Australian Grand Prix 2023: Practice 1 team radio
27 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Australian Grand Prix 2023, across 12 drivers. Max VERSTAPPEN had the most, with 6.
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 · 6 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 4 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 2 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Alfa Romeo · 2 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 2 messages
- Nyck DE VRIES · AlphaTauri · 2 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 2 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 1 message
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 1 message
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Logan SARGEANT: I'm bottoming so much I can't even see.
Max VERSTAPPEN: The shifts are terrible, up and down shift.
Engineer: Okay, understood. Stand by.
Max VERSTAPPEN: We're tracking the brakes too much. That's the problem.
Engineer: Okay, understood.
Engineer: Some
Lewis HAMILTON: dangerous driving by a driver.
Lance STROLL: Traffic jam.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Ah, this size is completely f***ed up.
Engineer: And green light, two burnouts and a start please.
Oscar PIASTRI: My dash is very dull.
Engineer: Copy. Oscar, dash brightness would have to be adjusted in the garage, is it manageable for this run?
Oscar PIASTRI: Yep, it's fine for this run.
Esteban OCON: There's
Engineer: a
Esteban OCON: little bit of bouncing on the back straight coming with the RS.
Engineer: Copy that.
Lewis HAMILTON: Got pouncing okay
Engineer: copy
Max VERSTAPPEN: The front wing is good, just a bit light on the rear.
Engineer: Understood, copy.
Lance STROLL: It's so cold
ZHOU Guanyu: Still have this problem with the wind and
Engineer: the helmet Copy Joe
Esteban OCON: All good with ride, just the bouncing is kicking off quite a bit
Engineer: Copy that
Sergio PEREZ: Let's get on to the soft
Max VERSTAPPEN: Same thoughts, it's still very poor.
Engineer: Yes, there were no adjustments in the car to be able to tune that for now Max, we'll have a look for the next run.
Alexander ALBON: It's mainly relocking everywhere. It's hurting me in sector 3. Maybe I can go forwards, but it just feels like I'm down on load on brakes.
Engineer: How's the initial balance, Max?
Max VERSTAPPEN: Just a bit light on the rear and low speed. Especially entry into mid-corner and even medium speed turn 1.
Nyck DE VRIES: It doesn't feel like a time already.
Nyck DE VRIES: Mamma mia, what a mess.
Engineer: OK, so I'm sorry about that run, a mess for everyone.
Esteban OCON: Yeah, copy.
ZHOU Guanyu: Man, this guy, what they do in the last corner, I nearly crashed into them. The Mercedes and the Red Bull.
Engineer: So I don't think there's anything on track the red flag is because of the GPS problem
Engineer: We have some damage so we cannot go out again
Logan SARGEANT: Ah, my car shut off.
Engineer: We have some damage so we cannot go out again
Alexander ALBON: Yeah with the brakes we need to find something else for the next run, it's not drivable with this one
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