Singapore Grand Prix 2024: Practice 3 team radio
60 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Singapore Grand Prix 2024, across 19 drivers. 54 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. George RUSSELL had the most, with 12.
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 · 12 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 7 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 6 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 6 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 5 messages
- Franco COLAPINTO · Williams · 4 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 3 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 2 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Kick Sauber · 2 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 1 message
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Kick Sauber · 1 message
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 1 message
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 1 message
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Daniel RICCIARDO · RB · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: So we are told the track is clear, but just have a look for the lizard.
Fernando ALONSO: No, it's in the middle of the track.
Engineer: Where
George RUSSELL: do you want me? On tyres?
Engineer: So
George RUSSELL: targeting plus six
Engineer: You have a 12-second gap ahead. Shouldn't be too bad for bunching.
Engineer: We started the lap with quite low rear tyre temp still so let's see if we get an improvement on the next lap
Esteban OCON: Yeah, copy. At the moment very bad instability on the turn-ins.
Engineer: OK, copy that, understood.
Engineer: So snap turn three looks to be costing a couple of tenths looks like initiated from that front pinch
George RUSSELL: My dash isn't updating, yeah,
Engineer: my dash isn't updating. Stop at two.
Oscar PIASTRI: Balance already feels better than yesterday.
Engineer: First pushing will be Ricardo, 11 behind.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Everyone is just in the way, the whole lap. I can't, it's much better though.
Esteban OCON: Yeah, the rear was a little bit better, but still it's quite loose I think on entries. Understood, Hamilton.
Engineer: Sliding of the grip. We think mid plus one for the slide.
Engineer: okay so exit of turn three we could gain some time we've got torque 10 available torque 10
Pierre GASLY: Wow, that was very very close
George RUSSELL: I need a change of gloves for the next stint Aye
Engineer: club
Max VERSTAPPEN: Every time that Mac's steering lock at the entrance of corners, I lose the rear.
Engineer: Understood.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
George RUSSELL: So, just had a lot of traffic, sector 1. Understood. Still struggling in the last corner with understeer.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: How much of a step do you want, Max Herr? We can either recommend you torque 7 or mid 7 or both. I think we should try a quarter then, see what it does. Yep, OK. Then torque 7 and mid 7, please. And you have Piastri at 5.
Yuki TSUNODA: We were looking at everything. Turn 14, I felt a bit of, I don't know, we were looking all instability. Second fish was a bit more instability on the nose.
George RUSSELL: Still pretty understeery in turn three. I got him.
Engineer: And then the other one, if possible somewhere, can you do a first to second upshift with recharge off? Hamilton time lap just left turn nine and Verstappen six seconds behind him.
Engineer: I
Franco COLAPINTO: started to lose arrears towards the end of the lap, 16 I was starting with the rear. With the lap I think I would still go up for the new set again.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
ZHOU Guanyu: I think what we can do is to change, because it's feeling too much sliding, both back and front. Yeah, we can talk in the garage.
Pierre GASLY: What's the other car's time?
Engineer: So Esteban's lap was a 33.3 That
Pierre GASLY: was the last lap
Engineer: so you've done an extra lap compared to him so on the fourth lap Same tire age you guys were doing identical lap times
Engineer: We will need a full lap on NG1 at the rest of the course.
Engineer: Five to Perez. Strat one and double call here. Targeting minus 50.
Engineer: okay go switch the clerk in three okay go switch to go in you got the clerk opening six clerk in three that's empty on
Engineer: 2-2 Verstappen ahead, okay maybe a gap to the red ball ahead, number gap, minimum 7 SC2. Matthias will be slow, Hamilton slow as well in sync, so it's 5.
Engineer: Three and a half in terms of sectors two and a half sector one three and a half in the middle
Engineer: the 30 point so piastri on the soft
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: I'm no threat behind you, Castrian sync with you behind. I'm no threat behind you.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: It's just the rear is getting out of control. It's that turn 5 step.
Engineer: And 10th, 17th, mid-speed.
Lewis HAMILTON: That's still too late.
Engineer: There is Hamilton and science in turn 13. I've got a feeling science is gonna pit So I don't think you'll be there and I think the clerks gonna pit so it should be relatively clear ahead of you
George RUSSELL: Turns one two three the GPS my dash isn't working so you
Engineer: just stay on it for that sector. Yeah
George RUSSELL: Very surprised more people are on the soft already.
Engineer: Yeah, Max is out there now. He's just done a 30.5
Engineer: Yeah, I cook the rear 63 at D4 as well. Yeah, I think there's a bit of being a bit more patient in that sector one. Not get the snap, that's also hurting the rest of the lap. But we'll talk when you're back.
Engineer: Adelando, thoughts on front wing?
Lando NORRIS: Very much so.
Engineer: And I know if you want to... We can try the front wing. OK.
Lance STROLL: I did the press of K0, tell me if it's enough.
Engineer: Yeah, so as you are now, it's fine.
Engineer: see
Lewis HAMILTON: there's still 10 minutes left
Engineer: uh copy yeah we'll get one more push and then we'll need to go for the start
Engineer: Everything alright?
George RUSSELL: Yeah, yeah. Well, no, I went straight on, but otherwise I'm okay.
Engineer: Targeting zero. Hulkenberg four behind. Let's start working the fronts.
Engineer: It was 1 tenths straight line braking turn 10, 1 tenths minimum speed turn 11.
Engineer: Decent improvements there Lewis, improved on sector 2 and sector 3.
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, let's focus on driving instead of focusing about scrub and whatsoever. And to be honest, about feeling also, because the feeling is ******, we are very slow.
Engineer: Do
Lando NORRIS: I have time to go to the toilet or not?
Engineer: Not really, if you're super fast, ideally not.
Charles LECLERC: I just have no grip.
Engineer: Okay, so we can keep pushing if you want if you want to keep pushing we can do one more
Engineer: Got Perez behind.
Franco COLAPINTO: You sick over here? Yeah, don't worry. Don't worry.
Engineer: Just take the flag
George RUSSELL: That last corner is still a limitation.
Engineer: multifunction ERS position one multifunction ERS position one
Engineer: And Lando, before you jump out, I know you want to jump out, if it was trying to achieve targets, this one or a more conservative one?
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