Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2023: Qualifying team radio
23 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2023, across 12 drivers. Charles LECLERC had the most, with 5.
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
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 5 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 1 message
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 1 message
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 1 message
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 1 message
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 1 message
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 1 message
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 1 message
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: I think the track EVO will be around four tenths.
Charles LECLERC: The out of the garage is a joke and the mechanic should wait when the car is in the fast lane like this
Engineer: Okay, noted Do you know which team it was?
Charles LECLERC: Aston Martin, Alfa Tauri, everybody is just sending the truck hoping that the car in the fast lane stops
Engineer: Understood
Carlos SAINZ: I'm gonna lose another minute here, more or less. Ricky, I cannot wait to get the VTECs.
Engineer: Yeah, I know, just tell you later. Stay there, we are okay, we'll let you know.
Engineer: I
Max VERSTAPPEN: guess this is unnecessary slow.
Engineer: This is what was agreed back sadly.
Carlos SAINZ: So much traffic.
Engineer: Yeah, check all just improved, we are P16.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, not surprised.
Carlos SAINZ: So much traffic, I think people they did that the marks they did on purpose. He did turn five ahead of me. I'll be in turn two three
Sergio PEREZ: Good job guys. I told you
Engineer: There's
Lewis HAMILTON: something not right for this car.
Engineer: Okay, copy that. Yep, we're starting over to do.
Charles LECLERC: I had no choice but to stop, so yeah, normally we cannot stop, so I don't know who is the first guy that stopped. Ok copy, we'll check that.
Engineer: Ok, tyre 13, tyre 13.
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, you think? You think or wait? Yep, tyre
Engineer: 13.
Sergio PEREZ: What was that out of 1? Horrendous drivability.
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, but it's so weird. We are struggling so much on the skirt because that was a good lap. That was a really good lap, but we're in the way.
Engineer: We've seen that
Engineer: And I reckon you owe this beatbox an apology mate, it's a P1
Max VERSTAPPEN: Sometimes you can make it better you know, I think that's what we did so well done, great job
Engineer: Yeah well done mate, you've just won me 500 euros off Helmut which is like getting blood out of a stone, so fantastic job
Max VERSTAPPEN: Helmut lost a bet, what world are we living in?
Engineer: Exactly, the bet was for you to be on the front row mate
Max VERSTAPPEN: Haha, nice
Engineer: Into the pits or stay out? Into the pits please Max, into the pits.
Max VERSTAPPEN: In, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in,
Engineer: stay
Max VERSTAPPEN: out.
Engineer: You are P3. Well done, Oscar. Really good. P3.
Oscar PIASTRI: Thanks, guys. Yeah.
Engineer: The
Oscar PIASTRI: last corner. Yeah. Thank you. Car's quick. Very tight field. Thank you very much.
Engineer: Well done, though, mate. Really good. Really good evening.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, you don't need to say anything, I may as well not turn up on Saturdays, I'm just...
Engineer: You're up P2, good job!
Charles LECLERC: Come on baby! Oh, that was a tough quali!
Yuki TSUNODA: Pretty good lap I think.
Engineer: OK, we've lost that lap for track limits at Turn 1.
Sergio PEREZ: Are we sure?
Engineer: We'll double check, but race control message, we've lost it.
Sergio PEREZ: P9
Engineer: at the moment.
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, I don't think I was out. Have a look.
Engineer: Yeah, I like Checo, you were really competitive throughout all that qualifying, but you can still race strongly from there.
Sergio PEREZ: Good job there, it was a tight quali. Well done on max, and we'll get them tomorrow.
Engineer: Yeah, we'll go again.
Engineer: All done. P8, Niko. P8. Nice job, Mr. Kweli.
Nico HULKENBERG: Thanks, Gareth. Solid job, guys. Nice to finish with a strong Kweli. Thank you.
Engineer: Yeah, really good, Niko. Worth the gamble.
Engineer: So that's P4 Six milliseconds to Piastri in P3 Tenth and a half to the clerk in P2
George RUSSELL: Alright guys, good job
Engineer: I think
George RUSSELL: we exceeded expectations this weekend But the race is tomorrow Lots of points on offer Yeah,
Engineer: exactly mate
Engineer: P7, mate. Well done. P7.
Fernando ALONSO: Well done, guys. Not too bad. See you tomorrow. Good position. Thank you.
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