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Team radio transcript

Hungarian Grand Prix 2023: Practice 2 team radio

32 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Hungarian Grand Prix 2023, across 16 drivers. 31 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. George RUSSELL had the most, with 6.

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. Pierre GASLYAlpine

    Pierre GASLY: Why don't I have the DRS?

    Engineer: Because you don't have detection

  2. Fernando ALONSOAston Martin

    Engineer: Sir Fernando, the wind is, as expected, about 10 kph, headwind out of 4.

  3. Esteban OCONAlpine

    Engineer: OK mate, how's the balance so far?

    Esteban OCON: Yeah, all OK so far. OK, that's good.

  4. Esteban OCONAlpine

    Engineer: Okay, once again, how was balance?

    Esteban OCON: Yeah, pretty good. Front a bit stiff in the chicane.

    Engineer: Understood.

  5. George RUSSELLMercedes

    George RUSSELL: Chris, I made a brake balance change there and I came up with a strut mode change

  6. Esteban OCONAlpine

    Esteban OCON: There's

    Engineer: a

    Esteban OCON: bit of a hesitation at a little throttle percentage picking up the throttle

    Engineer: Understood we'll have a look at that

  7. Pierre GASLYAlpine

    Pierre GASLY: I've got no grip in high speed.

  8. Daniel RICCIARDOAlphaTauri

    Engineer: Are you happy with the tools?

    Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, I'll try probably one more step of the tools.

  9. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Lando NORRIS: Still quite a bit of bottoming, I don't think it's hurting anything though.

    Engineer: Okay, understood.

  10. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: Front end is, front tires aren't gripping up anymore.

  11. Logan SARGEANTWilliams

    Logan SARGEANT: I don't have enough support behind my head

    Engineer: Okay, that's something new I don't

    Logan SARGEANT: know. I just feel it now. Okay

  12. Esteban OCONAlpine

    Esteban OCON: I'm almost crashing to Tsunoda there.

    Engineer: Copy that, we'll just take a look at that.

  13. Esteban OCONAlpine

    Esteban OCON: Yeah, copy that gear thing. Yeah,

    Engineer: we saw that. Yeah, apologies. That's we'll saw that

  14. George RUSSELLMercedes

    George RUSSELL: D-rate square four on the out lap.

  15. George RUSSELLMercedes

    George RUSSELL: D-rate square four on the outlap.

    Engineer: Copy.

  16. George RUSSELLMercedes

    George RUSSELL: Having quite a few micro lockups

  17. Nico HULKENBERGHaas

    Engineer: Same thing again with the clutch.

    Nico HULKENBERG: This is not great

    Engineer: practice like that for me.

  18. Valtteri BOTTASAlfa Romeo

    Valtteri BOTTAS: Yeah, that was a bit better, just because I started to give up.

  19. Carlos SAINZFerrari

    Carlos SAINZ: Oh yeah, deep behalf of the loving Father.

  20. George RUSSELLMercedes

    George RUSSELL: How are the fronts looking from your side?

    Engineer: I

    George RUSSELL: feel terrible from mine.

  21. George RUSSELLMercedes

    George RUSSELL: Do we have time to launch for assessment just to see if it improves the front locking? Affirm,

    Engineer: we

    George RUSSELL: can do

    Engineer: it,

    George RUSSELL: yep, affirm

  22. Valtteri BOTTASAlfa Romeo

    Audio only, no transcript available for this message.

  23. ZHOU GuanyuAlfa Romeo

    ZHOU Guanyu: Check the floor, I want wide into turn 4, should be ok, just to the aft.

    Engineer: Copy Joe, rechecking.

  24. Sergio PEREZRed Bull

    Engineer: Do you want another push lap?

    Sergio PEREZ: I think we will only damage the tyre.

  25. Logan SARGEANTWilliams

    Engineer: Some report of rain sector 2, small amount

  26. Fernando ALONSOAston Martin

    Engineer: So the wind is a bit stronger now it's about 15 kph tailwind out of the last corner

  27. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Lewis HAMILTON: I got no grip man.

    Engineer: Oculus's long run data is very useful, others look like they're having similar issues.

  28. Alexander ALBONWilliams

    Alexander ALBON: Can we try calming down these ships? Necessarily aggressive up-ships and down-ships.

  29. Alexander ALBONWilliams

    Engineer: Understood. Talk about it.

  30. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    Charles LECLERC: Hey, I've got traffic

  31. Carlos SAINZFerrari

    Carlos SAINZ: Every time I was changing the mode, there was a cut on the engine. Very awful.

    Engineer: Understood. We saw that on telemetry.

  32. Alexander ALBONWilliams

    Engineer: the

    Alexander ALBON: brakes are smoking okay

    Engineer: copy so logan is entering pit lane now so let him by and we'll do a practice pit stop for him and then push him out of the way and then we'll do a stop for you yeah okay but my brakes are on fire yeah understood we're ready with the fans

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