Miami Grand Prix 2023: Practice 2 team radio
60 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Miami Grand Prix 2023, across 17 drivers. 55 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
- Nyck DE VRIES · AlphaTauri · 8 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 5 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 4 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 4 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 3 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Alfa Romeo · 3 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 3 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 3 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 2 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 2 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 2 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Max VERSTAPPEN: Made my head rest again. I'm stuck all the time in my head
Engineer: Charge on. So cool down lap. So let's take it really easy. Looks like a slow down lap of around 2 minutes 20. It was good this morning.
Logan SARGEANT: Copy, did you say minus 5?
Engineer: Minus 5, I fear. Melnos to Magnuson was minimum speed, 10.5 onwards this section.
Engineer: So let's bring the temperatures down on these tyres.
Lando NORRIS: My dash has gone completely black, I cannot see anything
ZHOU Guanyu: Copy. Special one for turn 528. Question.
Engineer: Yes John, try this one.
Engineer: Your P2, 29.6, Checo 29.7
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Lando NORRIS: Copy that.
Engineer: And it's just recharge on now and boxes that.
Lando NORRIS: Copy that.
Engineer: And you've got 10 seconds to Magnusson behind.
Engineer: Seven.
George RUSSELL: Check. Aero balancing. Entry at 4. Check. Aero balancing. Entry at 4.
Engineer: You okay Kev? I'm good. Okay.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: I spun. I brushed the wall but I don't think it's any damage.
Engineer: Okay, we think it's okay as well. We'll keep you informed.
George RUSSELL: Check aero balancing, entry at 4
Engineer: Watch Leclerc behind you start pushing.
Oscar PIASTRI: Yeah, copy. Do we want to do more laps on this tyre? It feels quite good.
Engineer: Okay, happy to pick up the pace a little bit and work on your front tires.
Engineer: Open the gap, not sure what Perez is going to do.
George RUSSELL: Let me know on wind direction, PU feels like it's pulling very strong into turn 4 So that was 10 to
Engineer: the right
George RUSSELL: Wind direction is same as FP1
Sergio PEREZ: Oh my goodness
Engineer: Ok Lando, Sargent is the car behind. He should be on a slow down lap with you now. And we are going to do what we planned.
Engineer: Okay, can we go back to tyre on the multi, please? We have a completely clear track behind.
Engineer: Blue mode free and Oscar how do you think the tires are for a second cool down lap or should we push again?
Oscar PIASTRI: I think push again to be honest.
Engineer: So same wind direction and intensity, no one pushing behind Will be mode push for last corner, mode push
Engineer: considering to try that a single call but a very slow so with a single call we'd have to be very slow considering to try that a single call but one
Fernando ALONSO: is there now it's
Engineer: got a bit of a gap now little slow cars behind the next fast cars Norris 12 if you would like
Engineer: Hülkenberg six seconds behind
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Engineer: In the face.
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Engineer: Exit 7, multi-A, diff exit 7, Perez pushing.
Engineer: Yeah, clear.
Yuki TSUNODA: Did you have much grip in the rear, at the first sector? Did you have much grip in the rear?
Engineer: Engine 11, position 4.
Engineer: If you want to stay in front you have to keep up the pace
Engineer: So just recharge off when you're ready, Max. Okay, so the track will be...
Engineer: should be in phase with you and charge lap time 9.4 and then lock the front to be white charge
Engineer: we see a jump in one of the sensors uh let you know if we need any other action uh we have Verstappen on a time lap we see a jump in one of the sensors uh let you know if we need
Engineer: We see a jump in one of the sensors let you know if we need any other action
George RUSSELL: Check steering the vibration through the high speed and check bouncing high speed
Nyck DE VRIES: Abort. Abort.
Engineer: I
Nyck DE VRIES: lost the guy at the turbo.
George RUSSELL: That was a timely place, McLaren.
George RUSSELL: Sector 1, or obviously I didn't finish Sector 1 when I was behind Norris.
Engineer: Yeah, no DRS because it was yellow. Ah, but you can keep pushing mate, you shouldn't have bolts. Okay, that's it now. Yeah, that's it now.
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, I'll do one cool down and go again
Engineer: So we cannot complete a full lap if you push next lap, so if you push next lap you have to come in at the end
Engineer: I
Alexander ALBON: just said I was more driving than anything else, the improvements.
George RUSSELL: I think it's three-wheeling through, but left-hander, turn two.
Engineer: And Lalo suggesting, yes box the slap and suggest right hand toggle turn 11 and turn 17. Box the slap.
Alexander ALBON: Have we fixed that prelim, sir?
Engineer: Yeah, that should be good now.
Engineer: And we see a bit of front graining on some other cars.
Nyck DE VRIES: Yeah, from high speed we have still two in this theory.
Engineer: And we have the same win as before gap to Norris in front five seconds and mode race for last corner mode race
Engineer: So for info, wind strength has picked up, directionally the same.
Sergio PEREZ: Shall we let Hamilton through, or...? There's a good gap here, keep on pushing.
Engineer: This is as good a gap as you're going to get.
Fernando ALONSO: That's
Engineer: a
Fernando ALONSO: joke isn't
Engineer: it?
Fernando ALONSO: He's fighting the free practice. Just be careful, he's still two zones back, but yeah.
Engineer: You were on a flying lap when Ocon didn't get on the way.
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, but the free practice is the moment, so it's
Engineer: good.
Fernando ALONSO: Copy.
Engineer: We can make an adjustment. I'll have to say, Kev, your pace looked really strong.
Charles LECLERC: I crashed into an A.
Engineer: Copy. You OK?
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, yeah. Because the front right obviously is completely gone.
Engineer: Copy.
Carlos SAINZ: Well, just what happened to Chelsea, lost the rear or the front? Lost the rear
Engineer: Press and hold, overtake, five seconds. Press and hold, five seconds.
Yuki TSUNODA: I forgot to skip it up, lap by lap.
Engineer: Torque 3, torque 3 And no bypass, no bypass
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