Spanish Grand Prix 2024: Practice 3 team radio
54 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Spanish Grand Prix 2024, across 19 drivers. Lewis HAMILTON had the most, with 8.
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
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 8 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 5 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 5 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 4 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 3 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 3 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 3 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 3 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 2 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 2 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Kick Sauber · 1 message
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 1 message
- Daniel RICCIARDO · RB · 1 message
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: And circuit's all clear.
Engineer: Ok, so we'll go for the double call, you're only car on track, so all clear.
Engineer: So as compared to yesterday, only loss looks turn four, looks two or three tenths there, but good gain at turn five. Everything else is probably within the noise in terms of track evo.
Lewis HAMILTON: 10-4EZ, two or three tenths
Engineer: Yeah, we're just looking at the offload, the telemetry overlay, we're just going off GPS, but we'll get you an updated number You don't need to drive through, right? You don't need to drive through, but we're here if you need us
Engineer: Yeah, so looking at the... Go ahead.
Lewis HAMILTON: I was going to say, what target turn should I do?
Engineer: As you were previous lap, so they were good.
Lewis HAMILTON: No, but the second one I mean.
Engineer: Yes, 75 front and 74 rear is the target. And looking at the telemetry data, it looks like it's more the loss at turn 5 entry, so peak braking and mid-speed.
Engineer: OK, double slow please Max. Let's see if you'd like to assess another step on the more aggressive tools.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, let's try it.
Engineer: Understood. So, V-BAL 6 and the same toggle schedule, V-BAL 6, double slow. Would you like a front flap adjustment?
Max VERSTAPPEN: No, that's good.
Engineer: OK, understood. All cars behind on outlaps.
Engineer: So procedure is good Lance, it'll be a live stop onto a medium, we'll do the same again.
Yuki TSUNODA: The ballast is not in the right place.
Engineer: Understood.
Lance STROLL: Can you get me a knee pad prepared for the next run, I have some knee pain. Yeah, copy that Lance, we'll prepare that as understood.
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, very poor drivability, getting back on throttle out of 4. OK,
Engineer: from our side, turn 4, drivability looks good, just a bit overambitious late entry speed.
Sergio PEREZ: It was on throttle, it was on throttle, picking up the throttle.
Engineer: Feedback when you're ready.
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, very poor drivability. Getting back on throttle out of 4. Quite poor.
Engineer: OK, from our side, turn 4, drivability looks good. Just a bit overambitious late entry speed.
George RUSSELL: Can we just get a bit of foam for a bit of knee padding, please?
Engineer: Yeah, I can.
Engineer: I
Nico HULKENBERG: think we need double cools, don't really come down much yet.
Engineer: Okay, no problem.
Nico HULKENBERG: It's much less gusty and windy than yesterday, right?
Engineer: Yes, same direction but much less magnitude.
Engineer: V-charge on and we'll box at the end of this lap.
Sergio PEREZ: Yep, getting back on throttle and high speed support was quite a bit worse this lap around.
Charles LECLERC: Good job on the cow. It's a quick step forward.
Engineer: Happy to hear that.
Engineer: Oscar, thoughts on front wing? I
Oscar PIASTRI: think probably need to go up a little bit. Turn 9 and the last corner felt pretty understeery.
Engineer: Copy. So let's come through the pits, we'll box this lap. How much would you like to add? Watch for Magnussen, sorry late call.
Oscar PIASTRI: Probably one, one and a half.
Engineer: Copy.
Nico HULKENBERG: I don't know, it's not happening. The 1 feels very rear limited, like too much aero balance, but afterwards not so bad.
Engineer: There's definitely wind from outside in 3 which isn't helping through there, and obviously 2 is oversteer which hurts the rear. Maybe it's just the grip of this tire.
Engineer: Yeah, Ken, seeing that the rear's going a bit, suggest increasing management at turn 9 a little bit to try and help it.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Yeah, I'm also just getting traffic all the time. Sure,
Engineer: understood.
Engineer: What do you think about flap?
Alexander ALBON: It's good. I don't really know where to go with balance. I think engine through two and three is good as well. I don't need a change there.
Engineer: Okay, copy that.
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, double call. The traction out of two is...
Engineer: Hamilton fast behind now, one, that's okay. And then Albon is two behind. Then you've got a bit of a gap. Okay, so everyone behind now is slow. Yeah, there is tailwind as
Fernando ALONSO: you come through. Yeah, yeah, for everybody.
Engineer: So we do think that double call is the right thing as well. So nice and slow now.
George RUSSELL: The leg pattern's loose, front left.
Engineer: Copy.
Lance STROLL: Some of the tyres were just gone after one push.
Engineer: Yeah, it looks very extreme, a lot of people aren't improving actually.
Engineer: Yeah, warm all up.
Esteban OCON: Yeah, clipping last corner was pretty big actually.
Engineer: Understood.
ZHOU Guanyu: I would not do another one, because it's just getting worse and worse grip.
Engineer: Copy Joe, we'll go just for the layer rubber.
Engineer: Back out the flap, or we've got Woody's diff test.
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, what about the, we try the alternative, front wing?
Engineer: Negative, and not available at this stage.
Engineer: OK STM, brake temps all under control, thank you for that, we are driving through to the end of the pit lane, we'd like one burnout and a start please. So driving straight through, one burnout and a start.
Engineer: And we'll go recharge on. Recharge on and we'll box this lap.
Pierre GASLY: OK, they don't like it.
Engineer: OK, we can revert on that, no problem. We'd like to come into the pit lane and we'll do a start from the box. So no need for an aero cruise this one, so box this lap.
Yuki TSUNODA: How was the target?
Engineer: You were baseline minus one.
Yuki TSUNODA: Don't
Engineer: know
Yuki TSUNODA: why I have so much will spin.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: Oscar, the other car bought into Turn 7. They got caught out by a gust of tailwind into Turn 7.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Is Piastro on his first slow, or second?
Engineer: It's a bit strange, he's done an out lap and he's going slowly on his first time lap, so I'm guessing he's going to go for it on the next lap.
Engineer: Ok, we do a drive through the pit lane, do you need a flap adjust?
Logan SARGEANT: Negative
Engineer: Ok, copy that
Engineer: Lando, even if the next lap is poor, it'd be really good to come around the final corner.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, understood.
Engineer: So comparing the two, Nico carried, braked a little bit later, gained a tenth under braking for turn one, and he carried a bit more apex speed through turn ten. That's the places you lost out to.
Engineer: Yeah, maybe some gravel down exit turn two. Sorry, turn 12. A few cars have gone over it already.
Engineer: Okay, track is showing slippery, turn 12 exit, that could be gravel.
Engineer: Just have a look there's a slippery track exit of 12 possibly a little bit of gravel on the exit curve of 12 So have a look now as you come through Few cars have already been through that Slargent is going too slow. Slargent will be going into a slow. Yeah
Engineer: and biggest loss turn 10 is worth a couple of tenths turn 12 another tenth strong start to the lap
Lewis HAMILTON: All right, that's
Engineer: the
Lewis HAMILTON: end. My bad.
Lance STROLL: Yeah, I think he's alone on the track.
Engineer: And target is blue 3, before turn 10, nobody behind
Yuki TSUNODA: Remind me, or feedback Yeah
Engineer: And Daniel, turn 1, 2, 3, anything we need to look at there? We didn't see a jump.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, I was going to say, that was weird, I felt no difference, even with the other switches, I didn't gain anything.
Engineer: What do you mean, sorry, anything in terms of grip? Nope, no
Daniel RICCIARDO: I didn't feel any difference compared to the previous tyre, it only came later.
Engineer: Yeah, we think we had more headwind before turn 1, but what about car speed in GLS?
Yuki TSUNODA: And I think also last corner, I think battery was gone and I lost quite a lot. Two.
Engineer: Yep.
Yuki TSUNODA: One.
Engineer: Behind. Yeah, battery will... It was not good, so we'll have a fix for the next. Where I'm losing? Box, box, through the pit lane, through the pit lane to cool the tyre, through the pit lane and we go out again.
Sergio PEREZ: Ok, no immediate threat, so balance feedback when you can. Yeah, one thing, I ran out of battery towards the end of the lap. Yeah,
Engineer: we can clear your
Sergio PEREZ: balance feedback, we can take care of that. In terms of the balance, I was just... The rotation on the front end was getting better, together with the entry stability. I think I was missing a bit of entry stability. Do you need more low speed stability?
Engineer: If
Sergio PEREZ: so, no problem. Yes.
Yuki TSUNODA: What's the point while we're doing one more push?
Engineer: Yu-Gi-Oh will stay out to do the start at the end So we can do one more. If you don't want to, we come through the pit lane, we do starts now.
Yuki TSUNODA: I can try.
Engineer: Brake shape 0, we suggest, and open diff for 5, 7 and 10.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, I don't agree, I'm certainly more with the rotations than the diff.
Engineer: Ok, you can use more of the track in exit turn 10.
Engineer: Yes, we've seen it
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, he just drove into me. I think I've got damage. Okay, understood.
Engineer: I think Lando may have some damage after some contact with Leclerc.
Esteban OCON: Yeah copy, the stability in 3 and 1 and 7 is not the best also The understeer mid corner was better with the flap
Engineer: OK mate, I understand We'll have a good look through the data when we're in, decide where we go from here OK, well I managed that session, a few procedures and things to do as well, so quite a busy one, thank you for that So we're going to the grid and we'll do a start on the left hand side And we'll be pushing to pit entry once again I'll let you know about burnouts when we're there We'll be right back
Engineer: This could probably be the most relevant launch of the weekend, Max, so make use of it.
Engineer: I don't understand why they do that. I think he blocked that as well.
Engineer: you approach the back if we can have launch map on then it'll be one plus one burnout conservative left hand side that's one plus one conservative left hand side
Lando NORRIS: conservative or standard conservative please
Pierre GASLY: Copy. We've got to do something for these brakes because they are really bad.
Engineer: OK, mate.
Alexander ALBON: You've got to be careful with the brakes, because I was abusing them a bit.
Engineer: Yeah, we should have guys there with fans. Temps are okay from outside.
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