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United States Grand Prix 2026: every team radio message

91 radio messages were recorded across 5 sessions at the United States Grand Prix 2026, involving 22 drivers. Kimi ANTONELLI (Mercedes) had the most across the weekend, with 13. The busiest single session was race, with 36.

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.

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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

  1. Nico HULKENBERGAudi

    Audio only, no transcript available.

  2. Colton HERTACadillac

    Audio only, no transcript available.

  3. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: Steering feels weird. Steering left is like there's some kind of friction. It's not linear. A

    Engineer: bit

    Max VERSTAPPEN: weird.

    Engineer: Okay, but only steering left.

    Max VERSTAPPEN: It feels like there's something, it's not free in the column.

  4. George RUSSELLMercedes

    Engineer: Brakes feel not very good, quite

    George RUSSELL: a bit of pulling when going slow

  5. George RUSSELLMercedes

    George RUSSELL: protect front wing, protect front wing, what's happening, now

    Engineer: what did you feel with the front wing,

    George RUSSELL: I don't know, just a wave through to high speed, I mean I suddenly got loads of understeer

  6. Nico HULKENBERGAudi

    Nico HULKENBERG: very weird behaviour, I'm not for it, but I've always been one of the get-ups

  7. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: opportunity, turn 15, obviously

    Lando NORRIS: drive this

    Engineer: way, yeah

    Lando NORRIS: that's obvious, don't even talk about it, ok

  8. Kimi ANTONELLIMercedes

    Kimi ANTONELLI: Wasn't I meant to go wind hards?

    Engineer: Sorry about that Camille, yes, short notice, it was a change of plan, just the orange flat spot it is, so we'll sort that in the program

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