Monaco Grand Prix 2023: Practice 1 team radio
50 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Monaco Grand Prix 2023, across 14 drivers. 48 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
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 7 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 7 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Alfa Romeo · 5 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 4 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 4 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Alfa Romeo · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 2 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 1 message
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: So most people on a hard tyre, we've got Norris and Boat for Rise I've seen on a medium.
ZHOU Guanyu: It's really hard shifting.
George RUSSELL: Quite a bit of bottom in there
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, the clutch is almost impossible out of the pits.
Engineer: Okay, understood.
Engineer: Energy is good to keep on pushing.
Engineer: Tyres are still low, we're continuous pushing.
George RUSSELL: I'm happy to go one more again after this if the tyres are still good.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Count bottoming a lot.
Engineer: Understood.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Alack, out of eight.
Engineer: On the set.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, the car in high speed places is unbelievable difficult to drive
Charles LECLERC: Can we go, can we go through the pit lane, do a flap adjust and go out in a good place?
Engineer: I
George RUSSELL: think I'm blocking the rears of it
Engineer: into the hairpin.
George RUSSELL: Right, it's tricky. Both axles.
Max VERSTAPPEN: It's
Engineer: a
Max VERSTAPPEN: weird spot to make out massively. Yeah,
Engineer: understood Max. Okay, so currently third 15.7, Alonso 15.6. Yeah I know, but that's irrelevant, we have to sort our... Okay, Sunoda 2 seconds, yes understood Max, that was just information. We can't sort that from here obviously.
Engineer: Okay, so I'd like to do another push lap after this and then option to do another slow fast afterwards as well before we do three laps of sustainable at the end.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I'm 8, I want to box, I'm going to shunt like this with the car set up like this
Engineer: Ok, understood, you can box
Engineer: we need to
Charles LECLERC: do some changes on the car so if we can take just a little bit margin to do those changes
Engineer: Are you happy with the car mechanically, or do you want to change?
Valtteri BOTTAS: Yes, happy.
Engineer: Okay, then we can go for one more push.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Yeah, initially it was too much on the nose, but now the track is getting better, so it's coming to us.
Engineer: We can do another cool push, but I'm happy as well if you have been some people are starting to pit now
Logan SARGEANT: I'm struggling with quite a bit of understeer.
Engineer: So losing exit turn 1 and turn 8
Pierre GASLY: Just let me know please where I have margin on the rear, I'm struggling a bit on braking
Engineer: Yeah, copy
Engineer: So suggest offset minus one and shape one for the whole lap.
Engineer: Okay, so sector times, you're fast for the max sector one, tenth and a half off in sector two and four tenths off him in sector three
Logan SARGEANT: Something's wrong.
Engineer: Yeah, that's wrong, that's wrong.
Logan SARGEANT: Oh no, weird sound.
Engineer: No drive. Firstly pushing within 3, copy. Standby, leave the radio off.
Engineer: Once you're in the pit lane, you can do one or two burnouts before you stop please.
Engineer: Currently P1, still got some cars to run but next car's two tenths to Sainz.
Alexander ALBON: No, no, no, we need to drop everything.
Alexander ALBON: My main limitation right now is front ride compliance, just the cambers, the curves, everything is really affecting confidence and just being able to rotate the car.
Engineer: I
George RUSSELL: can't really give a tie, it's working, I have to be confident
George RUSSELL: Where are the surface temps?
George RUSSELL: I can't really get my tyres working, I need to be confident. Like I'm just losing the rear, exit of three and through four the thing's just sliding.
Engineer: 8x0, feels like the front's too strong.
George RUSSELL: No, feels like the rear's too weak.
Engineer: I will go for the next lap. Yes, yes, battery should be okay.
Engineer: And recharge on. Watch for debris. Red flag, red flag.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Any information work for debris from
Engineer: Hulkenberg that 11 so I think you already passed the worst but watch out
Logan SARGEANT: High speed, I'm missing some rotation.
Engineer: So I'd make a bit of a gap early, say 5-6-7-8, turn 5-6-7-8, make the gap there, have a good clean run then through sector 3.
Engineer: Just recharge off. Icon's gone. Just bot has to go.
Sergio PEREZ: I picked up somebody
George RUSSELL: The same as the outlap of the Lafren,
Engineer: front
George RUSSELL: brakes don't really work on the outlap, but come see me
Engineer: I'm showing his GPS position keep your eye on your mirrors, please. He did a prep lap to start or at least a ball to the first
Engineer: Big
George RUSSELL: rear slide, tab one.
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, four clicks.
Engineer: Four clicks, copy. Leclerc at one and a half.
Engineer: Push tires are cold tires are cold the caution
Charles LECLERC: What is that?
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, first sorry for Fernando, I could not move
ZHOU Guanyu: Yeah, copy. I'm locking up all to the second last call. Struggling a bit with the balance.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I've lost the rear completely and it's in.
Logan SARGEANT: Yeah, I mean for Alex, is he okay?
Engineer: Yeah, I'll feed back to you. I'll feed back to you. He's okay. He's okay. Just box Keep temperature in the tires and your brakes
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