Australian Grand Prix 2023: Practice 2 team radio
24 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Australian Grand Prix 2023, across 11 drivers. 23 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Esteban OCON had the most, with 4.
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
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 4 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 3 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 3 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Alfa Romeo · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 1 message
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Sergio PEREZ: Do you have traffic in the middle?
Engineer: Yes. Good morning.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, f***ing Red Bull.
Engineer: Wait, I
Max VERSTAPPEN: don't know he's on a lap
George RUSSELL: It's raining quite a bit now.
George RUSSELL: Ferrari, I put socks on, surprising. There you go.
George RUSSELL: At this level of rain, I reckon 10 minutes into it will be viable. Still a little too dry for now.
Engineer: Copy that. Definitely not slicks. Good information, thank you.
Carlos SAINZ: Raining, cruising up.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, it's definitely raining here
Engineer: Okay there's a lot of cars queuing here Esteban, I'm happy to turn this into a prep lab.
Engineer: Okay Max, so wind seems comparable to P1 for the moment.
Sergio PEREZ: I keep bouncing off out of turn 6 over the kerb.
Sergio PEREZ: oh man traffic is horrendous yeah i don't know what he was up to
Valtteri BOTTAS: Seems like there's a few more drops now, but still okay.
Fernando ALONSO: Okay, you let me know if people are going off any corner or something.
Engineer: Yeah, we'll do, even if it's on your lap, I'll let you know.
Engineer: Uh,
Esteban OCON: you're dumping to the one now.
Engineer: Okay mate, copy that.
Lance STROLL: Yeah, it's like kind of raining here. It's raining too much.
Engineer: So we've got no more rain forecast, hopefully it will continue to dry up in the next 15 minutes, suggest we keep running.
Lando NORRIS: No, it's too wet in the middle sector.
Engineer: Ok, careful of bottom spine, too wet to try?
Lando NORRIS: You never know!
Engineer: Ok mate, there are no risks, so give it a go, but do not take any risk.
Engineer: No, I think we should come in. We've got heavier rain 10 minutes away.
Charles LECLERC: I mean, there's no point in driving like this.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Nico HULKENBERG: Feels a bit sketchy with the white lines and you can actually get a bit of bouncing.
Engineer: Okay, understood.
Nico HULKENBERG: The only thing is we could add a bit more flap because I think the understeer was a bit excessive.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Come out of battery. Copy.
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