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Team radio transcript

British Grand Prix 2026: Race team radio

20 radio messages were recorded during race at the British Grand Prix 2026, across 9 drivers. 19 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Kimi ANTONELLI had the most, with 9.

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

Every message, in the order it happened

  1. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Audio only, no transcript available for this message.

  2. Lewis HAMILTONFerrari

    Engineer: And box box, but

    Lewis HAMILTON: my ties are still good my ties are still good

  3. Lewis HAMILTONFerrari

    Engineer: We are P6, we are fighting for the podium, P3.

  4. George RUSSELLMercedes

    Engineer: Let's blow punch a right rear. Move me or you do.

  5. George RUSSELLMercedes

    George RUSSELL: Oh my god

  6. Alexander ALBONWilliams

    Engineer: Alex, small feedback please for you, the wake belt was 4 load, copy, this way, 4 load. Same as the simulator, keep

    Alexander ALBON: it to a full DD slope, can't really do it, what's

    Engineer: it

    Alexander ALBON: going to be? Copy.

  7. Kimi ANTONELLIMercedes

    Kimi ANTONELLI: country broken in the car

  8. Kimi ANTONELLIMercedes

    Kimi ANTONELLI: Vader, suspension is broken.

    Engineer: Okay, copy, copy.

  9. Kimi ANTONELLIMercedes

    Kimi ANTONELLI: We

    Engineer: think it is just the wheel shield left hand side.

  10. Kimi ANTONELLIMercedes

    Engineer: Okay, we're gonna try to box the goal. We'll try and remove the wheel shield and go again

  11. Kimi ANTONELLIMercedes

    Kimi ANTONELLI: I may not, there's something deeper, I've no front, the wheel is in the air OK, we'll box the car, so

    Engineer: this is to retire

  12. Kimi ANTONELLIMercedes

    Kimi ANTONELLI: We are

    Engineer: just in P10. We've got Colo Pinto behind.

  13. Kimi ANTONELLIMercedes

    Kimi ANTONELLI: I'm gonna go for it, mate.

  14. Kimi ANTONELLIMercedes

    Kimi ANTONELLI: Wow, f***ing great. Everything is going against us, unbelievable.

    Engineer: Yes mate, it feels like one of those days.

  15. Kimi ANTONELLIMercedes

    Engineer: We do have a 5 second penalty for track limits Yeah

    Kimi ANTONELLI: but that's

    Engineer: a

    Kimi ANTONELLI: joke mate, I didn't do it on purpose Like, the car was broken

    Engineer: Yeah understood

    Kimi ANTONELLI: Like I wasn't even getting time

    Engineer: Yeah I know mate, I know mate

  16. George RUSSELLMercedes

    George RUSSELL: Pardon for sticking in there, but that's really fine. Go on top of the straight line speed. So that was a very frustrating weekend otherwise Yeah,

    Engineer: I think straight line was okay in the race

  17. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Lando NORRIS: Lewis has overtaken everyone, I mean, that's just, everyone's overtaken. You

    Engineer: just do the right thing.

    Lando NORRIS: Yeah, I'm just trying to stay out of everyone's way, I mean, they're just racers, John. Everyone gets to qualify, you know, on the podium. Um,

    Engineer: there's been confusing messages, honestly, I'm not sure.

  18. Isack HADJARRed Bull

    Engineer: that's p5 to me p5 i

    Isack HADJAR: don't know what the hell i mean obviously i was on the tire again but you don't get that much time that was just yeah big loss big loss upload

    Engineer: i will take the points yeah

    Isack HADJAR: but i wanted to go to the front not like buy it back i know mate i know yeah still

    Engineer: stuff to work on while we're playing together

  19. Arvid LINDBLADRacing Bulls

    Arvid LINDBLAD: Well done, Nippon. Another amazing result. Apologies for Nippon, it's

    Engineer: a

    Arvid LINDBLAD: lesson. Yeah, I'm gonna be honest, that annoys me. Not at you, but yeah, I'm not bad at you, it's just... Yeah, it's really frustrating, but regardless, it's

    Engineer: a

    Arvid LINDBLAD: good team effort. We'll keep working. It's a good day for the team, but not good enough. We need to give you all the tools, so we'll do better. Apologies.

  20. Franco COLAPINTOAlpine

    Engineer: Oh mate, so that's points to the team after, I'd say, a pretty difficult weekend.

    Franco COLAPINTO: Yep, but we still thank you for all the effort.

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