Austrian Grand Prix 2026: Practice 3 team radio
12 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Austrian Grand Prix 2026, across 10 drivers. 11 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Franco COLAPINTO had the most, with 2.
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
- Franco COLAPINTO · Alpine · 2 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Cadillac · 1 message
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 1 message
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 1 message
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 1 message
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Arvid LINDBLAD · Racing Bulls · 1 message
- Isack HADJAR · Red Bull · 1 message
- Lewis HAMILTON · Ferrari · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: The Aero P3 6th gear.
Sergio PEREZ: Let's try to rebalance this set because the revisions are high.
Lando NORRIS: That mirror is completely broken, so I don't know if we ever replaced it or how many spares we got, but just clean it out.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yep, that's it, we're at F27, I need to change my earplugs and, uh, send the balaclava, it's something really awful.
Engineer: That's it.
Oscar PIASTRI: my seat behind my left shoulder, because I feel something stuck behind my shoulder blades, copy
Max VERSTAPPEN: Still have my statement, really, like, right at the top. Copy.
George RUSSELL: really bad straight line braking on the front axle
Fernando ALONSO: I cannot turn the car to, for example, run on the front.
Arvid LINDBLAD: Yeah, I'm really struggling with confidence with these brakes. I feel like I have
Engineer: a
Arvid LINDBLAD: lot of fully copy
Isack HADJAR: What's happening turn 1 and turn 3? Like turn 3, like let's not act like I'm working hard, okay? The thing just locks up completely.
Engineer: Understood Isaac.
Lewis HAMILTON: I locked up in three, I locked the rears, I hit each other gearbox, it said shift when I was, it said it was shifting when I was in interstitial.
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