Hungarian Grand Prix 2026: Practice 1 team radio
15 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Hungarian Grand Prix 2026, across 9 drivers. 12 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Lewis HAMILTON had the most, with 4.
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
- Lewis HAMILTON · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Leonardo FORNAROLI · McLaren · 2 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 1 message
- Gabriel BORTOLETO · Audi · 1 message
- Liam LAWSON · Racing Bulls · 1 message
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 1 message
- Ryo HIRAKAWA · Haas · 1 message
- Frederik VESTI · Mercedes · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I can't believe all these guys, that was actually really dangerous, I could even slam on the brakes
Gabriel BORTOLETO: You think the damper is okay on the right side. I had a lot of bouncing out of 13.
Max VERSTAPPEN: and the car is jumping like crazy, really bad jumping on the front axle, really bad.
Engineer: I
Liam LAWSON: had some really, really bad engine braking as well at my low speed. Switchy last sector. Just really difficult to drive the car.
Lewis HAMILTON: That car feels pretty bad. Right. Very poor. We're all stiff. It's too stiff.
Engineer: The rear wing is working well
Max VERSTAPPEN: How are shifts? Same, it's not good. What's ride? Same, not good. And lag? A little bit better in the last corner now because of the gear.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Lewis HAMILTON: Something's wrong with the upshifts and downshifts, like downgraded upshifts and downshifts all the time.
Charles LECLERC: Uh, that's
Engineer: a
Charles LECLERC: big broke.
Engineer: Copy, boss.
Engineer: Thanks guys for a good weekend, we
Leonardo FORNAROLI: really thought about the mistake on the top half.
Ryo HIRAKAWA: Well, thanks guys. Thanks so much.
Engineer: Thank you very much guys, mechanics, engineers, everyone at TOTO. Thank you very much once again, this
Frederik VESTI: was a very
Engineer: fun day, we appreciate it. Thank you Brett, it was a good day.
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