Bahrain Grand Prix 2025: Qualifying team radio
12 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the Bahrain Grand Prix 2025, across 9 drivers. 11 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Max VERSTAPPEN had the most, with 2.
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
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Kick Sauber · 2 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 2 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Ferrari · 1 message
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 1 message
- Liam LAWSON · Racing Bulls · 1 message
- Esteban OCON · Haas · 1 message
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Something really wrong with the car.
Alexander ALBON: Sorry guys, but I don't really
Engineer: I think we had a problem with DRS there. No
Liam LAWSON: way mate.
Engineer: And we're checking what happened there. It opened, then it closed again.
Liam LAWSON: I opened it. I didn't close it.
Engineer: Yeah, copy. We need to understand what happened.
Liam LAWSON: Oh my god man.
Engineer: And we are P17. We think the liftoff has sent the system into passive and then it closed.
Engineer: Are you okay? Yeah, I'm okay. Sorry. I'm really sorry, guys. It's okay. You're okay, so that's good.
Fernando ALONSO: Good job today maximized. Thank you guys
Nico HULKENBERG: Yeah, we'll take that over 14. Yes, we will nice work
Engineer: We cannot go out yet. We don't have an official restart line yet.
Nico HULKENBERG: Yeah, that's what I thought. Actually, this is Fuji
Engineer: Yeah, we think they are wrong
Max VERSTAPPEN: My brakes are just terrible. I can't brake at home. So bad.
Engineer: That's P1, Oskar, P1.
Oscar PIASTRI: Yeah, baby. Nice work. Very nice work. Thanks, everyone.
Pierre GASLY: Oh, it was f***ing amazing.
Pierre GASLY: let's go boys amazing quality amazing quality very proud struggled a lot to start but managed to turn this around so really good i'm very pleased because it wasn't easy wasn't easy at all so very good job and
Engineer: very good job to you as well well done let's
Pierre GASLY: go get this point some more guys thank you that's not too bad for flavio's birthday did request me to press the right pedal so i think he'll be happy with that sure
Engineer: he'll be very happy
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