Singapore Grand Prix 2024: Race team radio
77 radio messages were recorded during race at the Singapore Grand Prix 2024, across 20 drivers. 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
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 10 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 9 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 8 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 7 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 5 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 4 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 4 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 3 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 3 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Kick Sauber · 2 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 2 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 2 messages
- Franco COLAPINTO · Williams · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Kick Sauber · 1 message
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 1 message
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 1 message
- Daniel RICCIARDO · RB · 1 message
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: And five.
Engineer: And BB plus 1, exit 10-17, push for put-in-tree
Engineer: How's the balance
Engineer: And you were minus one on the last clutch drop.
Engineer: So I have some PU cooling, just to confirm how much flap.
George RUSSELL: Minus one percent.
Charles LECLERC: Left to be dangerous.
Lewis HAMILTON: Is there a lot of people down here, are we ok time-wise?
Engineer: Yeah, copy, we've got 4 minutes remaining, so yeah, should be ok.
George RUSSELL: Chris, the weight revs sound a bit weird when I'm around 9.2 it sounds much higher in pitch
Lance STROLL: Got a vibration when I brake.
Engineer: Copy okay, we see it on the temps.
Lance STROLL: I'll let you know, should
Engineer: improve as the temps come up.
Engineer: Lance, are the brakes any better, or still the same?
Lance STROLL: No, still the same.
Engineer: Copy, okay, we are looking at it.
Engineer: Lance, are the brakes any better or still the same?
Lance STROLL: No, still the same.
Engineer: Copy, OK, we are looking at it.
Lance STROLL: Yeah, the brakes are pretty bad.
Engineer: Yeah, copy, we're going to try and work on the grid, we do see what you're saying.
ZHOU Guanyu: Can somebody clean a little bit my dash? It's water coming from the fan.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, let's do it guys what can happen so let's be on it
George RUSSELL: but you need to increase the pace a bit as the guys at the front are getting away
Alexander ALBON: I think we're just dying, Bob! What's
Engineer: he
Alexander ALBON: doing?
Charles LECLERC: I took a carbon part, on my left side.
Engineer: Car looks fine.
Engineer: Nico, Colapinto is in 9, Sonota 11, so they have a gap to us, so we'll try and extend a bit, extend.
Engineer: Hi Lando, how's the pace?
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, I'm at pace six or something.
Engineer: Okay, in which case, we'd like to use a bit of that pace to try and get a five-second gap to max, if possible, by the mid-teens.
Engineer: But you can see it, Culpinter's struggling. Let's have him.
Engineer: Oscar, looks like plan B at the moment. Plan B.
Oscar PIASTRI: Copy.
Engineer: And Magnussen reporting hard, seems worse than medium competitors.
Engineer: Parrots and Colopinto are fighting. There could be something coming to us. Let's be on it.
Yuki TSUNODA: We have too much information.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: I'm sliding around like hell.
Engineer: Undercut power looks strong, maybe two seconds.
Sergio PEREZ: It's very difficult to find Scolapito.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: And good job on the brakes
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, but they react completely differently
Engineer: I
Lewis HAMILTON: think I clipped the wall on
Engineer: the
Lewis HAMILTON: way into the plane and took
Engineer: a
Lewis HAMILTON: left.
Engineer: at lando for our race we just want to go as long as possible so if we need to look after tires we will we just don't want to be the first person to pit between you and max
Engineer: We are one of the earlier stoppers, but not the earliest. Yeah,
Lewis HAMILTON: so we're way too
Engineer: short.
Charles LECLERC: Oh this is so frustrating, how
Engineer: many laps are we going to do like this? Keep calm
Engineer: Yeah,
Lewis HAMILTON: you're killing me with this offset, mate.
Engineer: Yeah, lots of options like this, they're worse.
Engineer: So it's
Lewis HAMILTON: definitely wrong with the car. Tyres are dropping off.
Engineer: Yep, that's upset. Driven.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Your tyres are quite bad now.
Engineer: Yep, understood. That shouldn't be too long.
Engineer: Okay, mate, this is the race. Let's go
Lando NORRIS: Ah, front wing damage maybe. Maybe front wing damage.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I just don't get it why we let him undercut it by so far. It's just so stupid.
Engineer: We see a small issue with the front wing, nothing serious.
George RUSSELL: I need a bit of
Engineer: a
George RUSSELL: big room to my mate.
Engineer: Yeah, hey Fim, so traction metrics, everything's looking really good at the moment.
Engineer: And these laps are crucial. Keep driving like this.
Engineer: The target lap will be the Plan C target lap. It will be the lap for Plan C.
Oscar PIASTRI: Copy. Front right starting to struggle a bit.
Engineer: Oscar, we're tempted to stay out. That would mean you had to overtake Hamilton after the stop. How would that be?
Oscar PIASTRI: I'm sure it's
Engineer: a
Oscar PIASTRI: great idea.
Engineer: We're pulling Piastri back into our window very slowly. Currently one second unsafe.
Engineer: They will be very tight with Hülkenberg, come on.
Oscar PIASTRI: Getting rid of chicken out
Yuki TSUNODA: What are we waiting for?
Engineer: We are discussing Yuki.
Yuki TSUNODA: Mate!
Engineer: Yuki, we need to stay calm, we need to stay calm. It's clear. Okay, Yuki, I'll tell you what we're doing. We close up and then we swap. We close up and then we swap.
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, I'm gonna tire, dumbass!
Engineer: If you keep this pace, we should catch Hamilton at the end.
Engineer: So the clerk's still doing high 36s out there. There's a chance of interacting at the very end of the race if he can keep that pace up.
Engineer: The tires are looking very good, Nico, very good.
George RUSSELL: Just making sure around here mate.
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, I don't have traction points. I just start bouncing like a kangaroo.
Engineer: Copy that. Keep your head down. Do what you can.
Engineer: Okay, so full concentration. I'll take a drink.
Engineer: How are these tyres for a restart? Question?
Charles LECLERC: I would probably stop.
George RUSSELL: I have understeer, and I have oversteer.
George RUSSELL: Just kiss the wall, then you're all fine. We're right.
Engineer: Hey, Phil. Pressure's looking good at the moment.
Engineer: Russell P1, 36.6 What do you mean Russell P1? I meant Norris, but I didn't want to speak in the corner I
Charles LECLERC: don't care about Norris, give me Russell
Engineer: Just chill out, bring this car home.
Engineer: just a reminder how tricky the following effect is oscar struggled going through three cars be careful
Engineer: Yeah, we do have Norris behind. We're getting flashing blues at present. Let's be sensible where we let him through. Go on, keep pushing.
Charles LECLERC: They have a very good traction again
Engineer: Well done mate, good job.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah lovely job Lee, amazing car, weekend, thank you very much everyone, one of many more, let's keep pushing.
Engineer: Yeah, well done Max. You got every ounce of performance out of that today. So Yeah, eight points down to Lando So you've driven a very strong weekend. And your old pal Daniel picked up a faster slap at the end as well Thank
Max VERSTAPPEN: you, Daniel
Engineer: Yes, he's got a P3. Well done mate, really good. Thank
Oscar PIASTRI: you, well done on the strategy. Worked out nice, and enjoy a little break.
Engineer: Alright, look tricky over there.
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, it's not tricky mate. Oof, no bait at all.
Engineer: OK, well done Lewis mate, that's P6 in that tyre gamble, yeah really shots at the foot there.
Lewis HAMILTON: Yeah, definitely hard to stay positive after that weekend but I'm still grateful to all of you guys, good pit stops and thanks for showing up.
Engineer: Thank you Lewis.
Lewis HAMILTON: Yeah Lewis, sorry we gave the two of you a car that was just not good enough here and obviously we read the race wrong but wouldn't have made a difference if we were just too slow today.
Engineer: That's P9, Nico. Outstanding drive. Perfect drive. Oh boy.
Nico HULKENBERG: I guess nobody said it was easy.
Engineer: It
Nico HULKENBERG: was hard to bring that tire home.
Engineer: Yeah, amazing, Nico. You're pulling away from Perez. Great drive. No safety cars. Unbelievable. Great job, man. P9.
Engineer: Great job there good job with the racing Well managed on those tires as well. I'll get you a nice cold bath ready. George mega defended Sorry, we you haven't had the car to race
George RUSSELL: Thanks, Toto Yeah, good points considering Damage limitation I Need carried to the bath. I am Toasty
Engineer: I
George RUSSELL: kind of drive our holidays guys.
Engineer: I
George RUSSELL: hope it's on the garage as well you
Engineer: amazing job with management and with the toes we saw all of that you really played for the team today well done Joe is Alessandro thank you for the job done today you helped Valtteri giving the DRS for more than 22 laps this is a great teamwork very good thank you Joe great team job yeah that was a bad effort considering the pace this weekend yeah I had a lot more pace than I stayed but I'm happy for doing the teamwork
Alexander ALBON: Brilliant, brilliant race.
Engineer: Good job out there
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, good job guys, some decent points after a tough weekend We will regroup and go again, sorry for all the mechanics and thank you for getting the car back up Yeah, I think we had to do that, or we had to do a pit stop Yeah, exactly Yeah,
Engineer: it should be, would have been difficult But I think that was the right call and a good job with the tires, just in the end there, good lesson also for next races, eventually And good job through the traffic, that was the key of the race, to go through people in the first, second stint It
Carlos SAINZ: was a shame because the start was quite good, but then someone did a bad side move in, didn't wanna Yeah, and then
Engineer: yeah, we lost a bit of grit out of it
Engineer: Ok, obviously we tried and nothing happened out there, so it didn't work out, but I'm glad we tried and I think that was a very well managed change on the medium, very very well managed, so we've done all the right things there and you've got the fastest lap.
Engineer: Tough race, but good charge those last 20 laps. I enjoyed it. I hope you did too.
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, kinda.
Engineer: Yes, he's got a P3, well done mate, really good
Oscar PIASTRI: Yep, well done everyone. I think that was the best I could have done today. So thank you. Well done on the strategy Worked out nicely and Yeah, great points for the team. So thank you and Enjoy a little break
Engineer: So that's P14 at the end. No real incidents there, that's a shame.
Engineer: Great drive PX
Esteban OCON: Yeah, all done to get to to the finish there and
Engineer: a well driven a well managed race, so thank you for that
Engineer: Tough day out there, mate. We've had a tough weekend. Sorry about that. We'll use these next few weeks to recover, come back stronger in Texas. Staying out long, did try and help the other car. Unfortunately, Esteban finished P13. So I appreciate your help today, but we'll talk more about it later.
Pierre GASLY: Sacrificed. It's okay. Take it for the team. You guys decide what to do.
Engineer: I
Pierre GASLY: guess we needed to do it. Just need to sort this car out because it's not okay. It's not good enough. But thank you, guys. Tough conditions for the weekend. I know you did your best. Now, please look at the car and just find a way to make it faster because last weekend's been very tough.
Engineer: Yep. Agree, mate. Car's not good enough, so we will keep pushing. Try and give you a better car to work with. But... Thanks for your efforts.
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