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
- Race · 24 messages · 8 drivers
Who was on the radio this weekend
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 13 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 8 messages
- Kimi ANTONELLI · Mercedes · 7 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 6 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Ferrari · 4 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 4 messages
- Isack HADJAR · Racing Bulls · 3 messages
- Liam LAWSON · Racing Bulls · 3 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 1 message
- Carlos SAINZ · Williams · 1 message
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 1 message
- Oliver BEARMAN · Haas · 1 message
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 1 message
- Gabriel BORTOLETO · Kick Sauber · 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 · 7 messages
Engineer: And it'll be just under three minutes till green light.
Alexander ALBON: Brakes are very, very grabby. Feels very strange.
Engineer: Copy that.
Kimi ANTONELLI: God, man, what are these idiots doing, honestly?
Isack HADJAR: Mate, is Test Street blind or what? What was that?
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, it's just blocking me. I'm on a push flap.
Engineer: Yeah, we're on it
Liam LAWSON: Oh my god, what is he doing?
Lewis HAMILTON: We're going to hit the floor.
Sprint Qualifying · 7 messages
Engineer: Switch off or? No, keep running. Keep running. Okay, that's just over two minutes to go.
Liam LAWSON: Oh my god, mate. What the f*** has happened?
Carlos SAINZ: This is the worst exegesis, the worst exegesis I've
Engineer: seen in my life.
Charles LECLERC: All right, let's
Engineer: do
Charles LECLERC: it.
Engineer: P-11, Vox.
Lewis HAMILTON: Yeah, every time mate.
Max VERSTAPPEN: The car is completely broken. It's just un-driveable.
Engineer: Okay, well, you will start on pole.
Sprint · 9 messages
Oscar PIASTRI: The worst place is the grid and out of turn 12, like it's gonna be slicky, but the rest is slicks.
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.
Kimi ANTONELLI: Norwich hit the curb and a lot of water went online.
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.
Oliver BEARMAN: It's typical Lawson.
Engineer: And I know in general, the wind is getting gustier, especially places like Turn 12.
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.
Audio only, no transcript available.
Engineer: Cool, what happened?
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, um, uh, software really good. Yeah, not quick enough really.
Qualifying · 9 messages
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.
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.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, I have no grief. It's even earlier.
Audio only, no transcript available.
Engineer: You've
George RUSSELL: got no grip. We're missing something here. Don't know what.
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.
George RUSSELL: I wonder for this time
Engineer: Then
George RUSSELL: I was going up
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.
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.