Spanish Grand Prix 2023: Practice 3 team radio
65 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Spanish Grand Prix 2023, across 19 drivers. 58 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Nyck DE VRIES had the most, with 10.
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
- Nyck DE VRIES · AlphaTauri · 10 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 6 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 6 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Alfa Romeo · 5 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 5 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 4 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 4 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Alfa Romeo · 4 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 3 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 3 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 1 message
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 1 message
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Yuki TSUNODA: Everyone putting it soft, are we still sticking to the plan?
Engineer: I'll let you know.
George RUSSELL: Is that rain still coming for the start of the session? Affirm yep, it'll
Engineer: be light rain to start with then increasing intensity.
Engineer: Rain expected 12.40, that is in nine minutes time, single time lap on this tyre please.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: I don't know why the Williams are going so slow, they're pointless. Yeah, understood.
Engineer: And expecting rain in around five minutes away pushing behind Sargent eight and a half
Engineer: Pre
Sergio PEREZ: -grip in the medium speed, I love some traction, 1.5, 1.7, the traction wasn't great.
Engineer: Think about the push toggle for turn 12, push toggle turn 12.
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, it was a very neutral turn 12.
ZHOU Guanyu: Yeah, I locked up into turn 1, maybe I need some bias rewards.
Lewis HAMILTON: Variability still not great.
Engineer: Okay, copy.
Engineer: OK, mate, rain expected, four minutes.
Engineer: And if we get Drizzle, it should start around turn 13 in the next couple of laps.
Nico HULKENBERG: Think probably double cool now, but the salad to have some brain on the visor.
Engineer: Okay, you know, let's do double cool
Nico HULKENBERG: Salah to F-Suprane on the visor. OK.
ZHOU Guanyu: Front wing question Where we are is okay
Valtteri BOTTAS: Yes, there was
Engineer: a
Valtteri BOTTAS: couple of drops of bunks for the ascent.
Engineer: Front wing adjust, question.
Engineer: Keep it.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Fernando ALONSO: It's
Engineer: a
Fernando ALONSO: few drops of rain in 13.
Logan SARGEANT: You okay? Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Engineer: Copy, copy. You okay, please?
Logan SARGEANT: Yeah, I'm fine.
Engineer: Okay.
Lando NORRIS: GCS, 10-10, 10-12, understood, and all the way now to the box
Engineer: It's starting to spit in now. OK copy that. Roger, yeah, get reports of drizzle.
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, it's, uh, it's now raining.
Engineer: Copy.
Alexander ALBON: Is he okay?
Engineer: Yeah, oh good
Carlos SAINZ: Can you let me know if you can see the spray?
Engineer: No spray, no spray. Now a bit of a spray, getting out from 9. Very little.
Engineer: And we need secondary KC position 3, KC position 3.
Engineer: Break temperature warning. Break temperature warning. You should be BC5 as well, please. BC5.
George RUSSELL: It's definitely raining, the track just doesn't seem that wet
George RUSSELL: It's definitely raining, the track just doesn't seem that wet
Engineer: My charge was using the curve exit and seven and push it behind three and a half
Engineer: Some drivers reporting the tyres are good for only two pushing laps before they degrade.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Alexander ALBON: Yeah, it feels quite dry
Nico HULKENBERG: Front left is already falling apart.
Engineer: Okay, understood.
Esteban OCON: The fronts are... I see rubber going off everywhere
Engineer: How far we are from dry conditions? How far from slicks?
Lando NORRIS: Tough to say, but the inches have gone off already, so... What would be better is to put a slick on and see how that is.
Esteban OCON: The fronts are... I see ropa going off everywhere.
Engineer: Okay, understood. We don't need to risk anything at this stage, if you're happy with what you've got in terms of balance feel, I'm happy to come in.
Engineer: We're going to box, Lance. Box, box.
Lance STROLL: Why?
Engineer: We need to box and check the floor.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Had a bit of an aero bounce down the
George RUSSELL: straight, poor
Engineer: marker.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: I
Nyck DE VRIES: want to take this car.
Engineer: You
Nyck DE VRIES: f***ed my lap.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: How are the conditions from your side?
Valtteri BOTTAS: So sector 1 and 2 is kind of okay
Valtteri BOTTAS: So sector 1 and 2 is kind of okay, but sector 3 is damp, not good for slicks.
Engineer: Joe, feedback on track condition? Ok, for software ready?
ZHOU Guanyu: No, not yet. Going to turn really steep in the last sector.
Lando NORRIS: Why is that where the brakes are so **** what's wrong with the brakes?
Engineer: Okay, we are ticking
Engineer: Currently we don't see any progress on the brakes, we keep checking.
Engineer: Just to repeat those changes. Okay, we need multi be ERS 1 and recovery 1 and you'll be clear on pit exit. First car pushing will be Norris.
Nyck DE VRIES: Papa Pita.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I don't really feel comfortable pushing in this condition, I think it's a waste.
Engineer: Everybody else is pushing, but just let us know.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, but mate, I don't give a ****
Engineer: if
Max VERSTAPPEN: everyone else is pushing,
Engineer: it
Max VERSTAPPEN: makes no sense.
Engineer: Okay, understood.
Lando NORRIS: Getting a little bit more slippery again now.
Engineer: Understood.
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, I think cool down helps quite a bit.
Engineer: I
Charles LECLERC: was way too high on tyres.
Engineer: I don't even
George RUSSELL: know how much it's
Engineer: raining on the pit wall
George RUSSELL: because I feel like it's raining more currently
Nyck DE VRIES: What the f***?
Engineer: Yeah, we've reported him twice already, Nick. Reported.
ZHOU Guanyu: What the f*** is he doing, man?
Engineer: Oscar, probably best to do left hand side and stick on the drier line, the right looks okay, go on the right, otherwise stick on the drier track.
Charles LECLERC: Is the clutch okay?
Engineer: We'll come back to you.
Charles LECLERC: There was a strange noise when I released it
Engineer: Copy we are checking
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, the right side was more wet than the left, so you don't have that in there
Nyck DE VRIES: I think that was a good session.
Engineer: Yeah, I think we managed to push things together, so let's focus on harder braking
Engineer: So at the moment we cannot we cannot see anything strange with the clutch
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