Mexico City Grand Prix2023 · Practice 2 team radio

EngineerThere's the checkered flag continue the cool down lap maximum PU cooling and we can have strat 6 now

EngineerThe session is over and now we'll go one more round and we go for the practice start on the grid.

Carlos SAINZMy left rear crotchet.

EngineerSmall vibration as I'm bleeding off the brake. Copy. Steering vibration, I presume. Through my brake pedal. We see you currently in strat 16.

George RUSSELLReady again, level 262

EngineerDo you even use DRS? Unbelievable.

EngineerAnd starting to rain much more now, so the final sector of the track could be much wetter than last time you came around.

Carlos SAINZLouis, we were playing around there. I see that.

Lewis HAMILTONSo there's hot air coming in from these down brakes.

EngineerAnd five. Currently we don't see the Magikarp.

Engineergo so same issue as fb1 so pull the clutch and release with throttle any more revs it's five seconds to go

George RUSSELLUpshifts tone sounds quite loud

George RUSSELLThe rear seemed to be braking pretty aggressively, almost like it had rear lock, turn 12 this lap. Straight to gap head 8 seconds, good to go.

Carlos SAINZYeah, we're breaking sector one and two.

Max VERSTAPPENIt's raining here a little bit, I think.

EngineerUnderstood.

ZHOU GuanyuI've got no water in my coffee. I don't know if it's

Engineeron

ZHOU Guanyuthe sky or not.

EngineerYeah, confirm. It's coming from above.

EngineerGeorge coming through and then it'd be Perez at five seconds

Logan SARGEANTYeah, I'll do abort at this point.

EngineerOkay, copy. So the rain we don't expect is going to come too much.

EngineerMax, how are conditions? Are we happy for the live stop? Yeah, I think so. I

Max VERSTAPPENdon't think this is going to continue anyway.

George RUSSELLChris has a lot of pushing at 13 in first gear

Carlos SAINZCheck for approaching, I'll

Engineerlet you know, check for approaching in DRS, watch your mirrors.

Max VERSTAPPENJust check on the right rear, there's just a tier of stuck. It's still there on the suspension.

EngineerOk.

Lewis HAMILTONIt's

Engineera

Lewis HAMILTONstruggle out here is my grip

Yuki TSUNODAI'm just sleeping around. I don't know what it is, but it's just so big and so far.

Sergio PEREZThe ride seems to be quite a bit worse over the curves in the sector 1.

Sergio PEREZAnd I also felt the rear left picked up some raining there.

Esteban OCONNo traffic. Yeah, I'm

Engineernot

Esteban OCONsure it's good for riding to 2 and 3 where we are

Carlos SAINZEh, what happened in turn 1 with the rear locking?

EngineerWe'll say typical turn 1 rear locking.

Engineerand we are losing a 10th turns 14

Carlos SAINZLet's say my main limitation is a bit of over-rotation still, but hopefully for the softies, better over-rotation, low-speed, track 2, 5, 6.

Engineerand drive straight out from the piece uh

Lando NORRISwhat strap or happy

Engineerstrap two please strap two

EngineerYeah, it's the best chance to get a read on the tyre. I braked off a lot.

Sergio PEREZYeah, still.

EngineerOkay, double cool, double cool.

Sergio PEREZYeah, the front had a bit more potential

EngineerTill

Sergio PEREZsomehow I feel like I had to be more progressive and throttle

Pierre GASLYI've got three calls, he can tell me what they're gonna do.

EngineerSo main loss is turn 10 apex as I'm sure you felt the wind has picked up so it's a bit of a headwind now 7 to 11

EngineerBunch of

Lewis HAMILTONcars ahead of him, let us know when the gap's big enough where I

Engineercan

Lewis HAMILTONpush.

EngineerThe function has broken. Wanna go double cool?

EngineerOver the line mode, charge mode, Charlie P3.

Engineernow 4, 5 to the clerk, he is 3 seconds, now 4

EngineerYeah, yeah, that's okay for us. You want to take a double cool. You want to go now?

Carlos SAINZYeah, double cool.

EngineerYou want to go now?

Sergio PEREZI went down from the left. Copy.

EngineerAny damage we need to check for?

Sergio PEREZNo, no.

EngineerThat's half a tenth. P3, it's 5 milliseconds, so it's... Is it clear behind now, for

Daniel RICCIARDOa bit?

EngineerGood braking, where you are, please.

Carlos SAINZAvoid traffic. Copy.

EngineerTurn all corners behind. Three seconds.

Carlos SAINZHe's going to the mid lane to avoid traffic.

EngineerHamilton is pushing three seconds for Hamilton two seconds for Hamilton and so five seconds

EngineerClear from traffic behind, can we have an aero cruise please after turn 3, aero P4 5th gear, clear from traffic behind currently.

EngineerCan we have an aero cruise please after turn 3, aero P4 5th gear, clear from traffic behind currently.

EngineerSo box box stop on your marks and we'll have the cone in front of you

EngineerIt's around 10 laps until expected rain, 10 or 12.

Carlos SAINZThat's so bleep careful Yeah, alright, here we go Let's rock

EngineerPossible rain in 10, 12 minutes. Logan close by.

Lewis HAMILTONThis is the medium tire. Thank you, sir.

George RUSSELLBrain in again.

EngineerCopy.

George RUSSELLRain in again.

EngineerYeah, rain may get heavier in intensity. Five to ten minutes.

Max VERSTAPPENYeah, I like the results.

EngineerUnderstood, should stay the same for now. Tire temps still rising.

EngineerAnd we have some rain detected, sector 2.

EngineerFive in front of him. Suggest red a five.

Engineeruntil turn four, mode rs and keep rs until turn four.

EngineerTurn three to turn 10. So, Oscar, we'd like to continue like this for data gathering, but the track could be a little bit wetter. Turn three to turn 10. So just take care.

EngineerHow's the tire holding up?

EngineerOverstappen three behind, Ocon four behind him.

EngineerEngine 1

EngineerWe think avoiding the exit kerb three is helping the traction.

EngineerDo

Daniel RICCIARDOyou want me to make some space?

EngineerI think we can afford that. I'll bond 7 behind.

EngineerYou need

Carlos SAINZto push there to see the temperature. I see your point, but I'm not learning anything for myself either so

EngineerOkay Max, let's try to pick up the pace a little bit, see if the tyre can handle it.

EngineerNice work, Oscar. Let's manage the PU temps.

Logan SARGEANTFront left is chewed.

EngineerCopy.

Sergio PEREZRain is picking up, La Secco.

EngineerCopy.

EngineerSo we think turn 12 is on the slippery side so assess that if that's too much rain then let me know and we abort

EngineerWe do have track slippery at turn 12.

EngineerYou

Nico HULKENBERGknow, heavy rain right now in sector 2.

George RUSSELLhow vital it is to continue relatively high risk just for the sake of driving