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Team radio transcript

Bahrain Grand Prix 2025: Practice 2 team radio

10 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Bahrain Grand Prix 2025, across 8 drivers. Max VERSTAPPEN 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

Every message, in the order it happened

  1. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: The ride is very bad,

    Engineer: the

    Max VERSTAPPEN: guy is jumping a lot

  2. Fernando ALONSOAston Martin

    Fernando ALONSO: Change the steering wheel, there's a problem with the steering wheel, it's switching off. We've seen the same.

  3. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Lando NORRIS: I need to swap helmet, swap hands device, and I clean the headrest, please.

  4. George RUSSELLMercedes

    George RUSSELL: I'm getting a lot of helmet lift, do you reckon we could add a little spoiler to the front of my lid? Yep.

  5. Oliver BEARMANHaas

    Oliver BEARMAN: That last corner is making me very confused.

  6. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: The final corner the brakes again just don't work

  7. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: My brakes are really not decelerating well.

    Engineer: Okay, copy.

  8. Isack HADJARRacing Bulls

    Isack HADJAR: What is he doing

  9. Yuki TSUNODARed Bull

    Yuki TSUNODA: This front lookup is insane

  10. Oscar PIASTRIMcLaren

    Oscar PIASTRI: Look like Verstappen and Russell had a bit of fun there.

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