Belgian Grand Prix 2025: every team radio message
66 radio messages were recorded across 5 sessions at the Belgian Grand Prix 2025, involving 17 drivers. Oscar PIASTRI (McLaren) had the most across the weekend, with 12. The busiest single session was race, with 25.
These are transcripts of real team radio audio, produced by speech recognition and presented as an archive rather than as edited prose. Wording can be imperfect; each message is attributed to the driver or their engineer.
Sessions
- Practice 1 · 10 messages · 7 drivers
- Qualifying · 13 messages · 11 drivers
- Race · 25 messages · 9 drivers
Who was on the radio this weekend
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 12 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 9 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 8 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 6 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Ferrari · 5 messages
- Gabriel BORTOLETO · Kick Sauber · 4 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Williams · 3 messages
- Oliver BEARMAN · Haas · 3 messages
- Isack HADJAR · Racing Bulls · 2 messages
- Liam LAWSON · Racing Bulls · 2 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Kimi ANTONELLI · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Kick Sauber · 2 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 1 message
Shorter sessions
These sessions had only a handful of messages, so they are shown here in full rather than on pages of their own.
Sprint Qualifying · 9 messages
Liam LAWSON: Dude, what the hell was that? Yeah,
Engineer: that's very much an unsafe release. If you didn't slow down, you'll crash. We will report it.
George RUSSELL: I lost a lot
Engineer: of
George RUSSELL: time with that gravel.
Engineer: Yeah, sorry, no grip. Yeah, copy mate, we just need to check this car out to see what we've done to the floor.
Kimi ANTONELLI: Ah, sorry. Sorry.
Engineer: Don't sweat about it, mate.
Engineer: Not great, but I see. Yeah, sorry about that, man.
Gabriel BORTOLETO: That was a lap.
Engineer: And we are through. Well done. All right, catch your breath now.
Engineer: P1 confirmed, so I didn't like to tell you until it was all confirmed, but that's P1 and the margin is nearly half a second Very impressive.
Oscar PIASTRI: Let's go, baby Sorry for the heart attack That wasn't in the plan, but Yeah, that was mega Nicely done, very nicely done
Engineer: About half a second behind Piastri, and two tenths clear of Norris in P3. So that's P2? Yeah, that's it mate, P2. Nice job. Alright, well
Max VERSTAPPEN: at least we got one. Not bad. Well done guys.
Engineer: Oli, well done. That's P5 and P7. Good job.
Oliver BEARMAN: Oh, guys. F*** yeah. Well done, everyone. That was epic. Good job. I'm proud of you all.
Engineer: Good job, Oli.
Oliver BEARMAN: Well done, Oli. Good job. Really good. Nice job. Yeah, good job to everyone. That was really nice. Really, really nice.
Sprint · 9 messages
Engineer: We need to box the car please, box the car now, box the car.
Oliver BEARMAN: Since the Porsches are driven, the grip feels incredibly high.
Engineer: Oscar, how's the tyre doing?
Oscar PIASTRI: Yeah, it's okay.
Lewis HAMILTON: I've run out of rear already.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I can't brake, don't
Engineer: let
Max VERSTAPPEN: me brake Understood
Engineer: Oscar's battery's mid-level.
Engineer: Okay mate, nice job. Well managed.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Nice, very well done.
Engineer: That was really well managed, Max. Well done.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, well done there. Great job with the gaps and the battery. It's really nice. Well done, guys.
Engineer: Well done Oskar, P2, just not quite enough straight line speed I think to get the start.
Oscar PIASTRI: Yeah, just didn't have enough unfortunately, so well done.
Engineer: Well done, Max. Very, very impressive defense. Very, very well controlled. You didn't leave anything on the table there. Well done.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, thank you, Laurent. That was a good start. I enjoyed that.