Singapore Grand Prix 2024: Practice 1 team radio
73 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Singapore Grand Prix 2024, across 18 drivers. 67 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Yuki TSUNODA had the most, with 7.
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
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 7 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 6 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 6 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · RB · 6 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 5 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 5 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Kick Sauber · 4 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 4 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 4 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 3 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 3 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Kick Sauber · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 2 messages
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
ZHOU Guanyu: Yeah, potential change helmet for the next run. It's too dark visor
Engineer: Copy that
Engineer: OK, so four cars out there on the medium at the moment.
Engineer: Wind is as expected.
Engineer: You're still in mode slow, so mode K2 plus, please.
Engineer: Do you push again?
Yuki TSUNODA: No, you don't.
Engineer: Okay.
ZHOU Guanyu: Copy. Better to understand the last sector, but we see a lot
Engineer: of
ZHOU Guanyu: traffic, so... Copy
Engineer: that.
Pierre GASLY: My right mirror has moved
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Brakes are terrible.
Engineer: And you can pre-select SOC 1, currently P2, P1 Tsunoda on medium.
George RUSSELL: Felt quite stiff on the front. I did hit the brakes quite hard, but it's just too low grip currently
Engineer: You want to start from the box or just follow it? Yes please, start from the box in mode RS and you've got your adjuster forward which is fine.
George RUSSELL: Let me know what you want to do with the program, the track is obviously just ramping in quite a lot.
Engineer: It is, do you want to...
Yuki TSUNODA: I feel like every single long straight braking, initial performance of braking is pretty poor. And I think braking performance is coming most at the end of the braking.
Engineer: Ok, Colapinto's coming through, he's 3 seconds back, alright we'll take a look at that so let's watch out for Colapinto, 2 seconds now
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, I think time is getting hot throughout the lap
Engineer: Oscar, consider down on red mid, down on red mid for mid-corner rotation.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: A
Nico HULKENBERG: bit of pulling on the brakes
Engineer: to
Nico HULKENBERG: the left it's not great
Engineer: 16 was a very good corner, 1.6, good job there.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Yuki TSUNODA: Our break is terrible.
Engineer: Understood, Yuki. We're having a look.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: On the next straight, after Ricciardo passes, it will be engine 12, 6th gear.
Engineer: So that lap was P10, but I suggest to box this lap and get onto the soft tyre.
Esteban OCON: There's less bumps on the brakes now. There's still some bumps in the main straight, but less on the brakes
Engineer: What about opening deep mid, Daniel?
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yep, happy to go, 5.
Engineer: Last corner was better. Good job.
Engineer: Orlando, if the oversteering turn 13 was too much, suggest going up on a switch.
Engineer: Is it a double cool or what? It's just going to be a single cool, just getting a long run in.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I don't know what's going on, but between my feet, in some corners they are colder than in others.
Charles LECLERC: Well, that is a very very copy
Engineer: If you do need to do another one for learning.
George RUSSELL: You guys make the call. I'm happy to start. We can start at 4.
Engineer: Block by the red book. Yeah, I don't know what he was doing there
Yuki TSUNODA: especially like 10-15 that you kind of breaking is is
Engineer: it
Yuki TSUNODA: was all on the fully limits
Engineer: Alonso looks slow
Engineer: And Mike says you can try funk 4 from turn 14. Gasly 12 behind, Colapinto 10 ahead.
Engineer: The porting from tires quite damaged already just for info no pressure in front and behind
Sergio PEREZ: I feel like I'm front pitching at the start of braking. Copy.
Engineer: We'll come to you with a suggestion.
ZHOU Guanyu: I had a snap into the voting.
Engineer: In
Yuki TSUNODA: terms of cooldown levels, okay? Do you want me to cooldown the car or the street pit?
Engineer: No, you can box, Yuki, box, box.
Engineer: White H8, position 4. White H8, position 4.
Engineer: You wouldn't like a flapper, just please. You want to stay out. Perez, three seconds.
Engineer: Just to check, you push the pit button, is that on purpose?
Fernando ALONSO: No, to avoid a crash with this car I push the buttons, all the ones I have.
Engineer: Ok Daniel, good effort. So big picture, I think we push a bit too much on entries in a few places, especially second to last sector, and that cost us on exit.
Sergio PEREZ: I got blocked by the other one.
Engineer: Purple default zero alpha. Purple default zero alpha to reset Delta.
George RUSSELL: The front is grabbing a bit during mid-phase of breaking 14
Charles LECLERC: I think it will improve for sure.
Engineer: Yes, but I mean the high fuel has also some important gasoline coming through
Engineer: Can we do a single slow and then a push? If you want to do single slow and push, I'm happy with that.
Yuki TSUNODA: Of course, Stroll, man.
Engineer: Okay, if understeer turn 18-19 is a problem, we'll just go down on the high-speed switch. The open modifier doesn't work there, so just drop high-speed switch down.
Engineer: Missed that last transmission Lewis, but if you can focus on traction, turn 7, 8 and 13.
Lewis HAMILTON: Too much undersea
Engineer: Very well balanced, going ever so slightly rearwards now.
Lance STROLL: Go this lap or do another cool? We think we need to go around again just for temperature.
Engineer: Georgia doing less lift and coast, but more traction management. Traction metrics half.
Engineer: We will have to take a lot of traffic this lap, so we can go nice and steady now, we've got our one in six There will be a lot of cars to come through then there's a big gap behind this group, so
Engineer: just strap 12 strap 12
Lewis HAMILTON: I'm trying to reduce this traction actually. You've got to fix this man, I'll be as soft as I can.
Engineer: Yeah, sure thing Lewis, we'll have you come for the session.
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, I can't stop the car with the front right copy
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, but Carlos
Engineer: should let you through if he doesn't let you through just open the gap. We got a good gap, please yeah,
Charles LECLERC: but then tell him to not slow down to Then then I'm stuck if
Engineer: you keep slowing down all the time. Yes, he's been told
Engineer: Staying up for the grid launch, like at some point we need to learn first So we need to do a first second shift with recharge off somewhere
Engineer: It's okay with the modem with my bias because it looks very extreme force. Yeah. Yeah, we want to test it now
Charles LECLERC: Last timelapse for the high fuel runoff?
Engineer: So best lap times, it was 38.7
Charles LECLERC: Okay
Engineer: 37.4 Albon on hard, so there's a bit of a mix
Charles LECLERC: But all the other runners are on hard or soft? The lap times you told me before
Engineer: Every, I've only told you hard runners
Charles LECLERC: Ah okay okay, that makes more sense please, how it plays I think
Carlos SAINZ: We need to sort out the brakes. Cannot be that we change the brake balance so much.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: Reach hard, John, please. Purple C3, position 2. C3, position 2, third gear.
Engineer: Two burnouts, two burnouts.
Yuki TSUNODA: Man, everything is too late.
Engineer: Yuki, we're trying our best here.
Daniel RICCIARDO: It found the revs really quickly like with only a little bit of pedal and then when I released it kept staying on
Daniel RICCIARDO: Just checked that, that was really weird, throttle just went on itself, felt like it got stuck on the first pre-start.
Engineer: OK copy that.
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