United States Grand Prix 2023: Sprint team radio
71 radio messages were recorded during sprint at the United States Grand Prix 2023, across 20 drivers. 70 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Pierre GASLY had the most, with 8.
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
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 8 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 7 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 6 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 5 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 4 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 4 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 4 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 4 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 3 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 3 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 3 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Alfa Romeo · 3 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Alfa Romeo · 2 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 2 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · AlphaTauri · 1 message
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 1 message
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: So you can push to turn 15 before going mode in and cooling the carts
Engineer: Okay Lance, wind is 10 kph, that was tail, worst place 7 entry
Engineer: So tires are still good we can lean on them a bit in 16-17
Pierre GASLY: Can you confirm the second is? Yep Second gear is good. Thank
Engineer: you. Okay slow now and you're going to the grid
Engineer: Quite a lot of front end I think, we need to have a look. Yeah, still we're just having a look ourselves now. Ok, I'll see you on the grid shortly.
Logan SARGEANT: I really struggle to find hold revs.
Engineer: I'll feedback you on the grid. All good from our side. I'll let you know why.
Lewis HAMILTON: It's hot as hell in here right now, can you get me a fan or something?
Engineer: The
Lewis HAMILTON: brake fans are blowing the hot air towards the cockpit.
Engineer: This is Rory Have a great race. Thank
Esteban OCON: you very much Rory. Thanks for the support. It's an honor that you are with us this weekend. Thanks mate
Engineer: OK, so we're going to fire up in just under five minutes. Can you go to diff exit five, please? Diff exit five.
Engineer: So, yeah, we know it's a long race. Right, your gearbox should be synced. Pit limiter on. Fire up, remember the brakes. And bike point find once on the ground. Expect a real spin on that. Practice start. Build the temperature through the formation lap. Nice and positive, this one. Into turn 19, it's lifting coast. Park throttle after that. And then Ferrari pit wall. Two long, one short. Two long, one short burnout. Should be about 35 seconds of stationary time today. We'll be right back.
Engineer: Okay, formation lap procedures, Max. Mode 12 for the dummy launch. Pit limiter off and static 5.5 once the car is on the ground. Pit limiter off, static 5.5 once the car is on the ground. So if you can, we're looking to target plus 17, plus 17 on the dash for the rear tyres. Lift and coast into turn 19 and after turn 19, no more than 50% throttle. In terms of burnouts after the Mercedes pit wall, so that's P22, Mercedes pit wall, two long, one short burnout, two long and one short burnout. And perform the extra ramp rather than coasting down into your pit box.
Engineer: So that's a one minute deformation lap. So as soon as the car's on the ground, pit limiter on please.
Lewis HAMILTON: They're pushing me back now.
Engineer: Oscar clutch drop was on target on target
Engineer: We can take some space at turn one, make some space so you can push through sector one.
Engineer: Good mate, so track temp starting to drop, I've got a slight increase in wind compared to lap to the grid.
Engineer: And we'll have another break before 19 and then some weaving just staying on the racing line weaving keep the tyres clean
Engineer: Oscar, contact looks okay in data. Confirm all okay.
Engineer: Alonso has DRS 0.9 behind. You have DRS to stroll.
George RUSSELL: Crank limit again, 8.6, Ferris
Engineer: Yeah, copy that, we're looking at it
Pierre GASLY: Ghost all over took out the truck
Engineer: Okay Lance, Magnussen 1.1 does not have DRS, control your rear slips corner exit if you can but you're doing a good job.
Engineer: Okay, from our side, tyres looking good. Just recommend brake balance, one click forward, turn one, and set to three.
Engineer: Okay, Max doing 39.3, losses turn 5, 6 and turn 19.
Max VERSTAPPEN: The drivability is still not there. Lost the rear completely.
Engineer: Could have been the gust of wind Max.
Lewis HAMILTON: Max is gonna quit as he's not.
Engineer: We think you were pushed off that first. He just ran
George RUSSELL: me off the road!
Engineer: Sir, George, we are under investigation for that overtake with Piastri. We think you were good, Doctor.
George RUSSELL: Hey, don't run me off the road!
Engineer: I
George RUSSELL: had
Engineer: a
George RUSSELL: much cleaner exit than he did.
Engineer: Yeah, copy that.
Engineer: And 0.8 behind, 0.8 behind with DRS, also Checo behind Lando with DRS.
Engineer: Think about if 23, but it's your choice. We're past the peak on overheating so if you can watch the traction it will get better and better
Engineer: All items have now stabilized and battery is full.
Engineer: Okay, so cap 2, Russell ahead, stable at 2 seconds, might be opportunities. Copy, 2-1-1-2-1, 2-1-1-2-1, copy.
Engineer: Great job mate, ten to go.
Engineer: Okay, let us know if you want a more aggressive push toggle, otherwise focus on turn 11. That's the secret of overtaking.
Alexander ALBON: If I was quicker I would.
Engineer: I'm digging, massively. Yep, copy that.
Engineer: And then a reminder to drink. How are the tyres? To us they look hot but stable.
Lando NORRIS: Yep, I went near here, after a bit of frown.
Engineer: No further action for Albon, so we'll have to overtake him on track.
Engineer: So, Oscar, Russell has a five second penalty and Albon is being investigated for overtaking off track. Plenty to play for. Let's keep watching those tyres get temperatures under control.
Engineer: Safety car window is open. Safety car window is open.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: OK mate, happy to reduce status Sector 1 if there's any more in the... I don't have!
Esteban OCON: OK, OK.
Engineer: And Lando suggests red A4. Red A4, at this point in the race you're the fastest car on track. Leclerc ahead did a 40.3 last time.
Engineer: So Sainz has picked up the pace a little bit, last lap 41.3, but let's still go after him and see what we can do.
Engineer: There's a car behind Fernando, how's the RS? Yeah, just so he can go. My
Lance STROLL: tyres are done.
Engineer: I
Lance STROLL: let him pass.
Engineer: Keep pushing mate, head down.
Engineer: 5 laps to go, 5 laps to go, 41 is the reference lap time, try to close on Hulkenberg.
Pierre GASLY: It's real, but I don't think it's real, I don't think it's real
Engineer: Copy
Engineer: Can I just keep your head down do what you can to control Deg is high for everybody keep focus
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, I don't know more times.
Engineer: Copy that.
Engineer: The car does not turn in turn 11.
Logan SARGEANT: It's ridiculous.
Engineer: Okay, final lap max, Strat 7 for this PU assessment for tomorrow. Strat 7, please.
Engineer: So, last lap, last lap. 3.2, 3.2. All you got is that, mate.
Engineer: Well done Max, I had a good day at the beginning of that race, nice job.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Simply lovely that.
Engineer: Yeah that was a very very strong Saturday Max, well done mate.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah this is good.
Engineer: Hopefully a bit more fun tomorrow mate.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Oh and well done Manning, great job there.
Lewis HAMILTON: Good job lads, let's keep pushing
Engineer: Okay, a bit of a difficult start of the stint, but I think we learned quite a lot towards the end, so good food for tomorrow.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, understood. Yeah, I was learning as it went on. Yeah, quite interesting, so we'll be back. Yep, lots of stuff for tomorrow.
Oscar PIASTRI: Yep.
Engineer: That was p10 in the end I'm afraid looks like the tires got away from us a bit with the battling at the start We also picked up a bit of damage. So we'll regroup on that and go again tomorrow
Engineer: Well now, Ceco, that was a decent recovery and a good move, a good couple of moves actually, so reasonable pace for tomorrow.
Sergio PEREZ: We need to improve the degradation for tomorrow.
Engineer: Like that that was yeah, yeah just had no
Oscar PIASTRI: grip at all
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, good pace, good race, just stuck behind Carlos for too long, so it cost me, but good job.
Engineer: And P3
Charles LECLERC: Copy I'll explain you later why it didn't make sense on our side to be slower in F-16
Engineer: Understood
Engineer: Let's go, ciao John. P14, it was a good race.
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, we keep doing the same tomorrow.
Engineer: 100 percent.
Yuki TSUNODA: Could you report to the steward that houses keep overtaking from the off track?
Engineer: That
Yuki TSUNODA: should be illegal.
Engineer: Yes, already done, we are on it.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Ok, actually the pace felt decent, compared to the competition, so tomorrow is going to be good.
Engineer: And P6?
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, the top one. Hopefully it's within the loose.
Engineer: Too
Carlos SAINZ: much standing going on lately.
ZHOU Guanyu: Anyway, the pace was not great. I didn't really have the grip.
ZHOU Guanyu: Slapped it, I got a penalty.
Engineer: Got a penalty for turn one with Magnussen.
Engineer: OK, so that's P8 in the end with that penalty.
George RUSSELL: Yeah, got me there. Good race, he was quick in all the right areas, just couldn't get past.
Engineer: Yeah, some good learning for tomorrow there though. An encouraging pace.
Engineer: The gap was 5.3 at the line. Sorry, mate. We nearly had him. It's a strong race, Alex. It bodes well for tomorrow. Well done. Yeah, a bit frustrating, but well done. I will debrief it about the tyres, but yeah.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, that's two points, so I'll take that.
Engineer: Yeah, absolutely, a few things to review for tomorrow. Yeah,
Pierre GASLY: quite a lot of struggle with the locking and braking, and quite a lot of deck towards the end, so check that, yeah.
Engineer: Yeah, copy, we'll review.
Engineer: I've been all good learning for tomorrow. Let's build on that
Engineer: Thanks, Kev. We clearly haven't found the golden ticket. Anyway, good effort early on and trying to stay where you were. Talk later.
Engineer: Okay checkered flag Nico mode slow Nico can you press in button? We need it for some mode. We need more in button, please
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