Austrian Grand Prix 2023: Sprint team radio
77 radio messages were recorded during sprint at the Austrian Grand Prix 2023, across 20 drivers. 74 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Max VERSTAPPEN had the most, with 8.
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 · 8 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 7 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 7 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 6 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 5 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 4 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 4 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 4 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Alfa Romeo · 4 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 4 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 3 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Alfa Romeo · 3 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 3 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 3 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 2 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 2 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 2 messages
- Nyck DE VRIES · AlphaTauri · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Okay, some rain reported after turn eight.
Engineer: Stay negative on the delta. When you get to the back of the grid, please do a static bite point learn.
Engineer: I expect it to be relatively dry, turn 3, turn 4. The worst of the rain has been at turn 9, turn 10.
Pierre GASLY: The steering is slightly bent left and side down
ZHOU Guanyu: Re-equation to love sector.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, it's okay, four sticks. Okay, good.
Charles LECLERC: It's more for slicks, but the last two corners is definitely for inters.
Engineer: Okay, so basically exit turn one up the hill back down to around turn six is dry
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, like fully dry in here. Yeah now it's coming down a bit Understood,
Engineer: thank you
Engineer: This is the heaviest intensity and it will stop in five minutes. So this is the peak and no more rain afterwards
Engineer: and just to confirm it is a gear 2 start, gear 2.
Lance STROLL: Yeah, it's slippery.
Engineer: OK mate, same again on the clutch drop please, same again on the clutch drop, that was good.
Engineer: Just watch those exits Max at the low speed
Engineer: Hey Lance, we think decreasing rain from now. Keep looking after your front tyres.
Carlos SAINZ: How are the tires? Are they up
Engineer: to
Carlos SAINZ: temperature? Or not yet?
Sergio PEREZ: What's wrong with Max man?
Engineer: Stay coming up, stay coming up.
Max VERSTAPPEN: You push me up, I'm on the f***er.
George RUSSELL: Is there any more rain coming?
Engineer: Just a continuation of this very light rain at the moment.
Engineer: Needs of management left front in nine. That's important
Engineer: When you can you can go RB1 and the tires are coming now
Engineer: You can consider talk 10 if you want to protect front. Talk 10.
Engineer: And if you need to manage front right, that's turn 6. Manage front right, turn 6. Consider the wide line, turn 4. Lando and Verstappen using wide line, but turn 4.
Engineer: You
Lewis HAMILTON: better shift.
Engineer: Peace. Copy.
Engineer: Feedback on conditions, Lance?
Lance STROLL: Yeah, still very into it. Copy. Feeling better now?
Engineer: Can confirm the front left is the limitation at this stage, rear left looks good.
Engineer: Good job, Nico. Everyone's struggling front left. If you could just help a little in 910, that will help the front left.
Alexander ALBON: It's all rears, so managing fonts does nothing.
Lando NORRIS: Just consistent at the minute, I just don't have enough pace.
Nico HULKENBERG: DB updated on Wustappen's line, switch to E6-7-7.
Engineer: Do you think the track will dry?
Fernando ALONSO: Potentially, yes.
Engineer: Okay, Valtteri, if overheating is a limitation for you, you can cool on the straights. We see others doing this now.
Engineer: And we need to take care of the front left tyre at turn nine.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: There's 13 laps to go. 13 laps. Hulkenberg P2 is struggling
Fernando ALONSO: a bit.
Engineer: Max, thoughts on conditions?
Max VERSTAPPEN: Uh, cylinders.
Engineer: And if you can keep us posted on track conditions and when you think it's ready for slicks, let's use a driver marker.
Sergio PEREZ: Good, let's make it ring up.
Engineer: Okay, that is 12 laps complete, max 12 remaining. Car behind Checo, 9.7.
Engineer: Nico, we need mode F1, mode F1. How is condition in sector three? Sector one is close to dry times.
Lance STROLL: Tell Fernando, don't lose too much time in fighting.
Valtteri BOTTAS: There are some gross spots on the second team.
Sergio PEREZ: He's getting very close. I'm at the point where I don't know where he is.
Engineer: So no more significant rain expected from now on
George RUSSELL: It's dry and
Engineer: quick,
George RUSSELL: I don't think it's far off sticks.
Lewis HAMILTON: What position am I in?
Engineer: Currently P11, George 1st car.
Engineer: People putting six Copy
Lance STROLL: copy
Lewis HAMILTON: Must have been my front wing.
Engineer: There's eight cars still on intermediate, so I can't give you more information at the moment
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Okay, so how much quicker do I need to go? Just give me a picture.
Logan SARGEANT: How far am I from TOS?
Engineer: You're 4 tenths away from Tsunoda, he's struggling, you will get it soon
Engineer: I'm stuck behind that. You can overtake Verstappen, you can overtake Verstappen
Engineer: Well done mate, that was very well executed, well done.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, good race, just the exit of 2-1, that was not really nice, that could have been a really big shot, so maybe we need to have a chat about that, for me that was not okay.
Esteban OCON: Good job! Yeah! That was a fun race!
Engineer: MP3, confirm, good job, in tricky conditions, not easy there Pretty good, it was quite tricky, I think we
Carlos SAINZ: know why, but yeah, good job Yeah,
Engineer: and 6 points in the bag
Engineer: Well done, Checo. Well done. Good recovery there. Yep. Good job, guys.
Logan SARGEANT: Ah, damn it, man. Sorry about that.
Engineer: We learn we learn a lot of learning today pace was good on the slicks in tricky condition
Engineer: OK, P4 Lance, P4 well done.
Lance STROLL: Yeah, good race man, good points. Tyres were screaming at the end.
Alexander ALBON: Did we reset flap when I boxed
Engineer: or
Alexander ALBON: we kept the flap in?
Engineer: So we made three points on Ferrari and we made eight points on Mercedes, sir. Good job.
Engineer: we kept the flap yeah
Alexander ALBON: yeah i don't know
Engineer: Oh, just missed out there. P8. Good job though. Picked up a point still. Bit of race in that, well done.
George RUSSELL: Yeah, good recovery. Good decision.
Engineer: Checkered flag, checkered flag, P-16.
Engineer: OK Kev, we were P14 at the end of that.
Engineer: Yeah,
Yuki TSUNODA: yeah
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, yeah
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Three points and we loved it here
Nico HULKENBERG: Three three points and
Engineer: we loved what you did nice work and you got the purple lap
Nyck DE VRIES: I felt like in the drying conditions, we were quick, but honestly, the straight line speed, zero chance.
Engineer: Alyssa, yeah. So that's a P10. Ah, but that was my time. My pace was so off when I came on 6. Lewis, it was good. It was just the warm-up, the one lap earlier. I thought it was one lap too early, but it was direct.
Engineer: And just to recognize that overtake on Leclerc and Albon, that was pretty special. They've just shown the replay of that, and that was pretty special.
Oscar PIASTRI: Well, thank you.
Engineer: it's p9 yeah
Lando NORRIS: i know i just i went 20 stall in start in 10-3 so
Engineer: i
Lando NORRIS: don't know what happened that cost me everything
Engineer: Okay Valtteri, that'll be the checkered flag, over the line, mode end, mode end.
Engineer: Okay, obviously a bit of a difficult sprint for us, but we took a gamble. It didn't pay off. It was worth the risk.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Yeah, I think that was
Engineer: a
Valtteri BOTTAS: good try.
Engineer: Joe, it was a difficult race, P90 at the end, Valtteri behind.
ZHOU Guanyu: Yeah, we need to have a look into it because it's a little bit like ice driving the first 10 laps of the race for me.
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