Saudi Arabian Grand Prix 2024: Practice 1 team radio
59 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix 2024, across 18 drivers. 57 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Max VERSTAPPEN had the most, with 8.
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
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 8 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 7 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 5 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Kick Sauber · 5 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 4 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 4 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 3 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 3 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 3 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 3 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 2 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 2 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 2 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · RB · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 1 message
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: And the clocks were shallow at 3%.
Engineer: and multifunction gx position three multifunction gx position three
Engineer: I think you're ahead of Leclerc. He's on hard cars, Shane, as you. First car pushing his Bottas 30 seconds back, so you'll be fine with him.
Engineer: So 20 kph headwind on the main straight.
Yuki TSUNODA: I have a bit of a vibration with this tire.
Engineer: Yeah, understood, Yuki. Just need to leave with that, unfortunately.
Lewis HAMILTON: Okay,
Engineer: copy.
Esteban OCON: I got bouncing in the first sector.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, I'll
Engineer: be
Carlos SAINZ: with push, cool, push.
Engineer: Understood. Take another good cool down and prepare your tyres for another push.
Lance STROLL: Hope I don't touch the wall.
Esteban OCON: I think, yeah, it was quite clear what the bouncing was in that lap. I
Engineer: think you can see in all the high speed. Yeah, copy that. Okay, so clear behind Ricciardo.
Engineer: So you've got three ahead.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Salute, sir.
Engineer: Multi-A, multi-B. Multi-B, multi-B.
Engineer: Thank
Alexander ALBON: you, Israel, for teaching a lot.
Engineer: and check Val please suggest resetting it
Nico HULKENBERG: So, I suggest we focus on putting up a flat
Engineer: bottom.
Nico HULKENBERG: I don't know,
Engineer: it
Nico HULKENBERG: feels like a lot. The energy level felt pretty high on that lap, for the first lap.
ZHOU Guanyu: I can't deactivate my special tumor.
ZHOU Guanyu: Yes, it's special too, it's stuff. We
Engineer: are looking on it, Joe.
Engineer: Watch for traffic, pit exit with Albon, behind him clear
George RUSSELL: Just have a think about the tyre taps.
Alexander ALBON: The rotation comes too late to quickly record it.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Last corner is a problem. There's the instability on entry and, yeah, tricky to get the apex. Entry is very difficult.
Engineer: And I've got out of turn two, purple C7 position three, 160 kph CSL.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Ok, just one thing, I had some weird engine behavior in turn 13 and later in the lap, when I was off track, the car was jumping a lot.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: White H8 position 9.
Engineer: and weaving when you can.
Engineer: These guys around you are on slow laps, Max, so you can overtake them.
Logan SARGEANT: I'm asking if we did what we were meant to do for this one or not.
Daniel RICCIARDO: It was definitely a bit better. I think that also helped. Sorry, that made the balance switch.
ZHOU Guanyu: Yeah, typically we'll continue to coach where he was going.
Engineer: Coby, it was not easy to recover the tires with this track time.
Engineer: The
Esteban OCON: balance is a little bit of flat-bottom rotation to the right. A bit of understeer everywhere else in the corner.
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, I have quite a lot of problems again. Still like a vibration from the tire, whatever.
Lewis HAMILTON: It's Fabry down on the
Engineer: track between
Lewis HAMILTON: 22 and 3.
Daniel RICCIARDO: I was struggling with the front.
Engineer: Okay, second cool-down, a bit of weaving for the fronts and break warm-up when you can.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, that's me.
Engineer: Let's stop the pan behind. I think he's on high fuel.
Max VERSTAPPEN: The car is just going by itself.
Engineer: Standby. Was that with the strut change, Max?
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, something like that.
Engineer: So, status 2 to start with, acquire on the Multi, please.
Engineer: Ayuki, let's assume everybody is sustainable now on track.
Engineer: suggest right hand toggle to the last corner right hand toggle
Engineer: And white H13, white H13.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Engine didn't pick up at 10.16, not enough power.
Engineer: That's it, thank you.
Lance STROLL: How much do you want me to lean on these tires because they're already quite hot?
Engineer: So we just need temp in the left front of the minute lamp so we can lean on it where you are now and focus on front left temp
Engineer: Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it
Pierre GASLY: currently
Engineer: pace looking good Esteban's last lap was a 36.7 time to gain exit of turn four
Engineer: Please use DRS on the next lap and we suggest Diff 12 if you have too much understeer.
Engineer: And that'll be the checkered flag. We need PU cooling this cool down lap.
Esteban OCON: Yeah, with Rehut for turn 1 was better, and SOC 13 was not good, I think.
Max VERSTAPPEN: In 13, the 50 meter marker is loose. It's about to fall off.
Engineer: Okay, that's it. Okay.
George RUSSELL: The yellow lines are half the width of Bahrain. Can't see them.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Max VERSTAPPEN: In 13, the 50 meter marker is loose. It's about to fall off.
Engineer: Okay, understood.
Engineer: And after 13 beaming five beaming five
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