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
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 6 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 5 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 3 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Alfa Romeo · 2 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · AlphaTauri · 1 message
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 1 message
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 1 message
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 1 message
- ZHOU Guanyu · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 1 message
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 1 message
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Pierre GASLY: Why don't I have the DRS?
Engineer: Because you don't have detection
Engineer: Sir Fernando, the wind is, as expected, about 10 kph, headwind out of 4.
Engineer: OK mate, how's the balance so far?
Esteban OCON: Yeah, all OK so far. OK, that's good.
Engineer: Okay, once again, how was balance?
Esteban OCON: Yeah, pretty good. Front a bit stiff in the chicane.
Engineer: Understood.
George RUSSELL: Chris, I made a brake balance change there and I came up with a strut mode change
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
Pierre GASLY: I've got no grip in high speed.
Engineer: Are you happy with the tools?
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, I'll try probably one more step of the tools.
Lando NORRIS: Still quite a bit of bottoming, I don't think it's hurting anything though.
Engineer: Okay, understood.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Front end is, front tires aren't gripping up anymore.
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
Esteban OCON: I'm almost crashing to Tsunoda there.
Engineer: Copy that, we'll just take a look at that.
Esteban OCON: Yeah, copy that gear thing. Yeah,
Engineer: we saw that. Yeah, apologies. That's we'll saw that
George RUSSELL: D-rate square four on the out lap.
George RUSSELL: D-rate square four on the outlap.
Engineer: Copy.
George RUSSELL: Having quite a few micro lockups
Engineer: Same thing again with the clutch.
Nico HULKENBERG: This is not great
Engineer: practice like that for me.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Yeah, that was a bit better, just because I started to give up.
Carlos SAINZ: Oh yeah, deep behalf of the loving Father.
George RUSSELL: How are the fronts looking from your side?
Engineer: I
George RUSSELL: feel terrible from mine.
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
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
ZHOU Guanyu: Check the floor, I want wide into turn 4, should be ok, just to the aft.
Engineer: Copy Joe, rechecking.
Engineer: Do you want another push lap?
Sergio PEREZ: I think we will only damage the tyre.
Engineer: Some report of rain sector 2, small amount
Engineer: So the wind is a bit stronger now it's about 15 kph tailwind out of the last corner
Lewis HAMILTON: I got no grip man.
Engineer: Oculus's long run data is very useful, others look like they're having similar issues.
Alexander ALBON: Can we try calming down these ships? Necessarily aggressive up-ships and down-ships.
Engineer: Understood. Talk about it.
Charles LECLERC: Hey, I've got traffic
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.
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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