Italian Grand Prix 2023: Practice 1 team radio
55 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Italian Grand Prix 2023, across 18 drivers. 54 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Valtteri BOTTAS 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
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Alfa Romeo · 8 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 6 messages
- Felipe DRUGOVICH · Aston Martin · 5 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 5 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 4 messages
- Liam LAWSON · AlphaTauri · 3 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 3 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Alfa Romeo · 3 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 3 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 2 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 2 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 1 message
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 1 message
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: So Felipe, just over a minute to go, so 1 minute 15, you've got a McLaren with a rake ahead of you, so they're likely to be in constant speed, so if you can clear them it will help us. Yeah, copy that.
Yuki TSUNODA: Okay, let's go
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, all good.
Engineer: All good. A lot of cars leaving the pits behind you. Remember no curbs, no DRS
George RUSSELL: It's
Engineer: all
George RUSSELL: vibration of the steering and the braking, just with the magic The marker, sorry. Yeah, I've copied that
Engineer: And
George RUSSELL: again into 7
Engineer: I see the marker
George RUSSELL: Small vibrations again.
Engineer: Yes, there it is. Copy. Gap six.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Keep getting anti-stall lock immediately. Okay, copy.
Engineer: OK mate, clear track behind, any initial balance comments so far please?
Esteban OCON: Initial comment, balance, the traction in 2, not great, the front end and the grip otherwise on entry and all that, that's not too bad, so yeah, pretty good otherwise.
Engineer: OK, that's good.
Engineer: Yeah, AFIRM, we do see that.
Engineer: And after on the in-lap, I'd like to do some CSLs. The first is 240 kph out of turn 7. So if you can have a clear track ahead, that's better data. That would be purple C7 position 2 for 240 kph and 6th gear.
Engineer: So Felipe, you're going to go cool, all the cars behind are fast, Perez 2 behind fast.
Engineer: Okay, span at the end of this lap keep pushing to turn one without DRS, please
George RUSSELL: Take the front right side up just to review after
Yuki TSUNODA: I think I had a bit of rear locking end of the braking in turn one, isn't it?
Engineer: If you want to go back to Tyre Dry S you can, or if you're happy with where you are, we're happy to stay. Happy, mate. Okay, copy.
Yuki TSUNODA: I felt quite a lot of
Engineer: the
Yuki TSUNODA: inside wheel bouncing, front and rear, in the middle of the turn to hit.
Engineer: Copy, nothing we can do now, but we'll have a look.
Engineer: Ok, compared to the other car, it was U10 in turn 8, so same braking point, but carrying less speed in the late entry into turn 8, but then it's ISO 910, so it's all in turn 8. And Yuki is using 4th gear in turn 8. Yuki using 4th gear at the moment in turn 8.
Engineer: Again, keep up the pace in the in-lap.
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, in general I feel like the inside wheel is bouncing and it's not slick on me especially. And this may be my exit.
Engineer: Understood.
Yuki TSUNODA: Also, initial turning stability is not that great as well.
Engineer: Copy, Yuki. And keep up the pace please for pit lane timing.
Engineer: Okay, so we have, as a reference, Norris in a 23-2 on soft. Per is still nine seconds behind. And mode push, mode push.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I'm getting way too much helmer lift
Engineer: Understood, thank you
Valtteri BOTTAS: Something is wrong with the rear end, medium and high speed, there's zero grip, it feels like something is stalling.
Engineer: Ok, cross target plus 10, we'll take a double slow, focus on dropping the rear, no third behind Back on balance, do you need flap adjust? Yeah, I'm 2.2 high speed, minus 1 to 1.5 Copy I feel like my change of direction in the chicanes are a little bit lazy Copy Can I have green 8, P11 please? First car pushing, Djokovic at turn 4 What am I targeting? Targeting plus 10, dropping rear, and we are boxing, driving through, pit lane, stopping, boxing, flap adjust, 1.5 down
Sergio PEREZ: There's three at toe, we haven't have at toe. Yep.
Engineer: Are you still happy on doubles?
Alexander ALBON: Yeah, I'm thinking about through the pit lane, doubles as well.
Engineer: Yeah, so do you need a flap adjust, are you happy?
Alexander ALBON: Oh, I'm interested to go two turns down just to see what happens.
Engineer: Happy that. So we'll come through the pits and stuff in the box for flap adjust and that'll be one more time. I think the soft tyre is about second lap tyre at the moment.
ZHOU Guanyu: I'm buzzing all like crazy guys, it's like crazy, every time I go
Engineer: Okay Felipe, we'll go cool and strat 2 in the background, cool and strat 2 in the background. We're going to give you something for turn one with the tools, stand by. Focus on the rear left, cool it down.
Engineer: Yuki, we see on the steer high speed, I would like to do a flap adjust, do you agree?
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, we can do that.
Esteban OCON: OK, picked up on this TN2, down five.
Engineer: Can you press the OK button twice, please, Esteban?
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Upshifting too late into turn 4. In turn 4. I don't know what that means. Stand by. I'm not upshifting in turn 4. Stand by. Okay.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: We're... Apparently
Engineer: you are upshifting with wheel spin and that is the problem. Sorry Kev, sorry for the lack of clarity.
Lewis HAMILTON: Happy to get into the long run mate.
Engineer: OK copy, thanks for that. You've got Sunoda behind 5.5 on a time. Unless you want to continue? Happy to get on with the long run, it's about time.
Engineer: So, can you repeat what you said? Did not copy?
Charles LECLERC: I would like to stay out to do the call-up. The telephone's a bit strange, so I'd just like to confirm that the changes we've got are good or not.
Engineer: Copy understood.
Yuki TSUNODA: Hamilton don't
Engineer: know
Yuki TSUNODA: how to move away. Copy.
Engineer: Okay, you are clear on traffic behind and tires are on target. Mode push when you're ready and we try again.
Engineer: Ok Liam, so tyres might struggle for one more, but what's your preference? Do you want to try one more? Or we move to the long run?
Liam LAWSON: I think we can move to the long run, I don't think the tyres... What's coming? What's coming? Even on this lap, I had a lot less peak.
Engineer: Copy that. So it's turn 1, 1.5 tenths, and turn 8, mid to exit, same amount.
Engineer: Can you confirm the car is better now, question?
Valtteri BOTTAS: Yes, better.
Engineer: Orange Torque 10, Orange Torque 10, how's the time?
Oscar PIASTRI: I'm ready to start going now.
Engineer: Do you think we can learn anything by changing the rear wing setting?
Oscar PIASTRI: I think I can learn quickly.
Engineer: How many turns this lap did you take out? 2.5
Engineer: Balance update?
Sergio PEREZ: Generally losing a bit of front left. But not too much.
Engineer: Ok, think about turn 6, 7. Yeah,
Sergio PEREZ: 100 to turn.
Engineer: After you pull away from the pit stop, if you can, mode formation lap 1 burnout.
Engineer: Yeah, copy that, good, copy.
Engineer: Next one behind would be Hamilton High Fuel, still 9 seconds. And try to relearn the gears on this out lap.
Engineer: And just in case you need it, behind Hamilton there's a gap of 8 seconds to Hülkenberg.
Engineer: And same wind as before, 5 kph, tailwind turn 1.
Logan SARGEANT: I'm already losing careers a lot
Engineer: Understood increases like Oh six seven eight or seven increase like Oh ten six seven eight
Engineer: So Felipe, we're cooling now, so cool, and we'll do one more push, so tire black E, tire black E.
Engineer: We stay out to take the flank for practice time on the grid. Watch Verstappen, then Paris. All pushing, high fuel.
Engineer: Okay Kev, lift and coast are all good. Please try managing the traction phase of turn 6 a little bit more on the next lap.
Engineer: Okay, so that's the checkered flag, so recharge on, please recharge on. That will be the same safety car test that they did last week, so you'll see safety car deployed shortly on your dash. Follow the delta when that happens, please. And then can we go to display 4, please, display 4 to show temps.
Engineer: Okay, safety car is ending. It will be VSC. Still no overtaking. We're going around to the grid for a practice start. Mode slow.
Engineer: And you have already an H13 position 5, that's good, it will be 1 plus 1 burnout standard on left hand side
Engineer: If the VSC is still active, I'd still like you to keep as close to the Delta as possible. We're going to try and stop both cars, Pierre is just behind you, so we need to make a cap.
Engineer: OK, practice split entry, stop on the marks, the guys will do a tyre change, and then P1 please.
Engineer: So Felipe, we're going to do a pit stop, you're going to box, we're going to do a pit stop, then they're going to roll you forward and stop Fernando behind, and then we'll wheel you in the garage once Fernando stops done, okay? Yeah
Felipe DRUGOVICH: so you
Engineer: can use go one for brake balance, attack the pit entry, stop on the mark, static pit stop, and then engine off and they'll roll you forward.
ZHOU Guanyu: I have a problem, I have a problem. I don't know how I get going because every time I pull the clutch it goes into anti-stall.
Engineer: I'll
Valtteri BOTTAS: be quick in the box to fix this issue. The car is undriveable. The rear end in high speed is something is stalling.
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