Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2025: Practice 1 team radio
14 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2025, across 11 drivers. 12 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Charles LECLERC had the most, with 2.
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 · 2 messages
- Oliver BEARMAN · Haas · 2 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Luke BROWNING · Williams · 1 message
- Carlos SAINZ · Williams · 1 message
- Arvid LINDBLAD · Red Bull · 1 message
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 1 message
- Ryo HIRAKAWA · Haas · 1 message
- Cian SHIELDS · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Jak CRAWFORD · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Arthur LECLERC · Ferrari · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Padgett with you now I didn't hear that We've got a poor radio static here Sorry the radio is not good, I couldn't hear you
Carlos SAINZ: Yes, Sector 2, I cannot push the braking.
Engineer: Why, question?
Carlos SAINZ: You know why.
Engineer: Okay.
Oliver BEARMAN: Oh, I lost power.
Engineer: Okay, stand by. We have a leak. Hydraulic leak.
Arvid LINDBLAD: The grip just feels really bad. For the first part of the lap, I felt like I was bleeding massive lap time, because I'm on ice.
Engineer: So Owasa at three seconds. I think that is O-Ward, not O-Wasa. Sorry, O-Ward, yeah. Easy mistake.
Engineer: Bouncing 26-7, it's
Ryo HIRAKAWA: better than oi.
Engineer: OK.
Engineer: That
Cian SHIELDS: was close.
Jak CRAWFORD: Mains.
Engineer: Copy that, Jack. Wasn't very good. Sorry about that.
Engineer: Okay, you've got Leclerc Jr. at three seconds.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I find it quite funny you call him Jr.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I don't
Engineer: have
Max VERSTAPPEN: something broken on the car.
Engineer: Where are the main areas of issue?
Max VERSTAPPEN: Well, it's everywhere now.
Engineer: I
Arthur LECLERC: think Charles is doing some burn-out for the fans.
Engineer: Yeah, he's panning for a fight.
Charles LECLERC: We are so slow, huh?
Engineer: Yes, 29.7 are the others and we are on 30.0
Charles LECLERC: The car feels just like it has zero grip It's unbelievable I really don't get it
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