Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2023: Practice 3 team radio
11 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2023, across 7 drivers. Nico HULKENBERG had the most, with 3.
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
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 3 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 1 message
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 1 message
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 1 message
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Pierre GASLY: The steering is quite a lot bent right inside down, okay,
Engineer: we can see that
Engineer: So
Lewis HAMILTON: track just ramping up, yeah?
Engineer: Yeah, there should be a bit of track ramp.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I got a little rear sliding, sliding a lot.
Engineer: There
Nico HULKENBERG: was some heavy bouncing or bottoming out of turn 15 I think, second last corner.
Nico HULKENBERG: Some very heavy crosswinds on that straight here from five to six
Engineer: Yeah, copy that.
Nico HULKENBERG: It's pretty gusty everywhere. The balance is really inconsistent, tricky.
Engineer: You run out of energy completely, going on throttle for the last corner. Yeah, copy that, we saw.
Logan SARGEANT: My steering super far to the right again. You
Engineer: confirm right hand down correct?
Logan SARGEANT: Yes.
Engineer: Copy right hand down. We'll do a correction in the garage
Max VERSTAPPEN: Also, the cars again bottling jumping I don't
Engineer: know
Max VERSTAPPEN: what's going on
Nico HULKENBERG: Was that cold brakes, or what's going on?
Engineer: Brakes were definitely cold, but we'll just check.
Engineer: Russel at time 24.4 and we are two tenths slower sector one and four and a half tenths slower sector three
Charles LECLERC: I don't understand, is that ok?
Charles LECLERC: They did a good job by the way in turn 3 for the time, but I've stayed now, otherwise I'll forget.
Engineer: Understood.
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