United States Grand Prix 2023: Sprint Shootout team radio
31 radio messages were recorded during sprint shootout at the United States Grand Prix 2023, across 16 drivers. 29 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Lance STROLL 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
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 5 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 4 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 3 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · AlphaTauri · 2 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 2 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 2 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 1 message
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 1 message
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 1 message
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 1 message
- ZHOU Guanyu · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 1 message
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 1 message
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 1 message
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Can you
Lewis HAMILTON: hear me?
Engineer: I can hear you, yep, that was 9-4 Didn't
Lewis HAMILTON: hear anyone, didn't hear anything you said
Engineer: OK, so Hupkenberg is 6 seconds behind, so we've got 5, 6 cars now leaving the pits
Engineer: The wind is similar to what we discussed before, so it's around crosswind of the back straight and the intensity is varying quite a bit.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yep, understood.
Engineer: So Lance, ideally for us you take more gap early and push a bit more in the faster corners, end of the lap, your delta's good.
Engineer: Let's just get that delta time negative when you can.
Nico HULKENBERG: Yeah, I have to let by a car, relax. It's gonna catch up.
George RUSSELL: Job, I can hear you in my lap. Don't know what's going on, but I can hear all
Engineer: the
George RUSSELL: engineers. Drop
Engineer: the
George RUSSELL: box.
Engineer: Focus on bringing the rear tyres down, bringing the rear tyres down, try not to lose too much front tyre temp.
Engineer: Okay, we need to get, we need to get that Delta Yeah, he's right in front of me man I know man, I know I can't call Yeah, you need to do it between the safety car lines, you need to do it between the safety car lines Drop some time now, but you need to do it between the safety car lines, okay?
Yuki TSUNODA: What the? Come on, man.
Engineer: What?
Charles LECLERC: And Penalty for Mr. Russell, thank you.
Engineer: I
Lewis HAMILTON: have to check my front wing, another driver's blocked me and we touched.
Engineer: OK, we'll check that.
Logan SARGEANT: Had a new rear group on the second lap
Engineer: What
Logan SARGEANT: did I miss?
Engineer: My cutoff was 36.7 That's four and a half tenths
Logan SARGEANT: Where did Alec find all the time?
Engineer: So turn one you were quicker than him 3 tenths turn 5, 2 turn 9 10th and a half turn 11 10th turn 12 10th and a half turn 15 and a tenth turn 19
Engineer: And we have wind phase 8. Wind phase 8. Slightly stronger intensity than previous run.
Charles LECLERC: Brian, do you agree with that toggle?
Engineer: We'll come back to you. Reminder numbers on the dash. And gap to Pérez, 10.
Engineer: From our side we need to use the tools to focus on the rear locking and the rear tyres, so think about the brake balance for 11, white button if you need and the diff mid.
Engineer: Now
Lance STROLL: the tires are done let's
Engineer: do our best let's bring them down let's cool the tires and think about your switches
Engineer: OK Lando, how was the lap?
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, I'm... I mean I'm happy. I don't think I'm going to improve on that.
Engineer: OK, understood. For the moment, just assume it's double cool please.
Charles LECLERC: It's still not clear to me what am I supposed to do when I'm close to the Delta, but I have traffic of people slowing down. Can I slow down or what? I can't.
Engineer: You need to respect the Delta.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Sorry for another P-11.
ZHOU Guanyu: They're f***ing asking Martin f***ing me now, what the f***? Man, they're asking Martin! Who was this? Forget it, Joe. Need to turn 4-15, is he having a laugh? Who was that? Joe! Yeah, confirm. And we finish P-15, Joe. I don't know how much you do it right now, but I know you're gonna have time to pick up the game. Copy, Joe. We'll review later.
Engineer: let's let's try to open double the gap you did last time at the sc2 line if you can double the gap
Engineer: As a reminder, soft tyres can probably get a slightly cooler temperature.
Engineer: Ok Lando, delta and a reminder, plus 1A from turn 12 to turn 16. That's plus 1A turn 12 to turn 16
Engineer: And that's P1 as well, fuel in hand as well, nice job.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, not bad considering the issues, but all good.
Engineer: Yeah, well done Max, that's half a tenth ahead of Charles.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Lewis HAMILTON: Good job lads. This is an improvement. We're slowly getting there.
Oscar PIASTRI: Yep. Yeah, thank you. The lap was, well, considerably better than yesterday, but yeah, looked pretty tight. So thank you.
Charles LECLERC: To the earthy, this lump. How far are we behind the Staten, I think?
Engineer: Six hundredths. I
Charles LECLERC: mean, it was a good lump anyway.
Engineer: Okay, yeah, it was always difficult, P10 at the moment I keep focusing on your Delta and we are boxing this lap, all clear from traffic so I'll see you in the pit lane, go to park for me please Yep,
Pierre GASLY: always knew it was going to be difficult with the use set, so get some guys this afternoon and get some points this afternoon
Engineer: Copy that, not forget to switch off the car, so P1 and then wait 5 seconds on P0 please
Engineer: That was a very tidy lap Lewis, just got George to finish, but that's P3 mate, so that's pretty good results, 7 hundredths to Verstappen P1.
Engineer: Yeah, P-7.
Sergio PEREZ: Yep. Copy.
Engineer: Okay Alex, everyone's finished laps now, so we're at P9 ahead of Gasly. Okay, well done everyone. Pretty much perfect, so mega job mate. Well done Alex, very impressive last lap.
Alexander ALBON: Yeah, thank you. We just had everything together today, so that was good, well done. We executed that very well.
Engineer: Eat the pumpkin spice latte, I suspect.
Alexander ALBON: I'll get you one tomorrow.
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