Dutch Grand Prix 2026: every team radio message
67 radio messages were recorded across 5 sessions at the Dutch Grand Prix 2026, involving 19 drivers. George RUSSELL (Mercedes) had the most across the weekend, with 10. The busiest single session was race, with 31.
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
- Sprint Qualifying · 14 messages · 9 drivers
- Race · 31 messages · 11 drivers
Who was on the radio this weekend
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 10 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Ferrari · 8 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 6 messages
- Kimi ANTONELLI · Mercedes · 6 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 5 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Williams · 4 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 4 messages
- Arvid LINDBLAD · Racing Bulls · 3 messages
- Oliver BEARMAN · Haas · 3 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 3 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Audi · 2 messages
- Liam LAWSON · Racing Bulls · 2 messages
- Gabriel BORTOLETO · Audi · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Cadillac · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Cadillac · 1 message
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 1 message
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 1 message
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 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 · 8 messages
Audio only, no transcript available.
Engineer: It's
Nico HULKENBERG: pretty dry already, like it's slicks.
Sergio PEREZ: But I look to the ceiling, so I'll
Engineer: be
Sergio PEREZ: to the right-hand side.
Audio only, no transcript available.
Engineer: The
Max VERSTAPPEN: ground was almost in the wall because of that amputation. So, thankless.
Engineer: Okay, that's it.
Kimi ANTONELLI: I don't know what the heck happened there. We'll have a look at that.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I'm gonna call someone who will forever hold this stare out of their mind.
Liam LAWSON: I have no idea what they were doing, X for the 12.
Sprint · 6 messages
Max VERSTAPPEN: I'm putting all my hands on the wheel.
Audio only, no transcript available.
Audio only, no transcript available.
Audio only, no transcript available.
Engineer: Good job. Nice. Nice work today. Good work. What a mate. That would have been a very sketchy last lap if the rain came about earlier. Good job. Yeah, good job. Well done, George. Take the first box for the weekend. Yeah, thanks, sir.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I got to, I get to have this for the last two laps.
Engineer: Could have been a bit more fun, maybe.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Or not!
Qualifying · 8 messages
Audio only, no transcript available.
Audio only, no transcript available.
Engineer: He's 17.
Carlos SAINZ: It was okay. My car was good, though.
Gabriel BORTOLETO: Sorry, man. What the f*** am I doing there?
Engineer: No worries, it's okay. We have two hours to go.
Arvid LINDBLAD: We're lucky.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, we have George crying, waiting for the pitch release, but there's nothing I can say.
Engineer: Nope, nothing much.
George RUSSELL: Is it still looking to hit?
Engineer: Yeah, so we expect it to be within the last five minutes of the session.
Engineer: That was cold!
Lando NORRIS: Let's try something else.