Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2025: Race team radio
22 radio messages were recorded during race at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2025, across 6 drivers. 21 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Lando NORRIS had the most, with 6.
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 · 6 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 6 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 5 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Gabriel BORTOLETO · Kick Sauber · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
George RUSSELL: sometimes sunset sun's about bright it'll
Engineer: be just after 5 30.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: and london we're happy with this as long as you're comfortable this will be plan a target lap plan a target lap
Engineer: This is good for now, Max. We may wish to be going longer, so just keep on top.
Engineer: Let's see if we can start putting Verstappen under pressure.
Engineer: And keep building this gap on Leclerc. It gives us choices.
Engineer: Oscar, do you think we can do plan A? Thoughts on plan A?
Oscar PIASTRI: I think it's doable for now.
George RUSSELL: First not moving and then the braking, I don't know what it is, but it's really as I brake it moves.
Engineer: Okay, we expect Norris to be near DRS within one lap. Oh, he can when he catches.
Engineer: Okay, you've got some clear air. Let's see how this tyre recovers.
Engineer: Okay, we have been given a five second penalty for moving twice on our defense of Norris We've got penalty for moving twice in defense to Norris head down
Engineer: Basically we need our fastest stint to the end max. We don't want to give away too much race time to Piastri, who will undoubtedly be relatively quick on his medium.
Engineer: and Lando doing a great job compared to the clerk he might pit soon and go on a two in which case we'd cover in the next lap
Engineer: How's this tyre now? Yeah, rear's starting to get a bit worse now. Okay.
Engineer: I don't want to be giving up too much time. We want to see whether we can chase down Verstappen here.
Engineer: He's gonna need to be 1.5 seconds quicker than you every luck. I'll give you posted
Oscar PIASTRI: What's the picture in front? How do I win this race?
Engineer: Verstappen is on your pit stop window. He's doing 27.9.
Engineer: Is Schwarz catching it or not? Fairly equal pace, Max, between them. Last lap was a couple of tenths quicker, but nothing drastic.
Engineer: So, Lando, doing a fantastic job here, mate. Everything's looking good. There's five racing laps, including this one, we think. What are your thoughts on soft or staying out on this hard?
Lando NORRIS: I mean, I think a soft would be better. It's just, you know, the safety car gets delayed or something. It becomes an issue.
Lando NORRIS: Is he struggling with grading?
Engineer: For Oscar, it's more the rares.
Lando NORRIS: That's it, mate. You are world champion! World champion! What am I? I'm so proud. Lando, this is Zach from McLaren. Is this the world champion hotline? Yeah.
Engineer: You
Lando NORRIS: did it! You did it! Awesome!
Engineer: Thank
Lando NORRIS: you, guys. Oh, my God. You made a kid's dream come true. Thanks so much. I love you guys. Thanks for everything. You deserve it.
Engineer: I
Lando NORRIS: love you, Mom. I love you, Dad. Thanks for everything. I'm not crying.
Engineer: Max, you have given everything. You can be proud of that, mate. Hold your head up high. We showed that one final time in this class.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Congrats, guys. When we come back in the second half of this season, we can be really, really proud of that. So don't be too disappointed. I'm definitely not disappointed. I'm really proud of everyone. We never give up.
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