British Grand Prix 2025: Practice 1 team radio
17 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the British Grand Prix 2025, across 11 drivers. 16 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. 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
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Arvid LINDBLAD · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 2 messages
- Paul ARON · Kick Sauber · 2 messages
- Esteban OCON · Haas · 2 messages
- Liam LAWSON · Racing Bulls · 1 message
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 1 message
- Gabriel BORTOLETO · Kick Sauber · 1 message
- Carlos SAINZ · Williams · 1 message
- Isack HADJAR · Racing Bulls · 1 message
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Liam LAWSON: Yeah, guy needs to check his mirrors copy
Engineer: And we can stay engine 11-6 gear out of turn 8.
Engineer: Initial balance, please, Max.
Max VERSTAPPEN: In medium speed, the car has got a bit of front. Maybe we need to lock the diff a little bit.
Arvid LINDBLAD: Yeah, I have quite a lot of front locking and low speed.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: Okay mate, you alright?
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, absolutely. I lost it.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, I don't know, it just doesn't turn at the speed and at any high speed, it's either big snaps or a pile of understeer.
Engineer: Okay, copy that.
Paul ARON: Yeah, that was my bad. There was a big mess here with country. Yeah, don't worry. Yep, I was out of the way. Hamilton was in the way of my blood. Yeah, copy.
Gabriel BORTOLETO: Okay, are you okay? Are you okay? Yeah, it's all good. I'm on track
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Esteban OCON: So the brake pedal cracked in the last corner a little bit when I braked, I'm not sure why.
Engineer: Understood, we're checking that.
Engineer: Need a flap address question, but
Carlos SAINZ: it feels neutral. I thought uh, I'm not sure why I Need your feedback more than mine out here. I get something from pad
Engineer: Can see where this outlook yeah,
Isack HADJAR: he's gonna be like
George RUSSELL: His inside shoulders look far cleaner than ours on
Engineer: the rear.
Engineer: Unbelievable.
Arvid LINDBLAD: Yeah, just like to say thank you very much for the opportunity everyone it's been it's been amazing
Paul ARON: Paul, Jonathan, just want to say fantastic job this morning. Thank you very much. Completed the program and Very very professional job. So thank you. Thank you, Jonathan Thank you everyone for my first official Formula One session. It's been a blast Thanks very much, it's what everyone says but it is a dream come true and it was a blast
Pierre GASLY: I don't think I need to say much. No, no, no, it's all right.
Engineer: That's clear, you're not happy.
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