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Barcelona Grand Prix 2026: every team radio message

68 radio messages were recorded across 5 sessions at the Barcelona Grand Prix 2026, involving 19 drivers. Kimi ANTONELLI (Mercedes) had the most across the weekend, with 13. 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

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 · 6 messages

  1. Leonardo FORNAROLIMcLaren

    Audio only, no transcript available.

  2. Liam LAWSONRacing Bulls

    Liam LAWSON: All right, one of these guys

  3. Dino BEGANOVICFerrari

    Dino BEGANOVIC: I had a lot more power out of T7 than I expected that lap.

  4. Gabriel BORTOLETOAudi

    Gabriel BORTOLETO: All right, I'm losing the rear so much like the car is very unstable

  5. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: Uh, yeah, please do the next one, uh, give me something for outfits, uh, but they're not good.

    Engineer: Copy that, thank you.

  6. Gabriel BORTOLETOAudi

    Gabriel BORTOLETO: Wait, what's going on? I'm sideways everywhere. I'm zero grip.

    Engineer: We'll review for FPTune.

Practice 2 · 6 messages

  1. Lewis HAMILTONFerrari

    Audio only, no transcript available.

  2. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: I already lost one tip to your truck, so I don't know. Take it to court, but it's not the same.

    Engineer: Copy that Max, we can see why you didn't have quite as much to clobber to turn on.

  3. Alexander ALBONWilliams

    Alexander ALBON: Should we just box and have a bit of a regroup or...? Yeah, yeah. Probably, I haven't driven a car so disconnected before, so... So that's what's going on with it.

  4. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: I've made a mistake and not taken out any front wing so if you think this is terrible we should box the front wing

  5. Kimi ANTONELLIMercedes

    Kimi ANTONELLI: Brick Meadow feels horrible so long

  6. Kimi ANTONELLIMercedes

    Kimi ANTONELLI: Good job, Patrick.

Practice 3 · 8 messages

  1. Lance STROLLAston Martin

    Audio only, no transcript available.

  2. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    Charles LECLERC: Yankees have a slower performance, correct?

    Engineer: 1 to 1.5 seconds.

  3. Oscar PIASTRIMcLaren

    Engineer: It

    Oscar PIASTRI: was like the front wing was broken, like I had no front surf at all. Copy, we saw the same.

  4. Valtteri BOTTASCadillac

    Valtteri BOTTAS: I lost my brake pedal, it's gone, the pedal is gone, but very lucky there.

  5. Sergio PEREZCadillac

    Sergio PEREZ: What happened to Valtteri? Was it just a mistake or something happened?

    Engineer: Yeah, we are looking into that still, Sergio. Nothing should affect us.

  6. Kimi ANTONELLIMercedes

    Kimi ANTONELLI: Oh my god, mate. Unbelievable. It's unbelievable. I'm

    Engineer: gonna box. Okay, copy that, mate.

  7. Kimi ANTONELLIMercedes

    Kimi ANTONELLI: I had four cars into Turn 1 in my first lap.

    Engineer: Four cars. Yeah, unfortunately I don't release those cars out of the garage, mate. So, they leave when they want to leave.

  8. Arvid LINDBLADRacing Bulls

    Arvid LINDBLAD: Yeah, I think the package is fast. It's just about maximizing. We didn't do that perfectly enough for the compels faster

Qualifying · 8 messages

  1. Isack HADJARRed Bull

    Audio only, no transcript available.

  2. Sergio PEREZCadillac

    Sergio PEREZ: But anyway, I think we maximize it for tomorrow. We are Yeah,

    Engineer: that's the compromise

  3. Valtteri BOTTASCadillac

    Engineer: All right, that's E20. Russ.

    Valtteri BOTTAS: Okay. Yeah, nice and good at the car, buddy.

    Engineer: That was a good sector one. I had some good time there.

  4. Arvid LINDBLADRacing Bulls

    Arvid LINDBLAD: Got that P

    Engineer: -11 of it. I'm really, really sorry. We don't know what's happened.

    Arvid LINDBLAD: Yeah. It's fine. It's done now. We're out for tomorrow. Is what it is. Thank you everyone for the work anyway.

  5. Nico HULKENBERGAudi

    Engineer: And we are through, Nico, D3, good job.

    Nico HULKENBERG: Yep, that's

    Engineer: a

    Nico HULKENBERG: day. That's a day.

  6. Lewis HAMILTONFerrari

    Engineer: And we are P2, and I said P1.

    Lewis HAMILTON: Good job, guys. I lost that. In turn one, a bit deep. Great job, guys.

  7. Isack HADJARRed Bull

    Isack HADJAR: Ah! I unfolded the laptop in turn 1.

    Engineer: I

    Isack HADJAR: could have done it, man.

    Engineer: But

    Isack HADJAR: the rest was good. Good job, mate. P6. P6. Ah! Thank you. But mate, that is... sugar for an 849. Like, the amount of time I left turn 1 was... entirely my fault.

    Engineer: Yeah,

    Isack HADJAR: mate. T-Mapper, look. T-Mapper. I just told you. Still be happy with that. Sorry, Laurent. No, no. Well done, Zach. Well done. It's

    Engineer: a

    Isack HADJAR: very good job. It's

    Engineer: a

    Isack HADJAR: very good job. Make a weekend was difficult for everyone, and you kept putting your head down, and put

    Engineer: it where

    Isack HADJAR: it can be today. So well done.

  8. Nico HULKENBERGAudi

    Engineer: OK Niko, pick up, so V9, V8, with a 16.5, just over 1 kt faster

    Nico HULKENBERG: Yep, it's

    Engineer: a

    Nico HULKENBERG: peak, I'll display for tomorrow

    Engineer: Yeah, definitely

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