United States Grand Prix 2024: Qualifying team radio
64 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the United States Grand Prix 2024, across 18 drivers. 61 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. George RUSSELL had the most, with 9.
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
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 9 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 8 messages
- Liam LAWSON · RB · 6 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 6 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 5 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 3 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Kick Sauber · 2 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Franco COLAPINTO · Williams · 1 message
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 1 message
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Liam LAWSON: Ok Léon, that was Alonso, don't worry about it. Yeah I know mate, he's doing exactly what he said he'd do.
Engineer: Yeah don't stress about it, forget it.
Engineer: Oh dear, P3, what a lap, could you be amazed?
Liam LAWSON: It was a really good lap. Yeah, I know. It's such a shame. Let's keep it down. Let's keep it down. You've shown what you have to show. That's good. That's all I wanted to do. Exactly.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
George RUSSELL: I don't know what we're missing compared to yesterday.
Engineer: Liam, heads up, obviously when we are aboard this lap, we keep an eye on traffic if people keep pushing behind you.
Pierre GASLY: About the other cars we
Engineer: got quite a queue out here Ferrari's joining the party as well
Fernando ALONSO: In the car in front for sure I will overtake as new tires
Engineer: So
Fernando ALONSO: I think it cannot push all the out up. Yeah, as I do
Engineer: A bit of weaving here
Engineer: See you on your minimum time. Keep it simple and open that cup.
Franco COLAPINTO: My brake is smoking.
Engineer: Measured wind looks like the sprint.
Engineer: No one can improve. So that puts us poll.
Lando NORRIS: Beautiful.
Engineer: And we'd like we'd like to get PU4 position six.
Engineer: Orlando scrub 34-0, Carlos scrub 34-1, Fernando scrub 34-4.
Engineer: Double year in front of you. So slow down. Russell in the wall. And box, Charles, box.
Engineer: And Lando, as soon as they're done with you, happy to fire up and come back.
Engineer: OK, recharge on, recharge on. Let's box this lap. We'll keep the speed up on the in-lap. We've got no threats behind. We're currently P1.
Liam LAWSON: Ok, just to look at, we need to look at turn 12, just the understeer there. I used portal to the last sector to help him, but yeah, that's the main limitation in the lap.
Engineer: Copy, do you think we have margin for more flap? Anywhere we are struggling with stability?
Liam LAWSON: No, let's go up another step for the next one.
Engineer: Copy.
Carlos SAINZ: I think we need to unreset the switches. We need to be on double dose. I started it off with a forward spring balance.
Engineer: Focus on the high peak stopping the car in a straight line to help get to that apex
Engineer: And we are happy with your lap time, so we box, just be negative at safety, Caroline.
Charles LECLERC: Are you sure?
Engineer: With everything?
Charles LECLERC: Not placed.
Engineer: So lap timers wise, we are sure.
Engineer: Riccardo sir, unfortunately that's at P16.
Lewis HAMILTON: Ah, alright guys.
Engineer: OK mate, and we are safe and through.
George RUSSELL: Oh, that was a little bit stressful.
Lance STROLL: The car's getting worse. It's like they're free.
ZHOU Guanyu: Yeah, the lab was clean, like I said.
Engineer: Copy that.
Engineer: Caloos, unfortunately that's at P16, looking out for Alonso car behind at 2.5 seconds
Lewis HAMILTON: That was Evans's car I guess
Lance STROLL: This was unsafe from ground front up at the break.
Engineer: Yeah, we saw that.
Engineer: Let's do a normal hot lap, I'll keep you posted on the plan.
Liam LAWSON: I can still make it work mate, you just gotta tell me when I start the lap exactly how far back he is and just keep me updated, I'll let the cars go.
Engineer: And Lando's suggestion, delaying the downshifts into turn 12 might help the rear locking over the bumps.
Engineer: Tire temps are normal, so normal out lap.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
George RUSSELL: Let's do what we said that one copy
Engineer: that I'll get that done
George RUSSELL: Do you think we need a new tyre now, when the track is plateauing? Yeah, we'll discuss once you get back in the garage.
Yuki TSUNODA: I'll tell it to Liam. When he gave me the slipstream, stay at the middle and go to the left end of the straight. I was picking up so much dust in the straight.
Engineer: We passed the message.
Engineer: Traffic. So clear on track.
Engineer: To reset your shape and we'll go recharge off. Let's go
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: All right.
Engineer: So, plus 15 on your dash and you would still be safe to the flag.
Sergio PEREZ: It was the car I lost some time in 2006.
Sergio PEREZ: It's not a good place to give the position
Sergio PEREZ: It was very loud
Engineer: OK, and that's P13 for us there, the cars behind Stroll and Lawson. OK, so boxing now please, just stay negative on the delta and we'll be stopping outside the front of the garage.
Nico HULKENBERG: Oh man, I just, no, no, no, no, no.
Engineer: Yeah, you got bumped out, Niko.
Nico HULKENBERG: .04, .04 by Snowder. Wow.
Engineer: Okay, Oscar, so with these tyre temperatures, suggest max speed on the straight, but no need to push the front left in 17.
Engineer: And Lando, trust the car. Don't overload combined. The lap time will come.
Engineer: And Lando, trust the car, don't overload combined, the lap time will come.
Engineer: A little better Kev, 7 and 8 were a little bit better, so good job.
Engineer: And currently P3 that was a better lap science P2 32.65
Engineer: Okay, so the first round of laps are done. You are P5.
Engineer: And are you happy with the front wing for the next run?
Pierre GASLY: Yes, sir
Engineer: And okay Pierre on the next outlet we'll go 160 through sector one so 160 to just try and keep the speed up and try and help the temps. We'll leave the front wing where it is. We're getting our second set on now.
Engineer: So Oscar, for this lap, we know the time's in the car, we don't need to over-push Turn 1, Turn 12, trying to find that time in the braking, because we know it's inconsistent.
Engineer: I don't have the Delta and go on. I'll keep calling it, but you're good now. You're negative 3.5.
Sergio PEREZ: What we doing?
Engineer: We're two seconds safe at the moment.
Engineer: So, nice work buddy.
Pierre GASLY: Nice work, I'm happy. I think we definitely improved the car compared to earlier this morning and yesterday. And there is some good potential.
Engineer: Are you alright? Yeah, yeah. The car is safe.
Engineer: Sorry mate, but great job getting through to Q3 and great improvement there, you know, nothing we could do about that
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Yeah, good job, man.
Engineer: That's okay, still on the front row mate, and you were up on that lap, so front row till tomorrow.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, all to play for.
Carlos SAINZ: No, no, this was a good one. This was a good one.
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