Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2023: Practice 2 team radio
22 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2023, across 10 drivers. 18 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Max VERSTAPPEN 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
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 8 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 2 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 2 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Alfa Romeo · 2 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 2 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 2 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 1 message
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: OK mate, I would be happy to do a flap adjust if you wanted, on either this lap or after the next push. Yeah, the
Esteban OCON: oversteer is because of the bouncing.
Engineer: OK sure, understood. Because of the balance.
Carlos SAINZ: I crashed the third gear from the car, gave me a massive snap, the third gear and the bump I think.
Nico HULKENBERG: The thing again, when I cross the line, recharge comes on, something weird is happening.
Engineer: Yeah, we see it, Nico, we're investigating.
Esteban OCON: is he okay yeah
Engineer: he said he's okay at the radio so uh all okay
Pierre GASLY: Yeah it looks really bad
Engineer: Sounds like he is OK
Pierre GASLY: Who is that Charles or Carlos? So
Engineer: that is
Pierre GASLY: Carlos, Carlos
Engineer: in the wall
Pierre GASLY: OK
Engineer: But yeah he's taken the steering wheel off, he said he's OK
Max VERSTAPPEN: That Williams is coming out of the garage, he's not allowed to go in front is he?
Engineer: It depends if he was already waiting, Max
Max VERSTAPPEN: I didn't see on your onboard No I was waiting but the mechanic just pushed him to the front, guided him to the front
Engineer: I think it should be your position, looks fairly determined to get out though
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Ah yeah lovely, well done there, can you please report that?
Engineer: Noted.
Nico HULKENBERG: Lost it exit of turn one
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Abort and mode charge, mode charge.
ZHOU Guanyu: Fucking chaos.
Engineer: Abort and more charge, more charge. F***ing
ZHOU Guanyu: chaos.
Engineer: And red flag again.
ZHOU Guanyu: I think it's a short one because of no damage on track.
Engineer: Yeah Joe, we expect the same, that will be a short one.
Engineer: is yellows turn one double yellows this could go red again careful with debris in a car red flag this is good isn't it i mean it goes down as one of the biggest cut time benefits we've had
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Max VERSTAPPEN: The car is like without a front wing, what the hell?
Engineer: Red flag, Haas has stopped at turn 2
Max VERSTAPPEN: Like literally zero change, it's understeering to the moon
Engineer: Copy that
Engineer: Double yellow ahead, 1-2, 1-2, double yellow, so how can both of us clip the wall? What's going on today? Ah, yeah.
George RUSSELL: This happens just crossing all the lines to pass
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, I'm getting blocked copy
Engineer: that
Max VERSTAPPEN: Car jumping like a kangaroo in the last sector.
Engineer: Copy that.
Engineer: Pastry Pit out.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Oh, f***!
Max VERSTAPPEN: The problem is that I'm on the exit just oversteering like crazy. The car did something wrong.
Engineer: Yeah, understood Max.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, the car is just jumping at the long speed.
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