Bahrain Grand Prix 2023: Practice 2 team radio
27 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Bahrain Grand Prix 2023, across 14 drivers. 25 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. George RUSSELL had the most, with 5.
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 · 5 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 3 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 2 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 2 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 1 message
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 1 message
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Fernando ALONSO: Brake pedal very long, all OK?
Engineer: Just checking, just checking.
Pierre GASLY: I'm not too sure what happened with the charge at the start of the lap.
Charles LECLERC: Guys, there's still something strange with the clutch. So, let's look at it.
Engineer: Ok, we'll do it.
Engineer: Wind looks quite a lot lighter now we see 10k maximum
Engineer: Ok Lance, we need a DRS off-lap so we can get a tyre orange in the background, tyre orange in the background. I'd rather not man, I need to get
Lance STROLL: my braking zones and stuff.
George RUSSELL: Front right running at about 100 degrees, cool.
Engineer: Copy, we can see that.
Nico HULKENBERG: Still brake feel, not great the pedal, it's still soft and long.
Engineer: Oscar, is everything okay?
Oscar PIASTRI: Yeah, the platform was too bad.
Engineer: Copy, so box is that.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I also feel like the car is just jumping around a lot more. OK, understood.
George RUSSELL: Left-hand side of my seat feels very warm, similar to how it was going in testing sometimes.
Engineer: Can't be, we'll take a look.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Max VERSTAPPEN: There's no traction opening the wheel, just no grip.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, I was just crashed in the pit lane.
Engineer: Yep, we see, we will get in touch about that.
Lando NORRIS: He just went straight in front of me.
Engineer: Lando, we're doing something in the background that might resolve the issue.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, it was a bit scrappy, 2v1. I lucked
Engineer: up
Pierre GASLY: and missed the Apex, but anyway, the rest was okay.
George RUSSELL: Please check the floor, I went a bit wide exit of 7, had a big wobble.
Engineer: All management looks good for now.
Engineer: What do you think of the front wing Alex? It feels quite low but I'm happy to leave it. For this tyre it's good.
Sergio PEREZ: I need to reset my lap time.
Engineer: Okay, toggle display, toggle display and then it's display 12, position 1. Display 12, position 1.
Sergio PEREZ: We need to be on it, man. We cannot have these issues.
Engineer: Display 12, position 14. Display 12, position 14.
Sergio PEREZ: Oh my goodness, man.
Engineer: Tyres and balance, please. Tyres are okay.
Logan SARGEANT: Balance is good.
Engineer: Lance we need to compromise one and have a better line two to compromise Yeah copy that
Logan SARGEANT: Rears are really struggling.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: Outlap Critical.
Charles LECLERC: I'm getting too close to Czechoslovakia.
Engineer: Understood.
Pierre GASLY: My gear shifts are delayed, turn 8, countdown shift
George RUSSELL: Lots of disturbance, aerodynamically devastated.
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