Monaco Grand Prix 2026: Practice 3 team radio
22 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Monaco Grand Prix 2026, across 15 drivers. 19 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Charles LECLERC 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
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Kimi ANTONELLI · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Esteban OCON · Haas · 2 messages
- Liam LAWSON · Racing Bulls · 2 messages
- Gabriel BORTOLETO · Audi · 1 message
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 1 message
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Cadillac · 1 message
- Sergio PEREZ · Cadillac · 1 message
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 1 message
- Isack HADJAR · Red Bull · 1 message
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 1 message
- Oliver BEARMAN · Haas · 1 message
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 1 message
- Lewis HAMILTON · Ferrari · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Everything is fine. Now is a good chance to get the feeling proper of the car. Come on.
Gabriel BORTOLETO: Leave me alone.
Esteban OCON: That's it, Gérard. That's it.
Engineer: Yeah, that's it.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: It's Fernando tailwind into turn 10 similar to yesterday
Valtteri BOTTAS: There's a lot of smoke on the front brake. It's burning.
Engineer: Front brake, it's
Valtteri BOTTAS: getting worse. I'm just trying not to use the brakes.
Sergio PEREZ: I'm catching fire from the left, left
Engineer: brake.
Kimi ANTONELLI: Where did I lose two doors?
Engineer: Mid to exit turn 1, you can take less kerb and exit turn 12.
Esteban OCON: Do something for the string when it's better, but it's too stiff, way too stiff.
Engineer: Understood.
Liam LAWSON: I had no idea what happened, but I just hit a bump and nearly lost the car.
Kimi ANTONELLI: I don't need it, man. Completely in the way.
Engineer: Yeah, copied. Saw that.
Kimi ANTONELLI: That was going to be quite a good one, Bob. Yep.
Oscar PIASTRI: I'm struggling a bit picking up the throttle through turn 3 just gives the clock that bit of understeer, entry stability is okay there now.
Liam LAWSON: Oh, that was close.
Isack HADJAR: Yeah, f***ed up. Yeah, it's still incredibly understeery there.
Engineer: And they're being 3-4?
Isack HADJAR: Yeah, it's crazy. Okay, copy.
George RUSSELL: Oh
Oliver BEARMAN: I'm sorry guys, it's the f***ing botamy.
Engineer: Are you okay?
Oliver BEARMAN: Yeah, oh my god, guys, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
Engineer: Yeah, we'll get it fixed for Poliali, so I'm sure you're okay.
Charles LECLERC: These brakes are horrendous! Horrendous!
Lando NORRIS: I go to my way. I did all purpose
Lewis HAMILTON: Norris exaggerated it to the larger to 10-15, trying to make it look like I'm looking in.
Engineer: Copy.
Charles LECLERC: I just had zero to zero feelings with this brake, it's unbelievable, the car is doing something different every time I got the brake, it
Engineer: really
Charles LECLERC: f***ed me up so much.
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