Chinese Grand Prix 2025: Sprint Qualifying team radio
11 radio messages were recorded during sprint qualifying at the Chinese Grand Prix 2025, across 10 drivers. 9 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Lewis HAMILTON 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
- Lewis HAMILTON · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Yuki TSUNODA · Red Bull · 1 message
- Liam LAWSON · Racing Bulls · 1 message
- Nico HULKENBERG · Kick Sauber · 1 message
- Esteban OCON · Haas · 1 message
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 1 message
- Carlos SAINZ · Williams · 1 message
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 1 message
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Yuki TSUNODA: Russell was on the way, turn 14.
Engineer: Understood.
Liam LAWSON: I'm really sorry, but I just, honestly, I could not get the tires down.
Engineer: So that's P-19. Where are we? P-19. What? Oh my god.
Esteban OCON: Is everything okay with the camp? Because it's very difficult to drive at the moment.
Engineer: We will look at it when you're back.
George RUSSELL: It's
Engineer: just
George RUSSELL: how I'm working guys, bi-pack so there's no grip
Carlos SAINZ: I don't know what's going on with the balance all over the place. Yeah, the seat is coming off of
Engineer: its attachment on a bump.
Engineer: And can we swap the cars, please?
Charles LECLERC: Swap the cars now?
Engineer: Yes, please.
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, I'll do it, but we've never done that. And have a bit of d*** for us, sir.
Lewis HAMILTON: Where are we? That's San Diego. Really? Yeah. Good job, San Diego. Mega job!
Engineer: Ah, hard low max, two hundredths to P1, that's P2 Ah, good
Max VERSTAPPEN: luck though
Engineer: Mega, mega lap, well done mate Yep,
Max VERSTAPPEN: nice
Engineer: 18 one thousandths off Hamilton
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, I think we can be happy with that guys
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