Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2025: Qualifying team radio
20 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2025, across 10 drivers. 19 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Kimi ANTONELLI 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
- Kimi ANTONELLI · Mercedes · 6 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Williams · 3 messages
- Oliver BEARMAN · Haas · 2 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 1 message
- Esteban OCON · Haas · 1 message
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 1 message
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 1 message
- Gabriel BORTOLETO · Kick Sauber · 1 message
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Alexander ALBON: I'm out. Sorry.
Esteban OCON: That's like a branch on my rear, right corner, up
Engineer: here.
Engineer: So we'll abandon this lap, because that was a double yellow.
Kimi ANTONELLI: I didn't see it.
Engineer: Yeah, we're in the middle of it.
Kimi ANTONELLI: Yeah, but what happened in the last corner?
Engineer: Yeah, we're just looking into that
Kimi ANTONELLI: Because no grip, it's just Nothing.
Engineer: Yeah, that was a tailwind gust, tailwind gust there
Engineer: You know Kimmy, you have tons of time. Just needs six and a half minutes, just one clean lap.
Engineer: Just looking back, there was a big tailwind gust just before that lock-up, probably didn't help.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, sorry about that. It's been pretty messy.
Oliver BEARMAN: Is car okay? I don't think so. No, it's broken
Oliver BEARMAN: Sorry guys
Charles LECLERC: The sun is really annoying. It's really very much in our vision.
Gabriel BORTOLETO: I'm sorry, guys. Couldn't put in this time.
Engineer: No worries, mate.
Lance STROLL: oh my god man what the was that just
Engineer: a crazy tailwind just a huge unbelievable yeah it's brutal
Max VERSTAPPEN: It's definitely December, you know, Christmas is great, it's raining.
Engineer: Track is so slippery. The white lines are ice. Copy.
Carlos SAINZ: Well, you can start dancing to see if it runs a bit harder now.
Engineer: Red flag red flag
Kimi ANTONELLI: Man, I was too late. I couldn't come in.
Engineer: Yeah, no worries. That's fine. There's no problem
Engineer: Red flag, Max.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Oh, I can't make pit entry. Yeah, that's okay.
Carlos SAINZ: Marcel overtook me on the pit lane, I don't know if that's allowed. Okay, copy that, report.
Engineer: Nice job, Axe. Nice job. Pole position. Good effort.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yes! Yes, guys! Unbelievable. Very, very lovely, Dan. Such a difficult pole fight for the Reds, Max.
Engineer: Woo! Well done.
Engineer: You did really good, really good, Peter. Amazing job, amazing job. Difficult session. Thank you, guys. Ramos, Carlos, well done. It's a brilliant, brilliant qualifying session. Wow, that was tough. Well done. Thank you, guys. Amazing. Thank you.
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