Qatar Grand Prix 2023: Qualifying team radio
82 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the Qatar Grand Prix 2023, across 19 drivers. 80 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Charles LECLERC 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
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 8 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 8 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 7 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 6 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 6 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 6 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 5 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 5 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 5 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 4 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Alfa Romeo · 4 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 3 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 3 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Alfa Romeo · 2 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 2 messages
- Liam LAWSON · AlphaTauri · 2 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 1 message
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Max VERSTAPPEN: I have this delta, right?
Max VERSTAPPEN: FPV, negative or positive?
Engineer: Negative on the dash max, negative.
Engineer: Tyres on target.
Engineer: We have the same win as before Lawson
Engineer: Okay, let's push, fast, so fast.
Engineer: Wind similar to P1, a bit weaker turn 1, turn 2, Joe turn 15.
Engineer: Everyone behind is in phase. You're currently P1.
Engineer: That's a good sector 2.
Logan SARGEANT: I'm very close to him.
Engineer: Yeah, don't wait.
George RUSSELL: Had a bit of understeer off and down on diff high speed
Engineer: Guys, who is this? No idea what those two were doing. No idea. You can be slightly more courteous to him, please, Max. Don't tow him down to Turn 1.
Max VERSTAPPEN: What an idiot.
Engineer: I know we suggest just doing a single call to see if we can replicate that lap
Engineer: You were the fastest car at that stage before it was deleted
Engineer: Turn 4 turn 5 Lawson turn 10 just keep an eye on the Delta
Alexander ALBON: That seat's very hot.
Engineer: Keep the pace up on our end just buys us a bit of time.
Pierre GASLY: I don't know if it's overheating from the tires, but second lap is a lot worse.
Carlos SAINZ: Copy, this tire is badly grained.
Liam LAWSON: Norris completely f***ing blocked me.
Esteban OCON: It's very hot in the car.
Engineer: OK, understood. We'll have a check over.
Engineer: We can't lock the diff more in highspan. We cannot, no, unfortunately.
Engineer: And we keep an eye on track limits, there is a number of cars with track limits deleted
Engineer: So, Oscar, those are new tyres and it'll be push, cool, push.
Nico HULKENBERG: Felt a little snappy maybe, not so calm at the rear.
Lewis HAMILTON: So, no traffic.
Engineer: Come on, what is this I've been doing? Tires are in a good window, Max.
Logan SARGEANT: Is anyone pushing behind?
Engineer: No, no one's pushing. All in sync mate.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Is the McLaren an in-lap?
Engineer: I don't know. I don't know. Just need to make it out to him. You've got plenty of time in hand. Just wait.
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, I also bought me straws. I also had
Engineer: a traffic It's okay. It's okay. Do you need something with the tools you or you're okay?
Pierre GASLY: 30 seconds They didn't respect the lap time Ok,
Engineer: I'll be recharged off
Engineer: Good lap. You're through. You're safe. Good job.
Logan SARGEANT: Oh man, I left some on the table on the high speed.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Front wing is keep still actually there starts to be a bit of
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, Leclerc destroyed our lab,
Engineer: but okay. Yeah, he overtook didn't he? It was a bit of a joke. He started right behind you.
Logan SARGEANT: Oh man, I left some on the table on the high speed
ZHOU Guanyu: They just catch me, go past me on the straight. I can't hold my position. What's the cutoff time?
Engineer: So I've been 26.1.
ZHOU Guanyu: Man, I couldn't achieve that as well. I'm the only guy that didn't get the lap, no? I'm sure you see what happens. I'm very speechless of what Sajo is doing.
Engineer: I think the McLarens are not doing a warm-up lap, that's my guess. I don't know for a fact, but they're talking about tyre prep and working the right-hand tyre, so I think they're not doing a warm-up.
Engineer: Okay, so nice and positive on this out lap.
Carlos SAINZ: Will be a quick turnaround for new soft.
Engineer: Probably just keeping it on the Delta.
Engineer: The loss to others is a 1-2. We can still do more flap off, or you can also try tools there. I don't know.
Sergio PEREZ: Traffic there, final corner.
Engineer: Yeah, we saw the clutch.
Engineer: OK, Checo, turn 1-2 feedback. Was that any better?
Sergio PEREZ: I hope you make was there
Engineer: It's all very tight, currently P10.
Charles LECLERC: Very important to know what Albon is doing. Is he boxing? I will come back to you
George RUSSELL: Happy to reuse this set if you wish.
Engineer: Let's discuss when you get plugged in.
Charles LECLERC: I will push, next lap
Engineer: Copy
Engineer: Or think about the mid plus two, charge pushing five seconds behind.
Engineer: Time in hand so we can make a gap.
Max VERSTAPPEN: What is he doing, man? He's defending. Do you see that? Almost crashed into him.
Charles LECLERC: This is the kind of crazy situation.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, lost my CV, 10-4, I lost it.
Engineer: Yeah, we're all safe mate, we're all safe. P4 would dial up.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, we are out.
Engineer: Yeah. Out.
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm repeating myself, but minimum lap time, whenever everybody is in a different sequence, it's
Engineer: a
Charles LECLERC: huge mess. Anyway, let's focus on keeping.
Sergio PEREZ: Did we make it there? That
Engineer: laptop has been deleted. Turn 5. Okay, that's P13. Signed, P12.
Engineer: OK, let's not worry about this point in the lap, the performance comes from sector 3.
Engineer: One thing we would like to avoid is excessive slip if we can please.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Yeah, still can't add because of the high speed.
George RUSSELL: Copy of balance.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: Was the Ferrari on a push-slap?
Lando NORRIS: Yes,
Engineer: he was sorry
Engineer: Oscar, feedback on the outlaps. We can afford to go 10 seconds faster than the last one and find that time in the high speed. Lando did that and looked quite good.
Engineer: Car will be a bit hotter this time rather than the Q3 run one
George RUSSELL: Can we pass these guys or not?
George RUSSELL: Yeah, I'm not worried about the time, I'm just worried about being sat here.
Engineer: All right, here we go, let's push.
Lando NORRIS: I'm so f***ed sometimes.
Engineer: Yeah, tricky session there, Oscar, but good job.
George RUSSELL: Yeah, well done with all the process and adaptation today has been a unique day for everyone, but it's
Engineer: a good one. Yeah, good job, well done today mate.
Engineer: Boom, well done. Good job.
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, P5, I will take it.
Engineer: How's it looking mate? P6 at the moment. Castry just got us.
Fernando ALONSO: Well done. Nice lap, nice qualifying. Tricky day, but I think we executed well. Well done.
Engineer: Yeah, and you. Good job mate.
Engineer: You guys had two new sets, so good job, good job. Okay, yep.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Yeah, good job getting the top set. Thank you.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah guys, it's a good E4, we've got a good starting position for Sunday, so we're in a good place. Yeah, absolutely, good to be back in Q3. Yeah.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Yeah, good job. Good job, sir. Thank you.
Engineer: Yeah, it's nice to be back. Big one for the team. Thank you.
Engineer: Can I have updates please? Yes, so Gasly finishing the lap now, so we are P7, P7, do you need positions?
Charles LECLERC: No, I don't need them.
Engineer: Ok, copy.
Charles LECLERC: The first laps are so bad, the wheels are nowhere.
Engineer: Yeah, we've seen that turn one and then high speed.
Engineer: Can I have updates please? Yes, so Gasly finishing the lap now, so we are P7, P7, do you need positions?
Charles LECLERC: No, I don't need them.
Engineer: Ok, copy.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Lando NORRIS: I'm f***ed. What the f*** am I doing? I'm so f***ed sometimes. I just f***ed it up too much. I'm sorry, it's on me. Well done, that was good. I just didn't do my job well enough.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: How
Lewis HAMILTON: much do people improve
Engineer: by?
Lewis HAMILTON: My brakes are hot. Smoking.
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