British Grand Prix 2023: Qualifying team radio
79 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the British Grand Prix 2023, across 19 drivers. 75 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Pierre GASLY had the most, with 10.
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
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 10 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 7 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 7 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Alfa Romeo · 6 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 6 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 6 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 5 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 5 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 5 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 5 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 4 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 4 messages
- Nyck DE VRIES · AlphaTauri · 2 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 1 message
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 1 message
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
ZHOU Guanyu: Board push, end of the lap, yeah?
Engineer: Copy, I will be push, push.
Engineer: So we think this is probably going to need a hard out lap with these track conditions and we don't want to lose track position
Charles LECLERC: Yes, but now we full box for dry we box for dry copy
Engineer: understood
Engineer: Yeah, copy that. So we think we'll have two or three time lapse of dry running.
Engineer: As in before the rain comes, or what do you mean? As in before the rain comes, yep.
Lando NORRIS: Do you think it's better if we do continuous or not?
Engineer: We think we can do two laps, but let's use this one as a cool down lap and we can go for two laps
Engineer: um
Esteban OCON: it's the fast speed sector and the last sector wet still quite damp
Engineer: So before the lockup, it was two tenths ahead of George. You've got Sainz behind two seconds.
Engineer: Okay, we think we can push next lap so you can back off to this one and then push again
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Logan SARGEANT: I had traffic in turn 3.
Engineer: Copy, traffic in turn 3.
Engineer: So we're expecting, again, some light drizzle in around four minutes or so that could last five minutes. But again, not expecting it to significantly wet the tracks.
Logan SARGEANT: Yeah, so let's put a new set on and bang one in
Engineer: So it looks like light rain in the pit lane doesn't look heavy enough for it to interfere
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, uh, I'm gonna, of course, but it's f***ed up, I don't know why we've done this.
Nyck DE VRIES: Guys guys you say give me an unsafe release
George RUSSELL: Yeah, it's
Engineer: raining everywhere at the moment. Aye, firm.
Engineer: OK, let's stay out please, let's stay out, let's go for one more lap, one more lap.
Nyck DE VRIES: It's raining quite a bit on the back street.
Esteban OCON: It's actually raining quite a lot more now, I think if we go out it's going to be wet, so that last chance is now.
ZHOU Guanyu: Okay now it was so
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Uh, everything just switched off.
ZHOU Guanyu: But the session we start or not, yes,
Engineer: it will we have more than three minutes remaining
ZHOU Guanyu: Let me know the condition was was people still improving on these conditions or not
Engineer: Almost crashed into the Alpha there, it was close. Understood, we'll have a look at that.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I just understeered, I don't know, just in a grip.
Lewis HAMILTON: Do we need to overtake people on the track?
Engineer: Definitely don't lose positions but yeah it's probably going to be a little bit tight.
ZHOU Guanyu: Are we at the front?
Valtteri BOTTAS: No power.
Engineer: Copy, copy. Okay, don't shift, don't shift. Stay in gear.
Charles LECLERC: Nice Carlos, nice. Good overtaking last corner.
Carlos SAINZ: It's
Engineer: a
Carlos SAINZ: bit unfair what you're asking me to do there, sacrifice my entire temperature, but anyway, whatever. Also I am P4, he's P3, I'm more at risk.
Engineer: Copy that, sorry about that, but we want to avoid.
Engineer: Rain is coming. Rain's coming.
Engineer: So we think light rain any minute now, light rain any minute now, but it is light. Copy.
Engineer: Currently everything is reported as dry and I would say if anything this rain looks like it's breaking up
Engineer: Okay lads, that's the plan. We have to save the new set for Q3, so that's the plan. Just focus on this run.
Engineer: No more rain
Pierre GASLY: So we basically have this set and then after rain should be coming right?
Engineer: There's already a little bit of rain reported turn 15
Engineer: There are these light drops about, expecting it to last around five minutes.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, it's already a little bit slippery
Engineer: It's about getting a good clean first lap Fernando if this rain gets bigger and a bit of rain in 15 and 16 reported
Oscar PIASTRI: Copy, there's some light rain in
Engineer: the
Oscar PIASTRI: whole circuit now.
Engineer: Okay, so just single call plus 10. Try and get in before more rain.
Engineer: This so track is clear behind and we are aiming for a single cooldown lap single cooldown lap
Engineer: And you can't consider mid-eight, just mid-eight for a bit of stability.
Engineer: Still drizzling here. Yep, understood. So continue to circulate, thanks.
Engineer: Stay within track limit, mate. Turn 15. Watch out.
Engineer: So Charles, we believe the end of the session will be the fastest track. So we believe it's better to come in and choose the best set of tires.
Engineer: Are we coming in for new tyres or going back out again? Yes, copy. Double call. Box, box.
Engineer: Ocon pushing behind, watch for traffic with Ocon, he's pushing behind I am pushing, I am pushing, I am pushing
Engineer: Unfortunately, we're out there. Yeah,
Esteban OCON: sorry, guys. I've badly managed.
Engineer: Okay, that's track limit turn nine I
Logan SARGEANT: was it I
Engineer: think you were not we have to take that turn to look again
Pierre GASLY: Where's the window?
Engineer: Yeah, it looks very similar to where I was in P3 and if anything through the session it has come down a little bit in terms of intensity.
Engineer: That's a good lap on a used time. I
Alexander ALBON: think I've got a puncture on my front left or something.
Engineer: OK, go switch to go in, pressure's alright at the moment.
Pierre GASLY: Do you want me to be slightly closer to
Engineer: the cloud line for the next lap? Affirm.
Engineer: Okay, so we can fit the next set of tires so 308 can go on the car please 308
Engineer: So in front we have Russell Neosoft and behind we have Hamilton
Pierre GASLY: I would love to, do you want same?
Engineer: Same, but use DRS between 5 and 6
Engineer: closely spaced and so Oscar there's a 10 second gap in front of you but the six cars at the end of that gap are pretty closely spaced and you will have some bunching in sector three.
Engineer: Yeah, good on brake temps, good on brake temps, tyres are nice and warm, they're okay.
Engineer: Right mate, that's P2, P2, Oskar P3 Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey! Well done mate, great drive, great drive Very good Yeah
Lando NORRIS: baby! Awesome job Awesome job Well
Engineer: done mate Is Zach happy? I think so
Engineer: Okay, well done, that's another pole, another busy session, so well navigated. Well done mate! Very lovely, well done, fifth in a row, well done mate.
Engineer: OK Lewis, so that's P7, it's just under 5 tenths to Verstappen P1 He
Lewis HAMILTON: says so!
Charles LECLERC: Ah, I didn't think it would go fast. I over pushed. I over pushed.
George RUSSELL: Alright, thanks everyone, pretty good work yesterday, race is tomorrow and we made good steps forward from FP2 Yeah, if so
Engineer: You've got both McLarens behind you. Norris was two and a half tenths behind, Piastri three and a half tenths behind. Then it's Leclerc signs in the rounding off the top five.
Max VERSTAPPEN: That's a good result for them, they've been quick today.
Engineer: It's really tight now.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, that's tight.
Engineer: F***
Carlos SAINZ: it.
Engineer: And Oscar finished P3. Well done, buddy. Finished P3. Very nice.
Oscar PIASTRI: Well done, everyone. Saw Lando's P2 as well, so awesome job, everyone. Mega, mega, mega, mega. Thank you very much. Not bad at all.
Engineer: How did you pull up at the boards in the pit lane?
Oscar PIASTRI: Kelpie,
Engineer: it's been
Oscar PIASTRI: a while since I pulled up at the boards. It sounds like fun.
Alexander ALBON: Sorry guys, that wasn't, that wasn't good.
Engineer: Great lap Alex Aldeiro, don't be disappointed in that, that's strong. Well done, good qualifying session all the way through, clean, no track limits.
Engineer: Okay, so car ahead of you is this stop and so I could have Recharge up and just negative on your Delta, please. All right, that's p9 Collection p10 Climate has p9 Collection p10 Fucking now climate has p9 The collection p10 Fucking now climate has p9 Collection p10 Climate has p9
Fernando ALONSO: It's been incredible doing so much, I mean, incredible.
Engineer: Yeah, it's painful.
Engineer: Bye-bye.
Engineer: Right mate, that's P9, collection P10.
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