Austrian Grand Prix 2023: Practice 1 team radio
29 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Austrian Grand Prix 2023, across 14 drivers. ZHOU Guanyu 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
- ZHOU Guanyu · Alfa Romeo · 5 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 4 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Nyck DE VRIES · AlphaTauri · 2 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 2 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 2 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 2 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 2 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 1 message
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 1 message
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 1 message
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 1 message
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Nyck DE VRIES: Radio check, radio check.
Engineer: Radio is good.
Engineer: And we've got 45 seconds till green light.
ZHOU Guanyu: OK, we check the clutch to pull away, it's very sharp the by-point, very early
Engineer: Copy Joe, we're checking
Engineer: Radio check, Max.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, radio check.
Engineer: Okay, you are loud. But not clear. That's a bit clearer now, yeah.
Engineer: And we have very low wind intensity, very low.
ZHOU Guanyu: Can you check a little bit the brakes? They feel very stiff at the low efficiency.
Engineer: Copy, John.
George RUSSELL: Front feels okay at turn 1, 3, traction 4, exit 4, turn 4, bit of understeer, high speed, neutral.
George RUSSELL: Tractor at first port, exit 2, earth tower 3, tower 4
ZHOU Guanyu: That was nice on the mug.
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, my tiles are completely gone.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Something is hanging loose on the right rear end plate. I don't know exactly what it is.
Engineer: Oscar, did the front wing addition help your balance, or do we need to work with the setup?
Oscar PIASTRI: It helped, but it doesn't feel amazing.
Engineer: But
Oscar PIASTRI: a lot of things don't feel great, so I'm sure if it's setup or just lack of grip.
Alexander ALBON: Sorry, the God
Engineer: so feedback on gears so turn one shifting on the curbs try and avoid that if you can yeah well that's that's how it is yep yep understood
Max VERSTAPPEN: Uh, front tires are not really gripping up, just finding a lot of understeer.
Engineer: Understood.
Pierre GASLY: Something's stuck on the left side part. Yeah, my T-Rof is stuck in the left side on the winglet
Lando NORRIS: Perhaps I was a pretty bad kid.
Esteban OCON: I've got more understeer now, high
Engineer: speed. Understood.
Nico HULKENBERG: Is it a big tailwind in the 10-3?
Engineer: Yes, right there it was 14 kph.
Esteban OCON: Okay, I have no grip now. Don't know if it's the tires or something else, but very poor.
Engineer: Yeah, copy that.
Engineer: Hofstra, can you feedback on the hesitation entry to turn 6? Is that the error balance or something you can correct?
Oscar PIASTRI: Something I can fix.
Engineer: Lovely.
Pierre GASLY: Gotta check the front side because I keep looking at every all the time. Yeah, copy copy mate
Engineer: Hey, I don't know if you felt it but it did feel to me like the wind had picked up on that run
George RUSSELL: Yeah, maybe a bit Don't think that was a reason though
Engineer: You go, you go. What do you mean? You go. You push. Push.
Yuki TSUNODA: It's too late, man.
Engineer: It's okay. So we do the next one.
Engineer: Two tents breaking turn one, and one tent breaking turn three.
ZHOU Guanyu: Yeah, turn three is a big problem for me. Like, I'm on the edge of blocking every lap.
Engineer: Me too.
Fernando ALONSO: I'm not learning much, you have to do a couple of cool laps.
Engineer: Yeah, that's good for us.
Engineer: I'm happy to go for a third slow lap Max. We've got the time. Let's go for a third slow lap
Nyck DE VRIES: I don't understand why Magnuson just got upset with me and went out of the way.
ZHOU Guanyu: I feel much better after two calls on the lap.
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