Mexico City Grand Prix 2023: Practice 3 team radio
67 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Mexico City Grand Prix 2023, across 17 drivers. 64 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
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 6 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 5 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 5 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 5 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 4 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 4 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Alfa Romeo · 4 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 4 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 3 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 3 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Okay we can be a bit gentle on the brakes in four
Engineer: Remind you new brakes the car
Engineer: Multifunction GX position 3, Multifunction GX position 3, and first gear needs to be synchronized.
Engineer: We synchronize the gears when we can.
Engineer: You are faster sector one and three slightly slower sector two
Engineer: Yeah Lewis, for turn 4 recommending keeping it there, then moving forwards for turn 7 onwards, but remember you've got the magic as well. We'll go straight out, circuit's all clear.
Engineer: And if you agree, Yuki, I would do a flap adjust, add in flap.
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, I have so much on this thing.
Engineer: And we can have a launch map off and Oscar measured wind 15k tailwind braking for turn four. Track behind is clear.
Engineer: Launch feedback that was 1% shallow initial throttle late, 1% shallow initial throttle late.
Yuki TSUNODA: Should I go into braking 10 or to increase the cornering pressure in the mid-slow speed?
Engineer: Affirmative
Valtteri BOTTAS: Uh, the biggest issue is I have brake pulling on all the brake links. The front left disc is too cool.
Engineer: Okay, copy.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Lando NORRIS: Um, turn
Engineer: 4,
Lando NORRIS: over
Engineer: rotation with Nerea. Oscar, time-lapse, turn 8, turn 9. And understood, we'll look at turn 4. And maybe turn 10, I think Nerea is going a little bit on entry, but hard to say. Understood. Oscar, close behind.
Lewis HAMILTON: How's the time last? Turn
Engineer: 4-5 mainly We've got a double yellow turn 2 Sorry, turn 12 He's just reversing his car
Engineer: All okay?
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, all good.
ZHOU Guanyu: Sliding, oh, what a place.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, just lost the wheel, I think, I don't know if I brought him the auto.
George RUSSELL: Upshift first to second marker. Copy that.
Engineer: And you've got 15 seconds ahead to Lewis.
Engineer: A lot of that time gained looks to be straight line speed probably because he was about four seconds behind you so there's been a bit of a toe effect there probably.
Oscar PIASTRI: The ride and re-grip feels pretty terrible.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: Okay Kev, Ockham behind has just completed a time-lapse, not sure what he's doing so just let two and a half seconds behind, he's on sustained running so you'll need to let him through.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: I think one of the wheels is not on properly, so I'm coming in.
Engineer: Copy.
Esteban OCON: Copy. Every time I pull the gears out of the last corner, there's like a hole in torque after every gear.
Engineer: Okay, understood. We'll have a look at that from our side.
Esteban OCON: Copy. It feels like there's much more, like, little surge compared to yesterday.
Engineer: Okay, copy that.
Engineer: And Lando Minor, Purple C2, position 6 please, Purple C2, position 6.
Engineer: It slips, look like we've got margin for handbrake turn 1, red button turn 12. Handbrake turn 1, red button turn 12.
ZHOU Guanyu: breaking and also some under stream mid corner
Engineer: copy, suggest to drop the diff mid one step
Engineer: so you'll have to let Norris through he's currently at five seconds back it up now otherwise you end up rolling into 16 and you force yourself into opening the lap so let Norris through now then Sunoda at five seconds
Engineer: Perez at... I think Piastri is at 100Kg as well Ok copy that, so you've got four behind to Perez, he's on a low fuel lap
Engineer: I don't think it's too bad a position to be in.
Engineer: We're going to sustainable straight into sustainable
Alexander ALBON: This poor toggle loop is not good, it's too far forwards, brake pressure I think into 6, if that's right or not, I don't know.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I have this yellow with red lights again on at my desk.
Engineer: Fail 4-2, fail 42 for that.
Lance STROLL: The tire is done.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Sergio PEREZ: Is the red button
Engineer: working? It will check.
Engineer: What's your thoughts on the Packer?
Alexander ALBON: I don't think it makes such a big difference with the ride.
Engineer: So
Alexander ALBON: I think let's just, if we can have time, put it back in.
Engineer: I'm not sure, the ride's the same. Understood, copy that. You've got Alonso three seconds back on a push.
Engineer: The only thing that's maybe worth trying is a little bit earlier break for four.
Fernando ALONSO: If we have time, we go back to the previous setting.
Engineer: Copy, mate, copy.
Engineer: I didn't want to pick up Albon because science I think is doing continuous.
Alexander ALBON: I messed up turn two there, I was
Engineer: a
Alexander ALBON: bit distracted. Copy.
Esteban OCON: Not sure what happened there breaking yeah,
Engineer: we're gonna have a look
Esteban OCON: I'm not sure if it's the tire or the balance of the car, but we had quite a lot of understeer, low speed.
Esteban OCON: Any clues for the flat spot in turn one, or no?
Engineer: We're looking at it now.
Engineer: So Oscar, for reference, you are purple sector 1. Suggest for this lap, don't over push sector 1 and 2 so we can have a tidy sector 3.
ZHOU Guanyu: Yeah, turn straight that curb, it's jumping like crazy when I touched it.
Engineer: Copy.
George RUSSELL: I was a little bit surprised with the lack of improvement there, it felt pretty good in 1 and 2
Engineer: but
George RUSSELL: then it just didn't really come to me, bit of understeer through 6
Engineer: Yeah, copy
Engineer: Can
George RUSSELL: you check the PU mode from the very first run, as it felt better coming out of the last corner this time?
Engineer: Copy that, will do.
Lewis HAMILTON: Where's all that time lost?
Engineer: Still turn 4-5 is the biggest loss.
Lewis HAMILTON: Went too quick into 4?
Engineer: Looks similar on entry, it's just a small squirt between 4 and 5 and then mid-speed turn 5.
ZHOU Guanyu: Copy, had a massive derate on the energy deployment in U-turn 10.
Engineer: Copy Joe, copy Joe. 7 to 10,
ZHOU Guanyu: 7 to 10.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I couldn't
Engineer: have
Max VERSTAPPEN: said more traffic on that lap.
George RUSSELL: And then feel to your balance, 8 to 1 and up at 2, back corner
Engineer: Back to three.
Engineer: Win phase six.
Engineer: of quicker than checker sectors.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: lower than Checo and a tenth and a half quicker than Checo sectors you currently P1 just just under a tenth quicker than Alex you currently P1 just you currently P1 you currently P1 you currently P1
Engineer: 5 seconds behind Magnusson. Magnusson is the next car back, 8 seconds.
Pierre GASLY: ASR Bar group. ASR Bar group. ASR Bar group.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, let's have a good
Carlos SAINZ: This guy. Honestly, this guy. If that's not a penalty, he couldn't do that on practice.
Engineer: I
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: didn't know it was coming. Well,
Engineer: I did warn you about it and then you asked me about those extra laps so I can't do it all at once, that's the problem.
Carlos SAINZ: But that's very dangerous
Pierre GASLY: I just went so wide in 13, so if there's anything to be understood there.
Engineer: Not sure what first tapping will do behind you so watch your mirrors just in case
Engineer: Yeah, Leclerc didn't know he was coming. Well I did warn you about it and then you asked me about those extra laps so I can't do it all at once.
Engineer: Try to warm up the brakes, if you can. Yeah, yeah, I know. Understood.
Engineer: So lap time from Sainz was 19.3
Charles LECLERC: Yeah whatever, there is nothing to learn from this second lap
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