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Team radio transcript

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

Every message, in the order it happened

  1. Pierre GASLYAlpine

    Pierre GASLY: The steering is quite a lot bent right inside down, okay,

    Engineer: we can see that

  2. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: So

    Lewis HAMILTON: track just ramping up, yeah?

    Engineer: Yeah, there should be a bit of track ramp.

  3. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: I got a little rear sliding, sliding a lot.

  4. Nico HULKENBERGHaas

    Engineer: There

    Nico HULKENBERG: was some heavy bouncing or bottoming out of turn 15 I think, second last corner.

  5. Nico HULKENBERGHaas

    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.

  6. Esteban OCONAlpine

    Engineer: You run out of energy completely, going on throttle for the last corner. Yeah, copy that, we saw.

  7. Logan SARGEANTWilliams

    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

  8. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: Also, the cars again bottling jumping I don't

    Engineer: know

    Max VERSTAPPEN: what's going on

  9. Nico HULKENBERGHaas

    Nico HULKENBERG: Was that cold brakes, or what's going on?

    Engineer: Brakes were definitely cold, but we'll just check.

  10. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    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?

  11. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    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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