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Team radio transcript

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

Every message, in the order it happened

  1. Alexander ALBONWilliams

    Alexander ALBON: All right

  2. Franco COLAPINTOWilliams

    Franco COLAPINTO: Man, ghastly, what the f***? Yeah, but we almost crashed.

    Engineer: Yeah, I saw, I saw.

  3. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    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

  4. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    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.

  5. Yuki TSUNODARB

    Audio only, no transcript available for this message.

  6. ZHOU GuanyuKick Sauber

    Engineer: The tailwind in the Asis is 15 kph.

  7. George RUSSELLMercedes

    Audio only, no transcript available for this message.

  8. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas

    Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Felt like turn 1 was a bit damp.

  9. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Engineer: Ok, so double slowmax, let me know if you'd like to come through for a flap adjust.

  10. George RUSSELLMercedes

    George RUSSELL: Brakes don't feel great, feels a bit warped

  11. Sergio PEREZRed Bull

    Engineer: Engine grey 8, position 3, minus 1 when you can, no threats behind, that's engine grey 8, position 3, minus 1.

  12. Carlos SAINZFerrari

    Engineer: I

    Carlos SAINZ: think it will be double cool but let

    Engineer: me know okay happy for double cool we stay young

  13. Carlos SAINZFerrari

    Engineer: And you can repeat the toggle usage, that was good, I'm in turn on P1, 33.8

  14. George RUSSELLMercedes

    Engineer: Yeah, main loss was turn 19 into exit.

  15. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    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

  16. Oscar PIASTRIMcLaren

    Engineer: Suggest red mid six, red mid six, Perez two.

  17. Nico HULKENBERGHaas

    Engineer: The exit of 7, you don't need to pull all the way back to the white line.

  18. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    Engineer: I

    Charles LECLERC: cannot be negative with the guys in front

  19. Fernando ALONSOAston Martin

    Engineer: Okay, we are through we're through

  20. Pierre GASLYAlpine

    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.

  21. Fernando ALONSOAston Martin

    Audio only, no transcript available for this message.

  22. Liam LAWSONRB

    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.

  23. Oscar PIASTRIMcLaren

    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

  24. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    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.

  25. George RUSSELLMercedes

    George RUSSELL: Stagger isn't very good front to rear.

  26. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas

    Engineer: Brakes are at a good temperature.

  27. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas

    Engineer: Nico five seconds ahead he's backed off quite a lot four seconds ahead

  28. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    Engineer: wind slightly stronger than previous run

  29. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    Engineer: And it will be mode push before last corner.

  30. Franco COLAPINTOWilliams

    Engineer: Front end is a better window than SQ101

  31. George RUSSELLMercedes

    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.

  32. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: So the opportunities are minding the late entry speed to turn one.

  33. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas

    Kevin MAGNUSSEN: That was a bit dangerous from the

    Engineer: RV

  34. George RUSSELLMercedes

    George RUSSELL: I'll just abort after turn 1 if you're happy.

    Engineer: No, just keep pushing, so go Strat 2.

  35. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: Struggling a lot with the rides.

    Engineer: Understood, copy that.

  36. George RUSSELLMercedes

    George RUSSELL: I've made a mail a bit, any traffic?

  37. Sergio PEREZRed Bull

    Engineer: Kayuki's just pepped us. He'll have it now.

  38. Fernando ALONSOAston Martin

    Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, then I was slow anyway.

  39. Yuki TSUNODARB

    Yuki TSUNODA: Good job. Good job

  40. Pierre GASLYAlpine

    Pierre GASLY: But just I can't get out of ten one eleven

  41. Pierre GASLYAlpine

    Engineer: Okay, so let's just focus on your Delta, we are boxing this lap, so we're P10 was a 34.0

  42. Liam LAWSONRB

    Engineer: Okay Liam, that won't be enough.

    Liam LAWSON: That was very scrappy, sorry.

  43. Nico HULKENBERGHaas

    Audio only, no transcript available for this message.

  44. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: Is

    Lewis HAMILTON: everyone still in the pit in the garage?

  45. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    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.

  46. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas

    Audio only, no transcript available for this message.

  47. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    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?

  48. George RUSSELLMercedes

    George RUSSELL: We'll be using this time tomorrow.

    Engineer: Aye, Phil.

  49. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Lewis HAMILTON: Come on guys, that was not good. Yep, copy Lewis, understood.

  50. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: Wind is still the same, like in the last sector.

  51. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Engineer: Uh, yes.

  52. Nico HULKENBERGHaas

    Engineer: We don't have much margin, so we can't mess around too much. Just a normal outlap.

  53. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    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.

  54. Nico HULKENBERGHaas

    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

  55. Yuki TSUNODARB

    Yuki TSUNODA: I thought that was an okay lap, but yeah, just promise.

  56. Franco COLAPINTOWilliams

    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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