Singapore Grand Prix 2024: Qualifying team radio
22 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the Singapore Grand Prix 2024, across 12 drivers. Max VERSTAPPEN had the most, with 5.
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
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 5 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 3 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 2 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 1 message
- Franco COLAPINTO · Williams · 1 message
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 1 message
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 1 message
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 1 message
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 1 message
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Lewis HAMILTON: You're signing up.
Engineer: Copy.
George RUSSELL: You've got no f*** with me, it's totally different to FB3, totally different, these tyres are so different
Max VERSTAPPEN: Unbelievable. Bunch of idiots, man. We are in the way everywhere.
Sergio PEREZ: What is going on?
Engineer: This is the best for our outlap. We can do what we want here.
Alexander ALBON: What are we doing with the fires? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
George RUSSELL: Man, I'm still really struggling out here, don't know where all this grip has gone since practice.
Engineer: Affirm, understood.
Engineer: Tough, tough quality Alex, you did everything you could. We'll have a look through that, there's more to come.
Engineer: Really tight, really tight. I'm really sorry. Yeah, sorry. Franco, it's a good lap. You put it together. I don't think we were quite there on all the tyres, but well done on your side. Everything you could have done is there.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, I don't know if it was called tires per tier, or it was fixed
Engineer: up.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Why did my laptop get deleted? I passed before it was red.
Engineer: We're just looking into that, mate.
Engineer: If the car in front of you play games, you are allowed to overtake him after the pit exit.
Engineer: You may need to do some work on your outlap in terms of track position. You
Max VERSTAPPEN: mean past cars?
Engineer: Yeah.
Engineer: Okay mate, that was Paul.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, well done. Difficult lap. Difficult to drive but... Well done everyone.
Lewis HAMILTON: Great recovery guys, mega work, good one in the garage, great work, thank you so much for the effort, getting the cars ready, love the changes.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, too much on this right again, struggling a lot with that on traction.
Engineer: It's
Max VERSTAPPEN: the rear man, it's just hopping and pancing.
Engineer: Okay, copy that. Hard luck, it's a front row though mate, it's a good effort. Could have been pole today, but it's a good effort. Game on tomorrow. Well, I mean, let's
Max VERSTAPPEN: be realistic, I think being PT is really, really good. Yeah, good effort, I mean I'm happy with front row, I take that.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, too much on this right again, struggling a lot with that traction.
Engineer: With which sorry Max? Just
Max VERSTAPPEN: the rear man, it's just hopping and bouncing.
Engineer: Okay, coming up.
Engineer: We will need some braking and going back into throttle when
Charles LECLERC: you can. Why the front were minus 10 when I got out the box? They weren't ready going into throttle, they weren't ready at all.
Charles LECLERC: P10, P8, P9
Engineer: P9 Our lap time was cancelled as well
Charles LECLERC: F*** We
Engineer: will need some braking and going back into throttle
Charles LECLERC: Why the front were minus 10 when I got out the box? They weren't ready going into throttle, they weren't ready at all
Engineer: So this is important, we need some braking and then some pick up, please Thank you Thank you and target zero
Charles LECLERC: Ok, so what happened with the front?
Engineer: No answer yet on this
Engineer: Nice work Lewis, so that's a P3 mate, not a bad result considering the weekend we've been having.
Lewis HAMILTON: Great recovery, guys, mega work, good one in the garage, great work, thank you so much for the effort, getting the cars ready for the changes.
Engineer: Well done Lewis, well done for putting it all together.
Lewis HAMILTON: Yeah, that group just wasn't there that lap.
Engineer: Tsunoda 30.35, your P6, Nico, P6. Absolutely blistering. Well
Nico HULKENBERG: done, guys. Nice job. Let's keep it rolling tomorrow. Let's go get it. Let's go!
George RUSSELL: Oh, that was... lost it all at turn 2. Sorry, guys.
Engineer: That was a pretty good lap at the end. P4.
George RUSSELL: OK, well, good recovery after Q1. That was a very, very challenging session.
Fernando ALONSO: You are amazing. Well done everyone in the garage. Tough weekend. Conditions very hot.
Engineer: So
Fernando ALONSO: you are putting a lot of work on the car. Thank you everyone. Very appreciated.
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