Spanish Grand Prix 2025: Race team radio
29 radio messages were recorded during race at the Spanish Grand Prix 2025, across 7 drivers. 28 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Max VERSTAPPEN had the most, with 11.
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 · 11 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 5 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 4 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 3 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 1 message
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
George RUSSELL: These **** are moving and breaking today. What's going on? George, concentrate.
Engineer: We can push on these tires now. They're up to 10. We want to try and pass Verstappen.
Engineer: No grip, prepare
Max VERSTAPPEN: to dump that is.
Engineer: Yeah, copy that, understood.
Engineer: That was a good tire update. How's the tire?
Oscar PIASTRI: It's really a little bit with the rear now.
Lewis HAMILTON: A long way to go.
Engineer: Protecting undercut.
Engineer: And full push. Full push, please.
Charles LECLERC: That's
Engineer: what
Charles LECLERC: I'm doing already.
Lewis HAMILTON: Why did you pull me in so early?
Engineer: We are protecting for a possible undercut from behind.
Engineer: how far do you think we can get about 25 possible
Oscar PIASTRI: possible but typical
Alexander ALBON: Liam, just push me off.
Max VERSTAPPEN: It's so hard to drive, I can't brake and I have no turn in, it looks easy.
Engineer: And Verstappen has pitted. That means he's on a three. What happened to that plan?
Lewis HAMILTON: Just don't go back. There is no work today.
Engineer: Understood.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, it's again like a moot clutch, all the same thing.
Engineer: 1973?
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, 1974 now.
Engineer: Okay, mate, that's 33 laps complete, 33 remaining, all to play for, all to play for.
Engineer: Lando Leclerc is 4.9 behind. Verstappen is 8. Verstappen will be in our race. Let's keep finding some pace.
Engineer: And then we can push the tire a little bit more at high speed, turn 3, turn 9.
Lando NORRIS: I can't push my front left, it's great.
Engineer: OK, George, let's start to close up this gap now.
George RUSSELL: I'll push it, mate.
Engineer: This place is good George, there's opportunities if we could close this gap a bit more.
Engineer: Okay, so McLaren perceiving the threat now Max, they realize they have to push on, it's a long way to go for them.
Max VERSTAPPEN: At the right of the car, it's completely broken.
Engineer: Okay, Max.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Idiots.
Max VERSTAPPEN: What is this tire?
Engineer: That's the hard tire Max.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Why? Why are we on the hard?
Engineer: That was the only option.
Lewis HAMILTON: They do love wasting laps.
Engineer: Yeah.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Wait,
Engineer: he
Max VERSTAPPEN: just walked into me. He did the same? That's
Engineer: a
Max VERSTAPPEN: penalty?
Max VERSTAPPEN: Charles just rapped into me on the screen.
Engineer: Copy that, Max.
Engineer: Max, can you let Russell through, please? Let Russell through. No, I was a hat! Wait, what the ****? My advice is to let him through.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Wait, I was a hat! He just ran me off the road!
Engineer: But that's the rules.
George RUSSELL: I don't know mate. Just crash into it.
Engineer: That's the chequered flag. What a race. What a weekend mate. Really good. Really happy. Biggest pole margin of the year, and a very convincing Sunday afternoon as well. Great job. Yep.
Oscar PIASTRI: When you said that FaceTough last year, this weekend was going to be f***ing awesome, you weren't wrong. Should listen to you more often, you know, you're stuff, Tom. Very woken. Yeah, couldn't have asked for more. So thank you very much, everybody. Nice way to bounce back from a little bit of a difficult one last week, and very well done, well managed. Couldn't have done it any better myself, so what up.
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