Canadian Grand Prix 2023: Qualifying team radio
53 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the Canadian Grand Prix 2023, across 16 drivers. Max VERSTAPPEN had the most, with 8.
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
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 8 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Alfa Romeo · 6 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 6 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 6 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 5 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 5 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 3 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 3 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Nyck DE VRIES · AlphaTauri · 1 message
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 1 message
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
ZHOU Guanyu: I have a problem guys. What's
Engineer: your
ZHOU Guanyu: problem? My last drive I have no power.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I think there's a car with an issue on the side. Okay. All right. Now, bye.
ZHOU Guanyu: Can you check? I'm having no power. Yeah, we're checking. The more photo I use, the worse it gets. Copy that, still awaiting feedback. I cannot get more photos than what I do now.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I think there's a car with an issue on the side Okay, alright, nah,
Engineer: bye
Engineer: So try to come back and slow in.
Nyck DE VRIES: Ok, what's happened here Nick? I locked the front.
ZHOU Guanyu: Joe, try to use more pedal now Strange feeling No, still nothing The durability is real strange Copy,
Engineer: Joe
Logan SARGEANT: I don't know, I might have made a mistake not taking more flops. Don't worry about it. You have
Engineer: the
Logan SARGEANT: whole station and you have tools.
Engineer: Okay, I think this session will be dry, mate, so time to come at the end.
ZHOU Guanyu: Are you sure the power is fixed?
Engineer: Looks ok Joe, from outside.
Engineer: Need to make it a bit easier for me to get out the garage guys
George RUSSELL: We should have waited in
Engineer: the
George RUSSELL: garage for a couple of minutes or 30 seconds so I can push
Engineer: Tires have come up nicely.
Engineer: How is the track condition for you?
Valtteri BOTTAS: It's still in turn.
Engineer: Too
Valtteri BOTTAS: many wet spots.
Engineer: Do you want to do two push next time or just one? How
Valtteri BOTTAS: many I have if I do charge in between.
Engineer: I
Valtteri BOTTAS: think for the tyres it's going to be better to do just one at a time. Then let's do that.
Engineer: Track will dry quickly now, the next couple of minutes. Yeah, copy that. So we don't want to go too early.
Sergio PEREZ: Are the tires getting hot?
Engineer: They're on the warm side.
Esteban OCON: He's drying up, especially at the end. Still wet at the beginning. Copy.
Engineer: How are conditions, Max? Thoughts for a dry? No, no, no. Understood.
Charles LECLERC: Come on, Tsunoda. Yeah, Tsunoda is quite a ****,
Engineer: to
Charles LECLERC: be honest.
Engineer: Copy. We've seen it.
Lewis HAMILTON: I need to come in. I can't see anyone in my mirrors, mate. That's right.
Lewis HAMILTON: You can't see him.
Pierre GASLY: Should be burned for such a thing. I'm coming at 300 like what do they think?
Engineer: So unfortunately we are out.
ZHOU Guanyu: Yeah, that was a pretty messy session.
Nico HULKENBERG: Ah, f*** that overcurry.
Engineer: So, Landon, we think this rain will be intermittent and the main front might come later this week.
Lando NORRIS: So I'm thinking you could get away with a slick, I have a feeling a slick would be the better tyre right now.
Engineer: Ok, so how's the truck? That part is almost
Esteban OCON: dry, but it's turn 1 and 2, I need to see
Engineer: Ok mate, understood
Charles LECLERC: It's looking quite dry, there's a line that is really dry. When is the rain coming? In
Engineer: six to seven minutes.
Charles LECLERC: I think we should box for soft.
Engineer: First tap and stay it out. I think we should box for soft, but let me know if you want to put a lap in. We would like to set a lap, so we stay out and we do one time lap.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah it's raining here a bit
Lewis HAMILTON: They're all on flex now mate, are we should be coming or not?
Engineer: We think with the rain down at 10, maybe not.
Engineer: Heavier rain in two to three minutes.
Esteban OCON: Hey impeding for f*** sake
Sergio PEREZ: It's raining harder now.
Engineer: We've got one more time-lapse after this. We need half a second on our doubter.
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, it's always when we're not ready, come on!
Lando NORRIS: Let me know if anyone says it's too wet because it could be to listen to the radios if anyone was too good for wets or something
Engineer: Understood, we're on it
Engineer: Okay, Nico, so the conditions are it's raining. It's just getting worse and worse
Engineer: So this is the wettest conditions and surfaces the coldest has been
Max VERSTAPPEN: Tires are really cold.
Engineer: Yep, they're coming up nicely now.
Engineer: Currently P7 in this lap is very good.
Engineer: No, it's broken. Sorry about
Oscar PIASTRI: that.
Esteban OCON: Still raining.
Engineer: Still raining. I'm going to continue to rain as well.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, the warm-up for me took a little bit long now with so much water on the track
Engineer: It's
Fernando ALONSO: raining like hell. I don't think we will improve anything now. No one.
Engineer: Yeah, copy that.
Esteban OCON: The front left has suffered a bit, that tire.
Max VERSTAPPEN: It's
Engineer: a
Max VERSTAPPEN: lot wetter already
Engineer: But even heavier rain in two minutes
Engineer: If you don't think it'll improve, Nico, we don't need to take any risks.
Nico HULKENBERG: No, I'm not going to prove now, only if it stops raining at the end of the session.
Lewis HAMILTON: It's very wet out here. It's almost extremes.
Carlos SAINZ: Excellent.
Engineer: And that's that.
Fernando ALONSO: Conditions are... yeah, impossible.
Lewis HAMILTON: Yeah, I can't really see down the straight right now,
Engineer: okay, so just exercise caution don't worry about Delta times or anything
Engineer: If you don't think it'll improve, Vika, we don't need to take any risks.
Nico HULKENBERG: No, I'm not going to prove now, only if it stops raining at the end of the session.
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