Hungarian Grand Prix 2023: Qualifying team radio
35 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the Hungarian Grand Prix 2023, across 19 drivers. 33 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. ZHOU Guanyu 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
- ZHOU Guanyu · Alfa Romeo · 5 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 3 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · AlphaTauri · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 2 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 1 message
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 1 message
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 1 message
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 1 message
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 1 message
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 1 message
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 1 message
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 1 message
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Confirm tailwind turn 2, 10 to 15 kph.
Sergio PEREZ: Struggling with some understeer. We struggled to be quite aggressive.
ZHOU Guanyu: A lot of stuff for sector guys.
Charles LECLERC: Let's stay calm, but come on.
Alexander ALBON: Luke, we were too tight there, had to manage too much and lost brakes.
Engineer: Okay Alex, so we'll stop short, we'll stop in front of our garage, follow Gorky's instructions and then Logan can drive around us.
Logan SARGEANT: Oh, I'm so sorry. Oh, my God.
George RUSSELL: Don't tell me we're out Yeah, if I'm the 18 guys gonna go on any point within all that traffic sector 3
Yuki TSUNODA: No, that's so close, man!
Engineer: So Oscar, there's been a couple of deletions, currently you are P1, sorry correction, P2, we're P2.
Engineer: Turn one is less headwind and more inconsistent as you go through.
Engineer: And we are boxing, it's Troll 10-11. We're happy or not.
Lando NORRIS: No, I'm just thinking. We're happy with the timing and stuff, you know.
Engineer: Understood. There's maybe two
Lando NORRIS: 10s or something in overall. But not a lot, just a nice lap.
Engineer: Understood, stop in front of the garage.
Engineer: How
Carlos SAINZ: much did we miss it?
Engineer: Two thousands, two thousands only.
Carlos SAINZ: Oh, come on. No drag limits for anyone?
Daniel RICCIARDO: Alright, we'll keep building, I'll keep learning, thank you.
Esteban OCON: guys I'm sorry turn 13 I lost the front I don't know is the first time that this happens
Pierre GASLY: Too much on the scale.
Engineer: Copy that, mate.
Lance STROLL: Traffic to
Engineer: the
Lance STROLL: sector now.
Engineer: We're in Q3 Joe excellent job very good.
ZHOU Guanyu: Come on guys. Let's go Let's go
Engineer: P2 Max, three thousandths to Lewis
Engineer: Get in there Lewis. That's P1 mate. Beautiful work. Top lad.
Lewis HAMILTON: Get in there, let's go boys.
Engineer: Oh
Lewis HAMILTON: god, so good. Thanks so much for the hard work guys.
Engineer: Kudos to you mate. Awesome lap that one.
Engineer: Good effort, Max. That's front row for tomorrow. Well done, mate.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, it's not our best weekend so far.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, it's not our best weekend so far, but that's right, everything is just too picky, too sensitive. We'll get them tomorrow.
Engineer: Everyone's finished, so we're P10.14 behind Perez.
Engineer: Ok mate, that's P3, that's P3. I've seen that thing in the last corner, and
Lando NORRIS: drive to the Delta. Yeah, I know. Disappointing, I feel. Yeah, I'm sorry it wasn't a good enough lap.
Engineer: Ok mate, no worries. We can fight from there. And normal instructions when you come to a stop. Yeah, I know, but I want
Lando NORRIS: to be on power, I don't want to be on P3. Same lap time.
Nico HULKENBERG: Good effort, but that was all we got.
Charles LECLERC: The lap was good, honestly. There wasn't much more.
Charles LECLERC: We are just loosing the rear in the left sector
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, how did that s**t sector went? Okay,
Engineer: we're P9.
Engineer: Luis, well done, well done. We are so happy.
Engineer: That's all the cars finished now. We are P7
Valtteri BOTTAS: Copy. Good job guys.
Engineer: It's nice to be back in Q3
Engineer: Excellent qualifying, Joe. We've finished P5. P5 for you. Excellent. Well done, Joe.
ZHOU Guanyu: Let's go, guys. Come on. Let's go. Let's have a good race tomorrow. That was really good, guys. Thank you, everyone here. Thanks.
Engineer: Okay mate, it's P8, P8, Bottas was one thousandth away, still very close
Engineer: Fraction over a tenth gets a p4
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
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