São Paulo Grand Prix 2023: Sprint team radio
52 radio messages were recorded during sprint at the São Paulo Grand Prix 2023, across 17 drivers. 50 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Pierre GASLY 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
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 5 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 5 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 5 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 4 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 4 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 4 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 4 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · AlphaTauri · 4 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 1 message
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Okay so limit the number of times you pull forwards, that's the green light. So remember you can't inhibit, you've got to stay on that left hand side, two burnouts and a start at the pit out.
Pierre GASLY: I need something to clean the interior of my visor, I need something to clean the interior of my visor, it's not clean.
Engineer: Copy that, we'll get something for you.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Tires came out of the plank list again and I have cold
ZHOU Guanyu: Have a look at the shift, it's very harsh, upshift.
Engineer: Have it Joe. We will have a look on it.
Engineer: It's a day for control. I whisper.
Lewis HAMILTON: Is it a tailwind into Turn 1?
Engineer: Yeah it's pretty still, slight tailwind if anything but yeah it's pretty still into Turn 1 just from lap to the grid.
Engineer: So it's a hot one out here today mate, but we know we're trying to bias our setup towards race conditions So let's stay focused and see what we can do
Engineer: It
Lewis HAMILTON: wasn't that good.
George RUSSELL: Nice job, mate.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: If you see what Archon did at the exit of 8, first lap, completely put me on the grass.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Okay, so it was ghastly on that one. That's our code.
Engineer: Understood.
Yuki TSUNODA: The car is moving out of the braking.
Alexander ALBON: There's oil coming out the back of Valtteri's car!
George RUSSELL: I
Engineer: think
George RUSSELL: I need to push high speed a bit more, it's too on my nose.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: I have no real grip, that's my problem.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: Okay, good job. Hulkenberg next.
Engineer: Look at the 12. This is unbelievable. Yeah, copy that, Nico. We see it.
Engineer: For your awareness, Russell and Prez are fighting behind me It's okay man, I'll just... Let me just focus, I can see
Engineer: So Max Norris still pushing extremely hard in six and seven almost three tenths in there
Logan SARGEANT: This damn train man
Engineer: Remember learnings for tomorrow, learnings
George RUSSELL: Bit dropped at the moment, just
Engineer: sliding along by, thank you Affirmative, see casing starting to drop it now
Engineer: Are the brakes going or something? Because they feel like there's no view. They're just a little bit cold, so we'll look at adding blend. Stand by.
Engineer: Niko, delay full throttle at 11, will help 12 a little bit.
Nico HULKENBERG: Yeah, it will help. It will help a lot, my friend. Tires are down. They're coped.
Engineer: Okay, understood.
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, he touched me. I'm working for six.
Engineer: Yeah, copy, copy.
George RUSSELL: The pace of our guys ahead is well fast!
Engineer: We have to make a decision here, if we are going to push the high speed or not. Yes, we are going to push the high speed Max, I've been telling you for the last three laps, Norris is two and a half tenths quicker than you in six and seven.
Engineer: And if there's a safety car, you will go behind three cars that are lapping 1, 1.3 seconds slower than you, and we will use soft. Would you take it?
Daniel RICCIARDO: It's
Engineer: the
Daniel RICCIARDO: real, real scary water beaches.
Pierre GASLY: Guys, I've got no rear grip, just help me!
Nico HULKENBERG: What's gonna go on at the apex of turn 4?
Engineer: I
Nico HULKENBERG: got a massive clap on the face at the apex every lap.
Lando NORRIS: What line is he doing in the last corner, is he like wide or cutting the apex? I'll
Engineer: come back to you Yeah,
Lando NORRIS: I should have had it already you know, you have to look at one corner Copy
Engineer: Lando, he's not taking much care, he's just a bit better out of the corner on throttle
Engineer: Yes, so turn 11 is Tailwind.
Logan SARGEANT: I flat-spotted my front right
Engineer: Sun's too hot. Let's get him
Engineer: That was some fun. Nice job.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, good race. I think we executed that well. Much better than last year. Yeah, well done, Max. That's a great start to the weekend. Well done. A lot of good information there.
Engineer: That's Pichu, Pichu.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, I know, just didn't have the pace in the end. Too much dead comparing to him, but good effort.
Engineer: Yeah, good job man.
Engineer: Yeah, I think you managed that well Max, looked after the tyres in the right places at the right time Obviously still have plenty to go, 14.7 on the last lap is very strong Let's say Norris gave up the ghost, Checo 15.5 last lap, Russell 16.9 That was their pace at the end, Leclerc 16.5
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, much stronger now
Engineer: Thankfully
Engineer: Can't be very very close, yeah Benign I
Daniel RICCIARDO: understood Yeah, sorry guys
Engineer: Yeah, I share your frustration. But anyway, it was still a good encounter.
Engineer: That's a lot of learning I'm sure. I know, a lot of learning I'm sure. Well done Logan, it's all good learning for tomorrow, it'll be a bit cooler, we can come back stronger, but lots to talk about.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Alright Alex, it was nice to move forward. It's going to be cooler tomorrow, more opportunity. Good learning.
Alexander ALBON: Yeah, there's a few good things in that, that I felt better so I don't forgive me that advice.
Engineer: Yeah, it wasn't easy out there with the managing and so on. Let's tidy up for tomorrow
Engineer: Yuki P6, I'm speechless, fantastic race, congratulations, fantastic.
Yuki TSUNODA: It was not easy, yeah, congrats. Charles pushed me off in turn 2, definitely, he didn't leave me any space.
Engineer: Copy that John, we will mention it.
Yuki TSUNODA: Bye, well done guys, I'll make it up the points we lost in Mexico.
Engineer: Yeah, definitely. Thank you.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, we're kind of just missing so much rear grip like I can't touch the throttle Just was spinning everywhere Yeah, well discussed in the office, but Tricky just Sliding way too much
Engineer: Yep, copy that mate tricky afternoon. We'll have a chat when you're back and work on tomorrow
Engineer: Yeah, good job. Good comms and everything, so cheers. I'll take that. Just need to be a bit quicker. That's a look at me.
Engineer: That's P4. Good job at the start there. Nice overtaking, some nice moves. It's a shame we dropped
George RUSSELL: away from us. Yeah, well I don't think we did all we could then. A lot to look at tonight. Try and find that pace.
Engineer: Yeah, copy that.
George RUSSELL: What was the pace of Max and Lando at the end?
Engineer: Max at the end was doing 14.8, 14.7. And Norris was doing 15.3, 15.4.
George RUSSELL: Wowza. OK.
Engineer: That was a great start, shame we couldn't make that stick in turn four and we've got some learning for tomorrow but a bit more understanding on these tyres, we'll go again tomorrow in the race.
Engineer: I actually thought it was the checkered flag, you can go to both. I didn't know it was the last step. Okay, copy, sorry.
Nico HULKENBERG: Wow, lost for words. Absolutely lost for words here.
Engineer: Yeah, copy that. Got lots to look at tonight for tomorrow.
Engineer: So Sainz got the last point in P8, Hamilton
Fernando ALONSO: P7
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