British Grand Prix 2026: Qualifying team radio
12 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the British Grand Prix 2026, across 9 drivers. 11 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. George RUSSELL 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
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Esteban OCON · Haas · 2 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Williams · 1 message
- Nico HULKENBERG · Audi · 1 message
- Gabriel BORTOLETO · Audi · 1 message
- Oliver BEARMAN · Haas · 1 message
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 1 message
- Liam LAWSON · Racing Bulls · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Yeah, that was very weird. I've never looked there my whole career
George RUSSELL: We think your front wing was set up the
Engineer: same, flat angle. Hey, Femi, have we set that before you left the garage?
Engineer: I
Esteban OCON: had to live for that thing, you know. Yeah, I know. That was, again, nicely unlucky.
Esteban OCON: Yeah, well, you guys did a great job with the car. It was much better, so good job, yeah. It's
Engineer: a
Esteban OCON: shame I'm always the unlucky guy.
Engineer: But
Esteban OCON: there is. Yeah, that is getting annoying. Sorry, Esteban. I'm lucky I think you lost those two pens with the yellow.
Engineer: Did Gabi have a problem, or why they only went up? He did, yeah. I'm not sure exactly what it was, but he got out and he got P12, as I guess you've seen.
Engineer: You are currently p11.
Gabriel BORTOLETO: Sorry, it's okay. They can't have order. Sorry. Sorry team
Engineer: Your P14, that's a good result Oli, that's a good result. Yeah, good job Oli, I know that's not what you want in your home Grand Prix, but you got the best out of it, thank you, we'll get better. Yeah, good job everyone, I think we've done the right thing again, which is all
Oliver BEARMAN: we can achieve at this stage.
Oscar PIASTRI: Yeah, that was, uh, that was full.
Engineer: Yeah, saw that one, Tally. All okay?
Oscar PIASTRI: Uh, yep. It's
Engineer: a good thing my underwear thought it was a black today, it's not white.
Engineer: Confirmed. Peter, that was a good quality. Good lap, Charles.
Charles LECLERC: There wasn't much more, I think, in this stuff. I think we're on the right path. Let's just keep working. We'll get there. Thank you.
Engineer: Yeah, you've been working your ass off and it paid off
Liam LAWSON: Now we can go to that kind of outside no idea. Yeah, it's very up and down. Yeah We had a small issue as well
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