: sure I'll improve, it would be close. Yeah, we think the jump to new tyres is quite big George.
George RUSSELL: Yeah, obviously everyone else has already done new tyres so they're going to make less of a jump.
Engineer: You, okay,
Yuki TSUNODA: that's right
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: The
Lewis HAMILTON: car definitely feels different in Gulley compared to P3.
Engineer: Prep the surface the last sector good to push
Carlos SAINZ: Check the rear looking Copy Are we in forward work balance?
Engineer: Yes we do
Engineer: Okay, so we got, all right, that's good to hear. So we got Russell.
Pierre GASLY: I heard a lot of smokes coming out of the brakes, 10-1, 10-4, 5.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Okay, so that's no concern from us.
ZHOU Guanyu: There's no there's no numbers
ZHOU Guanyu: There's no numbers. Copy
Engineer: that.
Engineer: Copy that, we have no message.
Engineer: Yes, Paul wall up do do
Carlos SAINZ: that do that. Yeah
Engineer: We're smooth out there
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, the light is not working for the ray bridge, there's no lights
Engineer: Okay, I'll get that raised and we're happy as soon as they're done with you.
Alexander ALBON: Balance is good, the setup makes really aggressive understeer in turn 9 though, it's a bit weird.
ZHOU Guanyu: So hot on the engine,
Engineer: again,
ZHOU Guanyu: exit of turn 6 was the same on my Pesla
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, I can't break for no speed mate
Yuki TSUNODA: I would say rotation side in high speed, high speed speed rotation side Yeah, but definitely we can aim for similar, but probably no more than that for high speed
Engineer: Okay, so Esteban, that was us. Yes, that was me.
Engineer: We've got four seconds to Hamilton. We are evaluating our options.
Engineer: Biggest loss at Turn 4 breaking.
George RUSSELL: Yeah, what's
Engineer: the
George RUSSELL: what are you thinking now with the plan? I think that time should be fine It's where people know if
Engineer: I'm so didn't live pit stop
Engineer: That lap is deleted for track limits, turn 12.
Lando NORRIS: I just say 10-1 was **** again, I don't know why.
Lewis HAMILTON: Turn one, keep it two, or go to three.
Engineer: And happy with two for turn one. Looking strong there.
Engineer: Got Piastri for company, he's one place in front of you.
Engineer: We are safe, so we'll save the time. We are safe.
Engineer: Okay, and if you can recover some lap time on your delta, even though we let cars through, thank you.
Charles LECLERC: I know you're doing your best.
Engineer: Yeah,
Charles LECLERC: George is blocking
Engineer: me, sir. It's fine, you've let cars by, no worries.
Sergio PEREZ: Ah, f***.
Engineer: I
Yuki TSUNODA: think we came for a similar balance, but probably, yeah, I didn't feel that huge improvement from the track. And high speed was a bit more rotation, I would say.
Franco COLAPINTO: Why you were so off with the balance, my god.
ZHOU Guanyu: Man, I'm really confused with this FIA sign. There's no card number.
ZHOU Guanyu: Always flashing FIA, but there's no actually numbers of the cars.
Franco COLAPINTO: Why we're so off with the balance, my god?
Engineer: OK, recharge on and box, we are out, unfortunately.
Engineer: And good warm-up on the brakes.
Engineer: Cooler track and lower solar compared to before.
Engineer: Focus on your tar temperatures, no threats behind.
Engineer: I
Lewis HAMILTON: don't know if I was in high-speed 6 or not.
Pierre GASLY: Now we need to go slower for the wheels, it was good for the front but I lost the rear in
Engineer: the
Pierre GASLY: last sector, turn 13.
Engineer: Just keep the pace up a bit on the way in, that just gives us more flexibility for the next one.
George RUSSELL: I'm sure I'll improve, it will be close.
Engineer: So let's try to focus again a little bit on the change of direction from 9 to 10.
Engineer: Easier in Sector 2, slightly easier in Sector 2 Max.
Liam LAWSON: Yeah, obviously we need to review this, but the anti-stall is so bad.
Engineer: So in terms of timings if we're safe on the Delta we should be safe to the flag
Engineer: And red flag, red flag, box, box, was a good lap, was a good lap, yeah,
Valtteri BOTTAS: nice.
Engineer: We progressed nicely, but couldn't show it at the very end. Anyway, still in a decent place for tomorrow, and you've got a good race craft, so we'll focus on that.
Liam LAWSON: Thank you for all the work the last two days to get me up to speed again. Thank you.
Engineer: Okay,
Fernando ALONSO: this was a mega lap, two tenths and a half.
Engineer: Recharge off. We're ready Max
Engineer: And reminder for recharge off and let's push.
Nico HULKENBERG: Hamilton are just not being helpful there just sitting in the braking into turn one we don't see the apex it's annoying
Engineer: Traffic? It's just completed behind us.
Engineer: So Russell and Hamilton also ran used. They did a 16.6.
Lewis HAMILTON: Just take the rear brake fans off.
Lando NORRIS: It's gonna be too tight on time, isn't it
Engineer: it'd be tight, but at the moment, I think it's okay Too big a gap
Engineer: If they're crawling, you can't overtake them. If they're stopped, then you can.
Engineer: Lando, time-wise, everything's fine.
Engineer: I don't know why they're gonna let you through at four, I don't know, so that one's coming in four seconds back
Engineer: Okay, you ended up p10 Kevin p7. All right, I'll see you back here
Alexander ALBON: Yeah, yeah, I'm happy. Obviously, thank you everyone for building up the car. I think, I don't know about the race car, but I think we'll be okay.
Engineer: Well done, Alex. Really, really good coverage. It's a good starting position. Lots to do tomorrow.
Engineer: Waiting for the other cars to finish Whatever
Engineer: That is P2 mate. Science Pole, you're on the front row. Nice job.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Spicy lap, but I'm quite happy with it to be honest. Well done Max, that's a good recovery after losing yesterday afternoon. Well done mate. And most of all. Yeah, I definitely take that from after yesterday. Well done everyone.
George RUSSELL: Thanks for all the hard work last night, again.
Engineer: Yeah, AFM did look like a good lap. Got me there. Gap to P3.
George RUSSELL: Alright, good effort at last, that felt pretty decent.
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