Qatar Grand Prix 2024: Practice 1 team radio
70 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Qatar Grand Prix 2024, across 19 drivers. 68 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. George RUSSELL had the most, with 13.
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
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 13 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 9 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 5 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 5 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 4 messages
- Liam LAWSON · RB · 4 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Kick Sauber · 4 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 3 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 3 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 2 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Kick Sauber · 2 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 1 message
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 1 message
- Franco COLAPINTO · Williams · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Pierre GASLY: Can we move this thing on the right of my box, please the
Engineer: slightly further right? Yep I think we can sort that out for the next one
Pierre GASLY: Feels like the steering is slightly bent right and side down
Yuki TSUNODA: I'm not feeling much efficiency with brake, maybe. Exit of garage, I didn't feel much efficiency straight away.
Engineer: Phase 10 15 to 20 kph Only you and Carlos on hards everyone else on mediums. No one else pushing behind
Engineer: So we measure a 20K tailwind entry turn two.
Engineer: Most of these places are where we're going through a crosswind so
Engineer: Engine 13, engine 1-3, position 8.
George RUSSELL: Brakes don't feel brilliant, not much bite
Engineer: White h11, position 6, h11, 6, albon 3.
Engineer: Yeah, so in which area of the track do you want to know it's a headwind up to turn one the ghost
Engineer: What's the intensity? Yeah, so intensity is, as measured, 20 kph.
Engineer: Okay, so down three or four Let's throw four see if that helps. Understood. So keep up the pace a little bit then for this lap max
Alexander ALBON: The high speed balance is good. Lacking with corner rotation.
Engineer: 6 or most other corners? All the tailwinds.
Alexander ALBON: But yes, this is not not
Engineer: great
Pierre GASLY: The truck's pretty fast. Yep, copy that.
Engineer: So we've got Albon coming at four seconds back.
Engineer: 2 tenths in the last corner with the traffic. OK, so let's go recharge on, recharge on, let's watch out, Norris behind on a time-lapse, he's 2 seconds back, P1 at the minute.
Engineer: And Ed's still suggesting braking earlier for fall for better apex speed.
Engineer: Science is now pushing two behind.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
George RUSSELL: Norris is getting in the way of everyone here
Engineer: No, no, just overheat him. Two seconds now to Joe.
Engineer: reminder easy pit exit please after the pit stop
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, I was okay Definitely better in high speeds and I didn't slow speed like turn one I would say
Liam LAWSON: Okay, I went wide so we could box.
Engineer: Box, box.
Liam LAWSON: Ok copy, for me it's just the middle of turn 1, entry is fine and then I get to the apex and then a lot of instability
Engineer: Yeah Liam, it's a lot of wind there in turn 1 and we see the same on both cars So let's have a look why we can't make it work for us, box box
Engineer: Max once you settle in if you think the flap adjustment was insufficient then don't forget you've got the high-speed diff to take out if necessary
Engineer: So mode RS for the start
Engineer: And we suggest special two for turn six and turn ten.
Engineer: Mode 6, Mode 6 and Display 8.
Engineer: suggest blue b5 blue b5
Engineer: Lean on the tyres, Piazzi pushing through now and then you're clear for eight seconds to the stop.
Engineer: Watch gravel exit of 15
Engineer: Okay, Albon for turn six suggests top right toggle. Turn six, top right.
Engineer: For turn six, suggest top right toggle. Turn six, top right.
Engineer: Since we're a bit tight on time, let me know if you still want to do another push or we can go constant running
Engineer: You can use more curb corner 12 and 14
Pierre GASLY: Can you just check the front touching?
Engineer: Okay, copy.
George RUSSELL: Just check overtake button into four, I think wastegate was open
Engineer: So good luck keep pushing keep pushing
ZHOU Guanyu: Is there a helmet I can change?
Carlos SAINZ: What is the mode I like?
Engineer: Echo boat set, boat set.
Engineer: Just be easy on the brakes on the way in, easy on the brakes.
Engineer: Okay mate, so we've got two laps remaining after this in our plan, we think we shouldn't do that run at the end, so we've got the option we could extend this.
Engineer: There's
George RUSSELL: no way we can get that in, there's obviously traffic behind us.
Esteban OCON: The car is super inconsistent basically, from entry to mid-corner, it's basically not possible to carry the speed.
Engineer: OK, understood. So is that mainly from the rear end? Well,
Esteban OCON: front end understeer mid-corner and then basically
Engineer: the rear end snaps massively. So we could consider just opening up that diff mid a little bit, that might help with the mid-corner.
Engineer: And lean on tires corner 12, 13 and 14.
Alexander ALBON: To me the front right just wasn't biting.
Engineer: I don't know if it just
Alexander ALBON: struggled with the temperature but turn two, turn six for the left-handers.
Engineer: And just check your strat switch.
Engineer: The
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: tyres were absolutely fine.
Engineer: Yeah, it's just too late.
Liam LAWSON: The bottom's really bad, so...
Engineer: Magnuson's far beyond pushing
George RUSSELL: Could you get a screenshot of the start on the screen, please?
Alexander ALBON: It's hard to know if that was Ty's or Wind's, but the three-corner balance was much better.
Engineer: And Oscar, it's up to you on what you're learning, but suggest to abort after turn 10 to save the tyre in high speed.
Engineer: And
Charles LECLERC: there was a mistake in 4-5.
George RUSSELL: Chris always coming out of that half and upshifts feel more aggressive
ZHOU Guanyu: The car with the temperature going down is 34 degrees.
George RUSSELL: Chris, always coming out.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
George RUSSELL: Keep an eye on cheap water
Engineer: Hey Phil, looks all good at the moment. We'll be coasting from turn 15.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I have a lot of air coming into my helmet, so I need to change helmet after this run.
Engineer: Understood.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Traffic paradise.
George RUSSELL: Brakes feel pretty rubbish, not much bite.
Liam LAWSON: Fear is honestly...
Engineer: Ok, focus on yourself, copy that.
Fernando ALONSO: I nearly crashed in 4 and 5. Everyone slow down. It's Heinz.
Engineer: Yeah,
Lewis HAMILTON: just don't put it in stability.
Charles LECLERC: I don't know what the hell Horace is doing.
Pierre GASLY: Can you insert the front of the car?
Sergio PEREZ: Then we're starting a strike.
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