São Paulo Grand Prix 2025: Race team radio
24 radio messages were recorded during race at the São Paulo Grand Prix 2025, across 8 drivers. Max VERSTAPPEN had the most, with 8.
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
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 8 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 5 messages
- Kimi ANTONELLI · Mercedes · 3 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 2 messages
- Gabriel BORTOLETO · Kick Sauber · 1 message
- Isack HADJAR · Racing Bulls · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Max VERSTAPPEN: Guys, it's a little bit here.
Engineer: Yep, understood. Could be drops at turn 4, turn 12.
George RUSSELL: brain to intensify very little
Max VERSTAPPEN: Uh, just for your information, this engine, uh, lag rates are a lot less, so pick the look out if you will.
Engineer: Okay, well that's it, thank you.
Gabriel BORTOLETO: Ah, Stroll pushed me out. Yeah, he just turned if I was not there.
Engineer: Is
Lewis HAMILTON: the floor okay?
Engineer: Damage confirmed to the floor.
Lewis HAMILTON: I am lost. A lot of downforce. Are you stable?
Engineer: Understood.
Oscar PIASTRI: Yeah, let me know, space.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: So we think we've picked up a front-ride puncture, Max, and that was the reason for the box.
Lewis HAMILTON: Hey, I'm gonna crash out here. I'll keep trying cause crazy unsabled
Engineer: And Lando, from our side, we think it's more like plan B, plan B, possibly even plan D, plan D.
Engineer: Oscar, we have a 10-second penalty for the safety car restart, Turn 1. Best opportunity is Plan C, and you need to get to target lap with good pace. Oscar, your pace looks good, and we can still make this work.
Engineer: Oscar, how's the grip overall? Any evidence the hard may be better than P1? Didn't look too bad on Aston Martin.
Oscar PIASTRI: It's difficult to know, but the medium feels good for now.
Oscar PIASTRI: What's the plan here?
Engineer: Oscar, use your pace. We're trying to catch and undercut Fairman and Russell. Stafford will help you with that.
Engineer: I hope you're a bit more optimistic about this furniture than I am, because it doesn't look very pretty from where I'm sat. This looks best to us Oscar, because of the expected dag on the soft.
Isack HADJAR: Oh my god!
Engineer: Isak, head down, we have much better tyres.
Isack HADJAR: Don't shout at me, okay? Thank you.
Engineer: Something I didn't think I'd say Max, at the end of the pitlane earlier, you are now race leader.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Go Max!
Engineer: Okay Kimi, so the situation has now changed, so we are now defending this position. 16 laps remaining, we just need the best stint to the end, best stint.
Engineer: It's been a fairly vulnerable tyre this match, so yeah, do your best.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, we're going to take the list.
George RUSSELL: No, we're now on break, we look hot again.
Engineer: AFIRM, they're right on our limit here George.
George RUSSELL: You've got the data mate, you tell me when they're on the limit. I don't
Engineer: want
George RUSSELL: to be bringing it up.
Engineer: P2 is on here Max, assuming you can control the deck.
Engineer: Thank you for not expecting wear concern on this tyre. You have 12 laps remaining, so best into the end, mate.
Kimi ANTONELLI: Yeah, I'm
Engineer: fighting,
Kimi ANTONELLI: what do you think, mate?
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: Good job mate. Around the outside, around the inside.
Lando NORRIS: Amazing job mate, amazing job. The whole weekend on
Engineer: it.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah well done. Nice race, well executed. Good job all weekend. Not quite a big enough gap for my liking though, so definitely some things to look at. Let's keep it going, thanks guys.
Engineer: Yeah boy! P2 mate! Oh my goodness, that was stressful! Oh my goodness indeed!
Max VERSTAPPEN: No, don't
Engineer: be.
Max VERSTAPPEN: That's
Engineer: a
Max VERSTAPPEN: really, really good race for us. And we will at least try, you know.
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