Bahrain Grand Prix 2026: every team radio message
75 radio messages were recorded across 5 sessions at the Bahrain Grand Prix 2026, involving 18 drivers. Kimi ANTONELLI (Mercedes) had the most across the weekend, with 12. The busiest single session was race, with 40.
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
- Qualifying · 17 messages · 13 drivers
- Race · 40 messages · 11 drivers
Who was on the radio this weekend
- Kimi ANTONELLI · Mercedes · 12 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 9 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Ferrari · 9 messages
- Gabriel BORTOLETO · Audi · 8 messages
- Isack HADJAR · Red Bull · 7 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 7 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 4 messages
- Arvid LINDBLAD · Racing Bulls · 4 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Cadillac · 2 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Williams · 2 messages
- Liam LAWSON · Racing Bulls · 1 message
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 1 message
- Oliver BEARMAN · Haas · 1 message
- Nico HULKENBERG · Audi · 1 message
- Esteban OCON · Haas · 1 message
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 1 message
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 · 7 messages
Audio only, no transcript available.
George RUSSELL: This traffic's very cool.
Liam LAWSON: I have no brakes last corner
Gabriel BORTOLETO: This is the craziest I've ever been in my life with oil temperatures, even more than Bahrain's F1.
Isack HADJAR: Wow, like, zero front, underlap, zero Copy
Isack HADJAR: Is there like a free air place on this massive truck? This
Engineer: is probably the best spot you've got just now.
Engineer: We do look to be a bit of an outlier here with this drop-off.
Practice 2 · 8 messages
Engineer: I'm still a little concerned about this shower that's between 10 and 15 minutes away, could be enough to be disruptive.
Engineer: I feel so f***ed in the car again, like my position, it's like it's just a monstery of how I sit in the car, I don't know why Thanks, we'll have another look at you back at the garage
Isack HADJAR: Wow, it's just, like, so much, so much oscillations on the brakes, it's terrible, I can't commit, on the entries the car is bouncing like f***ing crazy
Alexander ALBON: We need to figure out the deploy we need to turn on, we need to figure out why the stability is so much worse
Gabriel BORTOLETO: What the **** is this guy doing, man?
Engineer: He's in a coolant lap.
Gabriel BORTOLETO: I know, but he sees I'm coming and he just keeps blocking.
Gabriel BORTOLETO: Is that my floor already watered out? Yeah,
Engineer: understood.
Gabriel BORTOLETO: Hey, what happened? Uh, that's not a normal one. I'm scared of it.
Engineer: Opportunity turn 14, short of the corner, later braking earlier, proper to the cut-off, VSTAR Perfect,
Oscar PIASTRI: that was way too much information for Ayrton through that corner
Practice 3 · 3 messages
Oliver BEARMAN: uh i don't know what that was did
Engineer: you see that yeah we've seen it on the front right so we've gone the wheel off and take a look first i thought it was the tire but it wasn't sorry it didn't seem to be yeah we think we know what it is so we'll go on the wheel off and take a look
Isack HADJAR: that is so unpredictable in turn 9, turn 1, you don't know where the rear is going to step out
Lewis HAMILTON: look like a pretty decent lap considering the tyres look great I
Engineer: agree