Hungarian Grand Prix 2025: Race team radio
38 radio messages were recorded during race at the Hungarian Grand Prix 2025, across 10 drivers. 37 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Lando NORRIS had the most, with 12.
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 · 12 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 11 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 3 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 1 message
- Isack HADJAR · Racing Bulls · 1 message
- Nico HULKENBERG · Kick Sauber · 1 message
- Lewis HAMILTON · Ferrari · 1 message
- Oliver BEARMAN · Haas · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Let's get through these ASAP.
Isack HADJAR: Made my hand his I took all the gravel copy the gravel man
Engineer: Oscar, some competitors are talking about a one-stop. Do you think a one-stop may be possible?
Oscar PIASTRI: I mean, are tyres still okay for now? Man, it's difficult to know with this many laps to go.
Engineer: Yeah, understood.
Charles LECLERC: What's going on with these cups?
Engineer: We need to get past Russell.
Engineer: Okay, Nico, we have a five-second time penalty. We're moving before the start signal. Five-second time penalty.
Nico HULKENBERG: Really? I'm not aware of that. I didn't feel anything from my side.
Engineer: And Lando, we still think the wide line in turn two is better.
Lando NORRIS: My problem is not turn two, it's the last three corners.
Engineer: And Lando, we're thinking plan A-5, plan A-5.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, confirmed. My tires are gone.
Engineer: Box to overtake the flag. Box to overtake the flag.
Engineer: And Leclerc may struggle on the outlap with warm-up.
Engineer: So this is either plan A look to extend or plan D. Just keep talking to us about the tyres.
Max VERSTAPPEN: No guys, it's really terrible this idea. It is
Engineer: Do
Oscar PIASTRI: you think a one-stop will work?
Engineer: Difficult, Oscar.
Lewis HAMILTON: Bit of a sit-jack behind these guys.
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, I can feel what we discussed before the race. We need to discuss those things before doing those.
Engineer: So Lando, we're considering the one stop. It would be 40 laps on a hard tyre. Keen for it?
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, why not?
Charles LECLERC: We are going to lose this race with this thing. We are losing so much time
Engineer: Okay, Lando, we're going to try it. It says eke out a couple of laps. When the lap time drops, we're coming in. If Lurk catches us, we're coming in. He's 5.6 behind. At this pace, Leclerc catches us in three laps.
Engineer: How's the tyre, Oscar? Do you think you could get to the end on another hard from here?
Oscar PIASTRI: If I could again, yes.
Engineer: These are still really good lap times George, just keep banging them in.
George RUSSELL: Let me drive.
Engineer: Rando, just keep the focus. Don't want those mistakes.
Engineer: Because Lando's done six laps of hard, would you prioritise undercutting Leclerc or tyre delta to Lando? Do
Oscar PIASTRI: you still think beating Lando is realistic than doing that?
Engineer: Spurs box to overtake this lap. Box to overtake the clock.
Engineer: Okay, you get some clear air. There's six seconds clear air to Gasly. Let's use the pace and this gives you what you want with Lando.
Engineer: Okay, Max. So, Bortoletto and Lawson have now pitted. We are considering leaving you out here.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Okay, well, it's not going to be easy.
Engineer: No, I know. We're monitoring it. It might be our best opportunity, but like I say, we are monitoring it.
Engineer: So, Oscar, Leclerc is going to be four or five seconds ahead of our pit window. We suggest we box this lap, to push and box this lap. I
Oscar PIASTRI: don't really care about Leclerc. I just want the best chance to try and beat Leclerc, so that's
Engineer: an
Oscar PIASTRI: important thing at the moment.
Lando NORRIS: Let's do everything we can for blue flags, please be a bit more proactive in it
Oliver BEARMAN: Guys, this car is broken, I gotta go grab a tool Hey Oli here, you have significant rear damage. You have 1% more air balance than planned Great
Engineer: There's gonna be a lot of traffic to go through. We're gonna have to look after the front left
Charles LECLERC: This is so incredibly frustrating we've lost all competitiveness. You just have to listen to me I will have found a different way of managing those issues Now it's just undriveable
Engineer: It's a
Charles LECLERC: miracle if we finish on the podium
Engineer: if there's a safety car we would take it for a hard tire you'd only lose out to oscar
George RUSSELL: That was moving in the braking, I committed and he moved while braking. Almost lost his back then. It's clearly not allowed.
Engineer: Keep cool mate, you'll get him.
George RUSSELL: Flash. Flash the penalty.
Engineer: F***ing
George RUSSELL: time, they don't
Engineer: mean
George RUSSELL: you can play again.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, I just yeah traffic's gonna read my wrist
Engineer: And remember how we go racing. Same reminder, Oscar.
Engineer: Yes, yes, yes. Mega job, mate. Mega job.
Lando NORRIS: Lovely. Good racing. Good strategy. Good call. Well thought. Thank you, guys.
Engineer: Well done, mate. Well done. It was close, Oscar. Really close. Great racing. Good job. Good stuff. Great racing. We're going to shut down. Still leading both championships. So, well done. Good first half of the season.
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