Austrian Grand Prix 2023: Qualifying team radio
28 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the Austrian Grand Prix 2023, across 15 drivers. Lando NORRIS 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
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 5 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Alfa Romeo · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 2 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 1 message
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 1 message
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 1 message
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 1 message
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 1 message
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 1 message
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Okay, Nico, just over one minute, just over one minute.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, I'm probably going to be getting backed up towards the end, so make sure we're on it with traffic. Yep, as always.
George RUSSELL: Vibration under breaking.
Yuki TSUNODA: I don't have any data, so let me know if I'm getting a lot.
Engineer: Can you restart?
Valtteri BOTTAS: Struggling to get to neutral.
Engineer: Okay, there's been a lot of cars losing laps in turn 10. Recording. People like the sap and stuff. Careful turn 10.
Lando NORRIS: Just turn 4, I like a massive, I think we are looking but very late at the apex If I like a bit of a handbrake at the apex it's turn 4
Engineer: Okay, we're looking now
Lando NORRIS: Do you think we need to run again?
Engineer: We think so, yes. So we've lost a bit of time with that weighbridge, which makes E3 potentially difficult. So we'll get out as quick as we can.
Engineer: Check-in flag loaded. I'm afraid we haven't made it. Bad luck Kev, sorry about that.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: It didn't downshift, so there's no uh, I mean I downshifted
Engineer: and
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: it did go in.
Logan SARGEANT: I'm sorry. That's everything. It wasn't about love. Oh, man. I left too much in the last corner.
Max VERSTAPPEN: How's the radar looking?
Engineer: All okay.
Engineer: It
Carlos SAINZ: can be more aggressive.
Engineer: Yeah, we lost that lap for track limits at turn 9. Max lost his as well, track limits turn 10.
Pierre GASLY: Too much understeer last corner, so... So,
Engineer: 6 seconds for Witstappen.
Max VERSTAPPEN: This is a joke, honestly, but these track limits are
Engineer: f***ing
Max VERSTAPPEN: ridiculous.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Yeah, need some talk. I guess we'll have it in the next step.
Engineer: Yeah, copy.
Lewis HAMILTON: Turn 10 wasn't very great.
Engineer: Took the words out of my mouth. So turn 10 exit is the main loss.
Engineer: We just need to get that bunker in.
Engineer: So check out the track limits of turn 9 is actually the entry to turn 10 you're opening up too much the entry of turn 10
Engineer: We've lost that time for track limits No way where we've lost that time for track limits
Sergio PEREZ: No way where
Engineer: Turn 10 exit turn 10.
Sergio PEREZ: Can we go again?
Engineer: That's the checkered flag
Sergio PEREZ: With the track times with the track limits
Engineer: And Lando, you are minus one bow into turn one. I
Lando NORRIS: know, I know.
Engineer: Well done, Max. Well positioned, mate.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Not too bad. Yeah, good one.
Engineer: Nice. Yeah, well done, mate. It looked like Charles took a little bit more risk in the last couple of turns as well. So, well done.
Lance STROLL: Get in there boy!
Engineer: That was a clean lap mate, well done, well done.
Lance STROLL: Yeah that was... good at everything. Yeah, nice
Engineer: one.
Engineer: Okay, we're not sure. We're just waiting on deleted laps and everything right now. P8.
Engineer: That was a good lap, nice job. So P2?
Charles LECLERC: Ah, good job guys, one of the best quali and this is thanks to all of the guys at the factory to push so much in the last few weeks. Now let's have a good end of the week as it's the most important, but good job to the guys at the factory.
Engineer: Thank you.
Engineer: Amundsen, just got both us and Lance, couple of hundreds, P7
Fernando ALONSO: Copy
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, I feel like the turn one was messy in the last Review the the out lap, but I didn't feel didn't feel as good. Yeah, but anyway get them on Sunday Exactly, we can work from here
Engineer: That's P4, P4.
Lando NORRIS: Naha, good job. Ah, **** the last car now. Anyway, nice result, well done everyone. Good to see the progress from the car. Thanks, thanks for the hard work getting the stuff here, so.
Engineer: Yeah, I agree, mega effort from everyone to get this car here, so well done.
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