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Team radio transcript

Qatar Grand Prix 2025: Sprint Qualifying team radio

11 radio messages were recorded during sprint qualifying at the Qatar Grand Prix 2025, across 7 drivers. Max VERSTAPPEN had the most, with 4.

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

Every message, in the order it happened

  1. Lewis HAMILTONFerrari

    Lewis HAMILTON: Oh, man, the car wasn't going any quicker.

  2. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah,

    Engineer: we saw that with PS3. Norris opening a lap behind you.

  3. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Lando NORRIS: Yeah, first happened just didn't get out of my way. He just cost me my lap.

    Engineer: Every other lap he's just pulled over immediately after he completed his lap. That time he decided to stay out and screw you over.

    Lando NORRIS: Yeah, just obvious.

  4. Fernando ALONSOAston Martin

    Fernando ALONSO: You have three calls into 10-1, yeah, crazy.

  5. Isack HADJARRacing Bulls

    Engineer: Okay, P10, you're safe. That was harsh on the floor. Sorry, no, we're P11.

  6. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: I don't care man, it's just prancing like an idiot.

  7. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: You cannot give up track position, okay? I got it, I got it. Let me finish this. I started to understand a lot, but I'm busy.

  8. Oscar PIASTRIMcLaren

    Engineer: Nice job Oscar, that's P1.

    Oscar PIASTRI: Ah, yeah, that was uh... Yeah, turn 4 was a little bit lively. Yeah, you hung on to it though. Nice. Pass it on. Nice to be back. Thanks everybody.

  9. George RUSSELLMercedes

    George RUSSELL: Ah, you b****!

    Engineer: Ok, nice work mate. So, P2, only 32 milliseconds to Piastri. Good lap, good

    George RUSSELL: job. Yeah, that was a b**** challenge. The

    Engineer: meat in a McLaren sandwich.

    George RUSSELL: Good lap, I was happy with that, nevertheless.

  10. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: That's pretty throat.

    Lando NORRIS: Yeah,

    Engineer: no

    Lando NORRIS: good. Sorry for going out too late.

    Engineer: You let Albon through, mate.

    Lando NORRIS: Yeah, no, you're good. My bad.

    Engineer: My

    Lando NORRIS: fault.

  11. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Engineer: Okay, that's P6 Tough one Max We have some work to do as the weekend is long mate, so we keep working on it all together Yeah, it's certainly not good but we'll have to look

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