Miami Grand Prix 2023: Race team radio
162 radio messages were recorded during race at the Miami Grand Prix 2023, across 20 drivers. 156 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Max VERSTAPPEN had the most, with 23.
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
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 23 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 19 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 17 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 17 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 13 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 10 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 8 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 7 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 6 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 6 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 5 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Alfa Romeo · 5 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 4 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Alfa Romeo · 4 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 3 messages
- Nyck DE VRIES · AlphaTauri · 3 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 3 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 3 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 2 messages
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Lewis HAMILTON: It's a one.
Engineer: Okay, copy. Everything looks okay at the moment.
Lewis HAMILTON: Car's definitely not feeling great. On the front right. Front wing. I
Engineer: think front wing looks okay.
Lewis HAMILTON: I don't know if we're going to last this race. Car's not seeing much in the straight line down the straight.
Engineer: Copy that. May just be the wind. There's a lot of buffeting going on.
Engineer: Ok Lando, how is the car balance? How is the car balance?
Lando NORRIS: It's fine Ok,
Engineer: understood
Carlos SAINZ: Can I use engine 4? Engine 5 feels extremely low power.
Engineer: OK for engine 4, all clear in front, watch the Y-train
Engineer: OK, recharge on, recharge on. Keep your pace up and go to the grid please, go to the grid.
Engineer: We see more rotation on a bit more rotation in high speed as well
Engineer: And then just think about the compromise at four and five.
Yuki TSUNODA: I think rotation is quite good, good amount. This will win me one more room, maybe a step or maximum two steps to go higher. But yeah, you let me know.
Lewis HAMILTON: Grab the tyres up quick. Guys, get the tyres wrapped up.
Lewis HAMILTON: Maybe start rapping ASAP
Engineer: So if we just hang on to Verstappen and follow him through Gasly.
Lewis HAMILTON: Thanks, guys.
Engineer: You made it look easy.
George RUSSELL: Should list new engineers, more roster.
Engineer: Balance felt okay, honestly. There was a little bit of front graining, which actually felt not too bad. The deck was quite consistent, lap to lap.
Sergio PEREZ: My front right is starting to give up a bit.
Engineer: We'll do.
Max VERSTAPPEN: But in a bit you need to let me know what the limitation on the medium has to do with the front wing.
Engineer: Max, I'm looking at that on the pit wall, will you focus on driving please?
Alexander ALBON: For me this pushing too much is not good for the tires. I don't agree with this
Engineer: You are free to lean on the tyres more now Max. Just watching our track position on Fernando.
Engineer: Effective track position is around five seconds behind Checo, obviously the longer we can extend this the better.
Lewis HAMILTON: Feels like a headwind into Turn 1.
Engineer: A reminder, stationary time will be around half of your standard weight at 20 seconds.
Engineer: Okay, so P1 to P7 Leclerc are all mediums, then Ocon and Verstappen, P8 and 9 are hards.
Engineer: Good day, everyone around us on the medium.
Engineer: O'Connor and Max, first cars on the hard.
Engineer: Okay, just make sure your pit limiters on have a great race
Engineer: Okay mate, clutch drop on the target, very good.
George RUSSELL: Lots of vibrations again
George RUSSELL: That's how we roll.
Engineer: Let's think about the plan.
Engineer: Lando everything looks okay we're currently thinking target plus four target plus four
George RUSSELL: Chef Southbury Port, exit of the last corner
Engineer: Sir, think about coming up to this entry, Gashley 0.7 ahead DRS this...
Engineer: Just
George RUSSELL: let me know if he's gonna get DRS as well.
Engineer: Confirmed, no damage in the kick-off, no damage on the front-runner.
Logan SARGEANT: I'm so sorry.
Engineer: Don't worry, head down. Can still do a good race. A lot can happen. Head down.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, not too bad for the time being.
Engineer: Just give us some tyre feedback.
George RUSSELL: Yeah, about right.
Engineer: A
George RUSSELL: bit better, a bit worse.
Lando NORRIS: Maybe starting to go a little bit
Lando NORRIS: I'll be quicker and cleaner.
Engineer: Just keep on plant-mix
Engineer: The
Charles LECLERC: fronts are not looking good, no?
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, generally okay. Just having to look after us and write for now.
Engineer: Okay,
Pierre GASLY: just a little bit. Top five, that's all good.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I think seven-eighths to one to seven.
Fernando ALONSO: Okay, first plan A, minus 12, ready?
George RUSSELL: Yeah, slide it off.
Engineer: and minor for foot performance white age 12 position 12 white age 12 position 12
George RUSSELL: Big vibration on the brakes
Engineer: Oscar that is a system problem it's not a mechanical problem so keep pushing the pedal will stay long and we'll see what we can do to fix it
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: So S&G are starting to take a step now.
Logan SARGEANT: Oh super, under flapped
Engineer: Understood, think about your tools for the corner you limited
Fernando ALONSO: Which position is Lance? Great move into one.
Engineer: That's P13, P13.
George RUSSELL: My gut told me it's going to be a plan A race.
Engineer: Okay Valdry, go to SOC 5, SOC 5, and if you have anything else, let's push now.
Engineer: Copy that Lance. So others that boxed onto hard early are struggling. So don't push too hard. We're happy with what you're doing
Carlos SAINZ: This gives the frauds
Engineer: how
Carlos SAINZ: they are struggling now.
Engineer: Copy. And this mid minus one is more towards plan B. They are looking good. They are quite quick.
Lewis HAMILTON: Car ahead doesn't seem to have any deck. This DRS train isn't good.
Engineer: Ok Nick, Strollerhead is starting to complain about the front being destroyed and reminder on the downshift turn 5, it was borderline we need to delay a little bit the downshift in turn 5
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Engineer: Okay, I'm pretty sure you are, but now is the time.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, I am.
Engineer: I'm going
George RUSSELL: as fast as I can to make five HLAPs.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: The c3 runners deg is a little lower than expected So they'll probably go a bit longer than the original but they will have to stop eventually like Bottas ahead
Lewis HAMILTON: Let's
Engineer: hope
Lewis HAMILTON: I have some shape.
Engineer: Car behind is now max
Engineer: Who's
George RUSSELL: the car ahead of Fernando? On track
Engineer: We're
George RUSSELL: that close to Perez?
Engineer: No sorry, it's Sargent on track Just
George RUSSELL: gonna say
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, I have that basic leader
Engineer: Okay, cars are starting to pit ahead, cars are starting to pit ahead, pace is good Oscar, particularly with the problem, this is good.
Max VERSTAPPEN: The slits are all okay at the braking.
Engineer: The slits are very good Max.
ZHOU Guanyu: Enjoy one more tea, guys. Doesn't feel too fast.
Fernando ALONSO: Yep, I would have thought that was in the rear now.
Engineer: Yeah, good drive today, Max. We made it harder for ourselves, but we'll have a look at what we could have done better yesterday. Today was a very good drive, well done.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I call that simply lovely. That was a good race all round. So thank you very much.
Engineer: That
Max VERSTAPPEN: was really, really good. Also good for the team again.
Engineer: Well done, Max. That was a mighty middle stint. That was really impressive on the hard tyre. And thanks for racing and cleaning with your teammate today. It was a great team performance, 1-2 in America. Brilliant.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, that tyre lasted really nicely. And yeah, that was a good final check-up. Yeah, that was very good. Good day.
Engineer: He suggests to manage graining in the long corners where we said. Turn 1, 7, 8, 16, 17.
Engineer: So we're going to need to see what your pace is like in free air. We've just been capped up until now.
Engineer: I mind about tires now take away from three seconds. It's looking good
Engineer: Okay, it's all good Nico keep doing our race doing a great job
Engineer: P3 man, well done.
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, well done guys. Bit of a lonely race, but we take it. Good weekend.
Pierre GASLY: What lap time is Esteban doing?
Engineer: Esteban's last lap was at 32.8
Max VERSTAPPEN: The uphills are not that smooth.
Engineer: Okay, understood.
Engineer: Great
George RUSSELL: race guys.
Engineer: That
George RUSSELL: was fun. Very good job.
Engineer: Yeah, good job. That was P4 in the end. Some nice overtakes in there as well. George, great driving. Good recovery. Damage limitations were really, really, really, really good.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Oh and by the way, Jonathan, happy birthday. I didn't see you today, I was a bit busy, but happy birthday. You still look 35.
Engineer: Max preference, fastest lap as well today. And thank you for listening on the hard tyre stint as well, you managed that incredibly well.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, we managed that really well. Surprisingly how good that was at the end.
Engineer: We're going to send Big Oli up today, so give him plenty up there. There's plenty of him to hit. Yeah, we won't miss.
Max VERSTAPPEN: What was the limitation on the medium in terms of balance?
Engineer: I'm looking at it here on the pit wall, Max.
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, it's quite similar, front right being the open limitation, but at the same time in the traction.
Engineer: That's P8, P9 for the team, I
Pierre GASLY: think
Engineer: well executed, I think that's unfortunately where we are at the moment, we're closer and we'll keep fighting the clean race.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, thank you, we tried I think just the start of the second stint, I lost quite a bit of time fighting, but yeah that's the race, it's the race so... We did what we could, we keep fighting and then we're going to close the gap for these guys, good double points and focus on the Molana.
Engineer: Yeah, copy that, we keep building on this.
Engineer: in front and we have a five second penalty for speeding in the pit lane locking the fronts in entry we believe take care next time repeating again
Lance STROLL: So give me update on what's happening in the race man, like how's our pace, what's it looking like, what do
Engineer: I
Lance STROLL: have
Engineer: to
Lance STROLL: do?
Engineer: and losing mostly in low speed
Engineer: That's it Kev. Well done mate. P10, one point. We'll take that. Fantastic work. Thanks mate.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Sorry guys. I was hoping for a little more there, but I got a **** start. Sorry man. We're back in the game though. Good pace all weekend, so let's move on.
Engineer: Completely agree Kev. We've got to be up there to do it on a regular basis. Fighting the big boys today.
Lance STROLL: So give me an update on what's happening in the race man, like how's our pace, what's it looking like, what do
Engineer: I
Lance STROLL: have
Engineer: to
Lance STROLL: do?
Engineer: Pace is good relative to the hard runners that are still out so we just need to keep pushing on the tyres now, your pace is good
Lewis HAMILTON: It's a bit understeering still, so much to the high, but everywhere else.
Engineer: OK, copy.
Nico HULKENBERG: Very, very trippy afternoon in the office, but it's quite clear for me what we need to work on and talk about it in a debrief.
Engineer: Yep, copy that. We'll look forward to your feedback.
Carlos SAINZ: I have like a lot of rubber pick up.
Carlos SAINZ: Okay, understood. Another vibration.
Sergio PEREZ: What has it been for max?
Engineer: 31.8
Carlos SAINZ: Copy that. What place is Russell?
Engineer: 32A, last time up.
Engineer: So you are two tenths quicker than Checo in sector two. It's all turns four, five and six. He's pushing the tyre. It is getting gusty out there, Max, so just take care in that section.
Engineer: Gap ahead 2.2 happen to lean on the tires a little bit more in the high speed, but obviously don't go mad
Engineer: So the biggest delta turns four and six seven turns four six seven
Carlos SAINZ: Let me see what you can see on data, because it doesn't feel great.
Engineer: Obviously the longer we can extend this, the better.
Engineer: Okay, so we have George 1.1 behind, so we aren't racing him, we're racing Ocon, so let's not hold each other up.
Engineer: And I know the safety car window is open, please book that. Copy that.
Lewis HAMILTON: Goodbye, I'll back it up though.
Lando NORRIS: Yes, but I mean I'm pace zero at the minute. I'm saving tyre but pace zero. This is all I got.
George RUSSELL: Thank you very much, very much appreciated.
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Alexander ALBON: If I manage more, I can't catch them up, so I don't know how many...
Engineer: Yeah, it takes good
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, just for your info, I have like three lines on the front left eye.
Engineer: And Lance, both safety car windows open.
Engineer: Suggestive entry plus one.
Logan SARGEANT: Sorry to interrupt with the video a little bit.
Engineer: Back to position... Okay, otherwise back to position eight
Engineer: Racing Ocon on pit exit.
Engineer: So no need to kill the tyres, the overtake on Valtteri will help.
Engineer: Well, Mike's doing a larger lifted coast.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, I don't know why now I recover the pace.
Engineer: Special 2 for last corner. Special 2 last corner.
Lewis HAMILTON: My tires are going over because I'm having to push.
Engineer: OK, Lance, this is good pace. Leclerc still two behind.
Engineer: So effective track position now minus 1.7, minus 1.7.
Lewis HAMILTON: Out of the tyre temperature they could be down a bit
Engineer: Max we have a bit of an upshift test to try and make them smoother for you If you're interested, it's display three position three display three Okay
Engineer: OK Fernando, Lance has just pitted and we've had a look at his tyres and they were all good, so we've got no concerns with your tyres till the end?
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, it's probably okay now at the end.
Sergio PEREZ: And this is the ridge to the middle sector.
Engineer: Use the mechanical grip in sector 2.
Engineer: Looks like one place to be a bit careful is the exit kerb of 8, so just avoid the upshift on the kerb exit of 8.
Engineer: just
George RUSSELL: so you guys understand that i'm driving as fast as i can
Engineer: yeah we're just we're seeing a slight drop in lap times for everyone
Lewis HAMILTON: My forecast in cash does
Engineer: Okay, Nico, it'll be nine to go at the line. Stay with these guys. Someone will make a mistake somewhere.
Engineer: Okay Valtteri, you can ignore the fuel now, just max push till the end.
Engineer: Now we have a group lead by Waltres and Sonora Albon, Hülkenberg, they're all lapping around 32.8.
Sergio PEREZ: It's Max, it's traveling.
Engineer: Just managing in sector 1.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Got to move the trailer with red lights.
Engineer: And SOC 5 suggested to go into DRS.
Engineer: Driver Default Delta Zero on, Driver Default Delta Zero on.
Engineer: and good job Gasly behind DRS behind him also Hamilton DRS
Carlos SAINZ: What is the gap that I need to have to castly for the safety car to take the penalty? And maybe we use less positions if there's a safety car like that.
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Engineer: And I take the penalty at the pit stop, or something like that. Yeah, we are losing free position, if we are doing so, we are monitoring.
Engineer: Niko, don't push the throttle pedal too hard out of turn 6 and 7. Just a small issue.
Lewis HAMILTON: What's
Engineer: the
Lewis HAMILTON: quickest time I get it?
Engineer: And if you go HPP 1 position 14, 1 position 14, that will give you strike 2 over the finish line.
Engineer: Tough weekend, but good points. Yeah, well done Checo. Well, that you gave it everything there and great points today great points today. Well done Yeah Thanks for racing you guys were very good today. Thank you.
Sergio PEREZ: Good job guys
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Engineer: That's great team points points all round and all he's coming up on the podium today, so give him plenty up there
Engineer: I'm so sorry.
Lewis HAMILTON: Louis, strategy worked against us, but you still made it to P6. Great, great, great, great race, really. The maximum you could probably have achieved from that strategy. Yeah, thanks, Sosa. Top one, guys, but we've still got some points. Thank you for the continued efforts. Super proud of you, though. So, let's keep pushing.
Engineer: Thanks for the pass with George as well, Louis. Really good points for the team, and well done.
Lewis HAMILTON: That's
Engineer: how
Lewis HAMILTON: we do it. Work together as a team, right?
Engineer: Yeah, copy, Louis, always.
Alexander ALBON: We didn't have the base so I mean this check just exposes all our weaknesses just so much we're lacking on initial
Yuki TSUNODA: Also drink drink was not working
Yuki TSUNODA: Obviously you cannot be happy, but with this package we did a good job.
Engineer: Yeah, very very good race. So we take the positive and we move forward for the next.
Engineer: And P5? P5?
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, we will review what happened there with the hard, but it didn't feel great. Well, the medium felt really good, so yeah, we will have a look.
Engineer: well done so uh p9 finish there yeah
Esteban OCON: good job yeah
Engineer: i
Esteban OCON: felt uh felt pretty good probably best of the year so far good job keep going
Engineer: And Oscar that was not the afternoon we wanted I'll show you on the lap count But the start he did was very good and the initial pace on the hard
Engineer: they're very good i will go through the details once you're out the car but the problem doesn't just affect the braking it's cost you a couple of other things as well
Engineer: So that was p13 for us in the end
Valtteri BOTTAS: What a shame, just no pace, don't look at us Yep, tried
Engineer: everything I could. Yeah, I think it was a good race Especially the pace in the middle of the race there and also your lap form was really good
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Engineer: So Joe, P16 at the end, kind of a tough race, but good job especially on the final stint.
ZHOU Guanyu: I feel it was so much better on my second stint. First stint I was struggling a lot with the group, really struggling there. But yeah, let's go again and give it my all.
Engineer: Yeah, thank you Joe. As I said, it was a good stint on the medium.
Engineer: Okay mate, I'm afraid that's P12, that's P12, but you've done a great job managing those tyres. Yeah, we gotta look through it.
Lance STROLL: I think that was just not the right strategy.
Engineer: I
Lance STROLL: was just not good enough.
Engineer: Yeah, we'll talk about it, mate. But you managed those tyres well. Good overtakes at the end. We'll come back stronger. Take the pick-up. So, Fernando P3, Fernando P3.
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