Spanish Grand Prix2024 · Practice 1 team radio

EngineerThere's 2 minutes 20 so you can turn the engine off when you get down there.

George RUSSELLI'm happy to do a cruise across the line on the first lap and refinish on the cool down.

EngineerOkay, Logan tried to bleed a little bit. That's fine. Okay, V-Lim 3 after turn 9. V-Lim 3.

EngineerAnd the wind is as expected.

EngineerSo you can go into mode RS to leave the box to a practice start from the box and remember we are adding aero balance

Carlos SAINZNo power. No power.

Engineermultifunction strat position one multifunction strat position one and all will be fine

EngineerOk, we have no one pushing behind, let's focus on this cooldown, position is good.

EngineerAnd so currently a P5, it's 7.5 tenths to George P1. Main loss is 1 tenth exit turn 5 and then 10.5 exit turn 12.

ZHOU GuanyuShocking a bit on the braking. I feel like the rear is very the car is very high

EngineerOkay, so the pit

Esteban OCONlane speed limiter is not very smooth. It's pushing and going back. Understood. Clear pit exit.

Carlos SAINZYeah, maybe the balance is going a bit towards understeer now. There's more stability, low speed.

EngineerOk Daniel, we can consider one more lap on this tyre and reduce the number of laps on the next tyre, it looks like it's going to be a single push.

EngineerAnd Alex, on this lap, if we're not improving, we'll just do a push abort.

Alexander ALBONI need to drive, I need to learn these two laps.

EngineerOkay, copy.

Sergio PEREZIs there anything wrong with the throttle pedal that we are understeering too much on corner exits?

EngineerWe'll have a talk in the garage.

EngineerLet me know if we are boxing or you're doing another push.

Charles LECLERCNo, no, now I'm doing another push. Copy.

EngineerOk, let's try to have a bit of a read on that flop, but if you still feel the same limitation, we can do the push to goal turn 4. So compared to Yuki, he's V-ing the corner more in turn 1 still, but what we did in the previous lap was better.

Charles LECLERCThat guy's horrendous for now, okay,

Engineerwe're having a look

Lando NORRISInstability into most corners, pretty poor grip from the rear, and as soon as I have entry instability into all corners, pretty much gone.

EngineerOK Oscar that's P8, how's the flap?

Oscar PIASTRIFlap's a bit hard to judge, turn 9 feels quite understeery but everywhere else it's nervous for real

EngineerThe track is clear, you can push on the car just to dry the flovers, but just steady through three.

EngineerSo this position's good, let's stay ahead of Sergeant if we can, he might be on the way in and it'll just be go on after turn 13.

EngineerOK, we'll go recharge on. Recharge on, that's P15.

Pierre GASLYYeah, got it.

EngineerTire position 2 for the hand, tire position 2 for the medium, sorry, tire position 2 for the medium, Russell going out, and all clear, all clear.

EngineerOkay, that's a different timing. I think we should aim to get this lap done. The temps are coming down quite nicely, so it'll be go on after turn 13.

Yuki TSUNODAWarm-up information.

EngineerFaster outlap than before, sorry, slower outlap than before, slower outlap, target is plus 5 and let's say 3 green, 3 blue, 3 blue, plus 5.

EngineerGood braking turn 10 please, super important

George RUSSELLDon't know what Sonata was doing there, I pulled to the right and he just aimed for me

EngineerAnd just let me know if you need any flap adjust in the box.

George RUSSELLHow's the pace?

EngineerOur main loss looks to be speed into turn one.

Fernando ALONSOExit curve in turn 9, there was something flying out of the front wind, so better to check.

EngineerOK, so first question is balance, do we need to do a flap adjust?

Esteban OCONI don't think so, no, I think that was OK.

EngineerThere

Esteban OCONis a small amount of bouncing in turn 9. Yeah, the front end was better.

EngineerOK, that's good. Riccardo, three and a half now, time lap. Looks like most cars on these softer two compounds are considering double cools at the moment.

Lando NORRISprobably happy to box I don't think unless people are going quicker but okay

EngineerLando in which case we'll box this lap with a hard tyre

EngineerOK Kev, I think we're going to have to go to the heavy fuel load now, because if we do another run on low fuel we're not going to have any time for heavy fuel laps at all. Yeah,

Kevin MAGNUSSENOK.

EngineerSo, boxing this lap.

Kevin MAGNUSSENBox, box.

EngineerPit lane is closed and it should be green now

EngineerI'm just going into a first timed just having a look at what we can do for RAM structure

EngineerAnd we suggest to launch the lap easier 13 and maximize speed in 14.

EngineerWind phase 9 slightly small rotation from 10 and you can open the gap as much as you need not sure the fuel level of the cars around you

Pierre GASLYAll right guys.

EngineerOkay Piers, so recharge on. Our preference for the tires is double cool. That lap is P10 at the minute. Yeah, just

Pierre GASLYthat I need to know the gap ahead of me. I started with the, I don't know.

EngineerOkay, copy that.

Charles LECLERCWho is the Aston Martin?

EngineerAround you or before Stroll

Charles LECLERCWell, just in the middle of the corner as always

Charles LECLERCThere was something strange with the clutch when I came in. I kept the clutch and the rear tires locked up completely and then went again when I was stopping for the box now.

EngineerCopy.

Esteban OCONYeah, grip dropped massively in that lap.

EngineerYeah, understood. Let's see what we get after a double cool, see if anything comes back.

Esteban OCONYeah, entry turn 4 became loose, turn 9 washed out on this tier.

EngineerUnderstood.

George RUSSELLWhy have you put it on track over the next 10 points?

EngineerIt's a good question.

EngineerGreen 10, position 6. Green 10, that's shift 6.

EngineerOK, so recharge on, watch for Sainz. Sustainable round. I keep pushing I think. OK.

Esteban OCONIf that's OK with you?

EngineerYeah, understood mate, I'll let you know if it's not.

Esteban OCONYeah, copy. The pace is too slow on single, so... Copy.

Pierre GASLYOkay, I think something wrong with the car box. Can't drive, it's drivable.

EngineerOkay, so I'm just looking, if we do a single call and then get into a consecutive, we'll get four, maybe five in a row. Yeah, yeah, single call. Yeah, copy. Just consider locking up the switches a bit for the high fuel, or for the consecutive. Piastri pushing three behind, followed by Verstappen. And we'll go to Strat 7 when you can. So Piastri and then Verstappen is only two behind him. So Verstappen close, and then you've got a bit of gap. So clearest gap is 20 seconds back, so I'm happy to let a load of cars through on this one, and we can get to the back of this train. No,

Fernando ALONSObut they will slow down in the last corner, man, so I'm happy here, I think. Yeah,

EngineerOK, yeah. So you've got four seconds back to the cars behind. So Berman is two behind pushing, there's three, and then there's a four-second gap. Yeah, OK, you tell me. Yeah, so let the three behind, and we'll use that four-second gap back to Magnussen.

Max VERSTAPPENCan I check in? This is Andy Starling.

EngineerUnderstood.

EngineerWould you like to try a flap adjust?

Valtteri BOTTASI can try, just the tires are going away, so it's actually pretty voidless. It's going around here, so... Okay.

EngineerYeah, understood.

Engineerand then push toggle is available if you need it turn four that's your next step

ZHOU GuanyuThe car is moving quite a bit. It feels a massive difference.

EngineerOK, Oscar, we've come up 10 turns for an aero test. We've come up 10 turns for an aero test.

EngineerOkay, Kev, please use DRS on the next lap.

EngineerIt was a bit cheeky.

EngineerOkay, checkered flag, checkered flag. We'll go around for the practice start.

Oliver BEARMANSo we stay out and do a practice start?

EngineerThat's correct, we're going around to the grid, so you can go into mode slow, we'll do a start on the left-hand side. One burnout, one burnout. Make sure it's clear ahead, the box ahead before you do your start. So mode slow, one burnout, left-hand side, and mode RS for the start.

EngineerOkay, you can switch off Oli. Thank you, good job.

Oliver BEARMANThanks for that. Yeah, just a bit messy, the long run I did a mistake in the 10-4, I guess you saw it. After that, it was a good lap to get back the the rear temperature, so very interesting. But no, thank you very much, it was nice out there.

EngineerCool, good job. You can jump out.

Oliver BEARMANCopy.