Qatar Grand Prix 2023: Practice 1 team radio
70 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Qatar Grand Prix 2023, across 18 drivers. 66 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. ZHOU Guanyu 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
- ZHOU Guanyu · Alfa Romeo · 8 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 8 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 7 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 7 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 6 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 6 messages
- Liam LAWSON · AlphaTauri · 5 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 4 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 3 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Alfa Romeo · 3 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 2 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 2 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 2 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 1 message
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 1 message
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 1 message
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Carlos SAINZ: It's okay, a bit of limiter is very bad.
ZHOU Guanyu: It's like ice climbing.
Engineer: Slow down, we have some issue.
Carlos SAINZ: You want me to slow down?
Engineer: Don't push. Don't push, don't push. Do not push. Do not push, I let you know.
Engineer: Okay, it's all okay from data now, so you can take your outlap.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Oh my god, that's so slippery!
Engineer: OK, roger that.
Engineer: Cross line, charge on, charge on, would be SPARK 4, SPARK 4.
Engineer: OK, recharge on, recharge on, all gears learned now.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, might not. We'll do it quick in this condition.
Engineer: Roger that.
Charles LECLERC: Okay, box this lap and we go minus one degree.
Engineer: Please press the oil pump button when you can.
Engineer: And Lalo suggests silver d8, silver d8
Max VERSTAPPEN: I can't see anything.
Engineer: I
Max VERSTAPPEN: don't know why, but the sun, like, makes you not see anything.
Engineer: Okay, understood.
Liam LAWSON: I need less flab on my toilet still.
Engineer: Lance, do you need a flap adjust? We can think about that. Yeah,
Lance STROLL: no problem.
Engineer: So box, box, box, box.
Engineer: OK, all clear behind, from your point of view, what do you think, do we wait until the track improves, come in and complete the test?
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, I think so, at the moment it's just not learning anything.
Engineer: Yeah, OK, copy that.
Engineer: Yuki, we can come for a flap adjust. I expect the track is becoming better and we use more the fronts, so we'll do a step not too big though.
Lando NORRIS: I hit one of the Polar Staring Boards with the front wing
Engineer: OK understood, we saw it on the video
Engineer: And then for the downshift test it's purple C10 position 2, purple C10 position 2
Engineer: We've got fuel to do a bit more so just keep pushing until you feel a cool is warranted and we'll get back to you
Sergio PEREZ: I have many anti-stability issues into the medium speed
Engineer: We're losing half a second braking turn one, so focus braking turn one.
Alexander ALBON: My seat's extremely hot, but I don't know if that's just this.
Oscar PIASTRI: Covering the front left, looks quite badly grained.
Alexander ALBON: The breaks are terrible.
Alexander ALBON: Very feeling
Engineer: As you prefer, we are a bit late for the medium, but if you want to take one more.
Engineer: I
Lance STROLL: don't really feel like we need much less flap, but let's try.
Charles LECLERC: Oh, that didn't sound good. What happened to the engine?
Engineer: We'll come back to you.
Engineer: How much are we actually learning doing a long one? We need some stabilised numbers and there's still scope for you to try some lines and so on. We also need a green nine position five, green nine position five.
Logan SARGEANT: I mean, I have ovaries here, but I have front left graining as well.
Engineer: Yeah, copy. There's just a slow grape on vault.
Liam LAWSON: I tried to push it more mate, but I'm just losing the rear
Engineer: So we can push contact five or six laps. I'll let you know he needs to stabilize numbers. So if these brakes sort themselves out as well
Alexander ALBON: We are quite off with balance. We need to be at least two, three turns forward from error balance.
Nico HULKENBERG: Check the front wing, went a little bit off in turn 5, there was like a little pin or something, so just check the front wing.
Engineer: And use special 2 for turn 6 and 7.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I have
Engineer: a
Max VERSTAPPEN: lot of unders here and right-handers, and then left-handers is more neutral.
Charles LECLERC: Just give me a car, just give me a car where I've got the car behind this car because otherwise there's too many radio messages and I don't understand.
Engineer: Understood.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Liam LAWSON: Yeah, I'm going to. This is stupid.
Charles LECLERC: How's the wind picked up we'll
Engineer: come back to you
Engineer: That was quite a good lap
Charles LECLERC: No, that was definitely not in terms of lap time
ZHOU Guanyu: One-wide with the 28, should be ok on the floor, one-off, so...
Engineer: Good job.
Engineer: Just
ZHOU Guanyu: double-checked, but yeah.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, really
Engineer: focus on brake release and early throttle.
Alexander ALBON: It's like I turn and it's like there is just not connected to the car at all, it's like I've got zero accommodation.
Engineer: Just tell me, what are people doing on outlands? Are they quicker than us? There's a group going now, so I can't really help you. There's about five, six guys just left the pit lane now.
Engineer: Is there
ZHOU Guanyu: something we can do for time five or not, man?
Engineer: Hulkenberg in turn 5. Lando, a lot of cars struggled with a medium on their first. If the tyre's not ready, consider a warm-up lap. Hulkenberg turn 6.
Liam LAWSON: Yeah, copy. I didn't want to use the toggles on the first lap. I should have obviously now but yeah, yeah, copy
Pierre GASLY: Thing does need less aerobalance
Liam LAWSON: Copy, mate, Yuki is going so slow, I'm gonna f***ing
Engineer: stop. I know, I know, don't worry, it's okay, don't worry.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Lewis HAMILTON: How much time do I lose by going off?
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Oscar car is hot so we might have to abort the launch so leave a gap if there's anyone ahead of you.
ZHOU Guanyu: Perfect, I will keep going at 53
Engineer: Copy Joe
Engineer: Okay Max, can you push from pit out all the way through to turn 4 please?
Max VERSTAPPEN: Why?
Engineer: Just push please, as best you can.
Engineer: We need to check this, we need to check this floor mate Ok, within 2
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, of course can't expect the guys like seriously guys check out the sprint these things that's
Engineer: why
Pierre GASLY: I'm asking
Engineer: We're
Lewis HAMILTON: going to the right side. Go to the left, it's too dirty on this side.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Almost like a sandstorm here in the back of the track.
Engineer: Copy that Max.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Hello
Valtteri BOTTAS: That was an experience. First of all with the sand in the beginning, it was like so much, and the track evolution was huge, just lap by lap gaining lots of grip, so not an easy session to really rate the balance of the car.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I mean well this is, I try to accelerate, it's oscillating a lot.
Engineer: OK, mode 6 please Max, mode 6.
Engineer: Alana, can you just stay in the car, please?
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: What's up here? As always.
Engineer: And Lando, don't want to use these tyres too much please.
Lando NORRIS: Well, it's good you tell me now isn't it? I know. Lovely. Sorry, sorry, sorry.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Hello, hello, that was an experience. First of all with the sand in the beginning it was like so much and the track evolution was huge Just lap by lap gaining lots of grip. So not an easy session to really rate the balance of the car Yeah, it is gusty like every lap is slightly different in a few corners basically on the main straight we have the headwind and then almost all the corners is tail or crosswind so
Engineer: Not
Valtteri BOTTAS: easy, but that's it for everybody. I like it. It's good track It's nice flow, but it still needs to grip up a bit more to be more enjoyable
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