Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2025: Qualifying team radio
14 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2025, across 11 drivers. 12 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Yuki TSUNODA had the most, with 3.
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
- Yuki TSUNODA · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Liam LAWSON · Racing Bulls · 1 message
- Lewis HAMILTON · Ferrari · 1 message
- Kimi ANTONELLI · Mercedes · 1 message
- Isack HADJAR · Racing Bulls · 1 message
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 1 message
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 1 message
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 1 message
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Gabriel BORTOLETO · Kick Sauber · 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.
Liam LAWSON: I honestly doesn't even look at his mirrors.
Engineer: Yeah, there was a great
Engineer: That's a P-16, I'm afraid.
Lewis HAMILTON: And if you're telling me, I'm so sorry.
Kimi ANTONELLI: Man, I don't understand. I have no rear again.
Engineer: That was a good lap Isaac, congrats.
Isack HADJAR: That's all I have!
Engineer: And that was the right time to put it together, thank you. You are safe.
Isack HADJAR: Yes!
Engineer: Negative. Yes!
Engineer: Yeah, yeah Surprise
Charles LECLERC: my love. I don't know if you've seen it. I nearly bought it like five times.
Engineer: I
Charles LECLERC: Was doing rally
Engineer: Give him a really good tilt here. Really good tilt. Wait for him. Look at your meters.
George RUSSELL: Try and get me behind the stuff and on his in-lap he'll probably give me a toe.
Engineer: That's two pole position laps, Max. It's a good start.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Let's go, guys. Let's see. Yes. Lovely.
Engineer: That's P3. P3. That sets you up nicely for tomorrow.
Oscar PIASTRI: Yeah, nicely done. Wasn't much left at that one, so thanks. Car was pretty good.
Engineer: Unbelievable speed, Max. Just pure speed.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, fantastic work, guys. That's a great, great ball fight. So let's have some fun out there tomorrow.
Fernando ALONSO: Oh, it's
Engineer: a
Fernando ALONSO: happy day. Tomorrow even more. Yeah, it's a good day. You beat your mate Bortoletto by two thousandths, by the way, isn't it? One thousand too many.
Engineer: And if you haven't seen the screens, it's the best tapping on Paul, Norris, B2, PS3, B3, Russell, B4.
Gabriel BORTOLETO: Oh, that's going to be interesting tomorrow for them.
Engineer: It's going to be interesting.
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