Saudi Arabian Grand Prix 2025: Qualifying team radio
14 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix 2025, across 10 drivers. 13 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. 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
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 2 messages
- Isack HADJAR · Racing Bulls · 1 message
- Gabriel BORTOLETO · Kick Sauber · 1 message
- Esteban OCON · Haas · 1 message
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 1 message
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Kimi ANTONELLI · Mercedes · 1 message
- Liam LAWSON · Racing Bulls · 1 message
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Isack HADJAR: I clip the wall, exit up last corner We
Engineer: will check
Gabriel BORTOLETO: Yeah, f*** this, mate.
Esteban OCON: Okay, Ollie's through to Q2. Okay, good job, guys.
Alexander ALBON: I hit the wall pretty hard, it's your turn 16, on the left hand side
Engineer: We're out by three thousandths, but it's very very tight and we're checking other track limits, so we'll just stay in the car stay ready
Kimi ANTONELLI: Man, that was close. Man, that was close.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I just double-checked the front of the plank, I hit it quite hard with the Exodus 4 into 5.
Engineer: Understood, we'll have a look.
Liam LAWSON: Sorry guys, that was a pretty damn good laugh, to be honest.
Engineer: Are you okay?
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, I'm good.
Engineer: Don't worry about it, mate.
Max VERSTAPPEN: he's all right yeah i
Engineer: believe yep he's uh communicated he's okay yeah
Engineer: Lando has hit the wall exit turn five.
Oscar PIASTRI: Is he all right?
Engineer: Yes, he's okay
Max VERSTAPPEN: Very little bit than one. Yeah,
Engineer: I said size but not ready
Engineer: Yeah, that's pole position.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Oh, yes! Oh, my God, guys. It's simply lovely, that.
Engineer: Fantastic, Max. Fantastic. It worked very well, that strategy in the end there. So you nailed it in two perfect laps. Well done, mate.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yes, I'm very happy with that. Well done, everyone. Well done. The car really came alive in the night. Well done.
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