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Spanish Grand Prix 2025: every team radio message

68 radio messages were recorded across 5 sessions at the Spanish Grand Prix 2025, involving 18 drivers. Max VERSTAPPEN (Red Bull) had the most across the weekend, with 13. The busiest single session was race, with 29.

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 · 9 messages

  1. Kimi ANTONELLIMercedes

    Audio only, no transcript available.

  2. George RUSSELLMercedes

    George RUSSELL: Steering feels very like, as I'm turning, coming out of

    Engineer: the

    George RUSSELL: garage it was very heavy, a bit weird.

  3. Ryo HIRAKAWAHaas

    Ryo HIRAKAWA: Yeah, that's

    Engineer: all

    Ryo HIRAKAWA: right. Sorry, I'm sorry. No worries.

  4. Liam LAWSONRacing Bulls

    Liam LAWSON: What the? What was that?

    Engineer: Yeah, clearly it wasn't cold.

  5. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Engineer: Max, can we have diff mid 7, please?

    Max VERSTAPPEN: I'm not sure that's what I want, to be honest.

  6. George RUSSELLMercedes

    George RUSSELL: And the front left isn't looking good for the rest.

  7. Ryo HIRAKAWAHaas

    Ryo HIRAKAWA: You know, I had a bit of bouncing or bottoming entry 9, which was not nice. Understood, yeah. We can see that Oli reports something similar.

  8. Fernando ALONSOAston Martin

    Engineer: Let us know if you need a flap adjust.

    Fernando ALONSO: I just need the engine going normal on the straights like the first run.

    Engineer: We'll have you try a strap free if you prefer.

    Fernando ALONSO: No, I just don't want to lose two tenths every straight.

  9. Fernando ALONSOAston Martin

    Fernando ALONSO: Hey, I need to check what is going on with the car. Something wrong.

Practice 2 · 9 messages

  1. George RUSSELLMercedes

    Audio only, no transcript available.

  2. Oscar PIASTRIMcLaren

    Engineer: You may be surprised to learn Sector 1 is purple.

    Oscar PIASTRI: I should, uh, should you have the camera open?

  3. Oliver BEARMANHaas

    Engineer: You're Kelly

  4. Isack HADJARRacing Bulls

    Isack HADJAR: That's the choke, that's what I think.

  5. Fernando ALONSOAston Martin

    Fernando ALONSO: We have the heat of the day in front of us. Yeah, that's better, wasn't it? Yeah, the good thing is that the weekend is very long. Even the championship is very long.

  6. Lance STROLLAston Martin

    Lance STROLL: Man, it's so bad. So what, is it just a grip or a balance issue? Man,

    Engineer: I

    Lance STROLL: mean, just look, look, you know?

    Engineer: Yeah, I see.

  7. Yuki TSUNODARed Bull

    Yuki TSUNODA: Ah mate, the amount of sliding I have is not normal mate, it's just crazy. Okay

    Engineer: copy, so same feeling as FP1, just sliding both axles?

    Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah literally, it's just sliding around, not gripping.

  8. Lewis HAMILTONFerrari

    Lewis HAMILTON: The cars will dribble me.

    Engineer: I'll do it.

  9. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Engineer: I'm very clever.

Practice 3 · 5 messages

  1. Gabriel BORTOLETOKick Sauber

    Audio only, no transcript available.

  2. Lance STROLLAston Martin

    Audio only, no transcript available.

  3. Oscar PIASTRIMcLaren

    Oscar PIASTRI: I have something hard on my left leg of my seat, so if I can just check that, that would be good.

    Engineer: Copy.

  4. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: So now they're in turn nine we think it wasn't touching but we saw pausing So if we want to fix that we'd have to box now to lift at the rear

  5. Lewis HAMILTONFerrari

    Lewis HAMILTON: Downshift's not working for me mate. Not much wrong with the gear shift.

    Engineer: Understood. Taking it up.

    Lewis HAMILTON: Gear shift's not working. I got it now. Gear shift.

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