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Japanese Grand Prix2023 · Practice 1 team radio
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54 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Japanese Grand Prix 2023, across 18 drivers. 53 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Liam LAWSON had the most, with 10.
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.
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EngineerThere's
Alexander ALBONquite a lot of gravel
Engineeron
Alexander ALBONthe toes from the pit lane.
Liam LAWSONYeah, there's a queue I have to stop
George RUSSELLVibration on the steering, put a marker.
EngineerOf the stop and already starting a time-lapse two seconds behind
Engineerwe can turn the launch map off still a fair few cars ahead to launch but everyone is
EngineerAnd Lando, the wind at the moment is different to expectation, so a small tailwind through the S's, but light, which happens to be a car behind and close. Four cars ahead still to go.
Lando NORRISDo I even have a front wing on or something? We've got so much understeer.
EngineerOkay, understood. Let's box this lap then, we'll put front wing in.
Carlos SAINZI got full of the green stuff from the McLaren, how do you call it? It's flow bins, yeah. Yeah, they're flow bins. They're full of it.
EngineerAnd how's the left-to-right balance?
Pierre GASLYYeah, still a bit strange.
EngineerOkay, copy.
EngineerPierre's fastest lap for reference, 36.2. Two more laps.
ZHOU GuanyuI feel like I need more than one cool down lap for my wrist.
EngineerOkay, check out we're boxing at the end of this lap so you can keep up the pace
Logan SARGEANTI have a front limitation, but a lot of rear overheating.
Charles LECLERCYeah, they were all
Engineeron my way
EngineerDid
Esteban OCONI run over some *** thing
Engineerjust
Esteban OCONhere?
EngineerNot sure, we'll have a look at that.
Esteban OCONThere was some dirt or something just when I turned in
Max VERSTAPPENThat Mercedes is so dangerous in the way there.
George RUSSELLThe balance at turn 2 and turn 14, much worse than 1 and 13.
EngineerOkay, so it'll be plus five on the dash on a call. Maintain the front, drop the rear. You're in sync with Vestapha behind. Potentially Sonoda or Pushy is about seven back.
Yuki TSUNODAI have quite a lot of dollars there.
EngineerGPS not working, keep your mirrors open Yeah, copy, I'm looking, thank you
EngineerMinimum speed, main defiance Okay, copy, check gear, is he 3
Liam LAWSONor 4?
Nico HULKENBERGThe GX is back to 1. I
Engineerfeel the shifts are very harsh and bad. Okay, I'll check with the guys.
Lewis HAMILTONSlow singles, yeah?
EngineerYeah, yeah, so slower than the Delta time, we've got Maxon on an out lap, he's at four and a half seconds.
Liam LAWSONThe kerb riding is tricky last year game main main issue
EngineerHow was the balance, please?
EngineerA little bit on the nose, maybe half a turn. Understood, Hamilton 4 behind time-lapse, apologies, Hamilton 3 behind time-lapse.
EngineerOh, and he
George RUSSELLknew how to make it. Oh no, he doesn't know
Engineerhow to do
George RUSSELLit.
EngineerOkay, so happily switches got the yellow modifier for 11 to try
EngineerBottas 3 behind pushing. I leave it up to you if we have to let him buy. Bottas 2.
EngineerI'll let him go. Yeah, sounds good to me.
Liam LAWSONJust after turn 10, I lost the tyre.
ZHOU GuanyuI'm still quite old steering but yeah, I'll see after this one
Liam LAWSONVery light rain on my visor
EngineerOscar, driver reported some light drops of rain, but we don't see anything on the radar, just for your awareness.
Oscar PIASTRIYeah, some very light drops at Spoon.
EngineerClear after Lawson, so get in the box they're ready for you for flap adjust
Liam LAWSONYeah, really the low speed is the
Engineertricky part Loud and clear, we see some potential small things on engine braking we need to change for the next session as well
EngineerCan we calm down the shifts? Yeah copy, green 8 position 9, green 8 position 9
EngineerThoughts on tyres?
Max VERSTAPPENYeah, not fantastic. Moving around a lot at high speed.
EngineerUnderstood.
Yuki TSUNODACheck the left mirror. Check the left mirror. It's vibrating a lot.
Yuki TSUNODADefinitely not right.
EngineerCopy, therefore we need to stop, box, box, stop in front of the garage.
Esteban OCONthrough turn two basically. I pick up quite a bit of wheel spin on exit through the corner so...
EngineerOk Liam, we can see a clear issue on engine braking for the low speeds, which is hurting us. We will fix it for the next session.
Sergio PEREZI have got a bit of back on the reed. How many laps left?
EngineerOne more after this one.
EngineerLet's let Max through.
Yuki TSUNODAIt's so unnecessary by this guy
Pierre GASLYI want to check how we are operating the tires for the sector, because we have a lot of sliding.
EngineerYeah, copy.
Logan SARGEANTI don't know why he wants to sit under my rear wing for the whole run. Just stupid.
EngineerDon't worry about him, don't worry about him.
Sergio PEREZTires are not really cooling.
EngineerNo, but it is what it is.
EngineerWhat's the arrow? You mean, Yuki?
Yuki TSUNODAYeah, arrow, yeah.
EngineerCopy, arrow too late.