United States Grand Prix 2023: Qualifying team radio
57 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the United States Grand Prix 2023, across 20 drivers. 51 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Charles LECLERC had the most, with 5.
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
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 5 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 5 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 4 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 4 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 3 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 3 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · AlphaTauri · 3 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 3 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 3 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 2 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 2 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- ZHOU Guanyu · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Ferrari is a header on you Seth, Seth just bear that in mind for the gap.
Engineer: The brakes are looking good from our side and you are a little bit lower on tyre temp so we need a bit more.
Engineer: and wind intensity is really low, so difficult to let you know direction
Engineer: Okay mate, so lap time is almost the same as Pierre, he's 100th quicker.
Engineer: Very similar lap time between you and Esteban at this stage Currently you are P4, Esteban P5
Pierre GASLY: Copy Let me know what you think, but I have quite a lot of real luck Yeah,
Engineer: we'll have a look at it Main time to gain is exit of turn one exit of turn one
Engineer: Let's have a big call for the tyres, big call.
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, there were five cars coming out of the pit, so they need to all respect the delta, if not it
Engineer: will
Fernando ALONSO: be difficult for me to respect it.
Engineer: Ok, tyres are good, so we don't need any more on the tyres, just make sure you give yourself some margin on your delta a few cars ahead. So there's a bit of queuing, so make sure you're good on your delta to deal with that queuing. The gap was good for the last lap.
Engineer: Ok, what about the Flap Daniel? How was the balance?
Daniel RICCIARDO: We could come up a little bit on Flap. Where was I losing in 3rd sector, whereabouts?
Engineer: 2 tenths, turn 15 braking.
Engineer: So updated Cut-Off Max, we think your current lap time is on the bubble, so 36.4, so you know what you have to do.
Charles LECLERC: First sector, there was a problem in turn 5 and 6, did you see that?
Engineer: Let me come back to you
Charles LECLERC: Oh, yeah
Engineer: Okay If you need, we can change the strat and it will be fine for turn 5
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, let's change it Copy
Engineer: Okay, who's getting a bit tighter now, Fernando? We might have to go past one car at least.
Fernando ALONSO: Yes, but
Engineer: it's France. Yeah, and not gone ahead, so...
Engineer: 20 seconds, 20 seconds, L1-2, L1-2 L1 passing you now, crack on, go now, go now Go now
Engineer: OK, Lance, I'm afraid we're out. Both cars out.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Alexander ALBON: That was bad. I had
Engineer: a
Alexander ALBON: massive surge. So Stroll coming past you there now.
Engineer: OK, copy. Laptime is still good, so watch for Alonso now.
Engineer: Okay, we got knocked out, Nico.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Logan SARGEANT: That was terrible, man.
Engineer: Oscar, how was that?
Engineer: Stay in the car for now, we're just keeping an eye on track limits for everybody else.
Pierre GASLY: If we need to close or not
Engineer: So same wind as before really low intensity
Engineer: Ok, good warm up on the brakes, all clear from behind, is Hamilton on used as well?
Charles LECLERC: Ah, no, it's not. It's the panel that lagged, I think.
Engineer: Ok, no lap time deleted. Everything is fine.
Pierre GASLY: I've got a massive problem, check the torque, 10-12 Yeah,
Engineer: copy, OK, recharge on, I'm boxing the snappers
Pierre GASLY: That was a mess, check the torque
Engineer: Yeah, looking at it, still P3 with that lap mate
Pierre GASLY: There's a good 3 tenths Yeah,
Engineer: middle sector, 2 tenths to gain compared to Esteban, 3 tenths to P1 OK, let's focus how we stay, negative on your delta, I'm boxing this lap please
Pierre GASLY: Just on braking, late entry, I don't know what's happening with the engine
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Carlos SAINZ: Yes, another didn't get out of the way in turn 15, he forced me out of line. Okay. You should be more careful, you should flag that.
Engineer: Yeah, we have flagged it.
Engineer: Okay, Daniel, to Yuki, you have still a bit of room to break around five minutes later in turn one. And the other place where he is a bit faster is through the high-speed sections. He's generally able to carry more minimum speed in the corners.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, I got traffic. Completely put me off. Yeah, he had a plenty big enough gap ahead of him. He just got too close in the corner.
Engineer: Yep, understood. We're on it.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Make your gap before safety car line 2.
Max VERSTAPPEN: So I'll just have more understood this time I said, okay
Engineer: understood
Engineer: Okay, so I confirm we have P13, we have Joe in P12, one tenth ahead, mostly in second. Okay.
Engineer: Less than a tenth, very close. Yeah, we'll see everything, just need to do more.
ZHOU Guanyu: Maybe less than a tenth, my bag's gone. Where we end up?
Engineer: So Joe, we are P12.
ZHOU Guanyu: How far to the cart now?
Engineer: It's just less than a tenth, very close. We'll see it back in the garage.
ZHOU Guanyu: Yeah, I mean, I give you everything I love. Was a good comeback, but just need to do more, to be honest.
Engineer: To stay in the car, in case of further laptops got deleted.
ZHOU Guanyu: Yeah, copy, I will save from the checklist.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, the more I pushed on the front the quicker it gave up
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, I've got traffic for a second. I'm just there.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: I had a progressive moment in 2004. Copy
Engineer: that, Kev.
Engineer: Turn right. Yeah.
Carlos SAINZ: Need to clean up sector, don't
Engineer: worry. Understood.
Engineer: We had that lap time deleted at turn 9, track limits.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Well done. Well done there. What the was that in the last corner?
Sergio PEREZ: And the loon speed is a little bit more all over the place.
Engineer: Okay InfoMax, that lap time is deleted for limits at turn 19, would have been P1, it is P6.
Engineer: Okay Oscar, that's all the time's in. Sorry about that, we have P10. We'll have a go at that tomorrow.
Oscar PIASTRI: Yeah, sorry about that.
Engineer: Yeah, no worries Oscar. We'll work on that overnight and have another go.
George RUSSELL: Apologies, I've been a bit off the pace today. We'll try and sort that out for tomorrow.
Engineer: That was good. Good job there. Recovered it at the end.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Lando NORRIS: Oh man, every time. Good job, I was decent, I wasn't, but well done, good position for Sunday, so congrats mate.
Engineer: OK Lewis, that's a P-3 mate
Lewis HAMILTON: Sorry, I can't get through this mate
Engineer: That's not bad at all mate, really nice lap
Engineer: at P9. 34-7 for Leclerc was a pole, 34-8 for Norris, 34-8 for Hamilton.
Engineer: yeah
Esteban OCON: that's the front and the last two so yeah
Engineer: well done
Engineer: Still, it's a good result, all to play for on Sunday, so nice job.
Engineer: Yeah, info all confirmed. Copy. Good job guys, congrats for the port. Good job.
Engineer: Alright mate, that's P7, P7.
Pierre GASLY: Two weekends in a row.
Engineer: Good
Pierre GASLY: job guys, very good job.
Engineer: It's very tight, 10 milliseconds with the new P5.
Engineer: All right mate, that's P7, P7.
Pierre GASLY: Two weekends in a row, so... Good job guys, very good job.
Engineer: Yeah, it's very tight, 10 milliseconds would put you at P5, so...
Pierre GASLY: Yeah,
Engineer: anyway, very
Pierre GASLY: good job. It's still a good job, we're making good progress, so... We're getting closer to the guys I had in quali, so... Let's look at the positives.
Engineer: I think it was well executed. Just negative on your delta please, just negative on your delta. Yeah,
Pierre GASLY: that turn 12... Turn 11, turn 12, it was quite tricky, the whole session. But from that, the balance was good, so...
Engineer: I
Pierre GASLY: think it's all positive, now we... Now we've got to improve, but... Good job. We'll get some big points on Sunday, and...
Engineer: I'm
Pierre GASLY: in good condition.
Engineer: Okay. Certainly will. So, box on the stamp. And you go to the box on May, please.
Engineer: Okay, and P1
Charles LECLERC: Let's go
Engineer: That
Charles LECLERC: was a good lap, that was really good lap
Engineer: OK Lewis, that's a P3 mate, P3, that's a f***ing good job there mate
Lewis HAMILTON: Sorry, I can't get through this mate
Engineer: That's not bad at all mate, really nice lap
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