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Team radio transcript

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

Every message, in the order it happened

  1. Daniel RICCIARDOAlphaTauri

    Daniel RICCIARDO: Alrighty. What's up? Radio check.

    Engineer: Bonjour.

    Daniel RICCIARDO: John Bono.

  2. Esteban OCONAlpine

    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

  3. Pierre GASLYAlpine

    Pierre GASLY: Brake pedal is quite long.

  4. ZHOU GuanyuAlfa Romeo

    Engineer: And

    ZHOU Guanyu: the front is a little bit touching.

    Engineer: Copy Joe.

  5. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    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.

  6. Sergio PEREZRed Bull

    Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, my retard gave up

  7. George RUSSELLMercedes

    George RUSSELL: Tragic, it was very weak out of 8 and 10

  8. Logan SARGEANTWilliams

    Logan SARGEANT: Something's wrong with my visors

  9. Fernando ALONSOAston Martin

    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.

  10. Fernando ALONSOAston Martin

    Fernando ALONSO: Brakes high as cold.

    Engineer: Yeah, confirm, confirm they are cold.

  11. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: Ah, this is not a big f***ing problem.

    Engineer: Boxer slap.

  12. Esteban OCONAlpine

    Esteban OCON: We're still lacking front end a lot in 2-1, in 2-8-9.

    Engineer: Okay mate, understood.

  13. ZHOU GuanyuAlfa Romeo

    ZHOU Guanyu: Struggling with his front again, man.

  14. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas

    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.

  15. Pierre GASLYAlpine

    Pierre GASLY: Yeah, guys if we could avoid like impending our cause Can't unfold that better

  16. Logan SARGEANTWilliams

    Logan SARGEANT: Mate, what just happened? The front was completely off the ground. Copy, I'll have a look.

  17. Logan SARGEANTWilliams

    Logan SARGEANT: Something's wrong with the front left man

  18. Alexander ALBONWilliams

    Alexander ALBON: Science were not there at all in sector one. We just wait traffic

  19. Logan SARGEANTWilliams

    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.

  20. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    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.

  21. Alexander ALBONWilliams

    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.

  22. Nico HULKENBERGHaas

    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.

  23. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    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.

  24. Carlos SAINZFerrari

    Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, I think about saving these stars for quality

  25. Logan SARGEANTWilliams

    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.

  26. Pierre GASLYAlpine

    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

  27. Sergio PEREZRed Bull

    Engineer: A

    Sergio PEREZ: lot of wood spitting.

    Engineer: Yeah, tyres are a bit second hand, but procedurally all good.

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