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
- Race · 40 messages · 10 drivers
Who was on the radio this weekend
- Kimi ANTONELLI · Mercedes · 13 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Ferrari · 12 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 7 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 6 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Arvid LINDBLAD · Racing Bulls · 3 messages
- Isack HADJAR · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Audi · 3 messages
- Gabriel BORTOLETO · Audi · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Cadillac · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Cadillac · 2 messages
- Franco COLAPINTO · Alpine · 2 messages
- Leonardo FORNAROLI · McLaren · 1 message
- Liam LAWSON · Racing Bulls · 1 message
- Dino BEGANOVIC · Ferrari · 1 message
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 1 message
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Oscar PIASTRI · 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 · 6 messages
Audio only, no transcript available.
Liam LAWSON: All right, one of these guys
Dino BEGANOVIC: I had a lot more power out of T7 than I expected that lap.
Gabriel BORTOLETO: All right, I'm losing the rear so much like the car is very unstable
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.
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
Audio only, no transcript available.
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.
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.
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
Kimi ANTONELLI: Brick Meadow feels horrible so long
Kimi ANTONELLI: Good job, Patrick.
Practice 3 · 8 messages
Audio only, no transcript available.
Charles LECLERC: Yankees have a slower performance, correct?
Engineer: 1 to 1.5 seconds.
Engineer: It
Oscar PIASTRI: was like the front wing was broken, like I had no front surf at all. Copy, we saw the same.
Valtteri BOTTAS: I lost my brake pedal, it's gone, the pedal is gone, but very lucky there.
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.
Kimi ANTONELLI: Oh my god, mate. Unbelievable. It's unbelievable. I'm
Engineer: gonna box. Okay, copy that, mate.
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.
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
Audio only, no transcript available.
Sergio PEREZ: But anyway, I think we maximize it for tomorrow. We are Yeah,
Engineer: that's the compromise
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.
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.
Engineer: And we are through, Nico, D3, good job.
Nico HULKENBERG: Yep, that's
Engineer: a
Nico HULKENBERG: day. That's a day.
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.
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.
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