Japanese Grand Prix 2023: Practice 2 team radio
47 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Japanese Grand Prix 2023, across 19 drivers. 43 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. George RUSSELL 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
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 8 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 5 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 4 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 4 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 3 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Alfa Romeo · 3 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 3 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 2 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Liam LAWSON · AlphaTauri · 1 message
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 1 message
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 1 message
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 1 message
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: That's tailwind into turn 1, headwind in 3, 4, 5 Copy
Engineer: Weaving where you can, weaving where you can, and then breaking.
Engineer: And a little bit of weaving if you need to wake them up and good brake temp We need good brake temp into 16. You're gonna have three cars ahead to go. No pushing cars behind
Engineer: Quick radio check please.
Pierre GASLY: Konnichiwa.
Engineer: Konnichiwa.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: So much traffic there. Poppy, I'll come with you. Watch out, I'll come with you too.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
George RUSSELL: The diff was wrong turn 1
Engineer: Copy that, I'll feed that back
ZHOU Guanyu: Maybe I don't need a special one for 21
Lewis HAMILTON: Floor okay?
Engineer: We'll just have a look
Esteban OCON: Would we get away with the rearwoods, half more rearwoods with the yellow, or
Engineer: no, into turn 11? We'll have a look, Hülkenberg 3 seconds, only traffic car at the moment.
Engineer: We're
Lewis HAMILTON: doing only one call, right?
Engineer: On this tyre, yeah, we'll just do singles.
Engineer: We'll be launching from the box. It could be busy in the pit lane, so watch the lights, please
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: and then after a little bit go to purple C3 position 3, 6th gear, first car time lap Ocon turn 9
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Charles LECLERC: Did a mistake in 11, I think
Engineer: Yeah, we've seen that
Engineer: Gap ahead eight. Take it easy. Take it easy. Gap ahead nine.
Engineer: Can
George RUSSELL: you feed back to Tom to
Engineer: put the cap on
George RUSSELL: the top
Engineer: of
George RUSSELL: the umbilical connector?
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, you say last corner. I'm from talking about the end
Alexander ALBON: That's for sure 4 damage, just skateboarding on the top in turn 9
Pierre GASLY: You gotta do something for turn one and two. Watch out.
Engineer: Yeah, copy.
Engineer: Let Lawson by then there'll be no queuing
Esteban OCON: Copy I think we need to add a bit of flap and we need to do the modifier
Engineer: There's a bit of traffic there because it's three cars who all on a lap
Engineer: And just watch out for Joe, just in case, in turn two.
Engineer: So time is already hotter time is already hotter than we want
Engineer: I think we are not going to learn much until the second push. Yeah, I'll leave it to you if you want to box, just let me know. Yeah, I'll box. Okay, understood.
Engineer: So at the moment you're all clear from traffic behind, stroll a bit. It's just no
Pierre GASLY: point to keep this driving for now, I want to change, I don't know how long it takes, but clearly not the solution.
Yuki TSUNODA: I have a weird feeling at braking at the last corner, engine braking is pushing like
Logan SARGEANT: Well, I start the run with no front, and now I have the most rear deck we've had all year.
Engineer: Copy that, no, everything's good as we are with switches now, so we've got Fernando pushing 12 seconds behind, all cars on high fuel now.
ZHOU Guanyu: My pedal is like all the way down to the...
George RUSSELL: Poor lap isn't back on, it doesn't seem to be that fast at the moment.
Engineer: This is his first lap of the high fuel on the medium tyre
Engineer: Don't hit this too hard Max, the bulks will come up very quickly around here.
Engineer: And we would like a bit more management in turn 3 and turn 5.
Engineer: and easy traction out of 14
Engineer: Okay, Kev, four mid-corner understeer. The suggestion is to try lift 32.
Engineer: yeah understood and we see him very high deck on others on the soft too
Engineer: I suggest turn two for any lateral saving.
Engineer: Joe, we have to abort Box's lap, watch traffic behind, Alonso then Magnussen, still
ZHOU Guanyu: have an issue. I feel it's the same problem. Slow in and watch Magnussen now.
Carlos SAINZ: Why is my socks so long?
Engineer: Manually, do not pass Alex.
Engineer: Oscar, gap behind to Hülkenberg is three seconds but there's a ten second gap behind him to Sunoda. Suggest back off to learn what we can about the tyre in clearer air.
Pierre GASLY: Locked up, sorry for that.
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