Mexico City Grand Prix 2024: Race team radio
169 radio messages were recorded during race at the Mexico City Grand Prix 2024, across 20 drivers. 166 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Lando NORRIS had the most, with 18.
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
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 18 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 17 messages
- Franco COLAPINTO · Williams · 16 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 13 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 13 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 12 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 11 messages
- Liam LAWSON · RB · 10 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 10 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 9 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 8 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 8 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 7 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 6 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 3 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Kick Sauber · 3 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 2 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 1 message
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Kick Sauber · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, thank you all the guys to repair my car. I built exactly same as I think yesterday Super job. Thank you very much.
Engineer: I
Yuki TSUNODA: appreciate it.
Engineer: Yeah. Thank you, Yuki
Liam LAWSON: This is through a check of the right side of the floor, just turned through a kerb, it knocked a little bit, it didn't do anything unusual, but yeah, just check.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Alexander ALBON: No, I just the
Engineer: way you can
Engineer: just an update our start is under investigation
Sergio PEREZ: why?
Engineer: says full start on the race control messages no
Sergio PEREZ: it was a great start
Charles LECLERC: The drink is, uh, he's spitting what I'm doing, zigzag, so I need to drink even if I don't want to.
Engineer: Okay.
Engineer: We can just stay with Perez. You can match his pace and just go with him. And for info, he's under investigation for a false start as well.
Franco COLAPINTO: Well, yeah, he had a really good start. I also had a s*** one, so...
Engineer: Okay, so we have a five second penalty. We were forwards of the grid box. We were too far forwards Have
Sergio PEREZ: a look
Max VERSTAPPEN: Wait, what can I do with a f***ing empty battery? What is this for a stupid moment?
Lando NORRIS: Hey, I was ahead the whole way through the corner. This guy is dangerous. I just have to avoid a crash It's the same as last time
Lando NORRIS: Is it better for me to go now and get a clear lap, or
Engineer: to wait in the queue?
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Just remind me that we need to adjust the wing mirrors.
Engineer: You need to adjust the wing mirrors, copy that. Are you driving straight through this time? Yep, straight through. Copy that.
Lando NORRIS: He overtook off the track and pushed me off the track.
Engineer: So Max, for info, you've been given a 10 second penalty for forcing Lando off track at turn 4. So head down.
Max VERSTAPPEN: 10.
Engineer: That's quite impressive. That was a lot of whinging. A lot.
Engineer: also a little bit tight on time so we'll get a start on the final one
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, bit of a nervousness, I mean the raise just feels **** at the starts But nervousness into 7, 10
Engineer: Should be quite visible
Carlos SAINZ: Come on, guys. Shots is taking the ****, honestly.
Franco COLAPINTO: Sorry go ahead. Can you have a look at the wind turning?
Engineer: Yeah, he's having a look So this time we won't do a start just drive straight through
Liam LAWSON: What would probably be targeting for the start at least obviously we're on a soft, but yeah low speed lots of front grip
George RUSSELL: Get some fountains in the front
Engineer: And keep it clean. You have a good pace. Keep it clean.
George RUSSELL: This halo fan as stated last week needs changing a bit now we don't have the halo
Engineer: winglet
Sergio PEREZ: What the f*** is this idiot doing? Is he okay?
Liam LAWSON: Is he f***ing
Engineer: serious? Loud and clear, we will review it. Head down.
Engineer: So Verstappen now has a 20-second penalty.
George RUSSELL: Wow.
Engineer: So Max update uh you've been given another 10 second time penalty that's for leaving this track and gaining an advantage at turn eight.
Max VERSTAPPEN: That's that's fine then oh that's a silly man.
Max VERSTAPPEN: My tires are not holding on the guys
Engineer: And box, Carlos, box, speed confirmed, and box. One more up, guys, come on, one more up.
George RUSSELL: Why would we do this? Surely we could have done one, two more laps more.
Engineer: All
Oscar PIASTRI: right, think about pulling me out of this
Charles LECLERC: It was 30 feet off the grid and now it's 38.
Engineer: Yes, plus 5. We expect this to be the average probably over the stint with these clouds coming and going.
Lewis HAMILTON: Mikey still feels 52. Felt pretty decent. Right towards the end it starts to look a little bit at
Engineer: the
Lewis HAMILTON: rear but...
Engineer: Oskar Taranifo, you're pretty much surrounded by hot starters, so the hot starters are Lawson, Bottas, Colapinto, Perez and Joe, Ocon from the pit lane, also on hard. Have a good race.
Engineer: Clouds just picking up a little bit again, so just dropped a little bit in the last few minutes
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, it's going to be a tight race, so let's get beyond it and get everything out of it.
Engineer: reminder pit limiter on mode formation by point clutch test to red k2 on and like
Engineer: Reminder by Brake Finder.
Liam LAWSON: It's not working.
Engineer: Brake. Reminder brakes. You need to press the brakes.
Engineer: Copy, thank you.
Lewis HAMILTON: Wait, revs
Engineer: are
Lewis HAMILTON: a bit loose there.
Engineer: The end of the straight, big lift to turn 4. Keep speed high through turn 4 to turn 6.
Franco COLAPINTO: Something is wrong with the steering wheel, it's super strange, it gets stiff then goes soft, stiff, soft
Engineer: Ok copy that Franco, we are checking
Engineer: And then if we can, we'll get a high slip event out of 13.
Engineer: and as we think PU temperature will be better now so the weight revs should be a problem just go a little bit more gradually onto the pedal as you pick them up
Max VERSTAPPEN: Oh, it's getting really dark.
Engineer: Nothing going to hit the track at the moment, Max.
Engineer: We can't see a puncture mate
Franco COLAPINTO: What's that alarm of brake? Oh, it's the temperature, it's okay. It already dropped.
Engineer: Okay, max of PU cooling. So as much PU cooling as you can.
George RUSSELL: I've got very small raindrops on the bazaar.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: Go to display 8 display 8
Fernando ALONSO: I cannot be with this break balance and build the break times.
Engineer: I prefer to go to cool, I guess. Yeah, we can go to cool for now.
Engineer: On the straight you can stay at part throttle just stay at part throttle on the straight around 200-250 kph and then we'll do a lift at the end.
Engineer: Okay, your temperatures are okay now. Keep managing, but you can go back to using full load where you want to.
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Engineer: Hey Franco, so everything's good at the moment, so PU temps, tyre temps, they're all good, just keep doing what you're doing and that'll be okay.
Engineer: Recommendation on restart be 55 bmiq2 55 bmiq2 and we'd use strut mode 10 to deploy a bit more energy
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, I think the pump is gone on the water bottle.
Engineer: Okay, nothing we can do now.
Charles LECLERC: Tell me when the safety car is in, I'll try to disconnect it, I think, after the safety car, before I'm in.
Engineer: Currently, everything points towards plan A.
Engineer: So Georgia we are free to race here just make sure we give each other room
Carlos SAINZ: My opinion is that we are pushing hard. Absolutely no need for the team.
Engineer: Can I just be careful of any tie warm-up over the bump into 10-12?
Engineer: Is it Bottas in front of Piastri or Joe? Piastri, then Joe, then Bottas, in that order.
Engineer: Remember you can use early energy into one, into four.
Engineer: Lawson will lose DRS now so early energy into one into four
Engineer: Lando, Max is complaining about a lack of battery, so maybe try.
Engineer: Well done call the brakes call the brakes well done
Engineer: So if we're not going to get past it, then we need to get back into the lifting coast.
Nico HULKENBERG: I don't feel too happy. We always talk the same time, I mean, front is not good, but the rear also. Struggling.
Engineer: Verstappen no DRS 1.4 Carlos 1.5. This is good. Let's get into the rhythm
Lewis HAMILTON: Copy,
Engineer: traction metrics are high.
Engineer: We are catching ghastly. Let's try to get back in that direct train. You're doing a good job.
Liam LAWSON: Struggling at high speed with the front.
Engineer: Have
Lewis HAMILTON: you got something to read with me?
Engineer: We need your best driving now. Let's go.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, I mean my tyres don't feel too good, honestly, I think the pace is reasonable, maybe not as good as the Ferrari's
Engineer: And if we can we could manage a bit more in seven and nine. Yeah, I'm losing the DRS
Max VERSTAPPEN: Guys, I'm running super hard, can't brake, can't lead on the rear.
Engineer: Understood, same pace as the leader.
Engineer: Hamilton complaining of rear deck. There may be debris on the track on the outside of the track limits at five.
Sergio PEREZ: He kept it out of the track while I was ahead and just came back at me.
Engineer: If you want more rotation at turn 2, multib green, DX position 3.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, I think I think he's just running too hot copy
Engineer: that max
Engineer: And Lada, the full safety car window is open, please confirm. Confirm.
Engineer: try to keep micro locks under control, base is very good, good job, start lap time 21.9
Charles LECLERC: I cannot cool down the surface from three seconds of Carlos. The dirty hands riding more snowballs than I do anyway. So today is going to be tricky to get closer than that.
Liam LAWSON: I honestly had not got to go.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: The tires coming back now
Pierre GASLY: The tires are recovering a bit.
Engineer: OK mate, let's just keep on top of lift and coast, gap to Hockenberg 2.6.
Engineer: Yeah, that might be Debbie at turn 12. I
Sergio PEREZ: guess he's
Engineer: the
Sergio PEREZ: same idiot that crashed again.
Engineer: You can watch the highlights later.
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, I'm watching it now.
Engineer: Lando, push and hold over tech here.
Lando NORRIS: I've got DRS talking. Okay.
George RUSSELL: Count two check, Kerb uses turn three. My last two laps, I think it hasn't been enough.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, it's not much better now for me either, so...
Franco COLAPINTO: Who needs a good penalty? My god, what has he done?
Engineer: Yes, this is masterclass, Carlos. Dominant weekend. Un Mastrino.
Carlos SAINZ: Good job. Yes! Yes!
Engineer: Make a good weekend, Carlos.
Carlos SAINZ: Thank you. Oh, this feels good.
Engineer: Oh, this
Carlos SAINZ: feels good. Thank you, guys. Forza Ferrari. Gracias, Mexico.
Engineer: This
Nico HULKENBERG: is a bit worried
Engineer: So that's just checking the tyres from the previous stint, we just need to protect the front left a bit more in the high speed if we can, so protect front left.
Engineer: Yeah,
Lando NORRIS: couldn't have asked for a lot more, it was a good race, just, yeah, interesting one. Well done, good points everyone, thank you.
Engineer: Still points to play for here
Lewis HAMILTON: Where have I been losing the outlet?
Engineer: So 10-3, 10-6, 10-11, min speed.
Engineer: Hard luck. We'll have a look at that, particularly that second set.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I mean, on the medium and 12, it's not really shocking.
Engineer: Yeah, frustrating race today, Max, but you gave it everything. And I thought the penalties were definitely on the harsher side.
Sergio PEREZ: Is she okay with the car? I feel a lot of movement on the straight line.
Engineer: Okay, so clearly what we tried didn't work out. Too many traffic on overtex to make. Sorry for that. Yeah, man. No,
Liam LAWSON: it's just stuck the whole race. Like, the pace in clear air, it was not bad at all, but I think I spent the whole race on a gearbox of a car.
Engineer: Yeah, copy that. Yeah, it looks like the traffic is still a bit difficult for us.
Lewis HAMILTON: Yeah, great job guys, not the smoothest of weekends, but started to come together a little bit in that second phase, let's keep pushing, great job at the pit stop,
Engineer: definitely got
Lewis HAMILTON: to look into this floor mate.
George RUSSELL: Take from Wynne, something doesn't feel right.
Engineer: Okay mate, good job, good job, that's the flag, so that is a P11, I know we want more, that's a really good drive, very well managed. So steady on the in-lap, we need a steady in-lap, make sure you go offline for the pickup, you can do run switch warm-up, run switch warm-up, and then it's MFB PU1 position 12, so MFB PU1 position 12. So switch is good Lance, just make sure it's nice and slow, so nice and slow, stay offline, take the pickup.
Engineer: Unbelievable, man. Oh my god. What a f***ing legend. Sorry for my language. Well done, Kev. Absolutely extraordinary. Oh man, I like that. That was a hunt. That was unbelievable. Wow. Charge on, please. Charge on. Wow, wow, wow, wow. That was a strong race, man. Thanks, everyone. I really enjoyed that. I'm enjoying it now, mate. I wasn't enjoying it before that. Anyway, it's absolutely phenomenal. It's one of the best drives I've ever seen, Kev. It's as simple as that. Just legendary. Thank you very much. Yeah, thanks, man. It was pretty clean. The car was amazing. Amazing job, Kev. Unbelievable. Congratulations. Well overdue. Nice job. Yeah, thanks, mate. Thank you.
Engineer: Okay, Mike, good job.
Engineer: Okay.
Engineer: Okay mate, good job, good job, that's the flag, so that is a P11, so I know we want more than that, that's a really good drive, that's a really good drive Very well managed
George RUSSELL: Turn 10, the thing is not turn 9. The thing is not turning.
Engineer: Yeah, AFM, we're seeing asymmetry across the front wing.
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Engineer: Alright mate, so it's a tough race but well driven, that's P10 for us.
Pierre GASLY: It was good to be back in the points after quite a while, so get another four shots, thanks for the weekend guys.
Engineer: It's 35 to go so happy this is the right strategy the tire deck looks okay on the field for us on the hard tire
Carlos SAINZ: I feel a bit more from limited for the moment.
Engineer: And it's still a long stint to the end many laps
Esteban OCON: I can let Tiago flip me out.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, this engine braking was too much.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: And Lando, we're happy to reduce the amount of lyco into turn one.
Franco COLAPINTO: Something is wrong with the steering, but it's super strange. It gets stiff then goes soft, stiff, soft.
Lando NORRIS: What lap time is Charles doing?
Engineer: 20.5.
Engineer: That was a poor 13-14.
Engineer: There's 31 laps left. We don't need a gentle introduction. Let's go.
Engineer: Okay, so you're closing up to Bottas. Compared to Hulkenberg, he's got a bit of a toe compared to us. GLS actually looking similar.
Engineer: Yeah, nothing heavy currently forecast here, George.
Engineer: So you see the dark skies as possible rain around we don't see anything on the radar We think it's very light if it is around so you might see possible spots But we're not thinking it's a grip effect for now. Let us know
Engineer: We can go mode TS. Mode TS.
Engineer: Okay Nico, 28 laps to go. There's no more hard runners to overtake, so we are where we are. Piastri behind is quicker, but he's still like 10 behind. We'll see what kind of progress he makes.
Engineer: And for info the track temp dropped five degrees since the start of the hard stint and with the cloud cover
Engineer: So Lance, we need to drive a default. So it's MFA blue, default A30, OK. MFA blue, default A30, OK.
George RUSSELL: Yeah, we're just sliding, big time, just sliding all the way through that corner
Franco COLAPINTO: Yeah, I'm happy with the flap. Mate, I think it's
Engineer: a
Franco COLAPINTO: long time, huh? Don't make me lose time with the McLaren.
Engineer: Also the wind picked up a bit recently with 15 kph, his lap was good.
Engineer: From tires we are happy with the last laps till the end of the race for info. I leave it to you to judge.
Engineer: And Miner, purple C3, position 3. Purple C3, position 3.
Engineer: Press and hold the overtake max. Three seconds.
Engineer: Yeah, I'm just losing now, I know we can't do anything unless you get close enough
Engineer: Push and hold overtake is available.
Engineer: Carlos now trying to overtake backmarkers.
Engineer: We need to control traction out of 12 next corner easy
Engineer: Take care still in high speed, 20 laps to go, you will feel some weight soon.
Engineer: Landers pace is dropping back so just reuse the battery in order to get the blue flags
Lance STROLL: Yeah, just a little rubber, you know?
Engineer: Collar Pinter has been a bit naughty, press and hold overtake.
Franco COLAPINTO: Lawson is looking at Norris, man. Lawson is looking at Norris.
Engineer: This is an excellent pace gap, really superb job.
Engineer: I think about lowering the shock again to get closer.
Engineer: Okay, Hughes push and hold, down to turn one. There's 11 laps to go. If we can get past Lawson and Stroll, if we can chase down Gasly for the final point.
Engineer: We're happy to stop Lyco into 1 and 4, so no Lyco turns 1 and 4.
Engineer: We do think wind has increased during the race, so we think the tyres should come back. We think the tyres are okay. It might have just been that that you're feeling.
Engineer: OK, you're in the window, but only for a full safety car. Confirm.
Oscar PIASTRI: Copy.
Engineer: okay eight laps to go no risk on track limits Oscar now no risk on track limits from here
Engineer: Slippery track reported out of 12 for those debris, and safety car windows are closed.
Engineer: Okay, watch out for debris. Turn 12 in the middle of the track. That's turn 12.
Engineer: And still debris turn 12 entry middle of the road
Engineer: I
Lewis HAMILTON: appreciate the tires, they're quick sir.
Charles LECLERC: What is the best lap time?
Engineer: 19-5, but Perez is trying as well.
ZHOU Guanyu: Yeah,
Engineer: we think there was an issue rear left
ZHOU Guanyu: Yeah, it's impossible for me to do anything while I have to do so many lifts. Yeah, that's Mexico.
Engineer: That's Mexico. I know.
ZHOU Guanyu: We're doing more than the others, unfortunately.
ZHOU Guanyu: It's just a question because the whole weekend I've been struggling a lot on the break, so let's make sure we check in the future.
Engineer: Copy that, we do.
Engineer: yeah
Valtteri BOTTAS: solid job uh still i mean i think we had better pace than in the previous events but still lots of work to do but positive weekend compared to some others
Franco COLAPINTO: Yeah, I don't think we could have done much more than 11th mate.
Franco COLAPINTO: I think we had a good base, it's just those moments where I lost a lot of time.
Franco COLAPINTO: with those overtakes and all that stuff um blasphemy behind the glare pushing i destroyed my medium slide so if we have made stop well before
Engineer: Yeah, copy that. We were having a look at the traffic behind and where you were going to drop out.
Engineer: Well done, Franco. It's really impressive to see how you overtake cars, how you fight through traffic, how you keep the tires under control. It's a really well managed one stop again. Bravo. Really well done. I agree with you. I think there's another place in it. But if we get it all together on the weekend, you've got points every weekend.
Engineer: Looks like Kevin is gonna make it, right? Yes, Kevin's gonna hold on for P7
Nico HULKENBERG: Awesome job team, nice weekend, very very good feeling but I don't know feeling wise we need to have a deep look because just didn't have the pace.
Engineer: Yeah we agree Nico, it's been the same struggle all weekend so I think we'll work on some car stuff for next week. Just couldn't quite get what you wanted out of it, so very good to get the P9.
Engineer: That's Kevin confirmed in P7, so double points again.
Nico HULKENBERG: Congrats team awesome job. You deserve it. Well done. Yeah, awesome
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