Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2023: Practice 1 team radio

Every message, in the order it happened

1. Patricio O'WARDMcLaren09:31:07

   Engineer: Okay, I take this as a radio check radio

   Patricio O'WARD: check turn three loud and clear. Yeah, that's not unclear

2. Jake DENNISRed Bull09:34:45

   Jake DENNIS: I need to box this lap, my helmet is nowhere near tight enough.

3. Yuki TSUNODAAlphaTauri09:35:40

   Yuki TSUNODA: There's a smoke coming out quite a lot. The smoke. Where

   Engineer: is the smoke coming from?

   Yuki TSUNODA: The car in a monocoque or whatever is okay. It's quite similar as before

   Engineer: Let's try to push if it doesn't get worse

4. Yuki TSUNODAAlphaTauri09:36:22

   Yuki TSUNODA: Smoke is better now.

   Engineer: Copy, copy. Smoke is better.

5. Jake DENNISRed Bull09:41:51

   Jake DENNIS: General balance doesn't feel too bad, obviously it's still a lot to take in but I think balance is ballpark for me right now.

   Engineer: Copy that.

6. George RUSSELLMercedes09:43:34

   Engineer: Something

   George RUSSELL: doesn't quite feel right with the steering. I'm having to turn so much of the apex at low speed

   Engineer: but

   George RUSSELL: more than Whatever we've tested this before

7. Zak O'SULLIVANWilliams09:43:50

   Engineer: any problem corners you need to help with are you happy just as those we are on switches?

   Zak O'SULLIVAN: quite happy for now a bit of understeer mid nine but not too bad

8. Jake DENNISRed Bull09:45:42

   Engineer: OK, next car on the time-lapse is Doohan, exit turn 5.

   Jake DENNIS: OK, copy that, traffic management is good from your side, so continue the way you are, that's good.

   Engineer: OK, Doohan braking turn 6 now, he's the only threat at the moment, so if we let him through before turn 9.

9. Oscar PIASTRIMcLaren09:51:26

   Oscar PIASTRI: Car feels very understeering.

   Engineer: Understood, do you want to box and add some flap?

   Oscar PIASTRI: Uh, I think it might be a good idea, yeah.

   Engineer: Copy, uh, three, suggest three turns.

   Oscar PIASTRI: Uh, yeah, I'm happy with that.

   Engineer: Cool, we're boxed this lap, boxed this lap.

10. Theo POURCHAIREAlfa Romeo09:56:08

    Theo POURCHAIRE: Did you see turn 2, turn 3? I had a crazy bottoming. I almost lost the car there due to bottoming.

    Engineer: Copy that. We saw it.

11. Oscar PIASTRIMcLaren09:57:19

    Engineer: On the other car, we've seen quite high grounding. They're going to raise the ride heights. That was high in turn 2, 3 and turn 11. We see similar grounding on our car, just for your awareness.

12. Jack DOOHANAlpine09:58:56

    Jack DOOHAN: I've always had the biggest accident of my life

    Engineer: Yeah, we saw that

    Jack DOOHAN: Oh my god, man

    Engineer: It's alright mate, don't worry

13. Isack HADJARRed Bull10:00:23

    Engineer: And some balance feedback when you can.

    Isack HADJAR: Balance seems good, just a bit under the limit everywhere, so I need to push a bit more to find out.

14. Oliver BEARMANHaas10:01:28

    Oliver BEARMAN: I've got my power.

    Engineer: Okay, just no shifting. I pressed the charge button. Yeah, that's fine. Oh, you pressed it by mistake, you mean. Okay. Watch the gas street.

15. Logan SARGEANTWilliams10:02:43

    Logan SARGEANT: Do it was too late. I'm sorry

16. Pierre GASLYAlpine10:06:48

    Pierre GASLY: Yeah, no grip last sector was the rear copy

    Engineer: that

17. Logan SARGEANTWilliams10:09:56

    Logan SARGEANT: Is that the diff change we spoke about, Lizzy?

    Engineer: Negative. Can

    Logan SARGEANT: we try that, please?

18. Theo POURCHAIREAlfa Romeo10:16:28

    Engineer: Yeah, I had

    Theo POURCHAIRE: a small mistake last corner. I broke a bit too early, but otherwise I think it's not too bad

    Engineer: Kabi-tayo, Kabi-tayo

19. Valtteri BOTTASAlfa Romeo10:19:39

    Valtteri BOTTAS: Some traffic there at the sector one. Yes, we saw. Some traffic.

20. Robert SHWARTZMANFerrari10:23:12

    Robert SHWARTZMAN: Oh boy, in T3 I had a massive snap, I don't know why, I bottomed out. Yeah,

    Engineer: we saw that. That

    Robert SHWARTZMAN: was scary.

21. George RUSSELLMercedes10:27:10

    George RUSSELL: Ferrari's going so slow in the middle of the street there. Dangerous.

22. Oscar PIASTRIMcLaren10:30:23

    Oscar PIASTRI: Classic Carlos, just sitting in the middle of the road, not exchanged I see.

    Engineer: Oscar, do you think that was dangerous?

    Oscar PIASTRI: Yeah, made no effort to get out of the way.

23. Theo POURCHAIREAlfa Romeo10:31:37

    Theo POURCHAIRE: And yeah, thank you for the session. It was a real pleasure again. So yeah, Tuesday I'm back here and I can't wait. Can't wait to drive again on Tuesday. So thank you.

24. Isack HADJARRed Bull10:32:34

    Isack HADJAR: Yeah, it's true there. Yeah, we saw that we saw that yeah, that

    Engineer: was bad night, okay recharge on recharge on