Spanish Grand Prix 2024: Practice 1 team radio
56 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Spanish Grand Prix 2024, across 20 drivers. Charles LECLERC 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
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 7 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 5 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 5 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 4 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 4 messages
- Oliver BEARMAN · Haas · 4 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · RB · 4 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 3 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 3 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Kick Sauber · 2 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 2 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 1 message
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 1 message
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 1 message
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Kick Sauber · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: There's 2 minutes 20 so you can turn the engine off when you get down there.
George RUSSELL: I'm happy to do a cruise across the line on the first lap and refinish on the cool down.
Engineer: Okay, Logan tried to bleed a little bit. That's fine. Okay, V-Lim 3 after turn 9. V-Lim 3.
Engineer: And the wind is as expected.
Engineer: So 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 SAINZ: No power. No power.
Engineer: multifunction strat position one multifunction strat position one and all will be fine
Engineer: Ok, we have no one pushing behind, let's focus on this cooldown, position is good.
Engineer: And 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 Guanyu: Shocking a bit on the braking. I feel like the rear is very the car is very high
Engineer: Okay, so the pit
Esteban OCON: lane speed limiter is not very smooth. It's pushing and going back. Understood. Clear pit exit.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, maybe the balance is going a bit towards understeer now. There's more stability, low speed.
Engineer: Ok 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.
Engineer: And Alex, on this lap, if we're not improving, we'll just do a push abort.
Alexander ALBON: I need to drive, I need to learn these two laps.
Engineer: Okay, copy.
Sergio PEREZ: Is there anything wrong with the throttle pedal that we are understeering too much on corner exits?
Engineer: We'll have a talk in the garage.
Engineer: Let me know if we are boxing or you're doing another push.
Charles LECLERC: No, no, now I'm doing another push. Copy.
Engineer: Ok, 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 LECLERC: That guy's horrendous for now, okay,
Engineer: we're having a look
Lando NORRIS: Instability into most corners, pretty poor grip from the rear, and as soon as I have entry instability into all corners, pretty much gone.
Engineer: OK Oscar that's P8, how's the flap?
Oscar PIASTRI: Flap's a bit hard to judge, turn 9 feels quite understeery but everywhere else it's nervous for real
Engineer: The track is clear, you can push on the car just to dry the flovers, but just steady through three.
Engineer: So 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.
Engineer: OK, we'll go recharge on. Recharge on, that's P15.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, got it.
Engineer: Tire 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.
Engineer: Okay, 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 TSUNODA: Warm-up information.
Engineer: Faster 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.
Engineer: Good braking turn 10 please, super important
George RUSSELL: Don't know what Sonata was doing there, I pulled to the right and he just aimed for me
Engineer: And just let me know if you need any flap adjust in the box.
George RUSSELL: How's the pace?
Engineer: Our main loss looks to be speed into turn one.
Fernando ALONSO: Exit curve in turn 9, there was something flying out of the front wind, so better to check.
Engineer: OK, so first question is balance, do we need to do a flap adjust?
Esteban OCON: I don't think so, no, I think that was OK.
Engineer: There
Esteban OCON: is a small amount of bouncing in turn 9. Yeah, the front end was better.
Engineer: OK, 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 NORRIS: probably happy to box I don't think unless people are going quicker but okay
Engineer: Lando in which case we'll box this lap with a hard tyre
Engineer: OK 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 MAGNUSSEN: OK.
Engineer: So, boxing this lap.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Box, box.
Engineer: Pit lane is closed and it should be green now
Engineer: I'm just going into a first timed just having a look at what we can do for RAM structure
Engineer: And we suggest to launch the lap easier 13 and maximize speed in 14.
Engineer: Wind 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 GASLY: All right guys.
Engineer: Okay Piers, so recharge on. Our preference for the tires is double cool. That lap is P10 at the minute. Yeah, just
Pierre GASLY: that I need to know the gap ahead of me. I started with the, I don't know.
Engineer: Okay, copy that.
Charles LECLERC: Who is the Aston Martin?
Engineer: Around you or before Stroll
Charles LECLERC: Well, just in the middle of the corner as always
Charles LECLERC: There 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.
Engineer: Copy.
Esteban OCON: Yeah, grip dropped massively in that lap.
Engineer: Yeah, understood. Let's see what we get after a double cool, see if anything comes back.
Esteban OCON: Yeah, entry turn 4 became loose, turn 9 washed out on this tier.
Engineer: Understood.
George RUSSELL: Why have you put it on track over the next 10 points?
Engineer: It's a good question.
Engineer: Green 10, position 6. Green 10, that's shift 6.
Engineer: OK, so recharge on, watch for Sainz. Sustainable round. I keep pushing I think. OK.
Esteban OCON: If that's OK with you?
Engineer: Yeah, understood mate, I'll let you know if it's not.
Esteban OCON: Yeah, copy. The pace is too slow on single, so... Copy.
Pierre GASLY: Okay, I think something wrong with the car box. Can't drive, it's drivable.
Engineer: Okay, 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 ALONSO: but they will slow down in the last corner, man, so I'm happy here, I think. Yeah,
Engineer: OK, 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 VERSTAPPEN: Can I check in? This is Andy Starling.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: Would you like to try a flap adjust?
Valtteri BOTTAS: I can try, just the tires are going away, so it's actually pretty voidless. It's going around here, so... Okay.
Engineer: Yeah, understood.
Engineer: and then push toggle is available if you need it turn four that's your next step
ZHOU Guanyu: The car is moving quite a bit. It feels a massive difference.
Engineer: OK, Oscar, we've come up 10 turns for an aero test. We've come up 10 turns for an aero test.
Engineer: Okay, Kev, please use DRS on the next lap.
Engineer: It was a bit cheeky.
Engineer: Okay, checkered flag, checkered flag. We'll go around for the practice start.
Oliver BEARMAN: So we stay out and do a practice start?
Engineer: That'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.
Engineer: Okay, you can switch off Oli. Thank you, good job.
Oliver BEARMAN: Thanks 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.
Engineer: Cool, good job. You can jump out.
Oliver BEARMAN: Copy.
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