Japanese Grand Prix 2023: Practice 3 team radio
57 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Japanese Grand Prix 2023, across 15 drivers. 56 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Charles LECLERC had the most, with 11.
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
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 11 messages
- Liam LAWSON · AlphaTauri · 5 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 5 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 5 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 5 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 4 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 3 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 3 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Alfa Romeo · 3 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 3 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 2 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 1 message
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: And GX position 3, and new brakes.
Engineer: Outlap in front, sign 25, no one behind
Engineer: Similar to yesterday, slightly more intense, more clear in front and behind, more clear.
Engineer: And we have wind phase 3, wind phase 3, higher intensity than yesterday, 10 to 15 kph.
Engineer: Keep your delta negative if you can.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, I need the left-hand side velcro for the headrest.
Engineer: And Lando, you are target plus two, good job on the throttle, and launch map off.
Esteban OCON: The gears are not really sinking
Engineer: Understood, we'll have a look at that, keep going around please
George RUSSELL: I don't have gear sync, is that expected?
Engineer: Negative, that is unexpected.
Engineer: So Lance, info from Carlo, so turn 11 has got no headwind or tailwind but that's obviously less, a lot less headwind than sector one, so just take some margin turn 11 braking there's less headwind there.
Liam LAWSON: Don't break the on fire mate
Engineer: Ok, no concern here Liam, it's a new set and we've got new parts on the car as well, could be just a bit of smoke from new parts, it should settle.
Charles LECLERC: The clutch is a bit weird, the first drop off.
Engineer: Ok, track is clear, we'll check the data and we'll come back to you.
Engineer: I
ZHOU Guanyu: couldn't really sink my first gear, I tried at level 11 but couldn't get a sink.
Alexander ALBON: The brakes just feel so strange, I don't think I just flat-spotted them straight away.
Engineer: Copy, I'll keep an eye.
Engineer: Yuki, should we try for one more lap?
Yuki TSUNODA: No, I don't think so.
Engineer: Okay, what's your feeling on the braking? Is it okay?
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, better.
Engineer: Copy better.
Engineer: what do you think you saw on the dash to
Alexander ALBON: open it up? plus three that was three seconds too fast
Logan SARGEANT: Guys this Delta is too slow
Engineer: now we'll discuss after that's what we need to work with currently we're targeting plus five of that slow lap focus on dropping rear
Logan SARGEANT: Is there a tailwind into the last corner?
Engineer: I see him
Engineer: And Oscar out of turn 14, purple C7 position 3, 220 kph.
Logan SARGEANT: Yeah, from C13 on, it was a bit messy.
Engineer: Okay, I think the last weekend was a big loss, huh? 1.5 tenths.
Engineer: Have you got any comments on the modifiers as well, particularly the one at turn 2 on that lap?
Esteban OCON: I think it's pretty good.
Engineer: OK, that's good.
Charles LECLERC: I forgot to mention, check power in turn 3, qualifying lap, I need more
Engineer: Copy that's it
Engineer: So Max, this is Leclerc's third run on this tyre. There's a possibility he's high fuel, so now we'll need to increase the gap to him.
Engineer: Okay, but then I can't follow the Delta. No, exactly, but it doesn't matter. It's what it is.
Logan SARGEANT: The rears are just dying through the lap
Engineer: And reminder mode TS test.
Engineer: They are doing a good job on tiles, charge lap time 37.1
Engineer: So Oscar suggests let Leclerc go and we can open a nice gap to him. He's on continuous laps.
Charles LECLERC: Just careful to stick to the inlaps of the races I'm pushing.
Engineer: Copy understood, didn't know if you were pushing. So Piastri 6, behind Piastri there will be a gap of 18 seconds to Magnussen.
Pierre GASLY: Don't
Engineer: know
Pierre GASLY: if we need to check the real tires, but like I had more of a steer again. He did a flat though
Engineer: So at the apex of the chicane can we go tyre on the multi please and then push.
Lewis HAMILTON: George, do you know how much they're out there?
Engineer: It's just a bit trafficked He's got Joe ahead of him
Engineer: Okay, this is a very good track position. So the tires are looking good. So it's about keeping this track position
Esteban OCON: QT, turn 2 Copy
Engineer: that, I wonder if that's the track temp creeping up as well maybe
Max VERSTAPPEN: Just keep an eye on that Alpha tower in front
Engineer: Yes, understood
Max VERSTAPPEN: He's going way too slow
Engineer: Don't stress yourself about it Max. We will work it out when we get there
Engineer: Yeah, this is unfortunately the situation we knew would happen, but like I say, don't stress yourself about it.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
George RUSSELL: Lots of sliding through sector one, both axles.
Engineer: We have time for a front third adjust.
Yuki TSUNODA: There's a time right for the single if I when I do sink So
Engineer: if you do double cool down now We have one push then single cool down and one more push
Liam LAWSON: I feel like sector one, the balance doesn't feel bad, but I just don't have the grip for
Engineer: a
Liam LAWSON: lot of time through the rest of the lap.
Charles LECLERC: What is Mustafa doing?
Engineer: Come back to you.
Engineer: Still don't know, gap to him, 5 seconds, so he's in the box.
Engineer: And you were faster every sector by half a tenth sector one and two and just a slightly faster sector three
Yuki TSUNODA: Come on, man!
Engineer: Behind Tsunoda will be clear.
Charles LECLERC: Where are we losing contact to McLaren?
Engineer: We'll come back to you. Watch for traffic with Tsunoda 2 seconds. Behind him clear.
Charles LECLERC: Ah, there's no more than what I've done there.
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, I f***ing just left, man.
Engineer: So Oscar out of turn two, purple C4, C7 position 4, 180 kph.
Liam LAWSON: On the other side of the garage, were they lap one or lap two best lap?
Engineer: He had traffic, he had traffic, he aborted and went again, unimproved.
ZHOU Guanyu: Have a look on the back on how the brakes are still a little bit long now again
ZHOU Guanyu: The brakes are definitely getting longer.
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