Qatar Grand Prix 2024: Sprint Qualifying team radio
64 radio messages were recorded during sprint qualifying at the Qatar Grand Prix 2024, across 18 drivers. 63 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
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 6 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Kick Sauber · 5 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 5 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 4 messages
- Liam LAWSON · RB · 4 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 4 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 4 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 3 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Kick Sauber · 3 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 2 messages
- Franco COLAPINTO · Williams · 2 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: 7, okay you're good, remember, straight line speed up to 24 where you will be go out.
ZHOU Guanyu: 5c at the front, another one.
Engineer: Wind same direction as FP1, but low intensity, 10 kph lower.
Engineer: And the wind, headwind is reduced to turn 1, so just watch out breaking point first lap and Tyler will be a bit on the low side.
Engineer: Albon, just gone past.
Engineer: Okay, we can look the temperature in the tires here
Yuki TSUNODA: Can I charge off after to whatever to sink
Engineer: Leclerc is just coming into a cool lap, so he'll be going slow, and Perez starting it up.
ZHOU Guanyu: The car is too sensitive.
Engineer: Yeah, it's temperature.
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, what I did counts through
Liam LAWSON: I think balance is not so bad honestly, I went off it.
Engineer: No threats behind
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Don't need it
Yuki TSUNODA: Must be probably the other stairside.
Engineer: Copy
Engineer: Do we need another lap? That was a good lap, so we're P4 at the minute and we'll keep an eye on it, Tsunoda coming watch out for Tsunoda
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, I don't understand how Perez is doing such slow cooldown laps.
Engineer: Yeah, I struggled to get to my Delta, got to keep my head. Yeah, don't stress about it. If there's plenty of traffic, don't worry about it.
ZHOU Guanyu: It was a great out lap guys Beautiful
ZHOU Guanyu: Getting stuck behind like six cars.
Engineer: Understood. Watch for Delta.
Engineer: What do you think about balance Nico we think you can add some
Nico HULKENBERG: Stand by.
Charles LECLERC: My front is great.
Engineer: And then compared to other cars, we're losing time through 13, 14. They're just going faster through those corners than we are.
Engineer: And Oscar, we have time for double call, but we suggest single call.
Pierre GASLY: Albans not respecting the Delta
Engineer: ...to site... Stop it!
Charles LECLERC: It's
Engineer: a
Charles LECLERC: nightmare. I have no idea.
Engineer: Tell me a bit more cars behind. Yeah, there might be quite a few cars, I know. Now, next car pushing is Piastri. All of these are slow cars now around you. Piastri is seven. Piastri is seven. Tell me the cars that are fast, please. Yeah, Charles. I know, there are many cars. I'm trying my best.
Engineer: Yeah, you've got seven and a half minutes to our next session.
Engineer: Probably a bit too close to Lawson on that one.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Yeah, glad I've had to go because I've stalled.
Engineer: Yeah, copy.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Okay, how close to top 10?
Engineer: Lawson was P10 with a 22.39.
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, we don't have the Ferrari behind we are not safe anymore for the wait
Alexander ALBON: Okay, now I wanted more but the car is so different on the second push it's quite hard to just nail
Engineer: it, the
Alexander ALBON: front is working so much better on the second
Engineer: I'm afraid we are not through into Q3. No threats behind.
Engineer: Ok Liam, there was a big train coming, so I think we did the right thing to get going.
Engineer: I wish I could take these guys over
Engineer: the wind is similar to the previous one
Engineer: You
George RUSSELL: can be posted if you guys are behind. I'll go and fill up one.
Engineer: Yeah, copy.
Engineer: And George already plus five compared to where we are no pressure behind
Carlos SAINZ: Darts are not going to be ready.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, I don't think there's a copyright
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, group didn't feel good
Engineer: Okay, all right to copy
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, I got a it's difficult to let this guy by and watch out for Russell
Engineer: A
Charles LECLERC: lot of understand. A lot.
Carlos SAINZ: I'll leave the balance book on the shelf, and if it looks good here, it's cool.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Okay, yeah. Not really fast. See you tomorrow.
Engineer: Liam, I've got some bad news. Your lap time is due. You're pitting now. Turn 6.
Engineer: Unfortunately it's with P-10 just a tiny bit.
Nico HULKENBERG: So, everybody improved on lap 2 I guess.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, that's the best we could get so
Engineer: let's go
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, that's the best we could get so
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, a bit harder than this morning, but...
Engineer: It
Pierre GASLY: wasn't as comfortable, still make it work and there is space, so all good.
Engineer: OK, so that's a P-7, it's four and a half tenths of a tonne Norris.
Engineer: So P5, Carlos P4, 21.28 to the 21.3.
Sergio PEREZ: Ah.
Sergio PEREZ: I don't know what looks like what's going on there.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, that's ***. Don't bug me.
Yuki TSUNODA: I don't understand why we're so rushing in disqualifying, honestly.
Yuki TSUNODA: I don't understand, I don't understand, man.
Engineer: Yeah, copy, I hear you.
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, you don't hear me, man.
Liam LAWSON: That was a good lap man.
Engineer: Yeah, that was a good effort. We are in mate!
Liam LAWSON: No way!
Engineer: Well done, well done. Is that P2? P2, yeah that's P2, good job. 60 milliseconds to Norris' first attempt.
George RUSSELL: Yeah, well done everyone. That was nice to drive in this session.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Not really fast. See you tomorrow.
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