São Paulo Grand Prix 2024: Sprint Qualifying team radio
65 radio messages were recorded during sprint qualifying at the São Paulo Grand Prix 2024, across 17 drivers. 63 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Lewis HAMILTON had the most, with 10.
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
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 10 messages
- Oliver BEARMAN · Haas · 7 messages
- Liam LAWSON · RB · 6 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 6 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 6 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 6 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 4 messages
- Franco COLAPINTO · Williams · 3 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 2 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 2 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 1 message
- ZHOU Guanyu · Kick Sauber · 1 message
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Good job. Now lean on the tires. Brake warming off. Gap ahead is 5 seconds. 5.5.
Engineer: Copy, it's very slow down now. Yeah, I can see that.
Engineer: Brake release and early throttle in 12, suggestion, airborne opening lap is 6 seconds behind, ok for double cool.
Engineer: Hamilton coming through, now margin to work the tyres
Engineer: So Carl's still to complete, but currently a P2, just a 9.01 at George.
Lewis HAMILTON: Magic is accidentally on.
Engineer: Okay, copy. We'll just keep dropping temp.
Engineer: and probably because of traffic but I have a turn 4 track limit
Engineer: You're five tenths safe at the moment Ollie, so that's okay.
Engineer: You're five tenths safe at the moment Oli, so that's okay. Yeah
Oliver BEARMAN: I copy that, I'm just struggling to connect the entry.
Engineer: Max, stay out, stay out, could be too much traffic if we come through the pit lane, stay out
George RUSSELL: Advise on tie attempts.
Engineer: Track is currently clear, so minus seven from here.
Engineer: at the moment
Engineer: ...D-X, P-T-B, B-G.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: on the beers.
Sergio PEREZ: That's on the one on the right
Engineer: Yeah, they're coming down Plus five is normally the target. So we're actually a pretty good window front left only concern
Liam LAWSON: Gupy, I struggled a lot with the tyres, rear tyres. Loads
Engineer: on
Liam LAWSON: clear, loads on clear.
Engineer: So we think we're okay. We'll just wait for a couple more lights to come through.
Engineer: And that's the chequered flag, nice job, through into SQ2.
Pierre GASLY: Okay, that
Engineer: was very close. Yeah, gaps are very close around here, so...
Engineer: It's confirmed that we would not have got through on the first lap time.
Engineer: So getting some reports that the wind strength has picked up quite a bit
Engineer: So we need to push past Norris if we want to keep the prep.
Engineer: So we'll leave it to you if you want to take the prep, if not it will be strat 2
Engineer: And it will be mode push before last corner mode push you can open up the gap still your margin
Engineer: So let's look at better attempts.
Lewis HAMILTON: What's
Engineer: the
Lewis HAMILTON: target? Right where I am?
Engineer: Pretty much where you are now.
Engineer: That was a good lap. Russell did a 109.7.
Engineer: What's our position? Do we need to go again? We'll let you know we're currently P6 on the sheets, not everyone's completed a lap yet, are very likely to go again So let's box Hamilton still eight seconds back
Sergio PEREZ: How much time is left?
Engineer: It's not time to go out again.
Franco COLAPINTO: I understand a lot in seven
Franco COLAPINTO: I understeered a little, sorry 7.8, the front got a bit overloaded
Lewis HAMILTON: Alright, can you see the rotations?
George RUSSELL: We've gone pretty early here, have we not?
Engineer: We've gone pretty early. Yeah, AFM, we feel we need the lap.
Engineer: We're a bit tight for time here, but you've got a nice clear track in front.
Engineer: so higher temps so the difference that we see to george is pushing more through six seven so higher temps six seven maybe better grip for the rest of the lap bearman at three and a half
Engineer: So the difference that we see to George is pushing more through 6.7, so higher temp 6.7, maybe better grip for the rest of the lap. Behrman at 3.5.
Liam LAWSON: Yeah, Patrick, if
Engineer: you
Liam LAWSON: can look at lines, I have
Engineer: a
Liam LAWSON: lot of balancing through one, and it's upsetting the car, I think. Maybe it's my line.
Engineer: I'm
Nico HULKENBERG: still just struggling with the front and the inconsistency and it's just messy.
Engineer: Yeah, so you finished that session P7. Really good job, Ollie. Well done, mate.
Engineer: Alex, at the moment there's only two McLarens on track, Piastri's down turn four and Norris is in pit exit. We're just going to let Norris get round to about turn three, four and then we'll probably go and give you a clean out lap.
Engineer: It does seem like the wind has picked up a little.
Engineer: White H-10, position 7. White H-10, position 7.
Engineer: Lando, I was thinking about adding some top wind. Up one? Yep. Yeah, yeah. Cool, up one.
Alexander ALBON: I think the wind picked up a lot.
Engineer: Do
Lando NORRIS: you think one or more?
Engineer: Jarv's happy with one.
Max VERSTAPPEN: How many cars are ahead of me in the pit stop? There's three.
Engineer: Norris still crawling out of the pit exit
Engineer: So just don't over push the bolts now.
Liam LAWSON: Sorry mate, I struggled
Engineer: Okay, good luck, buddy. That is P1 at the moment, but I've still got Lando Verstappen.
Engineer: Oscar, I've lost GPS. I think you're clear behind.
George RUSSELL: Three wheeling increased quite a lot that lap. Four, eight, nine.
Pierre GASLY: Just reading I was was coming super super nicely and then just drifted there were still good luck
Liam LAWSON: Copy. Thanks guys. Yep. Sorry about the Q3 one, but good job. Nothing to be sorry for. We all move forward together.
Engineer: That is everyone, Oscar. You are P1. Good job, mate. Woo!
Oscar PIASTRI: Nice.
Oscar PIASTRI: So quite the contrast from last year, thanks everyone. Not bad for a used tyre. Ah, should get food poisoning more often.
Engineer: Brilliant job, that was a great used tyre, lovely.
George RUSSELL: Did Jeff do a second lap?
Engineer: Yeah, AFM on that soft art, he did a second lap and improved.
Yuki TSUNODA: Well, Timur is happy with the lap, just don't grip, man.
Engineer: Okay, understood.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Turn 4, now the car doesn't turn.
Engineer: It
Max VERSTAPPEN: is being setting.
Engineer: No, we're not gonna make it. It's like Fox.
Sergio PEREZ: Oh f**k!
Liam LAWSON: Wait, who was that? Was it Jake or Max? Don't worry,
Engineer: please.
Oliver BEARMAN: Yeah, so it is
Charles LECLERC: Good trail racing, that was definitely the maximum today
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