Mexico City Grand Prix 2023: Practice 2 team radio
73 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Mexico City Grand Prix 2023, across 19 drivers. 72 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. George RUSSELL had the most, with 12.
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 · 12 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 11 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 7 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 6 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 6 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 3 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 3 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 3 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 3 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Alfa Romeo · 3 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Alfa Romeo · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 2 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · AlphaTauri · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 2 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 1 message
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: There's the checkered flag continue the cool down lap maximum PU cooling and we can have strat 6 now
Engineer: The session is over and now we'll go one more round and we go for the practice start on the grid.
Carlos SAINZ: My left rear crotchet.
Engineer: Small 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 RUSSELL: Ready again, level 262
Engineer: Do you even use DRS? Unbelievable.
Engineer: And starting to rain much more now, so the final sector of the track could be much wetter than last time you came around.
Carlos SAINZ: Louis, we were playing around there. I see that.
Lewis HAMILTON: So there's hot air coming in from these down brakes.
Engineer: And five. Currently we don't see the Magikarp.
Engineer: go so same issue as fb1 so pull the clutch and release with throttle any more revs it's five seconds to go
George RUSSELL: Upshifts tone sounds quite loud
George RUSSELL: The 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 SAINZ: Yeah, we're breaking sector one and two.
Max VERSTAPPEN: It's raining here a little bit, I think.
Engineer: Understood.
ZHOU Guanyu: I've got no water in my coffee. I don't know if it's
Engineer: on
ZHOU Guanyu: the sky or not.
Engineer: Yeah, confirm. It's coming from above.
Engineer: George coming through and then it'd be Perez at five seconds
Logan SARGEANT: Yeah, I'll do abort at this point.
Engineer: Okay, copy. So the rain we don't expect is going to come too much.
Engineer: Max, how are conditions? Are we happy for the live stop? Yeah, I think so. I
Max VERSTAPPEN: don't think this is going to continue anyway.
George RUSSELL: Chris has a lot of pushing at 13 in first gear
Carlos SAINZ: Check for approaching, I'll
Engineer: let you know, check for approaching in DRS, watch your mirrors.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Just check on the right rear, there's just a tier of stuck. It's still there on the suspension.
Engineer: Ok.
Lewis HAMILTON: It's
Engineer: a
Lewis HAMILTON: struggle out here is my grip
Yuki TSUNODA: I'm just sleeping around. I don't know what it is, but it's just so big and so far.
Sergio PEREZ: The ride seems to be quite a bit worse over the curves in the sector 1.
Sergio PEREZ: And I also felt the rear left picked up some raining there.
Esteban OCON: No traffic. Yeah, I'm
Engineer: not
Esteban OCON: sure it's good for riding to 2 and 3 where we are
Carlos SAINZ: Eh, what happened in turn 1 with the rear locking?
Engineer: We'll say typical turn 1 rear locking.
Engineer: and we are losing a 10th turns 14
Carlos SAINZ: Let'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.
Engineer: and drive straight out from the piece uh
Lando NORRIS: what strap or happy
Engineer: strap two please strap two
Engineer: Yeah, it's the best chance to get a read on the tyre. I braked off a lot.
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, still.
Engineer: Okay, double cool, double cool.
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, the front had a bit more potential
Engineer: Till
Sergio PEREZ: somehow I feel like I had to be more progressive and throttle
Pierre GASLY: I've got three calls, he can tell me what they're gonna do.
Engineer: So 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
Engineer: Bunch of
Lewis HAMILTON: cars ahead of him, let us know when the gap's big enough where I
Engineer: can
Lewis HAMILTON: push.
Engineer: The function has broken. Wanna go double cool?
Engineer: Over the line mode, charge mode, Charlie P3.
Engineer: now 4, 5 to the clerk, he is 3 seconds, now 4
Engineer: Yeah, yeah, that's okay for us. You want to take a double cool. You want to go now?
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, double cool.
Engineer: You want to go now?
Sergio PEREZ: I went down from the left. Copy.
Engineer: Any damage we need to check for?
Sergio PEREZ: No, no.
Engineer: That's half a tenth. P3, it's 5 milliseconds, so it's... Is it clear behind now, for
Daniel RICCIARDO: a bit?
Engineer: Good braking, where you are, please.
Carlos SAINZ: Avoid traffic. Copy.
Engineer: Turn all corners behind. Three seconds.
Carlos SAINZ: He's going to the mid lane to avoid traffic.
Engineer: Hamilton is pushing three seconds for Hamilton two seconds for Hamilton and so five seconds
Engineer: Clear from traffic behind, can we have an aero cruise please after turn 3, aero P4 5th gear, clear from traffic behind currently.
Engineer: Can we have an aero cruise please after turn 3, aero P4 5th gear, clear from traffic behind currently.
Engineer: So box box stop on your marks and we'll have the cone in front of you
Engineer: It's around 10 laps until expected rain, 10 or 12.
Carlos SAINZ: That's so bleep careful Yeah, alright, here we go Let's rock
Engineer: Possible rain in 10, 12 minutes. Logan close by.
Lewis HAMILTON: This is the medium tire. Thank you, sir.
George RUSSELL: Brain in again.
Engineer: Copy.
George RUSSELL: Rain in again.
Engineer: Yeah, rain may get heavier in intensity. Five to ten minutes.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, I like the results.
Engineer: Understood, should stay the same for now. Tire temps still rising.
Engineer: And we have some rain detected, sector 2.
Engineer: Five in front of him. Suggest red a five.
Engineer: until turn four, mode rs and keep rs until turn four.
Engineer: Turn 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.
Engineer: How's the tire holding up?
Engineer: Overstappen three behind, Ocon four behind him.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Engine 1
Engineer: We think avoiding the exit kerb three is helping the traction.
Engineer: Do
Daniel RICCIARDO: you want me to make some space?
Engineer: I think we can afford that. I'll bond 7 behind.
Engineer: You need
Carlos SAINZ: to push there to see the temperature. I see your point, but I'm not learning anything for myself either so
Engineer: Okay Max, let's try to pick up the pace a little bit, see if the tyre can handle it.
Engineer: Nice work, Oscar. Let's manage the PU temps.
Logan SARGEANT: Front left is chewed.
Engineer: Copy.
Sergio PEREZ: Rain is picking up, La Secco.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: So 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
Engineer: We do have track slippery at turn 12.
Engineer: You
Nico HULKENBERG: know, heavy rain right now in sector 2.
George RUSSELL: how vital it is to continue relatively high risk just for the sake of driving
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