Monaco Grand Prix 2024: Practice 1 team radio
68 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Monaco Grand Prix 2024, across 18 drivers. 65 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
- ZHOU Guanyu · Kick Sauber · 7 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · RB · 6 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 6 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 6 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 5 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 4 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 3 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 3 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 2 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 1 message
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 1 message
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Should be around 2.45 until green light.
Engineer: There is a train coming behind you
Engineer: Okay Joe, the moment is a bit a mix between hard and medium compounding.
Engineer: Oscar, there is now a slight chance of light rain towards the end of this session. We don't think that's the big storm coming yet necessarily, but it could be light rain towards the end of the session.
ZHOU Guanyu: Copy. Checked a little bit my clothes by the way, it's quite easy to get undistorted from the garage.
George RUSSELL: Yeah, I'm going to go through prep lap tyres, I don't know what.
Engineer: So Oscar the car is softer rear heave stiffness than expected which means it could be lower rear ride height at high speed than expected
Engineer: Keep on pushing
Engineer: So continue with consecutives.
George RUSSELL: The vibrations are pretty massive on the front axle.
George RUSSELL: But there's no problem in the five, weirdly.
Engineer: Got a PU issue that we need to investigate.
Engineer: Charge of last corner, turn 3, try to anticipate braking, focus on minimum speed, Alonso pushing 2
Engineer: Suggest beaming for for the entire laps
Engineer: OK, PR142, we need a boxcar this lap, we've got an issue.
Pierre GASLY: What issue?
Engineer: We've got a PU issue that we need to investigate.
Engineer: when tires are cold we're happy to keep pushing if you want
Engineer: Okay, so we'll go B-Bell 4, B-Bell 4 and minus 2 on the bias offset, minus 2 on the bias offset.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Yuki TSUNODA: I have *** phone lock. Just tell me if you have, if
Engineer: you
Yuki TSUNODA: see it. Brake is weird. Just check the brake.
Logan SARGEANT: Yeah, I have no grip left here, mate.
Pierre GASLY: Ok, no power.
Engineer: Ok, let's box Pierre, box.
Logan SARGEANT: The tires pretty damn bad
Engineer: And you can consider entry 9 if you need more stability.
Engineer: Standout corners.
Sergio PEREZ: All the big stocks really turn one
Sergio PEREZ: out of the tunnel
Sergio PEREZ: And we seem to be having a subtraction.
Engineer: Ok Daniel, big cool down again, we have a bit less cars on track, we can give you one more lap.
George RUSSELL: Tires are not biting at all.
Engineer: Brake shape plus one, engine braking plus one, all clear from behind, all clear.
Esteban OCON: The front is bouncing in the air quite a bit, mid-corner.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Logan SARGEANT: It's high as nowhere, man.
Engineer: We won the money in sector 2, our main loss is sector 1, sector 3.
Engineer: Do you want a flap adjust now?
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, let's go up.
Max VERSTAPPEN: It's
Engineer: the
Max VERSTAPPEN: cards on the night set.
Lewis HAMILTON: Tire feels pretty decent
Engineer: Yeah, copy we'll get We don't use that tire. We can save it, right? Depends what FB2 is like.
Lewis HAMILTON: You can still save it if you don't use it, too
Engineer: We have to return two tires, still have to return two tires regardless. Album at four seconds
Carlos SAINZ: Check a good off-road out of the way a little earlier there.
Alexander ALBON: Can you just check my front left, I clipped the wall in turn 10, left hand side. Front
Engineer: left turn 10, copy that, take a call, target minus 5, we can try the mode 2 lap next time round.
Logan SARGEANT: Front left.
Engineer: Front
Logan SARGEANT: left. Steering stray, but I hit it way too hard for nothing to have happened.
Oscar PIASTRI: I touched the wall in 15 a little bit, but hopefully it was okay.
Alexander ALBON: Definitely vibration on the front left, but it's not a balance, it's just a vibration. It feels like it's maybe getting worse, but it's hard to tell.
Nico HULKENBERG: We don't want a box to get onto the soft.
Engineer: Leclerc six behind, that let me discuss.
Yuki TSUNODA: Don't talk to me just before 10-3 breaking.
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, at high peak still. The front feels very light there.
Sergio PEREZ: Generally, the ideal balance, I'm lacking some front end.
ZHOU Guanyu: I test the wheel turn 1 exit.
Engineer: So currently P1 just 3100th to Piastri.
Engineer: So no one behind we're gonna box and check the car
Charles LECLERC: Ah f**k, I took a carbon part under the floor.
Engineer: Okay, we'll check the car.
Logan SARGEANT: And Danny Rick, or Yuki, got in my way to back, which was really bad.
Engineer: Just a couple of spots of rain at the moment, proper rain right at the end of the session.
Engineer: OK, Daniel, let's consider a bid lap, tyres are cold.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, OK, be posted. But I think that's the best thing.
Engineer: I think they're small raindrops.
Yuki TSUNODA: House is a penalty for sure.
Engineer: Yeah, saw that.
Engineer: So I think we can only do the starts Charles.
Charles LECLERC: Okay. Okay. How many points is that?
Engineer: I'm not gonna say it now. Okay, it's relevant. So
ZHOU Guanyu: By the way the DRS doesn't work
Engineer: Yes, confirmed. We expected it. It wasn't like the run before.
Esteban OCON: What the f***?
Engineer: So Russell is high fuel we want to stay ahead of him, but we can back all the way up to him
Engineer: Miner white h7 position one white h7 position one
Engineer: The
Max VERSTAPPEN: problem is the bumps. The car is so loose on the bumps. So any interaction with engine braking or brake bias is just making it all worse.
Engineer: Okay, coming up.
Engineer: So there's some light spitting reported
Esteban OCON: In the airpin I seem to go more straight at the end, like the front doesn't rotate, it gives up. Ok, interesting. And exit of the airpin, the rear is too stiff so the car bounces.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
ZHOU Guanyu: There's another guy, he's always in the way.
Charles LECLERC: Sorry, I didn't see sergeant Sorry, I didn't see because in the tunnel being all black with the dark car. It's difficult.
Engineer: Yeah, don't worry
Engineer: Yeah, I'm not sure what tier 3 was doing there, bit of sleep I think.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yep, yeah I assume he nearly hit him when he pulled in to his pit.
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