British Grand Prix 2025: Qualifying team radio
16 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the British Grand Prix 2025, across 9 drivers. Oscar PIASTRI 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
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 3 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 2 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Franco COLAPINTO · Alpine · 1 message
- Liam LAWSON · Racing Bulls · 1 message
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Pierre GASLY: Subdivision
Engineer: Just stay calm, just tell me what you're thinking. So we will box, box, end of this lap and we'll go for two laps of fuel. On which set of tyres? This set of tyres.
Franco COLAPINTO: Yeah, sorry, I lost the rear, lost
Engineer: the lever.
Franco COLAPINTO: Or I touched a bump or something, it just went in the rear.
Oscar PIASTRI: Some drops in the bit-line. Seems like it might be worse than before.
Engineer: Copy.
Lewis HAMILTON: Track is definitely not the same, not slippery.
Engineer: Understood.
Lewis HAMILTON: Can I go get on
Engineer: Negative
Lewis HAMILTON: need to box. It's still it's still time. Why would I know if you
Liam LAWSON: Yeah, I have no grip. I have no idea what happened
Engineer: Are we through? We are through in P15, only just, but we are through. Well done.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, we
Engineer: drove close. Yeah, well done.
Max VERSTAPPEN: What the f*** did Tiara do to me?
Engineer: It's way too slow, I'm having to back up. I can see that.
Fernando ALONSO: What's Antonelli doing? Yeah, Antonelli cruising. I mean, it's good. He will get a penalty, good position for us.
Engineer: It looked like some cars were bending the rules a little, leaving garages there.
Alexander ALBON: Totally different car, my bad guys, but we made it difficult for ourselves.
Oscar PIASTRI: That was pretty marginal by a Mercedes.
Engineer: Copy.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Because it's so difficult.
Engineer: You went motor racing Max, that's pole position. Great job.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yes! What a lap, what
Engineer: a lap. 24.8 mate, pole position, British Grand Prix, well done.
Max VERSTAPPEN: That is simply lovely.
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