Spanish Grand Prix 2023: Practice 2 team radio
61 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Spanish Grand Prix 2023, across 18 drivers. Esteban OCON had the most, with 9.
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
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 9 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 8 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 7 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 6 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 6 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 3 messages
- Nyck DE VRIES · AlphaTauri · 3 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Alfa Romeo · 2 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 2 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 2 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 1 message
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 1 message
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Radio check. Strong radio check.
Engineer: All good on traffic at tires, minus two, mode push, mode push.
Engineer: I am freecast open, T-177, you ok?
Engineer: initial throttle feedback that was target plus one initial throttle good target plus one initial throttle good and first car in a push lap Alonso time five
Engineer: Feedback, that was target plus one, initial throttle good, target plus one, initial throttle good, and first cast in a push lap, Alonso, time five.
Yuki TSUNODA: I got a bit of a vibration to this tire.
Engineer: You are P3 on the Proto C1, 15.6. That's the same lap time as Leclerc on a soft. Sainz also on soft, first lap at 15.0.
George RUSSELL: I'm happy to open my lap, but I think we're just confusing ourselves.
Engineer: It's
George RUSSELL: quiet a lot of water
Carlos SAINZ: What do you think of the flap? I think we'll leave it now.
Engineer: I think we'll leave it. Should be OK.
Lewis HAMILTON: Last sector okay?
Engineer: Mainly mid-speed turn 12
Engineer: So we are losing four tenths and a half sector one two tenths sector two the two tenths sector two They are exit turn four
Engineer: For now, one compound step, yeah, 0.4
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, still a little bit oversteer
Engineer: Just
Lewis HAMILTON: let me know about turn 1, I feel like I've got real rotation.
Engineer: OK, stand by, we'll have a look.
Engineer: So just a small amount of rear under rotation at the very end, so maybe beaming three. Halban traffic now, then Leclerc at four and a half.
Engineer: Out one, tyre green, out one, tyre green, Norris three.
Engineer: A
Pierre GASLY: lot of understeer, brakes everywhere, I went wide in turn 9, so I think we need to have a look at the plank. Copy, we've seen it.
George RUSSELL: Who the f*** was that? Er, yes, we did.
George RUSSELL: Turn into three.
Fernando ALONSO: Are you still happy with the strut too?
Engineer: Yeah, I'm happy for Nano. It's no problem for us.
George RUSSELL: If we can box and make a set-up change to improve the bounce and entry of three and nine.
Engineer: We're going to box this lap, box this lap.
Oscar PIASTRI: Copy, box.
Carlos SAINZ: I did check the floor just in case, because I feel like I lost quite a little gear in the lap.
Engineer: And we can do a free flap adjust if you want to try that.
Nyck DE VRIES: Yeah, but I think on the second lap I need it so I think for the first for the first lap we slightly undershoot it
Engineer: Yes, man, so we can go to scenario seven please as well scenario seven
Engineer: And we can go to SOX 6 as well, SOX 6.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I've run out of energy, it'll be soon. I'll take it.
Engineer: Slow button on please Max, we'll box this lap, box this lap.
Esteban OCON: Felt pretty good, little bit of understeer in 4, mid
Engineer: -corner, little bit in 1, but rest of the lap decent.
ZHOU Guanyu: I had noise on my last corner, there was quite a bit of aero downforce.
Engineer: No stopping.
Esteban OCON: When you mean drive, screw on, no stop, huh?
Engineer: No stop, drive straight through, please.
Engineer: biggest losses turn 10 turn 12 min speed
Engineer: It's
Lewis HAMILTON: too late on the brakes, turn 10.
Engineer: No, it's braking looks okay, it's just at mid speed.
Yuki TSUNODA: Why are we so nervous? My interaction is so bad.
Engineer: Ok Max, looking like 9 timed, 9 timed
Max VERSTAPPEN: Someone's phone is going, is that Helmut?
Engineer: Yes
Nyck DE VRIES: That was a good second lap, I think.
Engineer: Yeah, I think considering the tyres, it was good.
Pierre GASLY: Quite a lot of clouds, yeah, turn 3.
Engineer: Yeah, copy that. Not too much on the radar at this point, track temp is dropping a little bit with cloud cover though.
Pierre GASLY: Can I have a sort of base reference?
Engineer: Okay, this is good what you're doing at the moment.
Engineer: Test EB-8, turn 5 only.
George RUSSELL: Some very light raindrops around Turn 9
Engineer: I think we can ease ourselves into that gap towards the end of the lap.
Esteban OCON: It's like two or three, but a truck
Engineer: would go quicker if I push
Carlos SAINZ: Did you get that all up, yeah?
Engineer: Yeah, we did plus 0.4
Alexander ALBON: It was a bit random, the snap, but I'll just keep driving and see if it resets.
Engineer: You've got Hamilton at seven seconds behind if you want to make a window.
Engineer: And when we can, can we have HPP 9 position 2?
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, make sure we have we are happy with this distance For the front we come from here. There is another gap on the circuit
Engineer: Esteban, we're going to box now and change tyre, box, box.
Esteban OCON: OK, why?
Engineer: Keep building this, I'm happy. Esteban, stay out, please, stay out for the moment.
Charles LECLERC: Check the downfall, see if you
Engineer: can
Charles LECLERC: pull that lamp to exit, there
Engineer: is a hole. Understood.
Charles LECLERC: It said 18.7, right?
Engineer: 19.7
Esteban OCON: Deployments all over the place
Engineer: Copy, we'll have a look
Engineer: Traction management, yeah we don't need too much management through turn 14, the main one is that turn 10 traction management.
Fernando ALONSO: Good call. Thanks
Engineer: Try shape 3, shape 3.
Engineer: Anywhere between plus 15 and 20 on the dash please Max, plus 15 and 20 on the rear.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I think I need to stop for like two minutes to achieve that.
Engineer: Yeah, don't worry, do what you can.
Engineer: You're the last car so there will be plenty of traffic so take your time getting there
Engineer: There's a strange dumping vibration something which is behind me with the engine at idle or like a clack clack I don't know what it is
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