Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2023: Practice 1 team radio
30 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2023, across 15 drivers. 29 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. George RUSSELL had the most, with 4.
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
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 4 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 4 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 4 messages
- Nyck DE VRIES · AlphaTauri · 3 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 1 message
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 1 message
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 1 message
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 1 message
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 1 message
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 1 message
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
George RUSSELL: feel pretty poor, not much deceleration.
Engineer: avoid shifting we got an issue
Fernando ALONSO: DRS is not opening.
Engineer: Yeah, I'm looking at the mirror. It's closed. Yeah, Fernando, we've got an issue with the car, so box this lap, please. Box, box.
Engineer: Our program is obviously out of sync, but currently P12, 1.7 off Verstappen Is
Lewis HAMILTON: that lower power?
Engineer: Afer So that's Verstappen, 7 tenths sector 1, 3 in the middle, 7 in the final Where's both of that? Turn 3 exit, biggest loss Yeah,
Lewis HAMILTON: they're always strong there
Logan SARGEANT: Ah, he's got a big lock up on the front.
Engineer: Check the tires are ok?
Logan SARGEANT: They're ok, but they're flat spotted.
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, the McLaren guys have no mirrors today.
Engineer: Copy.
Yuki TSUNODA: I can't see Mira. I can't see Mira.
George RUSSELL: Crack seems very slippy at the moment.
Engineer: Understood.
Oscar PIASTRI: Just touched the wall, small touch in turn 15
Lewis HAMILTON: Brake pedal, very long, feels like passive.
Engineer: Okay, standby. Copy, we are passive, we'll look into it.
Lewis HAMILTON: I've got no brake pedal now.
George RUSSELL: Lots of wind disturbance, I'm
Engineer: a
George RUSSELL: straight
Engineer: We have a puncture Yuki
Engineer: There's no debris from the punch-up? Not that we've seen yet.
Alexander ALBON: The cooldown seems to lose the fonts really quickly. Copy that.
Sergio PEREZ: I struggle a bit on the braking. It's bottoming out. It's one, feels a little bit on the stiff side on the braking.
Engineer: All quite dusty in the pit lane
Engineer: Lando, in front of you, Gasly might be on fire. He's approaching turn seven.
Engineer: So, can you say that comment again about the braking, what you're feeling?
Nico HULKENBERG: Kind of feels like the car is squaring up, as if the front and rear axle are not aligned on the braking.
Engineer: Okay, understood. We'll take a look.
Engineer: Okay, so maintain position, Max. Let's get on with it.
Lance STROLL: Joe, it's in the way.
Engineer: Yeah, he's continuous push, mate. He's continuous push.
Lance STROLL: Joe, it's in the way.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Lance STROLL: There's an alarm on the dash that keeps coming up, it's really annoying.
Nyck DE VRIES: F***,
Engineer: I was already 3 turns up. Don't compromise the next run. We'll do a quick turnaround.
Nyck DE VRIES: Yeah, exactly Five again a little bit. I'm quick
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, the speed in turn 2 changes a lot, like really a lot.
Engineer: Copy and understood.
Engineer: So, Lewis, we're going to try and take a live pit stop, switch to the soft tyre.
Lewis HAMILTON: I don't actually really want to, mate. OK, fine.
Nyck DE VRIES: I don't understand why Alex did that.
Engineer: Yeah, that's what it is. People are playing games.
Lewis HAMILTON: What target did I hit? Low grip.
Engineer: So 2% shallow, 2% shallow, very low grip.
Engineer: I
Fernando ALONSO: think Hamilton overtook one Ferrari in their vehicle.
Engineer: Understood, Hamilton overtook a Ferrari in the VSC.
Fernando ALONSO: Yep, into turn 3.
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