Saudi Arabian Grand Prix 2024: Race team radio
60 radio messages were recorded during race at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix 2024, across 20 drivers. 54 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Oliver BEARMAN had the most, with 9.
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
- Oliver BEARMAN · Ferrari · 9 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 7 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 6 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 5 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 5 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 4 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 4 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 3 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 2 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 2 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Kick Sauber · 2 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 1 message
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Kick Sauber · 1 message
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 1 message
- Daniel RICCIARDO · RB · 1 message
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
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Lando NORRIS: Yeah, it's almost crashed.
Engineer: Yeah, we got it.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, it's a penalty, yeah. I think the front wing is okay, I'm not sure if there's damage.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, let's be on it guys never know what can happen so get our chances could
Engineer: be a crazy one
Engineer: And just an update on wind, very consistent to what we've seen already and will continue to die down.
George RUSSELL: Jump start Norris
Engineer: And you're doing well, Oli, you're doing well. We are faster than the cars in front.
Lance STROLL: Hit the wall
Engineer: Okay, can you bring it back Lance?
Lance STROLL: No, I'm in the f***ing wall Right, copy that
Fernando ALONSO: Wow, I nearly crashed with a red bull,
Engineer: so close
Engineer: Okay Lando, so ultimately the target remains as target plus five, but we still kind of need to do a stint one approach But probably not immediately. We need to let the tires come in a bit
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, I'm not going to be able to let the tires come in. You've got to understand that
Alexander ALBON: What is he doing?
Alexander ALBON: Oh, you didn't give me enough space, so I just need to speak to the stewards about it.
Engineer: Yeah, I saw you got squeezed into the wall.
Engineer: Hamilton ahead, struggling on mediums from the start.
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, any chance of plan B because I mean they are in an overleague copy
Engineer: we're looking
Engineer: They're
Lewis HAMILTON: killing us at high speed.
Engineer: Yeah, copy Lewis, GPS agrees.
Oliver BEARMAN: Hey, he's so slow
Yuki TSUNODA: You want me to take a check?
Engineer: Oscar, we see Hamilton moving under braking there. That was almost an accident. We're reporting it.
Engineer: Okay mate, update for you. So looking to extend could become the Germany situation.
Lando NORRIS: Okay, let me push now. It's just starting to get a little bit trickier, but it's under control.
Engineer: You need to go more slowly, keeping the cars behind you, behind. We've been given another 10 second penalty for leaving the track and gaining advantage. So the only way for the team to get something out of this is for you to do as we've asked.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Yeah, copy that, understood.
Yuki TSUNODA: What a dangerous driving
Engineer: Absolutely brilliant Kev, keep out there.
Alexander ALBON: Don't see
Engineer: I've got to ask you a question. At some point, we've just got to go for plan A, we think, and then drive back through those cars. Do you think it's going to be possible?
Lando NORRIS: I mean, yes, but I think we box as late as we can.
Engineer: We are doing a mega jump out there
Engineer: Niko two seconds ahead. That was fantastic. Well done. Excellent teamwork Kev. Now just go for it as best you can.
Engineer: we are thinking of going soft to the end that's not what you think
Lewis HAMILTON: yeah i agree thank
Engineer: you mate
Fernando ALONSO: little kiss to the wall winter mine but all okay good copy
Engineer: that understood
Engineer: That
Lewis HAMILTON: was impressive, dude. I see him.
Engineer: So Norris is still 13 seconds back, he's having a bit of a fight with Hamilton.
Fernando ALONSO: Copy, give me the countdown of the laps, I'm on a qualifying mode now.
Oliver BEARMAN: At this pace, will noise catch us or not?
Engineer: Yeah, we believe so, in 4 laps.
Engineer: We might have a chance to stay in front of both of them just focus fastest race till the end
Engineer: And now he's struggling a bit with tires there. He's fighting with Hamilton as well. We can do it.
Engineer: And George we've seen wind speed picking up now 15 kph headwind turn one.
Engineer: Nice job mate, well controlled.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, good race that. The tyres were a little bit cold at the end, but I think we had good pace. Managed the whole race well. So, another fantastic weekend. Well done everyone.
Engineer: Well done Max, that was absolutely clinical. So another 1.2 finish, well done.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, exactly. Good result for the team again. Great job.
Engineer: And P7, P7, awesome job mate.
Oliver BEARMAN: Mega good job Oli, congratulations. Not bad I think, yeah I would have liked to go a bit longer on that soft at the start because it felt good. Just difficult to overtake, but no the car was mega today so thank you, I really enjoyed it, it was so much fun out there.
Engineer: P2. Another one two.
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, good job guys. Well done there. Very tight pit stop, but yeah, good job.
Engineer: And you're the driver of the day out there, good showing! Ha!
Oliver BEARMAN: Thanks everyone!
Engineer: Great job, Nico. Really happy to get past the points of the season. Nice work.
Nico HULKENBERG: Yep. Thanks.
Engineer: I know it's not what you wanted Kev but that was absolutely mega and the team got a point out of that and that is like gold dust as we've said before so I'm really sorry that it ended up the way it did but I can't thank you enough for your efforts it really means so much to the team thank you very much
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: yeah sorry man I'm happy I could make it up for scoring as I were I'll keep it clean next time congrats on the points well-deserved everyone let's go for Moria
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, well done, good points, yeah we did the maximum we could with our decision in the middle, so nice try, I think we did what
Engineer: we
Lando NORRIS: could.
Engineer: Okay Joe, it was not an easy one. You did a good job with the first stint with the medium.
ZHOU Guanyu: Yeah, I don't know what he's saying
Engineer: Obviously, not the race pace or result we're hoping for today. Also, last weekend's not the perfect weekend. We'll analyse both of them and reset ourselves for Melbourne two weeks away.
Charles LECLERC: So P3 was the fastest lap. You've got the fastest lap Yes,
Engineer: good
Charles LECLERC: job well managed For some reason I really struggle to be consistent
Engineer: Yeah,
Charles LECLERC: let's speak about it Yeah, and a huge congrats to Oli, amazing job. Yeah, copy
Engineer: Good job
Alexander ALBON: I mean, because the pace was so low, yeah.
Engineer: Tough day, Alex. There was a point available today, but still a lot of learning to take and we need to find you some more pace in the car.
Alexander ALBON: We should have done a bit more than that. I feel like To be honest, smart with us, that's what they did, but that was a painful race
Engineer: Well done mate, perfect drive, P5
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, well done guys, not easy Happy
Oliver BEARMAN: Thank you Fred and everyone for the opportunity
Engineer: Yeah, tough race Logan, well done. There wasn't a lot of opportunity once we were caught back in traffic.
Logan SARGEANT: Yeah, I feel like I hurt my front right a little bit and Deg the rears off a bit too much. But uh, yeah look back at it
Engineer: See what we did
Yuki TSUNODA: Sorry guys about that, but just didn't have any equipment, so difficult to get in.
Engineer: Sorry, it's been so difficult
Daniel RICCIARDO: We're gonna wake up to get on top of it Yeah, the spin that was that was my fault I just took too much code so yeah,
Engineer: no, it's okay. Thank you
Esteban OCON: Copy guys.
Engineer: Ok mate, a very frustrating one there but well done and well managed. Copy
Esteban OCON: guys, yeah. Yeah it was tricky, it was very tricky but at least I think we got a clear, clear picture of what we need.
Engineer: It
Esteban OCON: is more than obvious this race.
Engineer: Yes mate, understood.
Esteban OCON: Yeah, let's keep at it.
Engineer: Exactly right.
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