Monaco Grand Prix 2023: Practice 2 team radio
55 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Monaco Grand Prix 2023, across 17 drivers. 50 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Lewis HAMILTON 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
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 12 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 7 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 4 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 4 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 4 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 3 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 2 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Alfa Romeo · 2 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 2 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 2 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 1 message
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 1 message
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 1 message
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 1 message
- Nyck DE VRIES · AlphaTauri · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: an eye on
George RUSSELL: Cook.
Engineer: Currently a P1 at the moment, obviously times will drop from here.
Sergio PEREZ: Sick.
Engineer: Looks like we've got quite a bit of track either there's a bit of traffic ahead. We've got five cars now four cars will be queuing
George RUSSELL: You tell me if we want double call or push take to one and call again
Engineer: Don't really focus on. My brakes are too cold in turn one.
Engineer: Pull the tires, go around again for another push lap.
Engineer: OK, so you're in.
Engineer: Okay, so you're in phase with all these cars. Sector times, you're two tenths off Fernando in sector one.
Lewis HAMILTON: Tyre's dropped off mate.
ZHOU Guanyu: It was a bit messy with the light and the sign. Yeah, copy 12.
Engineer: Max, we'd like to try torque 7 for the next lap, torque 7, just looks like rear slips, very late entry are higher than we'd like.
Logan SARGEANT: Yeah, happy to try it. In terms of flop, maybe plus one.
Carlos SAINZ: I don't know what to do. Let's open one more.
Engineer: And I know of opportunity turn one break a little bit later focus on phase two
Engineer: Opportunity turn 10 focus on exit mind late entry speed
Engineer: OK, Stabanzo, just SOC 4 needed please.
Engineer: Russell ahead.
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, well, Russell, news that she came. So, yeah. Are we allowed to overtake people off track or what?
Engineer: Negatively not, as you know.
Engineer: And engine 1, engine 1.
Engineer: No, no positioning wise your front was five to the left your rear was five to the right
Lewis HAMILTON: Should I do double quarter now?
Engineer: I'll leave it up to you, looks like the track's going to start to get a bit busy, we've got a couple of cars just leaving now, we've got Magnuson car behind.
Engineer: like shape minus one suggestion like shape minus one
Lewis HAMILTON: So, I'm looking to turn one here, lost two turns, it's up
Engineer: to
Lewis HAMILTON: us to affect speed, we'll see if that brakes a little.
Engineer: What are you seeing on the flap adjust that they don't get? No, no, I'm actually happy, Fernando, I was just making sure you were, so I'm happy with their events.
Engineer: Okay Kev, so if there's nothing more to be learned from the tires as they are, we'll box this lap. No threats behind at the moment.
ZHOU Guanyu: Yeah, it was so much traffic, my love.
Charles LECLERC: I don't know, we need to check like turn 5, the car is jumping like... I cannot do anything, the tires are not touching the ground for some reason, so if we can check that.
Engineer: Copy, we check again and I will come back to you.
Engineer: Sectors, it's eight hundredths sector one, two and a half in the middle, and three hundredths in the final.
Lewis HAMILTON: Damn, the car won't go much quicker.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, I crashed sorry.
Engineer: You okay?
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, yeah, I'm good. Sorry for that.
Engineer: Yeah, check the pit limiter on that pit exit. Copy pit limiter and track is clear, track clear.
Engineer: And mode push for last corner, mode push How many seconds? 10 seconds, 11 seconds now to Magnussen in front
Engineer: OK, Lando, I need to abort. Please minimise full throttle. Yeah, something's wrong.
Engineer: Big rear lock there which
George RUSSELL: is quite reminiscent of the feeling on low fuel.
Engineer: So Perez at four behind and we'll get six laps when we cross the line. Singer-Perez at four behind.
Lewis HAMILTON: There's none of us long running the soft.
Engineer: So Valtteri car behind, there's an eight second gap behind him.
Engineer: 2.6 to Bottas
Nico HULKENBERG: Get behind
Lewis HAMILTON: There's none of us running this soft.
Engineer: There's
Lewis HAMILTON: none of us running this soft.
Oscar PIASTRI: It's
Engineer: a
Oscar PIASTRI: graining front ride.
Charles LECLERC: Can I do a double?
Engineer: Turn 19.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Three laps remaining, let's drop the status.
Engineer: Three laps remaining, let's drop the status.
Engineer: We just need to pick up the lift it goes just a sniff
Engineer: I believe this is a good position on track, so we just try to manage the gap to Russell behind. Russell, 4 or 5 seconds.
Charles LECLERC: There's too late to tell me that
Engineer: Sorry about that
Engineer: Small opportunity braking turn 10 to have higher peak pressure once the steering straight
Nyck DE VRIES: Front's have a lot of greening.
Engineer: Box, box, box, box, line. Copy that.
George RUSSELL: Uwe had that rear locking again on the last lap, this time turn 6
Esteban OCON: Kapilat had some surging and stuff after the launch phase.
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