Saudi Arabian Grand Prix 2023: Practice 2 team radio
57 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix 2023, across 19 drivers. 56 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Fernando ALONSO 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
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 8 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 6 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 5 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 5 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 5 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 4 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 3 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Nyck DE VRIES · AlphaTauri · 2 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 2 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 1 message
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 1 message
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 1 message
- ZHOU Guanyu · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: So we'll do a start for now. We'll do a start. There's one minute to go.
Engineer: Okay Lance, GPS is poor again for us.
Pierre GASLY: Is the wind in the same direction?
Engineer: Affirm, but lighter, lighter than this morning, track temp has dropped about 10 degrees
Engineer: To confirm that the wind is half the strength of FV1. The tyres will be about 10 below target. Lancer's only got two ahead to start their lap.
George RUSSELL: Gap Lewis to Alonso.
Engineer: He's got three seconds ahead of Alonso.
Engineer: So, how's the balance look like? Last corner was compromised a bit there.
Esteban OCON: Yeah, yeah, yeah. But let me do another lap. It feels OK. I feel better at the moment.
Engineer: OK, that's good.
Engineer: Ok Nick, we're still trying to find some good data to look at Sector 2. Sector 1 was strong.
Engineer: So red button is available for double handbrake.
Engineer: Everyone most people on mediums at the moment for info copy.
Pierre GASLY: I got a bit of time to come
Engineer: Tell me, Joachim, what you want.
Yuki TSUNODA: Still I feel massively like front, just feel weird, like front less grip, just rushing out, it's really strange.
Engineer: Understood, Joachim. Do you want one more push on this tyre?
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah.
Engineer: Copy, let's do one more.
Charles LECLERC: Hülkenberg, or whoever that house is. Ah, it was a joke, huh?
George RUSSELL: Can we check upshifts and can we discuss turn 1 oversteer?
Engineer: How's the balance?
Esteban OCON: Yeah, it feels oversteer and high speed. Low speed feels good, and medium speed as well. Less understeer.
Engineer: Yeah, let's think about going up on diff high speed.
Lewis HAMILTON: His targets are on me.
Nico HULKENBERG: That's pretty active isn't it?
Max VERSTAPPEN: This is my headrest. I'm laying down too much. I cannot feel the car.
Engineer: So happy to build up more temperature on tyres and have a good break into the final corner. And we'll be go one. Go one.
Engineer: Cancel handbrake and be about six yeah,
Sergio PEREZ: that wasn't ready
Engineer: And mode push, mode push.
Logan SARGEANT: I lost it, I lost it T2
Engineer: Ok, ok, we can do a push abort, go cool, go cool
Yuki TSUNODA: He had f***ed up, man.
Engineer: How was the balance? A
Pierre GASLY: bit on the nose in the first part of the lap More like a word through corner balance, 22 was worse Sector 1, like the first two corners, the front is really bad
Engineer: Yeah, copy that
Nico HULKENBERG: Always a D-rate, I'm going to throw a lot of 22.
Engineer: OK, we'll look.
Engineer: That traffic was a shame because that lap was coming together pretty nicely. I know we would have boxed anyway but the first corners look good.
Engineer: I'm tempted to box and get onto high fuel, if you are.
Fernando ALONSO: Yes, box first.
Engineer: Copy that.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
George RUSSELL: We need to make some big changes. Yeah, copy.
Engineer: Attempt, would you like to try again? You keep on a couple of attempts in the last attempt. But happy to box. The tires looks a bit damaged now.
Nyck DE VRIES: Yeah, coming box.
Carlos SAINZ: How many laps, 5?
Engineer: I really like the medium in the previous track. Ok, understood. You can target 4 time-laps and there will be 6 time-laps for the medium.
George RUSSELL: Chris, the top left button behind the steering wheel wasn't working.
Engineer: The sign's still at three behind. We're going to box box for a live pit stop.
Sergio PEREZ: The Ferrari of the XHS.
Engineer: OK, very good. All right, pushing from now, status 3, please. We're in a good spot here, 14 seconds gap ahead. Albon, 7 seconds behind Al-Lab.
Charles LECLERC: What happened
Engineer: to you
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, let me know if I can go power or I
Engineer: will come back to you For us. Everything is fine. You can continue
Charles LECLERC: What if there was a problem with the clutch model?
Engineer: So Verstappen's second lap was a 35.1 and now 35.0 for him. Perez 35.5 second lap.
Engineer: Tire seems good, we will extend a bit this run, and we will suggest... What is the medium doing? Charles is at 35 too.
Engineer: So Verstappen's fourth lap was a 35.2, Perez 35.3, Leclerc on medium 35.5.
Engineer: Oscar, how's the front wing?
Oscar PIASTRI: Not enough, I think. I think we're going to need a couple more turns.
Engineer: Oscar, do you think the Hard will have a tougher front tyre and this will be okay? Not
Oscar PIASTRI: 100% sure to be honest. Last time the balance was very similar in my boxing.
Engineer: Negative, stay out.
Oscar PIASTRI: Last time the balance was similar across compound, so I think for this balance I need more front wing.
Max VERSTAPPEN: My dances are really, really bad.
Engineer: Stand by.
Max VERSTAPPEN: They're just super low. They hold down to your procedure.
Engineer: Is there a specific corner, Max?
Max VERSTAPPEN: Last corner is really...
Engineer: We're similar to Albon. Our biggest loss to Ocon, who's doing 35s, is turn one breaking point. So just see if you can find something there. We have Stroll behind. He's on 10 kilos less fuel.
Yuki TSUNODA: We're going to start to get a little bit deeper on this, east of the AT truck stop.
Charles LECLERC: I've got so much traffic!
Esteban OCON: Keep an eye on the vibration.
Engineer: Copy that. Step back.
Engineer: Most of the field doing very similar lap times Max with this time management. Keep it there for now
Engineer: Pérez lap time in Fria 35.0 Alonso 35.4
Engineer: How many laps I get on video, like this? It's three, four, three, four, four laps. Minimum fourth lap.
Carlos SAINZ: Let's do 0.3 down total, 0.2, 0.2.
Engineer: Speed confirm and box. Charge lap time 3.6, 35.6.
Engineer: Okay, so it's most likely three laps from here, three full-time laps from here. It's very close to a fourth, but I think most likely it's three.
Fernando ALONSO: You tell me and I come back off a little bit.
Charles LECLERC: He's everything okay. I'll come back
Engineer: to you
Engineer: Okay, let us know what tires Lance tire balance feedback
Engineer: On data, we can't see anything, can you be a bit more specific what happened, or where?
Charles LECLERC: No, I think it was mainly a big surge.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: Tires and sliding are all fine. So it's okay to push more in high speed if you can
Engineer: See if we can pick up Pace Sector 1. Tires look okay.
Alexander ALBON: I can't. I'm maxed
Engineer: out.
Engineer: Okay, now if you back off by two seconds on your Delta, go down, slow down by two seconds and you'll take the flag this time. Just watch Hulkenberg, he's 2.4 behind you.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Ah, thanks for copying this, NAB.
Engineer: Yeah, remember, we're going to do a start from the grid.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Oh yeah, copy.
Nico HULKENBERG: Tell me a bit, how did that long run look?
Engineer: We're just on a little bit slower than, say, Williams and like Alpine. So we just need to find a little bit of pace, and it's maybe in the high speed where we can gain a bit. So we're, yeah, in the pack, but slightly on the slower side. The dig was fine.
Engineer: Reminded to hold position here, VSE still active, we're going to box now, we'll do a practice pit stop as well.
Engineer: I think the procedure was very good, the entire procedure.
ZHOU Guanyu: Copy Pitlane.
Engineer: Pit stop practice do not continue.
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