São Paulo Grand Prix 2023: Practice 1 team radio
27 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the São Paulo Grand Prix 2023, across 13 drivers. Logan SARGEANT had the most, with 5.
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
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 5 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 3 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 2 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Alfa Romeo · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 2 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · AlphaTauri · 1 message
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 1 message
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 1 message
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 1 message
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Daniel RICCIARDO: Alrighty. What's up? Radio check.
Engineer: Bonjour.
Daniel RICCIARDO: John Bono.
Esteban OCON: There is a screw on my front tire. It's not upside down, but it's sideways
Engineer: We're just going to hope that comes off. We'll keep an eye on everything
Pierre GASLY: Brake pedal is quite long.
Engineer: And
ZHOU Guanyu: the front is a little bit touching.
Engineer: Copy Joe.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I take my seat is flexing. It's not installed correctly, but we can fix that after the run.
Engineer: Max, we are aware of that. It's not a reliability concern. You're safe to stay out.
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, my retard gave up
George RUSSELL: Tragic, it was very weak out of 8 and 10
Logan SARGEANT: Something's wrong with my visors
Engineer: Fernando, possible punch on the rear left, stand by, yep, Fernando, we've got a puncher, Fernando, box, box, and run switch to puncher, run switch to puncher.
Fernando ALONSO: Brakes high as cold.
Engineer: Yeah, confirm, confirm they are cold.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Ah, this is not a big f***ing problem.
Engineer: Boxer slap.
Esteban OCON: We're still lacking front end a lot in 2-1, in 2-8-9.
Engineer: Okay mate, understood.
ZHOU Guanyu: Struggling with his front again, man.
Engineer: Okay Kev, we'll have to do another slow lap, unless you're already pushing.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Why another slow?
Engineer: No, I thought you started another slow lap Kev, sorry. Because of all the traffic it was impossible, sorry it's my mistake, I thought I was straight too much on traffic.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, guys if we could avoid like impending our cause Can't unfold that better
Logan SARGEANT: Mate, what just happened? The front was completely off the ground. Copy, I'll have a look.
Logan SARGEANT: Something's wrong with the front left man
Alexander ALBON: Science were not there at all in sector one. We just wait traffic
Logan SARGEANT: I'm driving around with two wheels, man. The
Engineer: fronts are off the ground. Everywhere. We're checking. Yep. So, back off, back off. We see any shoot.
Engineer: So, just be aware Max, it is quite gusty out there, variable, lap-to-lap.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, it's quite hard to be consistent.
Engineer: Understood.
Alexander ALBON: These tyres, they get so dirty offline that it's terrible to do this. Yep,
Engineer: understood. Give us something to look at for later on.
Engineer: We
Nico HULKENBERG: lost power, went over the curb for it. Okay, checking.
Engineer: We're checking everything now.
Nico HULKENBERG: When something is no good.
Engineer: What's your main limitation? We can see if we can address it.
Max VERSTAPPEN: No, it's
Engineer: a
Max VERSTAPPEN: win, mate. One lap our brake is fine, the next lap I just miss the braking.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, I think about saving these stars for quality
Engineer: It was a good first lap, mate.
Logan SARGEANT: Yeah, the problem is we've already hurt the fronts a lot. Yeah, I know, but let's try to get the learning.
Pierre GASLY: What's Esteban doing?
Engineer: Esteban has backed off
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, but I'm pushing Guys, for f**k's
Engineer: sake
Pierre GASLY: Just use this Okay
Engineer: mate, we'll discuss after the session
Engineer: A
Sergio PEREZ: lot of wood spitting.
Engineer: Yeah, tyres are a bit second hand, but procedurally all good.
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