Belgian Grand Prix 2025: Qualifying team radio
13 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the Belgian Grand Prix 2025, across 11 drivers. Fernando ALONSO 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
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Lewis HAMILTON · Ferrari · 1 message
- Gabriel BORTOLETO · Kick Sauber · 1 message
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 1 message
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 1 message
- Nico HULKENBERG · Kick Sauber · 1 message
- Oliver BEARMAN · Haas · 1 message
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 1 message
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Fernando ALONSO: I need a crash Yeah, copy, saw that
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, I had to break as hard as I could, and I nearly got it.
Lance STROLL: Well, Sabbath drove it to me
Engineer: Is
Lewis HAMILTON: everything okay?
Engineer: Yeah, track limits are turned off.
Lewis HAMILTON: Am I out?
Engineer: Yeah, lap time is deleted. I'll be 16.
Engineer: I mean, don't lose his lap time.
Gabriel BORTOLETO: Oh, f*** yes.
Charles LECLERC: Honestly, I don't think there's much more than this stuff. It was a really good look. Yeah, I looked really good.
Oscar PIASTRI: Oh, man. Yeah. Some people need bigger mirrors. A lot of people need bigger mirrors, apparently.
Nico HULKENBERG: What the hell?
Oliver BEARMAN: The f***ing out loud that the guy ahead of me. I get stunned by some other in the last corner because of that. Oh my god. I lost three tenths though.
Engineer: Here, copy all the uh, we'll review it after the session.
Oliver BEARMAN: Every time. We were easily in. Easily. The f***.
Max VERSTAPPEN: That's really weird, just didn't have this in grip.
Engineer: Yeah, understood. It looked like a tricky lap, that.
George RUSSELL: Did everyone go slow at that run? It
Engineer: looks like it's much slower, some had used tyres, George, but it looks like others complained too, like Verstappen said there was no grip.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Oh my god, that's really really bad, it's a little bit to start the lap.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, good job. Thank you guys
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