Canadian Grand Prix 2023: Practice 3 team radio
37 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Canadian Grand Prix 2023, across 18 drivers. 35 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Sergio PEREZ 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
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 5 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Alfa Romeo · 5 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 3 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 2 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 2 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 2 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 2 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 1 message
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 1 message
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 1 message
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 1 message
- ZHOU Guanyu · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 1 message
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Great temperature with your brakes. Be careful straight line with aquaplaning
Engineer: So Kev, we believe we should be staying out on WETS.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Yeah, I agree.
Engineer: I
Nico HULKENBERG: think it's not far off it there but quite happy to just get the car on this tire now.
Engineer: We're happy to do another lap then.
George RUSSELL: Better pull into the left hand side of the break.
Engineer: Copy that
Engineer: Who is the blind guy, the Alpha Tauri? That's Tsunoda, who's blind, Tsunoda.
Engineer: More rain expected in nine minutes.
Nico HULKENBERG: Yeah, it's very close to Inter now, but still I'm just happy to run around a bit more
Engineer: Do you want to try and enter? I
Oscar PIASTRI: think there's too much water for enter.
Sergio PEREZ: How are the conditions? They're not too bad. I think they're very close for Inter. It's just a bit of standing water in a few places.
Esteban OCON: Ok, I did hit the kerb a bit, so yeah, left hand side of the floor, touch the big
Engineer: sausage. Yeah, copy that, we'll still be having a look.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Yeah, the tyre is starting to work, step by step.
Engineer: Copy, you are currently fastest.
Engineer: So the inter-runner is getting faster and faster, though the rain does look to be picking up
Alexander ALBON: As always, it's dangerous for the flurries all the time.
Engineer: Just stopped in the middle of the chain. Yeah, copy that, that's sight.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Front brake's not too cold. It's quite tricky.
Engineer: Copy, copy, understood.
Valtteri BOTTAS: I'm just locking up all the time. The front left is unpredictable.
Engineer: Okay, copy, copy.
Max VERSTAPPEN: The Ferrari just backed into me.
Max VERSTAPPEN: These touches are just getting worse and worse, lap after lap.
Engineer: OK, sounds like there's no change available whilst you're on track at the moment, Max.
Sergio PEREZ: I couldn't stop that.
Engineer: Yeah, we lost a bit of tyre temp.
Alexander ALBON: That has to go to the students now, it's the same guy again.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Wait,
Engineer: you
Max VERSTAPPEN: need to tell me the guard behind.
Engineer: I wasn't expecting you to let him through actually.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I can't see ****, you need to tell me.
Engineer: We need to box, box, Yuki.
Yuki TSUNODA: Finish the fuel. You have to say it, I'll just cancel it. I'll just complete the lap then.
Engineer: Yuki, I told you, it's the last push available. Before the push.
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, but I thought because of tyre or whatever.
Carlos SAINZ: Sorry, guys. Crushed.
Engineer: No, but on brakes, pattern 6. Yeah, copy. Brake temps at low again.
George RUSSELL: You want me using the magic?
Engineer: No, we're happy without the magic.
Engineer: We expect heavier rain in 10 minutes time.
ZHOU Guanyu: I've got too much spray again.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Yeah, again, tires are getting better and better.
Engineer: Copy, Roger, copy.
Lewis HAMILTON: Griff is very poor.
Engineer: Copy, yeah, looks like it's all dominated by temps.
Engineer: So we think rain potentially coming three or four minutes.
Engineer: increasing rain in around two minutes
Engineer: Okay, we're expecting a bit more rain.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Spark a fool and keep pushing.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: to pick up in the next couple of minutes expecting the rain to pick up in the next couple of minutes
Engineer: Expecting the rain to pick up in the next couple of minutes.
Lewis HAMILTON: Yeah, coming in mate. Let's wait some time.
Engineer: Copy.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Uh, my right mirror is hanging. It's, uh, it looks
Engineer: like
Valtteri BOTTAS: I'm flying off. It's got me, got me up to speed.
Lando NORRIS: Is it raining more?
Engineer: Class 2 in the pit lane now, yes it is Understood Lano, this is the possible intensity increase we described at 13.20 which is now So it could get heavier still
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