Mexico City Grand Prix 2023: Practice 1 team radio
70 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Mexico City Grand Prix 2023, across 19 drivers. 68 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Isack HADJAR 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
- Isack HADJAR · AlphaTauri · 8 messages
- Oliver BEARMAN · Haas · 7 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 6 messages
- Jack DOOHAN · Alpine · 6 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 4 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 4 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Alfa Romeo · 4 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 4 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · AlphaTauri · 3 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 3 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 3 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Theo POURCHAIRE · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Frederik VESTI · Mercedes · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Theo POURCHAIRE: The pedal feels strange. As soon as I have the alarm on the dashboard, the pedal is longer. Okay, okay. Do your best for now. Keep going.
Engineer: We have an engine problem, we have no power. Okay, nothing, everything is okay, everything's okay, so Fernando's 13 in front, so you're just getting into this run now.
Isack HADJAR: I am on this toll, mate. I am on this toll.
Engineer: Okay, charge on, we go for a cool down. We have an issue with tire data So it's not working on the dash and not working for us in telemetry
Charles LECLERC: The engine does a slight strange noise when I'm full throttle, like a metal noise, just for your info.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: And Oscar recharge on, cool down lap, we need to cool the PU, so big lifts into turn one, we'll do a cool down and go for a final push lap.
Oscar PIASTRI: Uh, more power would be good if we could attack.
Esteban OCON: Okay, the bite point find didn't work, and at low rev when I pulled away from the box, there was also no power.
Engineer: Okay, understood. We'll have a look at that. No concerns at the moment.
Engineer: Okay, there's insufficient time for that downshift between four and five
Engineer: It's
Lewis HAMILTON: really hard to see you guys in the pit lane.
ZHOU Guanyu: Yeah, I need to cap it a little bit before.
Engineer: Copy, copy.
Engineer: Stay to the left on the start finish straight, there is some debris on the right hand side.
Carlos SAINZ: I lost the car hydraulics. I will try and make it back. I have no power steering. Sorry Trico, but I have an issue with the car.
Engineer: Stein's had a car issue.
ZHOU Guanyu: What the f***
Engineer: am
ZHOU Guanyu: I doing?
Lando NORRIS: Uh, something's happened?
Engineer: What do you see, Landry? Or what do you feel? Well, just look at the revs, mate. It's like the throttle got stuck on or something. Over-revved like hell.
Engineer: Yeah, but it was it was revving into the limit cells. Yes, we see it and understand it. We're happy to continue
Engineer: Okay mate, for timing it would be in our interest to box at the end of this lap, it would be nice to get another one in. Currently we're P7 with that time.
Engineer: So we can go recharge off coming out of turn three and try and learn six through eight
Isack HADJAR: At the moment, it's quite on the under-3 side, mid-corner phase, whether it's slow speed or medium speed.
Engineer: Copy that, good info. Still clear behind, let's keep working on those brakes.
Engineer: So reminder we're going to want recharge off before turn 16, suggest taking a good gap to Perez.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I pressed the button too tight, just as it didn't came on.
Engineer: We were definitely a
Logan SARGEANT: bit over flopped.
Engineer: Keep progress, that's good.
Alexander ALBON: It feels like I'm done on power. The
Engineer: whole lap or somewhere in particular?
Alexander ALBON: Just like down the straights.
Engineer: So that'll be StratMed 7 and you're good to go, remember one lap with DRS, two without, whatever order.
Oliver BEARMAN: Yeah, I had a bit of traffic level up. No
Engineer: worries. Nico, 11 seconds behind time lap.
Alexander ALBON: I just look up for these ties, right?
Engineer: Affirm.
Engineer: And suggest trying the back right for turn one. Back right for turn one. This is your last push lap.
Engineer: Keep an eye out for the crew there outside your garage
Engineer: Okay Oli, we are actually in terms of energy able to go mode push, so let's get mode push now and you're good to go. Mode push please, good to go. Before running we do... Oh, should I start pushing? Yep, start pushing now please.
Charles LECLERC: Let's do, let's stay where we are.
Engineer: Understood, so we just do the start at the end of the pitch.
Daniel RICCIARDO: If
Engineer: you
Daniel RICCIARDO: want, yeah, not much change.
Engineer: If
Daniel RICCIARDO: you want a box.
Engineer: And then Piastri, high fuel, running three seconds behind him, so a couple of cars to come past this time.
Logan SARGEANT: Um, something, uh, just feels...
Engineer: Okay, copy. Do you want to try another push or do you want to just box?
Logan SARGEANT: What do we think, one gear up in turn 13?
Max VERSTAPPEN: I need to barf, there's something in between my feet. It's just loose.
Engineer: Yeah, understood. Box.
Engineer: if you want to reset your dash Delta it's purple default zero alpha purple default zero alpha
Isack HADJAR: Copy that, push the goal for turn 1, up until wet
Engineer: Hamilton using DRS, suspect he is low fuel here.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Yeah, okay, I'll come behind you. I'll come behind you watch out. Yeah
Sergio PEREZ: How do you feel going the other way around? Forward, forward.
Isack HADJAR: I didn't manage to exploit on the second lap I made a... I pushed too wide
Engineer: You can go shape 5, break shape 5.
Jack DOOHAN: I had a strange clipping out of turn three.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, quick turn around even if
Engineer: you
Carlos SAINZ: don't...
Engineer: Norris behind is nine seconds back he's on sustainable
Engineer: Okay, that's a good lap, that's P2, that's a perfect sector one.
Engineer: And blue mode 4, blue mode 4.
Carlos SAINZ: Let's try things on the noise that you see on data. That's
Engineer: good.
Engineer: Oscar, we saw the mistake, all okay?
Oscar PIASTRI: Yep.
ZHOU Guanyu: Okay, it's very hard. Mode
Engineer: race, mode race.
Lewis HAMILTON: Best to be slow so I can't get even close.
Engineer: Okay, copy. So you've got Beaman behind to 2 seconds.
Engineer: Please press the oil pump button when you can. Please press the oil pump button when you can. Joe, four seconds.
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, I want to do a good time-lapse first of all copy
Engineer: that yeah copy
Isack HADJAR: Yeah, the wheels are already struggling
Logan SARGEANT: Yeah, confirm.
Engineer: Okay, copy. We'll stick with plenty.
Engineer: There's a 7 second gap behind you, it's not going to get any better than this. OK,
Oliver BEARMAN: I'll take this one. Yeah.
Alexander ALBON: Repeat the green.
Engineer: Green 8, position 9. Green 8, position 9.
Engineer: Very good lap there and what you were doing with Leico was good.
Isack HADJAR: Yeah, best day of my life mate. That was incredible. Yeah,
Engineer: good job man. Good job. Hamilton behind you.
Charles LECLERC: They are taking ages, come on.
Engineer: Okay, we've seen that.
Engineer: And also another big liftoff into turn 12.
Charles LECLERC: Yes, I'm trying to do my best. I cannot do more than that.
Engineer: Understood.
Daniel RICCIARDO: I think for sure in the car we can improve things, but also me. I wasn't too happy with the laps I did on those stuff to compare.
Engineer: Is he pushing? No, no one is pushing. You're all in sync, they took the checkered.
Isack HADJAR: I want to wave at Lewis.
Engineer: Let's pick up the pace, let's pick up the pace. We need to open the gap. That's okay, we'll wave at him next time. This is good. Cool off the engine.
ZHOU Guanyu: Only when you cool down up, you can see the crowd. It's so crowded, so it's almost a nice, let's say, a typical place for a Mexico track, so enjoy that!
Engineer: Thank you very much for that. It's good data collected there today. Yeah, thank you guys. Honestly, big dream of mine and to do it with you guys is just even better. So thank you very much for this opportunity.
Oliver BEARMAN: Well, that was over pretty quickly. It was amazing, isn't
Engineer: it? Super job, Oli. Really well done.
Oliver BEARMAN: Thanks, mate. It was a pleasure. I really enjoyed it. That soft...
Engineer: It
Oliver BEARMAN: doesn't last very long.
Engineer: No, it doesn't. We probably didn't have enough balance in the car either, but really excellent work there, Nicky.
Oliver BEARMAN: Thanks. Thanks to everyone for the opportunity and it was a great, great experience.
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