Monaco Grand Prix 2024: Race team radio
50 radio messages were recorded during race at the Monaco Grand Prix 2024, across 15 drivers. 49 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Lando NORRIS 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
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 9 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 6 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 6 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 5 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 5 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Kick Sauber · 2 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 2 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 1 message
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 1 message
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 1 message
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Fernando ALONSO: the steering is heavier than yesterday a lot heavier just check that it's all good for you
George RUSSELL: Ride feels a little bit worse today.
Nico HULKENBERG: Are you okay, Niko? Ah, damn it! That was unnecessary.
Engineer: Yeah.
Pierre GASLY: What did he do? What did he do? What did he try to attack? Oh my gosh! The whole car is damaged now!
Engineer: Red flag, red flag, keep Delta positive.
Lewis HAMILTON: Staying
Engineer: in
Lewis HAMILTON: the fast lane.
Charles LECLERC: Is everybody okay?
Engineer: Everybody is fine. Carlos had a puncture
Oscar PIASTRI: Check the floor on
Engineer: the right
Oscar PIASTRI: side, had some contact, is everyone okay in the crash?
Engineer: I believe everyone is okay.
Lando NORRIS: Is everyone okay?
Engineer: Everyone's okay, quite a few cars are out.
Engineer: It will be a standing start.
Engineer: Tire information, Lando. The Ferrari's on the hard. We think the Mercedes and Verstappen are on the medium.
Engineer: George no need to stick this close to Norris just manage these tires at this stage.
George RUSSELL: This is the only opportunity
Engineer: Oscar, we do see the impact of the damage. It looks like the aerobalance is sensible at least.
Engineer: Let
George RUSSELL: me know if you want me to manage everywhere, or just 3, 4, 5. If I continue at this pace, we're
Engineer: going
George RUSSELL: to open a pit stop for them.
Engineer: I'm not entirely sure why Russell's going so slowly he's just giving them a free pit stop gap eventually but yeah keep it there for the moment
George RUSSELL: I recommend about three seconds in the pocket here, just tootling around currently.
Engineer: So George, at this stage we gain nothing from driving faster.
George RUSSELL: Affirm.
Carlos SAINZ: Shells managing, I guess, because that was close with PS3. One lab, he might have sent it.
Lando NORRIS: A little bit of abrasion at the front of the lift.
Engineer: Okay Lando, we see it. It's the same level as Ferrari had about 10 laps ago.
Engineer: Orlando, we see the first signs of front left graining on sight, just abrasion for you.
Carlos SAINZ: There is a risk that if we open 20 seconds, Lando goes for a soft, maybe?
Engineer: Yeah, we are on this.
Carlos SAINZ: I think Lando on soft could be dangerous. At the end of the race, tires are starting to grain for everyone.
Engineer: I
Oscar PIASTRI: feel like that's strategy from Ferrari to try and catch us out with Carlos because I don't really get why they'd want to keep Russell in the window.
Engineer: The medium of Sainz was damaged on lap one so he does not have a medium, only this hard and some softs. We think they want to avoid Lando trying anything.
Engineer: If you can, we need to slow down a bit.
Charles LECLERC: Yeah,
Engineer: I
Charles LECLERC: mean, what's the scope of that?
Engineer: We are preventing McLaren to have a pit stop window, because we have no rush in this happening.
Charles LECLERC: I didn't get it, but that makes me push in the slow speed which I don't like.
Oscar PIASTRI: Doesn't really seem to be slowing down, so they must be worried about something, otherwise I feel like it would just be slowing down.
Lando NORRIS: How's my front left looking compared to them?
Engineer: OK Lando, of the four of you, you are the best.
Engineer: Orlando's pit window is behind Verstappen, for info
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, but give me posted if he suddenly gets a better window Yeah, sure We cannot allow that
Charles LECLERC: Just for your info, I think you have a round. I mean, do you want to know the margin?
Engineer: No Charles, we're not interested. We know
Charles LECLERC: You said no, right?
Engineer: No, we are not interested
Charles LECLERC: That's rude
Engineer: Sorry
Engineer: And Lando, something to start thinking about, if there was a safety car we'd have a free stop, we think we'd take it for a medium, Carlos would he have to stay out or take a soft? Have a think.
Lando NORRIS: I mean a free stop I'd definitely take of course.
Lewis HAMILTON: Why aren't you telling me that that was critical?
Carlos SAINZ: If Lando puts on a medium, also show us his finger.
Engineer: Copy.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Wait, battery, no one is watching it again.
Engineer: Okay, Yuki, we have a margin on strategy so you can push more now.
Yuki TSUNODA: That's what I tell ya!
Engineer: Surf all the walls.
Charles LECLERC: I'll just bring it home.
Engineer: Thank you.
Engineer: We won it! Finally! Yes!
Charles LECLERC: Yes! Yes, yes, yes, yes!
Charles LECLERC: I need to cool down, but myself as well.
Engineer: Yeah, don't worry, we'll think about that later, with some champagne.
Charles LECLERC: Tonight is going to be a big night.
Engineer: I think no one's going back home. I don't understand that. We all stay here.
Charles LECLERC: You better, you better stay. I hope Jimmy's
Engineer: is
Charles LECLERC: ready.
Lando NORRIS: Man that was so fun.
Engineer: Wow.
Lando NORRIS: Beautiful. Congrats Oscar on the podium. Well done team. Second and fourth is not bad at all so congrats. We did what we could.
Oscar PIASTRI: P2. Lovely job. P2 in Monaco. I'll take it. Thanks everyone. Yep, thanks everyone. Nice to get on the podium, thank you. Clearly still some things to work on.
Engineer: It's a shame we couldn't race more, but you showed good pace whenever we had the opportunity. Yeah, that was a tough
Valtteri BOTTAS: one. It's just impossible to get by some of the cars, but yeah, I tried the best I could.
Engineer: We got one nice little Monaco overtake.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, congrats guys. Great weekend for the team and for Charles. Very happy for you guys and for him. Congrats.
Lando NORRIS: Man, that was so fun.
Engineer: Wow.
Lando NORRIS: Beautiful. Congrats, Oscar, on the podium. Well done, team. Second and fourth is not bad at all, so congrats. We did what we could.
George RUSSELL: Good job there mate, well done, P5. Yeah thanks guys, shame about what happened at the start, I think we had a real challenge today on the offset strategy but good points, car's feeling great and thanks for all the hard work bringing these upgrades.
Engineer: George, you will be surprised to hear, very very very good, well driven, no surprise I guess.
George RUSSELL: The surprise is the compliment from you.
Engineer: We're complimenting you.
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, well done. We deserved it. Clean race week. It was nice. Physically, that was pretty easy race. Thank you very much. But yeah, I enjoyed the last couple of laps. Well done. Thank you.
Engineer: Look at this mate, so yeah, P7.
Lewis HAMILTON: Well done to the lads. Sorry we didn't get more points today but really great effort and took one back at home for bringing the upgrades.
Engineer: These
Lewis HAMILTON: past few weeks, really appreciate the hard work. Proud of you guys.
Engineer: Okay, that's that. Well done, mate.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I thought the ride was done yesterday, but this was another level. Body is completely broken.
Engineer: Yeah, tough weekend, Max. Plenty to take out of it.
Logan SARGEANT: Yeah, I just, I know what we're trying to do, but yeah, a bit of a disaster, to be honest.
Engineer: Logan, it was a good move on Joe. Sorry we didn't work out today on what we're doing strategically, but lots to learn from and move on from here.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I had to go to the toilet from left 20. That was probably the hardest thing of the race.
Engineer: Lovely stuff, P9.
Alexander ALBON: Yeah, yeah well done.
Engineer: I'm not sure what race that was but the hard work was done yesterday, well done, well deserved.
Alexander ALBON: Yeah, it was too slow to pace, my tyres just fell out the window and I could never get them back up to symmetry.
Fernando ALONSO: I thought we were P-10, mate.
Engineer: No, afraid not.
Engineer: So just a couple of... Yeah, sorry about that. It's okay mate, don't worry, we're pushing, we're trying something, so that's fair enough. There's nothing else on the table, so it's worth a go, isn't it?
Engineer: It was a long old race, but very good job managing those tires, managing the gaps. Good work today.
Pierre GASLY: Thank you guys. We
Engineer: had
Pierre GASLY: a very, I would say, positive weekend with the first Q3 of the year and I think we did the best we could. So let's keep pushing. It's just a point, but going in the right direction, so let's keep pushing guys.
Engineer: We'll keep pushing, taking steps forward.
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