Spanish Grand Prix 2023: Race team radio
163 radio messages were recorded during race at the Spanish Grand Prix 2023, across 20 drivers. 157 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. George RUSSELL had the most, with 14.
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
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 14 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 12 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 12 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 11 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 10 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 10 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 10 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 9 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 9 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 9 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 9 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 8 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 7 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 7 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Alfa Romeo · 7 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 6 messages
- Nyck DE VRIES · AlphaTauri · 4 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Alfa Romeo · 3 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 3 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 3 messages
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Nyck DE VRIES: Yeah, the right-hand mirror is tilted upwards, so we need to
Engineer: bring it down a little bit for guns. Okay, so guys, we'll take the tours on the grid.
Engineer: And multifunction gx position 2 when you can, gx 2 when you can.
Esteban OCON: I had a quarter-pipe shift in the 3rd lane, 1st and 2nd.
Engineer: So, clutch position was on target. Track temp currently is 41 degrees.
George RUSSELL: Just hit a marker where I was losing the rate I've learned a bit before
Esteban OCON: Yeah, not good that we didn't sink 8. Honestly, it's not enough to do just one lap.
Esteban OCON: Have a look at the balance also because very understeery at high speed very very understeery like crazy understeer
Engineer: Okay, understood. We'll have a look through that now
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Engineer: And Oscar, we'll need a big lift into turn 10 for PU temperatures to protect the launch. How's the front wing flap?
Oscar PIASTRI: Copy. Front wing feels okay. I think it's a bit on the nose but can already feel the front left a little bit so I think it's in a sensible place.
Engineer: Okay Lance, tailwind entry to 4, entry to 9, headwind exit 4, up to 25 kph and we're going to the grid.
George RUSSELL: Yeah, I just checked gravel, um, stuff. I was just trying the wide lines.
Engineer: Check if you have any rain turn 14 pit entry box box box box
Engineer: In terms of 7 and 12, there's a pure tailwind.
Lewis HAMILTON: Just like you put a lot in Ready to oversteer there
Lewis HAMILTON: Yeah, that was a big shift
Lewis HAMILTON: If you could just wipe my mirrors, they're really dirty.
Lewis HAMILTON: It's really hot man.
Engineer: So correction, sergeant now is at the end of the pit lane and they are telling me he's on mediums
Engineer: Okay, Nico, tires, everyone is on soft, except Verstappen, Perez, Sargent are on medium, and the clerk is on hard from the pit lane.
Engineer: And a reminder, you do have HBP 12 currently in position 4.
Engineer: Clutch drop was 2% too deep and held the clutch a little too long.
Logan SARGEANT: I ran over debris.
Esteban OCON: Yeah, I didn't hit debris, don't want, let
Engineer: me know. Copy.
Engineer: And just a confirmation that everything is okay on the car
George RUSSELL: I've got a lot of aero bouncing
Engineer: OK, so we're doing a level 2 Leica at the moment, suggest level 3 if you can.
Alexander ALBON: Yeah, we're getting big feeds.
ZHOU Guanyu: We are clearly quicker
Engineer: The
Valtteri BOTTAS: pace feels okay, but obviously I'm completely stuck here, so... Yep,
Engineer: understood.
Engineer: Pace is high and grip
Nico HULKENBERG: doesn't feel great.
Engineer: And front left is the hotter of the two.
Engineer: Nice Yuki, come on.
Nico HULKENBERG: We've got to think of something. We are getting eaten alive here. The front left looks very grained and worked
Engineer: up. Copy that.
Fernando ALONSO: Tell me when tyres are stabilised.
Engineer: Yeah, will do.
Engineer: I think we need to box
Nico HULKENBERG: and do something else.
Engineer: We stick on plan A for now.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, I have been. I have busy hands.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, the dirty air is terrible. Just somehow frosk aside, don't box in dirty air.
Engineer: Understood.
ZHOU Guanyu: They have so much power the house
Esteban OCON: Burn to the right I think
George RUSSELL: The front left doesn't
Engineer: look in amazing
George RUSSELL: shape.
Engineer: And switch position Sierra confirmed, status 4 Stay
Carlos SAINZ: patient, pace is good
Engineer: Ok understood, you need to pick up the pace
Engineer: Still plan A, plan A.
Engineer: Let me know for flap.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, they have more face. They have copy. Let me know for flap
Max VERSTAPPEN: You're on exit. I need three clicks more. Swing.
Engineer: They're on old tyres, 14 lap old, Ocon coming, has stopped the lap before, Ocon behind, stopped before, so he's on one lap.
Engineer: I'm thinking to go to medium and box Carlos box box for medium
Carlos SAINZ: Why? Okay.
Lewis HAMILTON: Guys, they're still really good mate Okay,
Engineer: let's keep them that way So our pace is looking really good Lewis
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Lewis HAMILTON: Guys, they're still really good, mate.
Engineer: Okay, let's keep them that way.
Engineer: So it's Sargent battling with Tsunoda at the moment, Tsunoda's on six lap old hards.
George RUSSELL: A lot more pace in these tyres. We need to look forward, not behind. Yeah, aye sir.
Nico HULKENBERG: well it's okay we had a workout from the first few laps but
Engineer: it's stable for the moment
Lewis HAMILTON: Can't slowly go into oversteer, so for this run I'd probably take the one hole
Engineer: You
George RUSSELL: don't think one stop is possible? Tyres are holding quite well at the moment.
Engineer: It's not impossible. It's not impossible. I
George RUSSELL: think we need to stay out. It's your choice. The tyres are good. I'm improving the lap time.
Engineer: Enjoy the free air.
Lando NORRIS: The pace is terrible, isn't it?
Engineer: Okay Kev, for hard tyre, we're thinking to reduce error bounce by 0.3 of a percent. Please let me know.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: I don't agree, I don't agree. Stay where we are. Copy that, copy that.
Engineer: And Oscar confirming the tyre degradation is all thermal, not worried about where, not worried about graining on this tyre, it's all about thermal management.
Sergio PEREZ: I can keep this pace for a bit longer.
Engineer: Ok, let's use that pressure now. Yuki is doing 20.6, 8 tenths up.
George RUSSELL: Right, pit stop.
Nico HULKENBERG: It's very hard to say. We're fighting both ends.
Engineer: They
Nico HULKENBERG: feel equally poor, to be honest.
George RUSSELL: Ain't no top five.
Lando NORRIS: Am I racing the car ahead or, I mean, they're pushing a lot more than we used to.
Lance STROLL: Can I lean on tires more in high speed?
Engineer: Yes Lance you can, Degg's good, Ocon 2.6 behind
Logan SARGEANT: Why am I derating so much?
Engineer: Why am I derating? We're following plan on engine usage, as per discussed. We're happy to push more turn 9.
Lando NORRIS: Probably just going up a little bit now.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, I've pitched five, the fire's probably just going off a little bit now.
Engineer: Alex, do you think tyres are OK to push a little more through 3 and maybe 13?
Alexander ALBON: Yeah, but I just don't
Engineer: want
Alexander ALBON: to be close to butters for no reason. I don't have the tire does yet
George RUSSELL: Is anyone else reporting rain? I think it's sweat from the inside of my helmet.
Engineer: Sir, it sounds like it's just you that's reporting the rain. I suspect it might be the sweat.
Logan SARGEANT: Look at my deck switch
Engineer: Stroll in front is going to start to struggle on the soft soon, gap 2 seconds.
Engineer: You said he was on the hard. Stroll's on the soft.
Engineer: So Alex for our stint length, I think we can close the gap to Bottas if we can.
Engineer: I
Lewis HAMILTON: thought I said we'd go down one hole.
Engineer: Ok Lando, we are still in plan C, we want to achieve target minus 5, target minus 5, best place to that
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Pierre GASLY: We're losing too much time.
Pierre GASLY: I'm chilling the tire now.
Engineer: Solid work, just solid. It was pretty good
Carlos SAINZ: Find the best way to beat Checo
Pierre GASLY: Just dead fluent! Why can't we change plan?
Engineer: And let me know your opinion on plan A for the last stint.
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, yeah, plan A for sure. That'd be no way.
Carlos SAINZ: I'm recovering a bit of pace, let's see. Good.
Engineer: Okay, album Magnuson behind yep, slow it down. Thank you
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Pierre GASLY: I don't tell the blue anymore. No, no.
Engineer: Ok Max, thoughts on this tyre?
Max VERSTAPPEN: Oh not amazing, let's see a few more laps, I struggle a lot with under braking, the front is overheating
Engineer: And we'll box this lap for Hart.
Charles LECLERC: No, no, no. Let's go for soft guys.
Engineer: Copy that.
Engineer: We are doing hard. We are doing hard.
George RUSSELL: Ah, it's all very good.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I just complain about the fronts overheating and the braking, I need to solve that then.
Engineer: So yes, that was a recommendation, just wondering whether we could open the diff and come back on the torque bias.
Engineer: Okay Oscar, this is P11. There are opportunities ahead with cars who pitted before you.
Engineer: Okay, Max, that's your second warning for track limits. First one was turn nine. This one was turn five.
Max VERSTAPPEN: What?
Engineer: Track limits, two warnings.
Engineer: You
Nico HULKENBERG: think Hamilton is gonna slip again or what is his tires?
Engineer: You
Nico HULKENBERG: think Hamilton is gonna slip again or what is his tires?
Engineer: Yeah, he's on 20 lap media. Yeah, he'll stop again for sure not
Nico HULKENBERG: ideal having him in front for us
Engineer: Yuki, do you need stability or rotation? Just take the drive. I
Yuki TSUNODA: cannot go faster than this. No limitation.
Engineer: We have blue flags. Leclerc is one second behind Verstappen.
Engineer: Okay mate, so next one is Ocon, one second ahead, he's got nine lap older hard tyres.
Engineer: Verstappen is on old tyres, he's not that quick Oscar, you may be able to stay in his DRS.
George RUSSELL: Will we catch him at this rate? Because I can't turn it up, but you need to tell me when.
Engineer: Yeah, we will catch him very quickly at this rate.
Engineer: Lando, 100% PACE, 100% PACE Yeah, already am Understood
Engineer: It's
Max VERSTAPPEN: just like these hard dies have no grip. They're sliding everywhere.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: You've got lots of energy, lots of energy.
Engineer: Okay, good job.
Pierre GASLY: Just consider a blue flag, etc.
Fernando ALONSO: Any threats behind?
Engineer: Negative full clear behind and ahead of Lance there's a 12 second gap to the next count
Engineer: Two tenths quicker than the group ahead and behind you look low as doing 18.6
Engineer: Gasly 19-0 you are lapping faster than all of them
Engineer: You
ZHOU Guanyu: pushed me off, man.
Nico HULKENBERG: What's my situation behind me?
Engineer: Albon 8 behind on a long medium
Engineer: So founder if you would like a bit more rotation you can try entry seven talk five entry seven talk five for more rotation Ten laps to go ten
Engineer: Everything looks ok at the moment, 9 laps to go, gap 1.5 behind.
Engineer: Can't lose time at Bottas. Catch and pass him.
Engineer: Ok mate, the car behind is Hamilton, he's doing 77s, we will get blue flags for him We should try to overtake Magnussen at Albon before we... Yeah, Albon!
Engineer: OK, Max, that was a third stroke on track limits.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Where?
Engineer: Turn 10. You've now been given the black and white flag. You are 18 seconds ahead of Hamilton. No risks required, Max.
Fernando ALONSO: Tell Lance not to worry, I just want to build a gap with the cars behind in case of rain or anything.
Engineer: Yeah, copy, understood mate, copy. Copy for that, zero risk. Yeah, understood mate, understood.
Max VERSTAPPEN: What's my passes up?
Engineer: Yours is a 17-3. Like I say, you've been given a black and white flag, so we cannot afford anything.
Lewis HAMILTON: How are we doing out here? Pretty smiling, yeah.
Engineer: So the snap in 18-2, George 18-1.
Engineer: All out now. All out.
Oscar PIASTRI: Is fuel okay?
Engineer: Fuel is okay
Engineer: Okay, now can you bring it home within the white lines? Thank you.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, yeah.
ZHOU Guanyu: Good pace, just two tenths missing on Sunoda. Keep pushing. Yeah, I'm keeping everything fine.
Logan SARGEANT: Man, there's no tire left, I can't.
Engineer: You can reduce the light, Corp.
Engineer: Well controlled, Max. Another win?
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, good race that. Again, very lovely result this.
Engineer: Well done, Max. That was mega. Very well controlled, even though you went over the white lines a few times.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, just within the limit.
Engineer: Very well done, very well controlled. Masterclass.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, really good weekend, so thank you very much to everyone.
Engineer: Great work, Lewis. What an awesome drive. Fantastic management there, mate. And awesome pace. So that's a P2, P3 for the team. Great result. Good to see you back up there.
Lewis HAMILTON: Mega job, guys. Mega job. Thank you so much for everyone back at the factory continuing to push. This is the real showing of all your hard work, so thank you. Let's keep pushing. Mega job to George as well. Awesome drive. Well driven, Lewis. Really well driven. Always under control.
Engineer: We'll be right back.
Engineer: Okay, we got a checkered flag, checkered flag Watch out for that side
Engineer: We will review to try to understand.
Logan SARGEANT: I don't understand why the last stint was so bad.
Engineer: Right on Logan. It was still a good drive anyway. Lots of experience, lots of learning. We'll go through that last in.
Engineer: Good job. Side race. That's P3. Not too shabby, considering where you started.
George RUSSELL: Not too shabby at all. Nicely done from P12. This sport's a bit more fun when the car's fast, eh? Nice one, nice one.
Engineer: And we're going to send Dave Mard up today, Max, he's been with us a long time, he'll be coming to pick the Constructors Trophy.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, hopefully we'll get it very, very wet.
Engineer: A very strong step one, major race, nice stuff.
Engineer: Well done, Alex. Happy with that as well. That's as high as that car was going to go today. Well done.
Alexander ALBON: Well then guys, I'm quite happy with that.
Engineer: that's another one where all cars finished so 20 cars and no rain but p16 still good job
Engineer: If you want to take the positive, the car was fast, and you were good. No, I don't care about the car,
Yuki TSUNODA: honestly.
Engineer: There
Yuki TSUNODA: was a space, I didn't force. There was a little bit of space there.
Engineer: That's P13.
Oscar PIASTRI: Yep, tricky afternoon. Struggled a lot with pace and with the tyres.
Engineer: Yep,
Oscar PIASTRI: so we couldn't convert yesterday's pace to anything today, but let's have a look and try and come back stronger next time. Really encouraging, won that pace, so we'll keep pushing. Cheers.
Engineer: Yeah, cheers, Oscar. You're right, there's still opportunities here. There's still opportunities and we know there's also upgrades coming.
Engineer: P4, some nice overtakes. Decent haul of points.
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, Roger got the podium, cutting the first corner. What happened there, did we report it?
Engineer: Yeah, the FIA had a look.
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, well done Checo, that was a very strong recovery, well done. After a difficult day yesterday, very strong drive today, well done mate. Yeah, okay guys, let's analyse the whole weekend because I think we lack some pace throughout. So let's analyse it and come back strong for Canada.
Engineer: Yeah, we'll get you back on that podium next time out.
Engineer: Okay, that's checkered flag, that's checkered flag, that's P6, P6.
Lance STROLL: What a day, man.
Engineer: Yeah, it was a tough one. Great first lap and well managed with Ocon.
Engineer: So Mercedes second and third they had a strong car today. You did a good job
Engineer: That's a good recovery after the last two events, we're going to move forward from here, take the pickup, take the pickup.
Lance STROLL: Yeah, let's keep pushing them.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, I got it, sorry about lap 1, I just mis-stretched it or something, but Cleaning up the pace anyway today, so Let's keep it up, let's keep track
Engineer: Yeah, no worries for that, let's keep it up
Engineer: Well done mate, good clean race, P7, Lance P6.
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, well done guys. Lacking a little bit of pace, but we deliver it in the maximum.
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, they didn't show that on the TV screens.
Carlos SAINZ: I tried my best guys, I promise, I carried on, but uh, yeah, let's talk to some more men at the hotel.
Engineer: Copy that, good job.
Engineer: So that's p19 for us. Yeah, that's good, but I don't know what's going on Yep, copy that Valtteri. We'll have to understand what happened between FP3 quali and in the race
Engineer: Okay Kev, sorry for the poor race.
ZHOU Guanyu: Joe, that was a very good race. Excellent race from your side. Thank you very much. P9 at the end. Thank you, guys. Thank you. I think we deserved that after a hard work based off over the last few weeks. It's been tough. Let's keep going. Car was mega today. Enjoyed the race. Enjoyed the fight. But yeah, that was a bit nasty from Sonoda. He fully pushed me off.
Engineer: Alessandro, Joe, I told you you can do it. Trust me, you can do it every race. Good job, mate.
ZHOU Guanyu: Gracias. Gracias. Thank you. Thank you so much.
Nico HULKENBERG: We don't get many safety cars these days anymore, huh?
Engineer: No, but we've got some work to do. We'll do our homework and come back better next time.
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Esteban OCON: Coppola, yeah, not the easiest, but plenty for us to learn there, guys, I think. Very good weekend in the whole, but yeah, more to come in the race.
Engineer: OK, mate, that's a P10 for us, tough race, difficult to overtake.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, I got squeezed at the start, it was just chaos, first lap I lost way too many positions. I got squeezed everywhere, and after all the time you lose in the first five laps, it's difficult to recover.
Engineer: Yeah, copy that mate, the times you had free air, the pace was very good, so let's keep building on that, we know we could have had more out of this.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, big time.
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