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Team radio transcript

Bahrain Grand Prix 2023: Practice 1 team radio

12 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Bahrain Grand Prix 2023, across 8 drivers. ZHOU Guanyu 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

Every message, in the order it happened

  1. Fernando ALONSOAston Martin

    Fernando ALONSO: So what was the plan for this first run?

  2. Oscar PIASTRIMcLaren

    Engineer: And Oskar, is the car all okay?

    Oscar PIASTRI: Yep, all okay, just had a snap.

  3. Logan SARGEANTWilliams

    Logan SARGEANT: I can smell something burning on the first lap.

    Engineer: Copy.

  4. ZHOU GuanyuAlfa Romeo

    ZHOU Guanyu: The pedal felt quite different to last time.

    Engineer: Brake warming up.

  5. ZHOU GuanyuAlfa Romeo

    ZHOU Guanyu: Just let the guy double-check my paddle position. It seems like the brake and the throttle is the opposite direction compared to the test.

  6. ZHOU GuanyuAlfa Romeo

    ZHOU Guanyu: Have a look at the panel man, it's quite a lot different to last week.

    Engineer: Copy Joe, we will have a quick look.

  7. ZHOU GuanyuAlfa Romeo

    Engineer: Joe on the pedal position. I don't think we can fix it now. Is it okay to survive fp1 question? Yeah, okay copy Then we will fix it for fp2

    ZHOU Guanyu: Yeah

  8. Lance STROLLAston Martin

    Engineer: Feedback from Carlo is that the brake balance is done in time? It's just that he drives the car, yeah.

  9. Carlos SAINZFerrari

    Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, I have the box. The ride was quite poor there, guys. Something changed.

  10. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    Charles LECLERC: Definitely something strange with the clutch, but just going out of the car, I don't think it's a problem. When I take it back, it seems to, I don't know, to remain, to not go fully back.

  11. Logan SARGEANTWilliams

    Logan SARGEANT: It still feels like there's a problem with the hold revs.

    Engineer: Copy, we'll have a look.

  12. Nico HULKENBERGHaas

    Engineer: Brake temps are okay. We're checking the pedal. We can see the stiffness drop. We don't see any major issue. We're investigating

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