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Team radio transcript

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

Every message, in the order it happened

  1. Franco COLAPINTOWilliams

    Audio only, no transcript available for this message.

  2. Nico HULKENBERGHaas

    Nico HULKENBERG: Can I do some burnouts before?

  3. Nico HULKENBERGHaas

    Engineer: Yes, use mode slow.

  4. Liam LAWSONRB

    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

  5. Esteban OCONAlpine

    Engineer: The grip tape on the throttle pedal is sticky. Okay, understood. We'll have a look at that.

  6. Liam LAWSONRB

    Engineer: And let's make sure we don't come to a full stop until your grids lock please.

  7. Esteban OCONAlpine

    Engineer: OK, clock's dropped, we're on target on the grid, good job, same again please.

  8. Oscar PIASTRIMcLaren

    Engineer: remember to switch the car fully off switch the car fully off so kill the engine wait five seconds and then fully off

  9. Oscar PIASTRIMcLaren

    Audio only, no transcript available for this message.

  10. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, we're at this place. It's a shame it's closed, but so much time we're at.

  11. Oliver BEARMANHaas

    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.

  12. Oliver BEARMANHaas

    Oliver BEARMAN: Yeah, really struggling there.

  13. ZHOU GuanyuKick Sauber

    Engineer: Good job there with the Aston's

  14. ZHOU GuanyuKick Sauber

    ZHOU Guanyu: Yeah, yeah, I got copy.

  15. ZHOU GuanyuKick Sauber

    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.

  16. Carlos SAINZFerrari

    Engineer: We'll just have one out there a good job

  17. Carlos SAINZFerrari

    Engineer: And the wind looks starting to be rotating now, still on a quiet level, have to anticipate that, like

    Carlos SAINZ: on yesterday.

  18. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Lando NORRIS: Yeah, up-close.

    Engineer: Okay, understood.

  19. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: All right, Lando, we understand, just keeping on Leclerc behind.

  20. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Lando NORRIS: Yeah, but I'm not sure what I'm doing here mate, I thought we spoke about this last...

  21. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: Alright Lando, understood. Keep doing what you're doing. Yeah,

    Lando NORRIS: whatever.

  22. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: With a gap to Leclerc at the moment, we're happy if we can to hold these positions until the last lap.

  23. Oscar PIASTRIMcLaren

    Engineer: Verstappen, we believe, is faster than Leclerc.

  24. Sergio PEREZRed Bull

    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.

  25. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    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.

  26. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Engineer: Take your time Max, you know the game

  27. Oscar PIASTRIMcLaren

    Engineer: Give Lando DRS

  28. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: Oh come on Charlestown, so many mistakes!

    Engineer: Just keep calm, now's your chance mate.

  29. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: Suggest red A4, red A... Yeah, but I will overtake.

  30. Oscar PIASTRIMcLaren

    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

  31. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Engineer: Come on, mate. Let's chase them down.

  32. Oscar PIASTRIMcLaren

    Engineer: Thanks, mate.

  33. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: Pay attention to this because it is purpose driving slow reported

  34. Oscar PIASTRIMcLaren

    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.

  35. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    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.

  36. Pierre GASLYAlpine

    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.

  37. Franco COLAPINTOWilliams

    Engineer: That was a good one some good fight if you're learning for tomorrow energy management wise, but good wrestling good job

  38. Franco COLAPINTOWilliams

    Franco COLAPINTO: Yeah, yeah, that's

    Engineer: a

    Franco COLAPINTO: good one. Just those three air lockups into T1 kill me a little bit

  39. Liam LAWSONRB

    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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