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
- Kimi ANTONELLI · Mercedes · 9 messages
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 1 message
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 1 message
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 1 message
- Isack HADJAR · Red Bull · 1 message
- Arvid LINDBLAD · Racing Bulls · 1 message
- Franco COLAPINTO · Alpine · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: And box box, but
Lewis HAMILTON: my ties are still good my ties are still good
Engineer: We are P6, we are fighting for the podium, P3.
Engineer: Let's blow punch a right rear. Move me or you do.
George RUSSELL: Oh my god
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.
Kimi ANTONELLI: country broken in the car
Kimi ANTONELLI: Vader, suspension is broken.
Engineer: Okay, copy, copy.
Kimi ANTONELLI: We
Engineer: think it is just the wheel shield left hand side.
Engineer: Okay, we're gonna try to box the goal. We'll try and remove the wheel shield and go again
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
Kimi ANTONELLI: We are
Engineer: just in P10. We've got Colo Pinto behind.
Kimi ANTONELLI: I'm gonna go for it, mate.
Kimi ANTONELLI: Wow, f***ing great. Everything is going against us, unbelievable.
Engineer: Yes mate, it feels like one of those days.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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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