Saudi Arabian Grand Prix 2024: Practice 2 team radio
69 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix 2024, across 18 drivers. 61 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. George RUSSELL 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
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 10 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 6 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Kick Sauber · 6 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 5 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 5 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 5 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 5 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 3 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 3 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 3 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 2 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 2 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · RB · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 1 message
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Alexander ALBON: Feels quite sharp
Engineer: Yeah, everyone's going slow
Carlos SAINZ: corner approaching
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Just pressing the brakes at low brake pressure now in the pit lane. I had the same feeling as Singapore 2022 qualifying.
Engineer: Better warp in the desk, potentially.
George RUSSELL: Steering feels lighter compared to P1.
Nico HULKENBERG: Hard already, level one, but pretty aggressive snaps there.
Engineer: You know, qualifying this fall, it'll be worse to go out so early like that than it is just to go out later.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, so these medium street corners like the front like I'm understeering a bit
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, just bottoming 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, that area.
Engineer: And our other car had similar issues They were more aggressive than we were
Max VERSTAPPEN: You need to tell me a bit more accurate, because I can't see anything out of the bits, you know.
Engineer: everything feels okay but the decent hit understood we'll box this lap and check the car over box this lap
Pierre GASLY: It's difficult to keep the car's active on, like, with the ISP down bouncing a lot.
Engineer: Engine 13, engine 1-3, position 10, position 10.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, what Hamilton did there is super dangerous, like he was in the middle of... I couldn't get out of the way. I nearly crashed because of him.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: The
George RUSSELL: car is so unstable at high speed, so so unstable at high speed.
Engineer: Just some feedback, it was a messy run, probably for a lot of guys. You're currently P11, I think there were some good laps, let's build up on that.
Engineer: The
George RUSSELL: car is so unstable at high speed. So, so unstable at high speed.
Engineer: Ok, let's go for a big cool down and we try again.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Now it's better just the last one. I I really don't know. I just don't have the grip in the car
Engineer: Okay, main limitation
Max VERSTAPPEN: Just can't carry the speed around the apex. The front I don't want to wash out or it's just like Understood
Engineer: main limitation across the lap. I mean, you've got Russell at three seconds on a push
Oscar PIASTRI: from the front. I just had a bit of a vibration when I was turning through
Engineer: turn 23.
Oscar PIASTRI: Feels like it's coming from the front. I don't know if it's just the front tyre trying to hang on or what.
ZHOU Guanyu: Yeah, copy. Massive snap. Turn one. That's five.
Engineer: and we'll focus on recharge we've seen what happened there we should be good for scenario seven sock six for the next lap
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Nico HULKENBERG: Your radio, there is huge background noise with cars coming by this train and your radio.
Lance STROLL: Just trying to key the radio button a bit earlier because I keep hearing the end
Engineer: of
Lance STROLL: your sentences.
Logan SARGEANT: I have so much understeer through 9-10. Understood. That
Engineer: was some dirty air again. Watch out, that one's a 4.
Engineer: Slow down for your rear. You have a good gap behind. Leclerc gap of 23 seconds. Use that.
ZHOU Guanyu: Missed
Engineer: the
ZHOU Guanyu: best sector one, but last sector was a lot coming together.
Engineer: F***,
George RUSSELL: what's
Engineer: the
George RUSSELL: matter?
Engineer: Give me one more lap like that because I had traffic. Fiat Street, three seconds. Watch for him.
Esteban OCON: Yeah, the car was all over the place because of the traffic. I think yeah, I lose on a tree and understand it
Engineer: Unbelievable, this
Carlos SAINZ: guy
Engineer: Looking at maybe 15 time-lapse here.
Logan SARGEANT: Front's a bit strong, but we can start like that.
Yuki TSUNODA: There's
Engineer: a
Yuki TSUNODA: bit of traffic. It's sort of a
Engineer: You could try that funk three.
Alexander ALBON: It's time for Chuck to steer the high speeder.
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, we're going to do it on that day.
Engineer: So you're using the handbrake quite a bit, also the previous lap. You can replicate that with V-belt too.
Engineer: You close this lap and then next one we stop doing the extra saving no more extra saving on front right you can push on it
Engineer: Might be spark one
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Carlos SAINZ: for no longer enjoy
Engineer: three seconds behind
Engineer: Try N3 plus 1 for turn 1. Try N3 plus 1 for turn 1.
Engineer: Pereth 34.4 Verstappen also with medium 33.9
Engineer: average 34 so alonso average 34.6 first five laps
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Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Kev, could we have multi B-12 position 1 when possible?
Engineer: Copy that, we're looking out.
Esteban OCON: And check load, the car is full point consistent.
Pierre GASLY: Start losing quite a lot of overall grip
Engineer: Okay, we have no issues so far. We're going to keep looking five time-lapse.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Okay, Pierre, we'd like to go PU4, position 3.
Engineer: They
George RUSSELL: were really weak, but I don't
Engineer: know.
Engineer: Multi-B7, Diff, Position 8. One more step.
Engineer: I'm
Pierre GASLY: struggling with the overall grip.
Engineer: Okay, copy that.
Engineer: Lance we need to stay off the painted line on pit entry stay off the painted area by pit entry
Engineer: Oscar, we will take the chequered flag, but would like to test Turn 1 and 2, two temps to find there, later braking.
Logan SARGEANT: Yeah, I was really struggling with the rear
Engineer: Joe, quick feedback on the previous start, you dropped plus 6 and also you dropped the throttle there.
Engineer: Purple C7, position 1, unlimited. We are box this lap, pit stop practice, steering wheel change.
Engineer: And reminder, you'll remove the steering wheel and pass high and to the right, high and to the right. Box now.
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