Bahrain Grand Prix 2025: Practice 1 team radio
17 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Bahrain Grand Prix 2025, across 11 drivers. 15 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Kimi ANTONELLI 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
- Kimi ANTONELLI · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 3 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Esteban OCON · Haas · 1 message
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 1 message
- Liam LAWSON · Racing Bulls · 1 message
- Felipe DRUGOVICH · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 1 message
- Frederik VESTI · Mercedes · 1 message
- Luke BROWNING · Williams · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Esteban OCON: The guy is pulling a lot in the straight line, like left to right.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: i got an issue copy copy so just let me call it so strap mode one strap mode one
Kimi ANTONELLI: Yeah, I got no power me
Lewis HAMILTON: It feels like the car's not working at all, but it's probably just a grip of the tyres.
Engineer: Try to maximise full throttle to fully charge it. Copy that.
Engineer: Oscar, how's the front wing?
Oscar PIASTRI: I think it's okay. It's maybe a little bit high, but I managed to zero grip.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: How's the balance?
Liam LAWSON: Shocking.
Engineer: Want to take one more push of this? Feels the reference, mate. Nope. Understood.
Yuki TSUNODA: Okay, but the throttle is not reacting well. It feels very lazy somehow.
Engineer: Yeah, we'll check it back in the box.
Engineer: Okay, straight back out. Ah, yeah. We're a bit further up the pit lane.
Engineer: Okay, straight down.
Alexander ALBON: Oh, sorry.
Felipe DRUGOVICH: Wow, that was close.
Engineer: Alex we need to go in lap P, I know we're two and a half up, we'll back it later We'll get it later, it's fine
Alexander ALBON: Yeah but when I don't know what the brakes are doing every lap, it's nice to do something
Engineer: I get the frustration
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Alexander ALBON: Something's wrong with the clutch. I've lost power.
Engineer: We're in a lit power mode at the minute.
Engineer: Fred it was an excellent job. Thank you.
Frederik VESTI: Thank you Toto. Thank you for the opportunity once again
Engineer: You did really good for that one hour, I know it was hectic, there was not a lot of fun for you or for me until the last one, but I'm sure you enjoyed the last one, so good job buddy, really, really good and good luck for your quality. Yeah, thanks very much Gaetan, really enjoyed that, yeah absolutely, even with the only soft push, but yeah, thank you. Well done Luke, good job. Yeah, thanks James.
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