Austrian Grand Prix 2023: Sprint Shootout team radio
64 radio messages were recorded during sprint shootout at the Austrian Grand Prix 2023, across 18 drivers. Carlos SAINZ had the most, with 7.
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
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 7 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 7 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 6 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 6 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 5 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 5 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 4 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 3 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 2 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 2 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Alfa Romeo · 2 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 2 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 1 message
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: And the wind is less than 5 kph Carlos, so quite low compared to yesterday
Logan SARGEANT: That's totally dry
Engineer: And wind intensity is really low, so difficult to let you know direction.
Carlos SAINZ: The pedal feels strange, brake pedal feels strange
Carlos SAINZ: I have a brake by wire failure. Let me know. Brake by wire failure. The pedal feels strange. Brake pedal feels strange.
Engineer: Okay, this is a good gap to De Vries ahead so let's try and stay ahead of Alonso. Alonso 2.5
Engineer: I'm waiting guys say something so we are on the mechanical system on box box
Engineer: V-C-1. V-C-1 when you can. It's one or two more times. Very close.
ZHOU Guanyu: The tyre not ready with this outlap.
Engineer: Yeah, so mode 1, strat 1 max for this next lap.
Lewis HAMILTON: The tides were still good, so the tutorial changed. Okay, copy.
Engineer: Okay, so a slight correction, fast out loud please, we're going to go fast, slow, fast, and we go scenario 6 and SOC 8, clear from traffic behind. Scenario 6 and SOC 8, fast, slow, fast.
Engineer: You can overtake Sargent is low, Russell one behind pushing
Engineer: Good position behind Junkie if you need it.
Oscar PIASTRI: I'm massively impeded by the crowd.
Engineer: We're looking at one push lap.
Engineer: So the call can't be too slow. I'll keep you updated.
ZHOU Guanyu: Can't break. No more. 10-3, 10-2, 10-4.
Engineer: So we had a lap deleted there for turn nine
Lewis HAMILTON: Are we safe?
Engineer: Mode warm-up, mode warm-up.
Carlos SAINZ: No, no mode warm-up. Number of laps, number of laps.
Engineer: One time lap, one time lap.
Engineer: So we had a lap deleted there for turn nine
Lewis HAMILTON: Are we safe?
Lewis HAMILTON: That was really bad time usage, man. Am I out?
Engineer: Yes, we are.
George RUSSELL: Got hydraulic failure
Max VERSTAPPEN: He just blocked me in the last corner.
Engineer: No
Engineer: And just a little bit of feedback, it seemed that Nico used a little bit more of the kerb on the outside of the entry to turn 9, so he was able to carry a bit more speed through there.
Engineer: Okay, so on your in lap etc. Let's keep the speed up as well on this one still be flexible with time as possible
Engineer: OK, recharge on please Max, cool the tyres, recharge on, yep, Gasly opening a lap behind, 2.5
Engineer: Copy, add a turn of flap. Add a turn of flap, understood.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Can you check whether anyone is using the exit curb in turn 4?
Engineer: Okay, Lando, what are your thoughts? Do you want to come in for another set?
Engineer: If we stayed out, we could do push, cool, push. Yeah, I think that has to be it.
Lando NORRIS: OK.
Nico HULKENBERG: Feel the no, it's not a new tire, but Corbin
Engineer: So for the second push lap we have 30 seconds margin. We are quite quick during this change.
Alexander ALBON: Oh yeah, fine. It's changing every time because of the tyre state. It feels different every time I go out, but it's fine.
Engineer: Copy, we'll leave it. So Ocon 2 pushing.
Lando NORRIS: So no one's really improving?
Engineer: Not really, that's why everyone's putting on new or other sets of tyres. Sainz possibly time-lapse turn 3.
Engineer: So that does have not much we can do with that
Yuki TSUNODA: Why stack limit rows, man?
Engineer: There might be a few spots. Turn 1, but not expecting it to be particularly heavy. Just a few spots.
Esteban OCON: A bit understeering, high speed, but like yesterday.
Engineer: OK. Next one. What's that down for?
Engineer: Fernand on scrub is 5.6, Huckenberg on new medium 5.4, P4 right now.
Engineer: Sainz and Hülkenberg ahead of Dunlaps on medium, so medium is looking better.
Engineer: It has to be a very hard out lap, to out one, out one, out one.
Engineer: And tyre on the multi please, tyre on the multi now.
Engineer: And the biggest lost is exit turn 7 Norris 6 seconds
Engineer: Sort that at turn three.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, turning moment.
Engineer: Yeah, about tenth and a half I'd say. But that's another pole, or sprint pole, or whatever we call this one. Very good job, nice and calm, well done.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, that was again well executed, good job.
Engineer: Yeah, well done mate, we won't call that quali, that's crew position for the sprint race, well done son.
Engineer: Thanks, Ray.
Lando NORRIS: Let's go, baby.
Engineer: Nice work, well done.
Fernando ALONSO: Man, this is a good lap.
Engineer: Good man, good job.
Engineer: Max on Feshsoft's P1-104.4 and yourself P2, that's a better place on the grid
Sergio PEREZ: We're getting there guys. Well done Checo. That's a much better representation today. Well done. Yeah, let's get back to our form guys
Engineer: Okay, all done. That's P4, Nico. P4.
Nico HULKENBERG: Nice work gents work great
Engineer: call on the tires man. Great call
Engineer: Okay, looks like we will be P9 after that.
Esteban OCON: Okay, any labs deleted?
Engineer: None that I've seen so far, no. Okay, well managed, that was not an easy session by any stretch, so well done.
Engineer: Okay, careful of your P-10.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Bit of genius from Gary there
Engineer: Don't think it was Gary but anyway, yep
Engineer: Yeah, it was a good effort, good job there.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, that was a good rally, to be honest.
Engineer: So
Carlos SAINZ: much stress!
Engineer: So Lance that's P8, P8. Fernando P7 was within a tenth on a USoft.
Engineer: LP-6?
Charles LECLERC: Fair enough, we're on the second lap.
Engineer: P-8 P-7 we are? Yeah, P-7 for us, Lance P-8. Good job.
Fernando ALONSO: Good, good, good.
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