United States Grand Prix 2024: Sprint team radio
79 radio messages were recorded during sprint at the United States Grand Prix 2024, across 20 drivers. 75 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Carlos SAINZ 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
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 9 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 8 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 8 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 7 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 5 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 5 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 5 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 5 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 5 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Kick Sauber · 3 messages
- Franco COLAPINTO · Williams · 3 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 2 messages
- Liam LAWSON · RB · 2 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Kick Sauber · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 1 message
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Let's
Carlos SAINZ: go, I've got them going. Let's go.
Engineer: Verstappen potentially damaging his rears a bit more than we are.
Engineer: McLaren Car 2
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Awesome move, let's go!
Yuki TSUNODA: Oh, yeah, definitely he forced me off. If I didn't go off, definitely I had a contact, for sure. 100%.
Engineer: 16 and wind change confirmed will be charged button off at 12 to try the mode in 16.
Engineer: Start goes out the same, but keep it nice and clean.
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, it's a little bit hard to Yeah, judge what balance we are right now, but so far there's no issue
George RUSSELL: Okay, so you can just look into turn one a lot of jacking
Engineer: Great job Max. Nice last lap, well controlled. Focused on tomorrow.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, good effort guys. That was much better. Good race.
Engineer: Well done Max. Very controlled race. Well done mate.
Valtteri BOTTAS: There's fire in the brakes. The brakes are not working.
Engineer: Okay Valtteri, let's stop the car. Stop the car.
Franco COLAPINTO: There's a few cars around us, we can race ahead of you,
Engineer: the Haas as well, a few cars behind are going to try to push through, Perez, and probably from further back, Piastri, I want you to know their progress and where they are.
Engineer: The halo fan isn't holding in the right position anymore now we've took the shroud off
Engineer: Okay, everyone is on used medium except for Sonoda, Piastri, Ocon, Joe.
Pierre GASLY: Yep, let's do it
Engineer: 90 seconds fire up
Engineer: No full load from now please, launch feedback that was on target
Lewis HAMILTON: Something's clicking when I brake, front right wheel.
Engineer: OK, stand by.
George RUSSELL: I assume. Right, hop.
Engineer: And if you can do some weaving where you can happy for some weaving
Engineer: And for info you were at 1% aggressive, 1% aggressive
Engineer: okay we are happy with SOC there'll be no issues
Engineer: Super job, Kev.
Pierre GASLY: I have a massive problem with the realloc, can you check?
Engineer: Copy
Engineer: Brake balance plus one.
Engineer: Early energy is available exit 11 if you need.
Engineer: SP 14, Gasly ahead, Lawson behind.
Engineer: A very good introduction on tyres, we are happy with that.
Engineer: Suggest resetting balance adjuster curve.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Charles LECLERC: We've got to try and come back on the others if possible. Copy.
Franco COLAPINTO: Boris is in another tracking meeting, he left now, he went there before
Lewis HAMILTON: Am I losing distance?
Engineer: Let's go sock six, sock six, and pedal position four.
Engineer: On Liam, if you have margin with the traffic, we can push one step more in sector 1 high speed. Tyres are stabilized, we have margin in high speed.
Engineer: We're under investigation. We need to let Tsunoda through. We gained advantage at turn 11 apparently.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: No way, man. He pushed me out. Tell them to have a good look at it again. Tell
Engineer: them to look again, man. We have to let him through. ****,
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: man. How are we? Yeah, understood.
Engineer: Very good, less tyre management required from now, 6, 8 and 17.
Sergio PEREZ: The arm is only with one front lock and the radius moves at the end, at the end of braking.
Engineer: Okay, let's try b-ball four, b-ball four and minus two on the bias offset.
George RUSSELL: Turn left here, it's pretty rubbish.
Fernando ALONSO: Man, the Alfa Tauri
Engineer: is
Fernando ALONSO: such an idiot.
Engineer: I
Lewis HAMILTON: got a little granny
Engineer: Copy, yeah still could do some work bringing surfaces down
Engineer: Our biggest area is to save traction turn 12 and 15.
Engineer: Okay, this is very good. Ten laps to go.
Engineer: And purple for sector, awesome out there, good taste, and Lando is struggling with his front left, front left, weak for Lando.
George RUSSELL: Well, that's just toast.
Engineer: Start managing front left under rotations a bit more.
Engineer: And Joe is breaking earlier in turn 13 and gaining in mid-corner with more break-release.
Engineer: Feedback on balance if we can, if we can try and help you with some switches.
Alexander ALBON: Fine, fine, fine, fine.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Yeah, Lando, when ready, if there was a safety car, we'd give up four positions. Yeah,
Lando NORRIS: I did notice not many laps left, so a soft would be nice.
Engineer: Minus two on break balance.
Engineer: Four left to go, they are losing 2 free 10s, 8 and 9 to Lando, going for...
Engineer: just make sure you look after the car when racing
Engineer: Gap to stroll ahead 0.6, Esteban 0.7, so it's turn 9, we need to be careful, we've had two limits there.
Engineer: Okay, Nico, it'll be two to go at the line. We'll bring it home in this order. Good job
Engineer: We can go Strat Mode 5
Lewis HAMILTON: Man, talk to me in the braking zone, man, jeez!
Engineer: Sorry mate, we need to increase lift and coast for engine temps. Please increase lift and coast.
Engineer: Use all the energy.
George RUSSELL: Sorry about those overtakes with the Ferraris but they were in another league, no grip from the tyre
Charles LECLERC: Fooling and the breaking.
Engineer: Well done mate, that was good driving, good pace at the end last few laps you were matching the leaders fastest lap of the whole race was Verstappen 37.4 so you were within one tenth of that
Oscar PIASTRI: Race is pretty hard in the back here so Let's go again this afternoon
Engineer: Yeah, that was awesome mate. It was, that was a good one. Yeah, some excitement there, good job.
Engineer: Okay, tough race out there mate. That's P14 for us.
Pierre GASLY: I need to have a look at these brakes because I struggled a lot this race.
Engineer: Yeah, we'll take a good look mate
Engineer: Check it, Fat Kev. Awesome job. P7, Nico P8. Three points for the team. Couldn't ask for more. Absolutely brilliant. Well done, mate.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Yeah, good work boys and girls, very well done.
Engineer: Charge on please Kev, charge on.
Engineer: Yeah, that was awesome mate
Engineer: It was, that was a good one. Yeah, some excitement there, good job.
Engineer: We will complain for Norris.
Engineer: Okay mate, good job. So that's the flag there. Let's get a nice steady in-lap round. So big lift, nice steady in-lap.
Engineer: Okay mate, sorry about that, difficult with the temp management there.
Engineer: Okay, it was a good first lap. We enjoyed that. It's difficult to keep them behind, but we tried. We'll review everything after.
Yuki TSUNODA: The place is unbelievable.
Engineer: Yeah. They are very fast on the straight.
Engineer: Thank you. It's a good baseline for going into tomorrow. Lots to learn from, but it's encouraging for this afternoon.
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