United States Grand Prix 2024: Sprint Qualifying team radio
56 radio messages were recorded during sprint qualifying at the United States Grand Prix 2024, across 17 drivers. 51 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. 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
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 8 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 5 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 5 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 4 messages
- Franco COLAPINTO · Williams · 3 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 3 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 3 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 3 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 2 messages
- Liam LAWSON · RB · 2 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 1 message
- ZHOU Guanyu · Kick Sauber · 1 message
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Alexander ALBON: All right
Franco COLAPINTO: Man, ghastly, what the f***? Yeah, but we almost crashed.
Engineer: Yeah, I saw, I saw.
Lewis HAMILTON: Is everyone still in the garage?
Engineer: The car's just leaving the pit lane now So are you done?
Lewis HAMILTON: That's the session done?
Engineer: Affirm Lewis, you'd only get one lap out of this tyre
Max VERSTAPPEN: Great job Max, be well. Let's go, nice one.
Engineer: Well done mate, good start to the weekend, well done.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah that's for sure, happy we're done. Thank you guys, let's return after a little break, well done.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: The tailwind in the Asis is 15 kph.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Felt like turn 1 was a bit damp.
Engineer: Ok, so double slowmax, let me know if you'd like to come through for a flap adjust.
George RUSSELL: Brakes don't feel great, feels a bit warped
Engineer: Engine grey 8, position 3, minus 1 when you can, no threats behind, that's engine grey 8, position 3, minus 1.
Engineer: I
Carlos SAINZ: think it will be double cool but let
Engineer: me know okay happy for double cool we stay young
Engineer: And you can repeat the toggle usage, that was good, I'm in turn on P1, 33.8
Engineer: Yeah, main loss was turn 19 into exit.
Lewis HAMILTON: George surely isn't on the time because I've caught him off a lot I can't get to my delta because George is going slow OK
Engineer: Suggest red mid six, red mid six, Perez two.
Engineer: The exit of 7, you don't need to pull all the way back to the white line.
Engineer: I
Charles LECLERC: cannot be negative with the guys in front
Engineer: Okay, we are through we're through
Pierre GASLY: We'll manage to improve on the second lap, because...
Engineer: So let's focus on the in-lap, we'll have a look at that.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Liam LAWSON: The low speed there, I don't even know what's sort of happening, but it's that same period in the middle of
Engineer: the
Liam LAWSON: corner where I just... I have to drop so much speed. This first lap wasn't an issue, it's really just a second lap, so maybe it's just tyres.
Engineer: If I fix sector 1 and put it all together, obviously it's that. Yeah, and I think tyres were a bit difficult, if you look at the last sector balance, so it will go a bit better on the next lap.
Engineer: so your second lap was deleted for track limits turn 19 i'm afraid currently we are p16 we're just double checking whether anyone else has made similar mistakes so if you could stay in the car
Lewis HAMILTON: What's the reason we're quite early on this one?
Engineer: Just to avoid traffic and tripping over a load of people.
George RUSSELL: Stagger isn't very good front to rear.
Engineer: Brakes are at a good temperature.
Engineer: Nico five seconds ahead he's backed off quite a lot four seconds ahead
Engineer: wind slightly stronger than previous run
Engineer: And it will be mode push before last corner.
Engineer: Front end is a better window than SQ101
Engineer: What's
George RUSSELL: the braking point like? I don't know if I'm pushing the braking a bit too much.
Engineer: Braking looks the same across the two cars.
Engineer: So the opportunities are minding the late entry speed to turn one.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: That was a bit dangerous from the
Engineer: RV
George RUSSELL: I'll just abort after turn 1 if you're happy.
Engineer: No, just keep pushing, so go Strat 2.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Struggling a lot with the rides.
Engineer: Understood, copy that.
George RUSSELL: I've made a mail a bit, any traffic?
Engineer: Kayuki's just pepped us. He'll have it now.
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, then I was slow anyway.
Yuki TSUNODA: Good job. Good job
Pierre GASLY: But just I can't get out of ten one eleven
Engineer: Okay, so let's just focus on your Delta, we are boxing this lap, so we're P10 was a 34.0
Engineer: Okay Liam, that won't be enough.
Liam LAWSON: That was very scrappy, sorry.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Is
Lewis HAMILTON: everyone still in the pit in the garage?
Lewis HAMILTON: Why are we so early? I don't want to go down. No worries. Is everyone still in the garages?
Engineer: A few still in there.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Lewis HAMILTON: Is everyone still in the pit in the garages?
Engineer: A few still in there. Is
Lewis HAMILTON: it just us three out or not?
George RUSSELL: We'll be using this time tomorrow.
Engineer: Aye, Phil.
Lewis HAMILTON: Come on guys, that was not good. Yep, copy Lewis, understood.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Wind is still the same, like in the last sector.
Engineer: Uh, yes.
Engineer: We don't have much margin, so we can't mess around too much. Just a normal outlap.
Lewis HAMILTON: Guys, that was not good. That's the session done, huh? AFM Lewis, yeah, you'd only get one lap out of this tyre. We don't have time to fulfill any right now.
Engineer: Okay checkered flag box now Nico Good lap Nico box now. We just need a slow in lap because we still have a water issue
Yuki TSUNODA: I thought that was an okay lap, but yeah, just promise.
Franco COLAPINTO: Yeah, yeah, I'm sure, I'm sure there is, but okay, let's see tomorrow what we can do.
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