Chinese Grand Prix 2025: Race team radio
44 radio messages were recorded during race at the Chinese Grand Prix 2025, across 12 drivers. 43 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Lando NORRIS had the most, with 16.
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
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 16 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 8 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Ferrari · 5 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 3 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Oliver BEARMAN · Haas · 2 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 1 message
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 1 message
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 1 message
- Isack HADJAR · Racing Bulls · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, Charles has a broken front wing.
Engineer: We have 20 to 30 points loss on the front if we can survive we stay we wait the first stop
Pierre GASLY: Brakes on fire, Falonzo.
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, I
Engineer: got
Fernando ALONSO: no break, no breaks, no breaks.
Lewis HAMILTON: I've been here for a son
Yuki TSUNODA: I want to use my front.
Engineer: We don't want to.
Yuki TSUNODA: Well, I want to.
Engineer: Okay, do what you need to do.
Lando NORRIS: Starting to struggle a little left front.
Alexander ALBON: We're happy with tyres for now, but we are on the cricketer. Yeah, I'm good. I am good. I am better than everyone. Let's relax. I am very comfortable.
Charles LECLERC: If it stays like this, I won't plan A.
Engineer: So it would be too much traffic so we stick to plan B plan B
Engineer: Oscar, do you think we can make a Plan C target lap?
Oscar PIASTRI: At the moment, I think it might be possible.
Engineer: These laps are good.
Charles LECLERC: Are we losing a bit of time now?
George RUSSELL: I think it's going to go one stop, keep it sending, from left, clearing up.
Engineer: We are swapping cars, turn 14.
Lewis HAMILTON: When he's closer, yes.
Engineer: If
Lewis HAMILTON: you can't get the cars ahead, you can let us. Alright, it's back. Alright, now I'm closing up a little bit.
Engineer: I understood.
Engineer: We want to swap this now this lap now.
Lewis HAMILTON: I'll tell you when we can swap
Engineer: Well done. I'm sorry about that. Keep pushing.
Lewis HAMILTON: Give me some feedback guys. Come on. I need feedback of where I'm losing. Just give me
Engineer: X8-13, 1-3 to improve
Lewis HAMILTON: Yeah, you told me that already
Engineer: The rest seems good. Keep monitoring
Charles LECLERC: Mercedes is a truckster out of the 12. Unbelievable. The trucks that they have there, you don't believe them.
Oliver BEARMAN: We're on it, let's take some action.
Engineer: Yeah, we're on it Oli.
Engineer: Okay, Lando, we'd like to use some of that pace then, please.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, but I don't want to just push into the DTO of Oscar again.
Engineer: And Lando, we've asked for the car ahead to help you.
Oliver BEARMAN: Ciao. Thanks, Manali.
Engineer: Go for plan C, plan C.
Lando NORRIS: Can you tell him to just speed up a little bit? Because I'm in the dirty here.
Engineer: So far the hard looks like it's robust George behind has been told he's going to the end
Engineer: Weather update. Small risk of rain. Last three laps up to class one.
Engineer: It's a good pace now, Max, and I bet it's later than ever. 20 laps remaining. Come on.
Engineer: Lano, from what we can see, our front left is a little bit worse than Oscar and Russell.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, like I see the first little bits of groaning, but it feels OK for now still.
Engineer: OK, let's just be patient still, all right?
Engineer: How's the tyre Oscar? Can we do plan A?
Oscar PIASTRI: I think we can go to the end.
Engineer: Just keep it up Max, obviously everybody's trying to hang it out now, don't know what can happen at the end
Engineer: We're losing some time in turn two maybe try one lap without using the curb
Engineer: Weather update. Possible class a half on the last lap only.
Yuki TSUNODA: Wait, Flanwick Dummies from what?
Lando NORRIS: My brake pedal's going a bit long. Yeah, the brake pedal's gone a lot longer. So
Engineer: it's been going long the whole time. We see it has stepped, yes.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, now it's a lot longer. Like I would say, it's slightly gone.
Engineer: No, I know. I know. I know, mate.
Engineer: So I know this is boring, so it's not the brake power that's changing, it's just the pedal that's going longer.
Engineer: So now the brake pedal will continue to get long.
Lando NORRIS: How big's the issue?
Engineer: It'll get like half a mil longer per lap.
Engineer: Okay, it's potentially getting to the floor. So it's getting work basically the front circuit will maintain pressure the rear will lose But you'll still get brake power. So you just have to be really cautious on the brakes. No risk
Isack HADJAR: My moves moving so late man copy
Engineer: is in the investigation
Engineer: So Lando, we see you're quick. This is one of those things we discussed at Conveys over the year. I'd rather finish second than not at all. No hard braking.
Engineer: Main loss 8-9. That's where all the gain is. Four-tenths there.
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, I know. I know. You told me about 10 or 15 times. I know.
Engineer: I know the brake situation has been getting critical.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, I think the pedals are going flat.
Engineer: Well done, Oscar. Great drive. Really good. Great job, mate. And it's a one-two for the team.
Oscar PIASTRI: Yeah, mega job, guys. Mega, mega job. Thank you very much. Car was very lovely. And yeah, good work on reacting with the deck. So great team effort. And that is one satisfying weekend. Thank you, everybody. Thank you.
Lando NORRIS: Well done mate, well done.
Engineer: Sorry about that, the brake pedal.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, well done boys. Beautiful one too.
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