Saudi Arabian Grand Prix 2024: Qualifying team radio
52 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix 2024, across 16 drivers. 48 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Charles LECLERC had the most, with 11.
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
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 11 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 5 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 5 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 5 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 4 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 3 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 3 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 3 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 2 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Oliver BEARMAN · Ferrari · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Kick Sauber · 1 message
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 1 message
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: And red button press. Next, Ocon pushing, two seconds.
Engineer: Lance, we'll do a big call, we'll do a big call. P2 for now, that was purple sector one. Focus on pulling the rear tyres.
Engineer: Main opportunities, minimum speed turn 13 and 22.
Engineer: and multiply y by kc, position 10, multiply y by kc, position 10
Engineer: Yuki, main loss is turn 16, entry. Rest is very good.
Engineer: The
Esteban OCON: car wasn't together as it was during the whole weekend still.
Esteban OCON: Sorry guys, very sorry.
Engineer: No mate, it's all good.
Engineer: Unbelievable. Box, box. Yeah. Yeah, you were one tenth upping yourself.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Nico HULKENBERG: I've lost my power. I've lost my power. Something's wrong.
Engineer: It
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: seems like prep is quite nice, but yeah, I'm not that sure. Happy to do that.
Fernando ALONSO: Even if they are moving slowly, I can move past them. Yeah, if they're moving slowly, you can 100% get past them, probably.
Charles LECLERC: Stop the cars, I'll stop.
Engineer: Copy that, we'll report it.
Engineer: Okay, we need a bit faster out than before.
Lando NORRIS: But I want to be doing my second lap at the end, yeah?
Engineer: Rick Carlton and Foxy Slap Max. Foxy Slap.
Fernando ALONSO: get it dealt in yeah
Engineer: happy with the love yeah your p2 400s behind let's stop half a second
Engineer: Oscar Verstappen ahead has been told to pit. Oscar Verstappen ahead has been told to pit.
Charles LECLERC: There's something that doesn't look quite right with the new tires, so...
Charles LECLERC: Maybe it's good that we use them to make sure we are ready for Q3.
Engineer: So that's currently P4.
Engineer: Turnabouts will have no pushing cars on this lap. Just focus on your gap going out
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: It all took a bit negative box.
Lewis HAMILTON: Couldn't improve mate. I just got no grip mate.
Engineer: Okay.
Engineer: No words. Sorry, Captain.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Alexander ALBON: We just slide too much. In sector 1 we're just sliding, we don't have the downforce.
George RUSSELL: Yeah, coming out to the club. Do you want to give him
Engineer: a
George RUSSELL: tour?
Engineer: Yeah, fine.
Sergio PEREZ: I'm traveling for the rear.
Fernando ALONSO: Ah, that was a good one! Let's try again.
Engineer: Yep.
Engineer: You were purple in all three. You've got three and a half tenths to check OMP2.
Sergio PEREZ: I'm going to sing off a bit.
Charles LECLERC: He just feels very weird on your tires
Charles LECLERC: yeah this i don't know your chest feels very weird on your tires and very difficult to drive
Engineer: copy that
Engineer: Yes, no issues on margin.
Engineer: just a reminder, good pick and release for last corner
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, remind me at the end of the session to speak about temperatures with the click engaged.
Lando NORRIS: Where's the Mercedes ahead?
Engineer: Six seconds ahead. Last corner.
George RUSSELL: Come on, lots of rep.
Lewis HAMILTON: Yeah, sorry guys, just got to go there. Can't wait to meet me today.
Engineer: Good job.
Charles LECLERC: There wasn't anything in that lap. Yep. Thank you
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, well done, guys. Nice to drive the corner in quality and fully fast. Good to play tomorrow.
Engineer: Thank you.
Engineer: Take it you didn't touch anything? I haven't seen any replays. No, no, no. Literally just ran wide, lost the rear apex of 10.
Engineer: Do you need positions, question?
Charles LECLERC: No, it's okay, I saw them on the screen.
Engineer: Yep, that's it, P4 mate, P4, well done.
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, well done guys. Nice to drive the Corning Qualia for the first ball to play tomorrow. Thank you.
Engineer: That rear
George RUSSELL: saw an edge in that high speed and it just went for me.
Lewis HAMILTON: Yeah, sorry guys, just can't
Engineer: meet me today
Engineer: I'm
Yuki TSUNODA: going to try my best, but I felt a bit of a loss, speed, straight line speed and end of the straight. OK, that's P9, you OK?
Engineer: That's a good job.
Yuki TSUNODA: Not bad, that was a good one. Thanks Matthias, Alex and everyone, first Q3 of the year, that was good. Thank you guys, I enjoyed it.
Oscar PIASTRI: Thanks guys, there wasn't too much left in that lap, so thank you, a lot of bad news work, sorry for the scare in Q1, but yeah, very well done, thanks guys.
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