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Team radio transcript

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

Every message, in the order it happened

  1. Carlos SAINZFerrari

    Engineer: And the wind is less than 5 kph Carlos, so quite low compared to yesterday

  2. Logan SARGEANTWilliams

    Logan SARGEANT: That's totally dry

  3. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    Engineer: And wind intensity is really low, so difficult to let you know direction.

  4. Carlos SAINZFerrari

    Carlos SAINZ: The pedal feels strange, brake pedal feels strange

  5. Carlos SAINZFerrari

    Carlos SAINZ: I have a brake by wire failure. Let me know. Brake by wire failure. The pedal feels strange. Brake pedal feels strange.

  6. Alexander ALBONWilliams

    Engineer: Okay, this is a good gap to De Vries ahead so let's try and stay ahead of Alonso. Alonso 2.5

  7. Carlos SAINZFerrari

    Engineer: I'm waiting guys say something so we are on the mechanical system on box box

  8. Nico HULKENBERGHaas

    Engineer: V-C-1. V-C-1 when you can. It's one or two more times. Very close.

  9. ZHOU GuanyuAlfa Romeo

    ZHOU Guanyu: The tyre not ready with this outlap.

  10. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Engineer: Yeah, so mode 1, strat 1 max for this next lap.

  11. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Lewis HAMILTON: The tides were still good, so the tutorial changed. Okay, copy.

  12. Esteban OCONAlpine

    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.

  13. Yuki TSUNODAAlphaTauri

    Engineer: You can overtake Sargent is low, Russell one behind pushing

  14. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    Engineer: Good position behind Junkie if you need it.

  15. Oscar PIASTRIMcLaren

    Oscar PIASTRI: I'm massively impeded by the crowd.

  16. Sergio PEREZRed Bull

    Engineer: We're looking at one push lap.

  17. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: So the call can't be too slow. I'll keep you updated.

  18. ZHOU GuanyuAlfa Romeo

    ZHOU Guanyu: Can't break. No more. 10-3, 10-2, 10-4.

  19. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: So we had a lap deleted there for turn nine

  20. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Lewis HAMILTON: Are we safe?

  21. Carlos SAINZFerrari

    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.

  22. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: So we had a lap deleted there for turn nine

  23. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Lewis HAMILTON: Are we safe?

  24. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Lewis HAMILTON: That was really bad time usage, man. Am I out?

    Engineer: Yes, we are.

  25. George RUSSELLMercedes

    George RUSSELL: Got hydraulic failure

  26. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: He just blocked me in the last corner.

  27. Logan SARGEANTWilliams

    Engineer: No

  28. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas

    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.

  29. Pierre GASLYAlpine

    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

  30. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Engineer: OK, recharge on please Max, cool the tyres, recharge on, yep, Gasly opening a lap behind, 2.5

  31. Esteban OCONAlpine

    Engineer: Copy, add a turn of flap. Add a turn of flap, understood.

  32. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas

    Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Can you check whether anyone is using the exit curb in turn 4?

  33. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: Okay, Lando, what are your thoughts? Do you want to come in for another set?

  34. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: If we stayed out, we could do push, cool, push. Yeah, I think that has to be it.

    Lando NORRIS: OK.

  35. Nico HULKENBERGHaas

    Nico HULKENBERG: Feel the no, it's not a new tire, but Corbin

  36. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    Engineer: So for the second push lap we have 30 seconds margin. We are quite quick during this change.

  37. Alexander ALBONWilliams

    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.

  38. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    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.

  39. Pierre GASLYAlpine

    Engineer: So that does have not much we can do with that

  40. Yuki TSUNODAAlphaTauri

    Yuki TSUNODA: Why stack limit rows, man?

  41. Sergio PEREZRed Bull

    Engineer: There might be a few spots. Turn 1, but not expecting it to be particularly heavy. Just a few spots.

  42. Esteban OCONAlpine

    Esteban OCON: A bit understeering, high speed, but like yesterday.

  43. Esteban OCONAlpine

    Engineer: OK. Next one. What's that down for?

  44. Carlos SAINZFerrari

    Engineer: Fernand on scrub is 5.6, Huckenberg on new medium 5.4, P4 right now.

  45. Lance STROLLAston Martin

    Engineer: Sainz and Hülkenberg ahead of Dunlaps on medium, so medium is looking better.

  46. Lance STROLLAston Martin

    Engineer: It has to be a very hard out lap, to out one, out one, out one.

  47. Esteban OCONAlpine

    Engineer: And tyre on the multi please, tyre on the multi now.

  48. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    Engineer: And the biggest lost is exit turn 7 Norris 6 seconds

  49. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    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.

  50. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: Thanks, Ray.

  51. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Lando NORRIS: Let's go, baby.

  52. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: Nice work, well done.

  53. Fernando ALONSOAston Martin

    Fernando ALONSO: Man, this is a good lap.

    Engineer: Good man, good job.

  54. Sergio PEREZRed Bull

    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

  55. Nico HULKENBERGHaas

    Engineer: Okay, all done. That's P4, Nico. P4.

  56. Nico HULKENBERGHaas

    Nico HULKENBERG: Nice work gents work great

    Engineer: call on the tires man. Great call

  57. Esteban OCONAlpine

    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.

  58. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas

    Engineer: Okay, careful of your P-10.

  59. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas

    Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Bit of genius from Gary there

  60. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas

    Engineer: Don't think it was Gary but anyway, yep

  61. Carlos SAINZFerrari

    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!

  62. Lance STROLLAston Martin

    Engineer: So Lance that's P8, P8. Fernando P7 was within a tenth on a USoft.

  63. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    Engineer: LP-6?

    Charles LECLERC: Fair enough, we're on the second lap.

  64. Fernando ALONSOAston Martin

    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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