Japanese Grand Prix 2025: every team radio message
59 radio messages were recorded across 5 sessions at the Japanese Grand Prix 2025, involving 18 drivers. Max VERSTAPPEN (Red Bull) had the most across the weekend, with 12. The busiest single session was race, with 32.
These are transcripts of real team radio audio, produced by speech recognition and presented as an archive rather than as edited prose. Wording can be imperfect; each message is attributed to the driver or their engineer.
Sessions
- Qualifying · 11 messages · 7 drivers
- Race · 32 messages · 12 drivers
Who was on the radio this weekend
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 12 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 9 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 5 messages
- Isack HADJAR · Racing Bulls · 5 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Liam LAWSON · Racing Bulls · 3 messages
- Gabriel BORTOLETO · Kick Sauber · 3 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 3 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 3 messages
- Kimi ANTONELLI · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 2 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Ryo HIRAKAWA · Alpine · 1 message
- Carlos SAINZ · Williams · 1 message
- Jack DOOHAN · Alpine · 1 message
- Nico HULKENBERG · Kick Sauber · 1 message
- Oliver BEARMAN · Haas · 1 message
- Esteban OCON · Haas · 1 message
Shorter sessions
These sessions had only a handful of messages, so they are shown here in full rather than on pages of their own.
Practice 1 · 9 messages
Audio only, no transcript available.
Engineer: Any initial balance feeling? Looks a little bit nervous, low speed perhaps?
Ryo HIRAKAWA: Not bad.
Engineer: How is the balance that lap?
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, balance is okay. To be honest, I'm not really pushing it up yet, but I think it's okay.
Engineer: Box, box, not far behind, box, box. Remember, we are at the beginning of the pit lane. Oh, I
Carlos SAINZ: missed it, guys. I thought we were at the end, sorry.
Engineer: Okay, so straight out and we're boxing again.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, sorry for that.
Engineer: Delta to Russell is at, kind of, three-tenths.
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, I think let's focus ourselves. I don't need much reference time.
Engineer: Understood.
Charles LECLERC: How is the deceleration? Feels bad.
Engineer: No, deceleration is good. We see more tailwind into braking turn 11.
Audio only, no transcript available.
Kimi ANTONELLI: Yeah
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, also quite messy I think yeah, I Could give you feedback, but I found it kind of interesting But it's not oh, yeah, it's okay good sesh
Practice 2 · 2 messages
Audio only, no transcript available.
Engineer: Mate, are you all okay?
Jack DOOHAN: I'm okay, yeah. What happened?
Engineer: We're just looking at everything on our side here.
Practice 3 · 5 messages
Audio only, no transcript available.
Engineer: How was that flap?
Yuki TSUNODA: Bitter.
Engineer: Yeah.
Yuki TSUNODA: It's still on this day. A couple of flippies, especially 6-1. But overall, very happy.
Engineer: Opportunity,
Gabriel BORTOLETO: timeline, focus
Engineer: on exit.
Gabriel BORTOLETO: Yeah, I know, I almost went out.
Charles LECLERC: I don't know who the f*** that was, but anyway, so bad, just staying in the middle.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah picked up a bit of front, but same time I'm also losing the rear now
Engineer: Let's know if you'd like to compensate with diff
Max VERSTAPPEN: it's all over the shop because in some corners, it's not too bad and Yeah, then it becomes again on drywall
Engineer: Okay, that's useful