São Paulo Grand Prix 2024: Sprint team radio
39 radio messages were recorded during sprint at the São Paulo Grand Prix 2024, across 13 drivers. 37 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Oscar PIASTRI had the most, with 7.
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
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 7 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 6 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 6 messages
- Franco COLAPINTO · Williams · 3 messages
- Liam LAWSON · RB · 3 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Kick Sauber · 3 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 2 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 2 messages
- Oliver BEARMAN · Haas · 2 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 1 message
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 1 message
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Nico HULKENBERG: Can I do some burnouts before?
Engineer: Yes, use mode slow.
Liam LAWSON: Yeah, it feels like we have plenty of fronts, low speed, we have a lot of fronts High speed if I was okay, I didn't really obviously push too much, but it doesn't do a lot of understeer
Engineer: The grip tape on the throttle pedal is sticky. Okay, understood. We'll have a look at that.
Engineer: And let's make sure we don't come to a full stop until your grids lock please.
Engineer: OK, clock's dropped, we're on target on the grid, good job, same again please.
Engineer: remember to switch the car fully off switch the car fully off so kill the engine wait five seconds and then fully off
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, we're at this place. It's a shame it's closed, but so much time we're at.
Engineer: So that was P14, obviously a lot of work to do for tomorrow but it's just early days, don't worry, we'll get on top of it.
Oliver BEARMAN: Yeah, really struggling there.
Engineer: Good job there with the Aston's
ZHOU Guanyu: Yeah, yeah, I got copy.
ZHOU Guanyu: Tower of Thais was good, with
Engineer: a
ZHOU Guanyu: lot of backups in the safety car though. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I told you.
Engineer: We will have a look.
Engineer: We'll just have one out there a good job
Engineer: And the wind looks starting to be rotating now, still on a quiet level, have to anticipate that, like
Carlos SAINZ: on yesterday.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, up-close.
Engineer: Okay, understood.
Engineer: All right, Lando, we understand, just keeping on Leclerc behind.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, but I'm not sure what I'm doing here mate, I thought we spoke about this last...
Engineer: Alright Lando, understood. Keep doing what you're doing. Yeah,
Lando NORRIS: whatever.
Engineer: With a gap to Leclerc at the moment, we're happy if we can to hold these positions until the last lap.
Engineer: Verstappen, we believe, is faster than Leclerc.
Engineer: Well done Checo, good effort, your fastest lap on that last lap, so good pace in the race there. Yeah,
Sergio PEREZ: let's get them back tomorrow and tonight. Car is good.
Lewis HAMILTON: There's something wrong with my seat.
Engineer: It
Lewis HAMILTON: fell underneath the car. Something moving.
Engineer: OK copy, we'll get that checked out.
Engineer: Take your time Max, you know the game
Engineer: Give Lando DRS
Max VERSTAPPEN: Oh come on Charlestown, so many mistakes!
Engineer: Just keep calm, now's your chance mate.
Engineer: Suggest red A4, red A... Yeah, but I will overtake.
Engineer: Okay, so the gap to Leclerc is 1.3 obviously if Lando attacks do not make it too difficult at the moment. We are happy We want to try and pull the gap to Leclerc
Engineer: Come on, mate. Let's chase them down.
Engineer: Thanks, mate.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Pay attention to this because it is purpose driving slow reported
Engineer: Well done, Oscar. Great job and massive support to the team as well. So a big fan of your work today. Really good.
Oscar PIASTRI: Yeah, well done, everyone. Good day for the team. And yeah,
Engineer: I
Oscar PIASTRI: think a little bit of pace to plan, but well done, everyone.
Engineer: Good job mate. Nice job.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah we had quite a decent pace, just a shame with Charles, there was so much time for that.
Engineer: Yeah good job Max, that's decent points and the most encouraging thing was your pace.
Pierre GASLY: Thanks. Yeah, it was hard and I hate it this year, so a bit different than we thought, but good to hold on there and let's focus on this afternoon.
Engineer: That was a good one some good fight if you're learning for tomorrow energy management wise, but good wrestling good job
Franco COLAPINTO: Yeah, yeah, that's
Engineer: a
Franco COLAPINTO: good one. Just those three air lockups into T1 kill me a little bit
Engineer: OK Liam, obviously a very frustrating P9 just about there.
Liam LAWSON: Yeah, I don't even have words for what I just watched.
Engineer: And yeah, we'll review what happened at the VSI restart. We lost quite a bit there compared to the guys in front, we'll have a look.
Liam LAWSON: Did you see, I won the gearbox of Checo, he's like 5 seconds positive.
Engineer: Yeah, I coped with that, and then he opened a bit more in the corner, loud and clear.
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