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São Paulo Grand Prix 2025: every team radio message

56 radio messages were recorded across 5 sessions at the São Paulo Grand Prix 2025, involving 15 drivers. Max VERSTAPPEN (Red Bull) had the most across the weekend, with 13. The busiest single session was race, with 24.

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

Who was on the radio this weekend

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 · 7 messages

  1. Kimi ANTONELLIMercedes

    Engineer: And it'll be just under three minutes till green light.

  2. Alexander ALBONWilliams

    Alexander ALBON: Brakes are very, very grabby. Feels very strange.

    Engineer: Copy that.

  3. Kimi ANTONELLIMercedes

    Kimi ANTONELLI: God, man, what are these idiots doing, honestly?

  4. Isack HADJARRacing Bulls

    Isack HADJAR: Mate, is Test Street blind or what? What was that?

  5. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Lando NORRIS: Yeah, it's just blocking me. I'm on a push flap.

    Engineer: Yeah, we're on it

  6. Liam LAWSONRacing Bulls

    Liam LAWSON: Oh my god, what is he doing?

  7. Lewis HAMILTONFerrari

    Lewis HAMILTON: We're going to hit the floor.

Sprint Qualifying · 7 messages

  1. Yuki TSUNODARed Bull

    Engineer: Switch off or? No, keep running. Keep running. Okay, that's just over two minutes to go.

  2. Liam LAWSONRacing Bulls

    Liam LAWSON: Oh my god, mate. What the f*** has happened?

  3. Carlos SAINZWilliams

    Carlos SAINZ: This is the worst exegesis, the worst exegesis I've

    Engineer: seen in my life.

  4. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    Charles LECLERC: All right, let's

    Engineer: do

    Charles LECLERC: it.

  5. Lewis HAMILTONFerrari

    Engineer: P-11, Vox.

    Lewis HAMILTON: Yeah, every time mate.

  6. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: The car is completely broken. It's just un-driveable.

  7. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: Okay, well, you will start on pole.

Sprint · 9 messages

  1. Oscar PIASTRIMcLaren

    Oscar PIASTRI: The worst place is the grid and out of turn 12, like it's gonna be slicky, but the rest is slicks.

  2. Liam LAWSONRacing Bulls

    Liam LAWSON: Wait, this kid pushes me in the grass and then sends it. Well, I don't know where I'm meant to go.

  3. Kimi ANTONELLIMercedes

    Kimi ANTONELLI: Norwich hit the curb and a lot of water went online.

  4. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Engineer: The car is just bouncing everywhere, it's terrible, we can't keep up. Yeah, okay, we're just gonna try and get you through some recommendations for Turn 1, Turn 1 looks really poor. No, this is wet, I have no grip, there's not the balance. Yes, so we are giving you recommendations so that you avoid oversteering into the corner every lap max. Whether you take them or not is up to you.

  5. Oliver BEARMANHaas

    Oliver BEARMAN: It's typical Lawson.

  6. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: And I know in general, the wind is getting gustier, especially places like Turn 12.

  7. Pierre GASLYAlpine

    Pierre GASLY: Yeah, that's for all I

    Engineer: really see

    Pierre GASLY: good past Alonso.

    Engineer: I'll be sure to let him know.

  8. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Audio only, no transcript available.

  9. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: Cool, what happened?

    Lando NORRIS: Yeah, um, uh, software really good. Yeah, not quick enough really.

Qualifying · 9 messages

  1. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: Oh my god, they took the car down the right, it's a tiny bit better, but now I'm sliding even more.

  2. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Engineer: Let us know if we can help you out with the tools.

    Max VERSTAPPEN: Um, no I didn't. I really don't know what to tell you.

  3. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, I have no grief. It's even earlier.

  4. Yuki TSUNODARed Bull

    Audio only, no transcript available.

  5. George RUSSELLMercedes

    Engineer: You've

    George RUSSELL: got no grip. We're missing something here. Don't know what.

  6. Isack HADJARRacing Bulls

    Isack HADJAR: Hey, what a joke! Yeah,

    Engineer: we'll have to see what happens there.

    Isack HADJAR: No, but it's insane again!

    Engineer: Nowhere. Okay, Zach. That's clear, but stay calm, please.

  7. George RUSSELLMercedes

    George RUSSELL: I wonder for this time

    Engineer: Then

    George RUSSELL: I was going up

  8. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: A

    Lando NORRIS: little bit more tense, getting rid of lights.

    Engineer: Yeah, but still got it. Well done.

    Lando NORRIS: Yeah, well done.

  9. Kimi ANTONELLIMercedes

    Engineer: Well done mate, that's P2 again. So close, so close. Ah man, ****, last corner. Yeah, copy. Yeah, it was nearly there mate, but great job. Kimi, really well done. You have a good view tomorrow from starting, there's only one left to you, but no one in front of you. Hold the plane. Yeah, exactly. And tomorrow should be the good wind as well, for us.

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