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Team radio transcript

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

Every message, in the order it happened

  1. Daniel RICCIARDOAlphaTauri

    Engineer: Confirm tailwind turn 2, 10 to 15 kph.

  2. Sergio PEREZRed Bull

    Sergio PEREZ: Struggling with some understeer. We struggled to be quite aggressive.

  3. ZHOU GuanyuAlfa Romeo

    ZHOU Guanyu: A lot of stuff for sector guys.

  4. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    Charles LECLERC: Let's stay calm, but come on.

  5. Alexander ALBONWilliams

    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.

  6. Logan SARGEANTWilliams

    Logan SARGEANT: Oh, I'm so sorry. Oh, my God.

  7. George RUSSELLMercedes

    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

  8. Yuki TSUNODAAlphaTauri

    Yuki TSUNODA: No, that's so close, man!

  9. Oscar PIASTRIMcLaren

    Engineer: So Oscar, there's been a couple of deletions, currently you are P1, sorry correction, P2, we're P2.

  10. Nico HULKENBERGHaas

    Engineer: Turn one is less headwind and more inconsistent as you go through.

  11. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    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.

  12. Carlos SAINZFerrari

    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?

  13. Daniel RICCIARDOAlphaTauri

    Daniel RICCIARDO: Alright, we'll keep building, I'll keep learning, thank you.

  14. Esteban OCONAlpine

    Esteban OCON: guys I'm sorry turn 13 I lost the front I don't know is the first time that this happens

  15. Pierre GASLYAlpine

    Pierre GASLY: Too much on the scale.

    Engineer: Copy that, mate.

  16. Lance STROLLAston Martin

    Lance STROLL: Traffic to

    Engineer: the

    Lance STROLL: sector now.

  17. ZHOU GuanyuAlfa Romeo

    Engineer: We're in Q3 Joe excellent job very good.

    ZHOU Guanyu: Come on guys. Let's go Let's go

  18. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Engineer: P2 Max, three thousandths to Lewis

  19. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    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.

  20. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Engineer: Good effort, Max. That's front row for tomorrow. Well done, mate.

  21. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, it's not our best weekend so far.

  22. ZHOU GuanyuAlfa Romeo

    Audio only, no transcript available for this message.

  23. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    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.

  24. Nico HULKENBERGHaas

    Engineer: Everyone's finished, so we're P10.14 behind Perez.

  25. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    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.

  26. Nico HULKENBERGHaas

    Nico HULKENBERG: Good effort, but that was all we got.

  27. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    Charles LECLERC: The lap was good, honestly. There wasn't much more.

  28. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    Charles LECLERC: We are just loosing the rear in the left sector

  29. Sergio PEREZRed Bull

    Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, how did that s**t sector went? Okay,

    Engineer: we're P9.

  30. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: Luis, well done, well done. We are so happy.

  31. Valtteri BOTTASAlfa Romeo

    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

  32. ZHOU GuanyuAlfa Romeo

    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.

  33. Fernando ALONSOAston Martin

    Engineer: Okay mate, it's P8, P8, Bottas was one thousandth away, still very close

  34. Fernando ALONSOAston Martin

    Engineer: Fraction over a tenth gets a p4

  35. ZHOU GuanyuAlfa Romeo

    Audio only, no transcript available for this message.

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