Spanish Grand Prix 2024: Race team radio
135 radio messages were recorded during race at the Spanish Grand Prix 2024, across 20 drivers. 132 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Lando NORRIS had the most, with 14.
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
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 14 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 12 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 11 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 10 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 9 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 9 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 8 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 8 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 7 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 7 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 6 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 6 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 5 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 4 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 4 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Kick Sauber · 3 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 3 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · RB · 3 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Kick Sauber · 3 messages
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Box now Nico box now drive through for practice start
Engineer: Box, Kev, box. Do you want a front wing adjustment?
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Minus 0.5.
Engineer: Copy that. Boxing this lap for front wing adjustment.
Engineer: So box box passing through the pit lane for a start from the end
Engineer: Let's take some balance out. Okay, so stop on your marks, keep the engine running. How much? Minus 0.4 Copy that.
Engineer: So it feels like the wind has picked up strongest of the weekend
Engineer: Clutch drop one percent, two light.
Esteban OCON: Clutch drop is biting a little bit, a bit rough.
Engineer: Understood, lift into ten if you want to attack pit entry.
Engineer: And we need secondary charge position 14 secondary charge position 14
Charles LECLERC: Now this thing's urgent I would rather have this kind of I've
Engineer: been told yes, but we go through now the pits and do a start
Charles LECLERC: charge what
Engineer: We just go through charge one for one for 14 and we pass through for a start at the end. Thank you And you were faster everywhere except 10 750 milliseconds
Charles LECLERC: Please no message in corners anymore. I've lost already quite a bit between turn 5 and everything so let me do it and we focus on driving later on just let me know if I'm faster or slower in the pit lane and then the changes that are urgent but not in corners
Engineer: March was on target.
Engineer: Okay, let's look for the mechanics at the back of the grid and once stopped we can go to P1 and stay in P1
Oscar PIASTRI: I need someone to change the right mirror angle a bit, it's a bit different from yesterday
Engineer: and
Oscar PIASTRI: to be honest even the left one a little bit as well
Engineer: Copy that, we'll do that in your grid slot
Engineer: OK mate, test the drinkskate if you can please, any issues at all? No, no issues. Perfect, thank you. OK, see you on the grid shortly. Yeah, the balance of the first lap was good, and then the second lap became a bit loose on the entries of 5, of 4, of 10. Dropping the flaps didn't seem to really do much. Copy that, OK. But yeah, understeer 9 remains. OK, understood. We'll have a look at the balance here, and then you can have a look with Stu back in the garage as well. Yeah, it's all the entry on the brakes which were loose. Copy that.
Engineer: Turn 1 and turn 5 we do see a different wind from the inside, it should be quite neutral there, from the outside.
Engineer: Should have reminded you, but Albon's starting from the pit lane, so there's only three cars behind you.
Engineer: Okay, so everybody is on soft tyres except for Hamilton P3 on a medium and Albon P3 pit lane on a medium. Two people medium, Hamilton P3, Albon P3 pit lane.
Engineer: Oscar, the only car on medium ahead of you is Hamilton. All the other cars on soft. Have a good race. Oscar, correction to my tire info. Hamilton is used soft. It has changed since he appeared.
Oscar PIASTRI: Okay, so everyone on soft? On
Engineer: the grid, yes. Albon from the pits on new medium.
Oscar PIASTRI: Okay, and
Engineer: is Alonso new soft? Yes, correct. New soft, Alonso.
Oscar PIASTRI: Okay.
Engineer: And if you can check your mic, you're a bit quiet still.
Engineer: So max tire update. Currently the live information we're getting through is that Lando is starting the race on his new set of soft tires. Other cars behind you on scrub. Sorry, Mercedes behind you on scrub. Both Ferraris also new soft.
Engineer: And Lando, if you could target minus two on the dash. Target is minus two on the dash.
Engineer: Lovely move for Stapp and Carboheim, 0.8.
Engineer: Might be our best opportunity now, Max. Think wisely.
Charles LECLERC: Ah, he closed on me, Carlos.
Engineer: For turn four, consider top left toggle and brake balance reminder are the car 1% forwards.
Carlos SAINZ: He touched me, he collided and forced me up. He touched my rear right, so I was clearly ahead.
Max VERSTAPPEN: You can push yourself through the grass!
Engineer: Understood.
Valtteri BOTTAS: For your info, the pace feels good in this train. I'm managing a lot.
Engineer: Okay, understood. That's good.
George RUSSELL: He's going to push us very hard.
Engineer: Yeah understood George, just need to manage where we're not going to be under threat.
Engineer: So time loss only straight line and turn 13 and 14 obviously George pushing to keep Lando behind
Engineer: The tide temp's still coming up.
Yuki TSUNODA: So much understand high speed
Engineer: Let's do full lift for engine braking
Engineer: I just confirmed pushing level. More
George RUSSELL: than the others.
Engineer: So we're happy with management so far, Bottas is out of DRS, he's 1.3 back, just have a think about it. From our side Lance, it's more lift and coast, we'll help, more lift and coast.
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, I can't get closer, it's too much.
Engineer: And Lando, opportunity mined late under rotations, turn 5, Russell has been told to push, how's the tyres, how's the pace?
Lando NORRIS: Yeah all good, just too much dirt here at the minute, I can't do anything.
Engineer: This is lap 11, we're currently looking at plant A+, Degg is good for us.
Alexander ALBON: You've got your engine okay? It's already down on power.
Engineer: Okay, we're checking. Okay, all okay on our side of PU. We suggest mode 7 and then use overtake.
Engineer: So wind is dying down a bit now and pace is picking up
Engineer: Okay, let's use up the tire, Nico.
Nico HULKENBERG: Yeah, this tire is going. There's not much left here. Let's not lose too much time on this.
Engineer: Yeah, copy that. I'll add a little bit for the next tire.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Got a bit of a moment at 7
Alexander ALBON: What does that mean? Where am I now?
Engineer: Okay, currently level one, so increase to level two.
Engineer: Lando, if we think free air might help, we're considering Boxster Overtight. Yeah, I'm way quicker, I'm stuck, let's do something.
Engineer: OK, great stop, Hülkenberg six seconds behind currently, he boxed the lap before. Racing Perez behind.
Engineer: Lando, if we think free air might help, we're considering boxed or overtake.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, very quick, I'm stuck, let's do something.
Engineer: Okay Lando, let's try boxed or overtake, boxed or overtake. And Lando, stay out please, stay out.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Yeah, this side is really not good. Really not good.
Engineer: Copy that, Kev. Car ahead of you is Joe, doing 21.9. You have a five-second penalty for a jump start.
Engineer: Lando, it's possible we could cover Russell this lap. What do you think?
Lando NORRIS: No, I think we need to go good max.
Yuki TSUNODA: The balance is so open.
Engineer: Kauai Yuki, N38, for a stability unit.
Engineer: Stroll boxing, we should come out just in front of him.
Engineer: Yuki pull toggle turn five and we have two strikes track limit no more no more track limit
Fernando ALONSO: Maybe we need more aero-balance?
Engineer: A bit more aero-balance, copy. A bit more aero-balance.
Engineer: If
Carlos SAINZ: that's me, run me up. Check the onboard finish for that people. Copy.
Fernando ALONSO: Maybe we'll need more aerobalance?
Engineer: A bit more aerobalance, copy. A bit more aerobalance. Fernando, just repeat on plan A or B, did you say? No,
Fernando ALONSO: only more aerobalance. Copy, copy.
Engineer: OK, Fernando, use everything for the tyres now. You can use everything.
Logan SARGEANT: The car is super... The car is super nervous, high speed. Copy.
Engineer: And Lando, keep talking to us about this place.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, it's, I think, similar. Maybe dropping ever so slightly, but pretty similar.
Carlos SAINZ: Any news?
Engineer: Now it is noted and reported to air control, they are looking into it.
Engineer: Hey, Lando, just be careful overpushing turn seven braking. That's turn seven braking. The situation is we've lost position to Matt Russell-Hamilton Sainz, but we're picking up a good tyre delta. Six laps in some of them already. Keep going.
Engineer: The situation is we've lost position to Matt Russell-Hamilton Sainz, but we're picking up a good tied outer. Six laps in some of them already. Keep going.
Engineer: Okay, Hulkenberg last lap, 21.2. I think you'll get past fairly easily.
Engineer: Joe ahead of Lance is on 10 lap older mediums and he did push very hard at the start of his stint
Engineer: They reported no further investigation, I know he's ash, but let's go, power raise.
Carlos SAINZ: I don't understand why there's the rulebook and we don't follow it.
Engineer: Yeah, exactly.
Engineer: Ok, Logan, safety car window open, safety car window open, how much flap do you think you have?
Logan SARGEANT: I need minus 2
Engineer: Cast behind Perez and then Piastri, his medium tyres at eight laps newer than ours.
Engineer: So when you get to Sonoda, Overtake is available.
Charles LECLERC: Why are we on plan A?
Engineer: We're in line with everyone else. That was the choice
Yuki TSUNODA: Man, I really do feel there's something strange going on here.
Engineer: Yuki, I understand it's difficult, just do your best, we keep checking, make sure everything is fine.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Tires are very inconsistent.
Engineer: Copy that, Max.
Engineer: The gap's 1.3 ahead, 1.0 behind, and we've had two flags for deleted laps.
Lewis HAMILTON: Say what?
Engineer: So two strikes, turn five, track limits.
Esteban OCON: Guys, the wheel is damaged because the car has no grip at the moment.
Engineer: Understood S-man, no major concerns at the minute, we're looking.
Esteban OCON: It's oversteer entry, oversteer mid and oversteer exit, all over the place.
Engineer: Ok man, understood. So for the stop, what do you think about flap, let's go up to entry 4 as well, add some support.
Engineer: Okay, so it's starting lap 32. We're still on plan A plus three.
Alexander ALBON: I don't know if the wind has died but the tides are coming back to me.
Daniel RICCIARDO: That is the hard part, look.
Engineer: We are checking Alonso and Stroll, from the couple of tenths, 21-2 last lap. Albon behind you is doing 21-2 unsolved. Track limit, turn 9, first track.
Engineer: So these stops are a bit early, we're looking at the free stop from here, this is the free stop
Engineer: Try to use the front more to help the rear
Engineer: Okay Oscar, so we're plan B target lap, best pace for that.
Engineer: On copy on the rear limitations, how is the high speed, Daniel? How is turn 3, 9, 14?
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, as the rear drops,
Engineer: the
Daniel RICCIARDO: balance is getting better there.
Alexander ALBON: I think the wind picked up again because it feels set again.
Engineer: So at the moment, Esteban, our main fight is with Hülkenberg. We're still unsure on Perry's strategy. He's stuck behind Joe as it stands. Let's keep going.
Engineer: Copy. Let's focus on our race now. Norris, 19.5. Carlos coming in this lap.
Engineer: So you're still quicker than Ocon, a little bit quicker than Joe. Perez will be much quicker than us, four behind.
Nico HULKENBERG: Let's not lose time with him. I think we're coming close. How many laps this set?
Engineer: 25 laps on this set, all understood.
Engineer: OK, and behind Russell is Sainz, but he's three seconds back. Yeah, we're just going to lose time with these guys.
Engineer: so track temp has been stable all race um if you went on this tire again plus one turn
Alexander ALBON: yes
Engineer: okay copy that
George RUSSELL: Who's advised how you'd like me to approach this thing?
George RUSSELL: Who's advised how you'd like me to approach this thing? Sir, happy with the current level of management, bring them in slowly. Marker for bouncing.
Engineer: Main Moss to Stroll, turn 5.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Which tyre compound is Stroll on?
Engineer: Stroll is on hard, and he was just told to manage his tyres.
George RUSSELL: This tire does not feel good sliding already.
Engineer: Gads leave the car behind at 11 seconds. He's on the hard tyre which does look slow.
Sergio PEREZ: What's your speed?
Engineer: It's a lap in free air doing 20.0
Engineer: okay sergeant has blues and Oscar we want to keep extending your pace to Russell is good maybe even target plus five
Engineer: OK, Pierre's last lap time at 19.65
Esteban OCON: With the old day on
Engineer: No, he's boxed onto the hard as well
ZHOU Guanyu: Tell me about the race situation, Mike. Update.
Engineer: Yes, at the moment we are 15. There is a stroll in front of you with a hard six lap hold. Will be our next target.
Engineer: Verstappen has pitted this is our chance now
Engineer: So again, just mind your peaks at the beginning of the stint. 22 Laps in here.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I'll let you start first son.
Engineer: 17 on a scrub tyre.
Engineer: Lando, if we wanted to cover Hamilton, we'd have to do it soon. Do you think if we had some delta, we'd pass him again?
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, I'll pass him.
Lando NORRIS: I'm on saw, defense if we're here to finish first or third
Engineer: 21 laps to go. Just do your best, Yuki. We'll just reset to the end.
Engineer: Yuki, we need one step less energy rear left, please.
Engineer: Okay mate, just introduce the tyres a bit so we can try and catch Verstappen to the end.
Engineer: Okay Nico, we have a penalty for pit lane speed limit violation, five second penalty, so we'll have to deal with that, but your pace is very good.
Engineer: So, Lando pushing hard, not saving tyres, Max. All corners.
Engineer: Let's see some phase now
Engineer: Racer now car in front, focus turn 5 and 7 to improve, 5 and 7.
Engineer: Main deficit last lap Max, we just turned 13 and 14
Engineer: and we need to push to the end now Max as I say Lando not tire saving
Engineer: And strat 10, when you can. Strat 10.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Strat what?
Engineer: 10. 10 or 2, I don't understand. 1-0. 1-0.
Pierre GASLY: Check, everything is okay. The car feels a bit strange.
Engineer: Okay, we're looking.
Engineer: OK Pierre, everything aero-wise and tyre-wise looks OK to us. The laps are looking good.
Engineer: If you can, we need to try and pick up the pace.
Engineer: So Fernando Hülkenberg is 15 seconds ahead and he has a five second penalty. It's probably a bit too much, but just so you know.
Engineer: So we have nine laps remaining. Reminder to drink and let's just keep pushing to the end, mate.
Engineer: Eight laps to go. Verstappen 14 behind. He won't catch you. Alonso 17 behind.
Alexander ALBON: What the hell was that?
Engineer: I don't know if it's all okay from our side.
Alexander ALBON: No, it's not okay. Don't just say that within five seconds.
Lance STROLL: Who's behind me?
Engineer: That's Hamilton, we'll get a blue from him maybe next lap so it's no threat from behind just maybe two more blue flags
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, I just don't have to fix
Engineer: Okay, Logan, we're happy to stop management, you can push to the end.
Logan SARGEANT: Yeah, there's nothing left to push.
Engineer: Gap to Sonota 1.5, we can use overtake.
Pierre GASLY: It's 1.3 now, they got a blue flag.
Engineer: We're on it mate, keep pushing.
Engineer: So we see some front wing damage, but we're just having a look to get a number. Yeah, but what was the problem with the car?
Alexander ALBON: I don't care about front wing damage.
Engineer: So at the moment we just think it was locking, but we're checking. Alex, we are still looking at it.
Engineer: Far behind is Gasly, three seconds. He would be a blue, but you're matching his pace.
Engineer: Try to increase the liftoff 4, 10, and 1.
ZHOU Guanyu: Tell me why, so I know.
Engineer: For fuel at the moment.
ZHOU Guanyu: How many seconds left, man? More detail, please.
Engineer: No, it needs 2 seconds, 2 seconds of liftoff.
Engineer: Yeah, congratulations mate. It was hard work, but yeah, you made that race for yourself I think down to turn one and the overtake on Russell two laps later. Nice job.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yes, nice.
Engineer: Oh,
Max VERSTAPPEN: yeah, we were definitely not the quickest out there today, but we did everything well, strategy as well. Yes.
Engineer: Well done, Max. That was a brilliantly executed race. You made it count at the beginning with George making that move. And yeah, really well executed race. Well done.
Engineer: P2, as you know, fastest lap.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, it doesn't matter really, does it? I should have won at the start.
Engineer: The
Lando NORRIS: car was amazing, well done. Deserved more.
Engineer: Oh, you had really good pace again, Nico, even on the medium and also on the hard, really good. Another P11, so that's frustrating, but really good drive. Yeah,
Nico HULKENBERG: just not enough. But obviously yesterday, if we had a better quali, I think we can get there. But yeah, more positive than anything else. And with the Silverstone stuff coming, we should be okay. Thank you, guys. Good job.
Engineer: Yeah, good job, Nico. Thank you.
Lance STROLL: Sorry, slightly painful day, that's P14 in the end. Yeah, I didn't really get it, all the race, like, I didn't understand, but it's happening in the car. OK, I'm sure I could have given you more infrasol, but yeah, weren't really racing too many sadly.
Engineer: But
Lance STROLL: anyway, yeah, good job on the mountain. It was
Engineer: a
Lance STROLL: pretty horrible race. All compounds, yeah.
Engineer: We finished P13, Joe.
ZHOU Guanyu: I mean, I think it's
Engineer: a
ZHOU Guanyu: good effort. It's quite a bit difficult. Lap one, I nearly drove off the track. Wanted to go on the outside, vouching the high speed, and had so much 30F on the car ahead. Pace, I think, was quite strong. And it was a good coming back from the six. Still a lot of work to do together.
Engineer: Yeah, I think we find a good direction. In one week, we have another chance. We are closing the gap to getting that point start to be close.
ZHOU Guanyu: Yeah, anyway, thanks for making the change. I think it's really important for us.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Yeah, copy. Yeah, shame with the soft tire, it just didn't work today, it melted completely. And that lasted, it was too long.
Engineer: Yeah, understood. Finished P16. In front of Magnussen, Albin, Tsunoda and Sargent. Magnussen and Tsunoda were on the same strategy as us. Tsunoda stopped for new soft. And Joe finished P13. Gasly and Ocon in P9 and P10. With Hülkenberg P11 and Alonso P12.
Engineer: You did a good job out there today, mate.
Pierre GASLY: Still a good job. Well managed with the strategy. I'm just disappointed now, but anyway, that's what it is. So still a very good job. Making progress and just fighting with one Red Bull. It's a good sign, so let's keep working.
Engineer: Yeah, well done, mate. Let's keep pushing.
Sergio PEREZ: All
Engineer: right,
Sergio PEREZ: P8. Oh, what a race. Quite difficult, but soft.
Engineer: I
Sergio PEREZ: mean, it was quite good.
Engineer: Yeah, certainly looked that way. Well done, Checo. That was a really strong race. Alternate strategy, but you made it pay off, so we got some points out of that, so well done.
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, guys, we will come back. Let's come back strong and well done for Max. Going in the right direction.
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Engineer: Yeah, well done team. Great to be back in the fight and back in the mix as last week. Struggled a little bit on that last tyre but still a very good result and halfway to progress. It's all going in the right direction. Good stuff. George, with the hard tyre that was probably the maximum, but well driven, well driven. Quite some good defence sometimes it was. Yeah, you can be proud of that, really. It is not what we want, but it was still with the hard tyre the best we could do. Yeah, thanks Toto. You have a good team result.
Engineer: OK, well done, P10 and an extra point, that's a nice one.
Esteban OCON: Yeah, copy, good job, yeah, good job to get the point out of that race, yeah.
Engineer: Yeah, that medium tyre didn't look particularly friendly, I have to say, from our side. Yeah, I
Esteban OCON: don't think it was a tyre mate, honestly, I think something going on there, but yeah, we can review after. OK, understood. But we need to find it for next week.
Engineer: Yeah, absolutely, OK, well, well managed anyway for that. Quite a lot going on.
Engineer: So yeah, that's P18, and it's snowed over behind us in P19, and then Logan.
Alexander ALBON: Yep. We're sure it's not wind or nothing in central. I don't really understand when the car does that kind of stuff.
Engineer: Yeah, it just looked like it was probably wind, so there was a gust of 17 kph at that point.
Alexander ALBON: Yeah, OK. I don't know why we're so sensitive to it, but OK. I think we did the right tyre strategy. We just... Yeah, I guess it was the same for everyone in the group we were racing. Just deflagged
Engineer: at
Alexander ALBON: the right.
Engineer: Yeah, thanks for persisting with it. Well, we are off the pace here. That's the bit that's important to me. Make sure we come back here next year stronger. I think we have a better car, a much better car, in the next two. Thanks for persisting through that.
Alexander ALBON: Yep. Yep. We'll be OK with the Blues. With Lando.
Engineer: Yeah, I think we're all OK.
Charles LECLERC: One lap too short. I know where we lost it Anyway,
Engineer: he did a good race anyway
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Engineer: and basics yeah
Carlos SAINZ: we're still not very happy with that but it's what it is that's
Engineer: it thank you
Engineer: Okay, I'll check your flag. Well done mate, P7.
Oscar PIASTRI: Yep, thanks. Typical, typical weekend, but yeah, nice to get some, well, a few points at least. Yeah, last time looked okay, and yep, move on to the next one. Hopefully hit the ground running, thank you.
Engineer: Yep.
Engineer: All right, well, clean race, and the pace was better than yesterday.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yep, yeah, understood. Definitely got some good references during the race, so yep, lots to feedback. I think your communication was good, so yeah, we did what we could. Thank you.
Yuki TSUNODA: So, what was this? Like, literally nothing? No
Engineer: glitter.
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