Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2025: Practice 2 team radio
11 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2025, across 9 drivers. 10 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Lando NORRIS 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
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 2 messages
- Oliver BEARMAN · Haas · 2 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 1 message
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 1 message
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 1 message
- Carlos SAINZ · Williams · 1 message
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 1 message
- Kimi ANTONELLI · Mercedes · 1 message
- Gabriel BORTOLETO · Kick Sauber · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Charles LECLERC: The left air vent of my helmet is pointing upwards, so it's going in my eye. If we can review that next time I'm in the box, please. Understood.
Engineer: You've got Norris not opening a lap behind you, but maybe he is coming through
Lando NORRIS: What's this guy doing? Almost crashed.
George RUSSELL: The car is simply feeling much more together, probably the majority from the wind shift.
Carlos SAINZ: I had a weird snap turn too, yeah, weird Ok, we're checking
Oliver BEARMAN: I'm safe at least from the salvo.
Alexander ALBON: There's something wrong with the engine. Are we acknowledging that or are we thinking there's something wrong?
Engineer: We made some changes in the background.
Engineer: I
Oliver BEARMAN: mean, the car is insane. I don't know how it's so good.
Kimi ANTONELLI: Oh my god, what the heck is he doing, this idiot?
Gabriel BORTOLETO: Who is this guy?
Engineer: Leclerc. The big Leclerc.
Gabriel BORTOLETO: Ah, I see.
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