Singapore Grand Prix 2023: Practice 3 team radio
19 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Singapore Grand Prix 2023, across 9 drivers. 17 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Max VERSTAPPEN had the most, with 6.
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
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 6 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Alfa Romeo · 3 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 2 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Liam LAWSON · AlphaTauri · 1 message
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
ZHOU Guanyu: Alright, quick question, the dash brightness is back to yesterday AM session or not?
Engineer: Probably we need to have adjustment after this one, Joel.
ZHOU Guanyu: Yeah, that's what I thought.
Engineer: And the wind is similar to FP2 so quite low
Sergio PEREZ: The rear is still on the edge. Feels a bit too pointy. The end twist.
Engineer: Bit
ZHOU Guanyu: too new to the car
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: I had
Valtteri BOTTAS: some traffic there, got blocked by the car and yeah.
Max VERSTAPPEN: These options, what the f***?
Lewis HAMILTON: Just let me know where that time is in turn 1, 2.
Engineer: And what we can see is a min speed exit turn 5 and a min speed last corner.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Logan SARGEANT: If you can see anything, look at the floor, ran wide, Exeter 7, I just skated on that curb
Engineer: Ok, we'll have a look
Engineer: Anything we need to check or too aggressive on power, the only thing we can see?
Liam LAWSON: Yeah, AstroTurf and then just too aggressive on power. These tires are flat spotted.
Engineer: Okay, can we do a practice start or do you have to stop?
Liam LAWSON: No, no, we can.
Engineer: Okay, do you think we check the data if we can stay out?
Engineer: It
Nico HULKENBERG: feels strange. I just don't feel I have the grip and the braking retardation also still doesn't feel very great.
Engineer: Okay, understood. We'll look at both of those.
Engineer: Was that an improvement?
Sergio PEREZ: Not really, I'm still sliding on entries. And then the front is feeling quite light on the braking.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I went wide.
Engineer: Okay, let's box.
Lewis HAMILTON: And so, middle and last sector are decent?
Engineer: Copy, yeah, both purple at the moment. It's just that, yeah, down a big chunk in sector one.
Lewis HAMILTON: Just tell me where that is exactly.
Engineer: Late braking turn one, late braking turn five and also exit turn five.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I'm sorry but I cannot drive through these unfits. What the **** is this?
Engineer: We were anticipating the comment. I'll have a look and see if I can give you a switch position. Unacceptable.
Engineer: Fox is lap like to test something on the upshifts.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I literally just came to the pits.
Engineer: I know
Engineer: Upshift feedback please Max.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, maybe a little bit smoother. But yeah, miles up still. It's just getting the wheels spinning. It's not only upshifts, it's also downshifts.
Engineer: Okay, understood.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I'm just struggling for rear grip. You see that last sector, they're just drifting.
Engineer: I
Max VERSTAPPEN: think if I'm competing drifting, I might win the race.
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