Valtteri Bottas Team Radio
Every Valtteri Bottas radio message we have, 2018–2026 — 1,484 transcribed clips across 129 Grands Prix. Read what Bottas said to the pit wall, race by race, then play the original audio.
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- 2026 Barcelona Grand Prix · Practice 3“I lost my brake pedal. It's gone. The pedal's gone. But very lucky there.”
- 2026 Barcelona Grand Prix · Qualifying“All right, that's E20. Russ? Okay. Yeah, nice and good at the car, buddy. Yeah, that was a good sector one. I had some good time there.”
- 2026 Monaco Grand Prix · Practice 3“There's a lot of smoke on the front brake. It's burning. Front brake. It's getting worse. I'm just trying not to use the brakes.”
- 2024 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix · Race“Thank you Sauber. Thank you Ferrari. Let's do it.”
- 2024 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix · Race“For the collision, okay. I had nowhere to go, so that's nice.”
- 2024 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix · Race“Well, that was a **** ending. Yeah, really not the way we were hoping for it to go.”
- 2024 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix · Practice 3“And work on your tyre temps.”
- 2024 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix · Qualifying“In front of Perez, great job Valtteri, great job. Nice, good job, that's all, all of you.”
- 2024 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix · Qualifying“Thank you Valtteri, nice surprise for my last qualifying on this side of the pit lane.”
- 2024 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix · Qualifying“Good lap, good lap. That's as fast as she goes.”
- 2024 Qatar Grand Prix · Race“And do your best to keep the temperature in the tyres.”
- 2024 Qatar Grand Prix · Race“Had to go off the track there to avoid loss of spinning.”
- 2024 Qatar Grand Prix · Race“I expect our tyres will be the best for the remaining laps.”
- 2024 Qatar Grand Prix · Race“The front left is going.”
- 2024 Qatar Grand Prix · Qualifying“URP 14. Tyres are cooking.”
- 2024 Qatar Grand Prix · Qualifying“Same sequence, I guess. Yep, same sequence.”
- 2024 Qatar Grand Prix · Qualifying“Don't quite get where the placement, like from my side there's nothing more, so...”
- 2024 Qatar Grand Prix · Practice 1“And we suggest special 2 for turn 6 and turn 10.”
- 2024 Qatar Grand Prix · Practice 1“Traffic paradise.”
- 2024 Qatar Grand Prix · Sprint Qualifying“Probably a bit too close to Lawson on that one.”
- 2024 Qatar Grand Prix · Sprint Qualifying“Yeah, I kind of had to go because I was stalled, so... Yeah, copy.”
- 2024 Qatar Grand Prix · Sprint Qualifying“Ok, how close to top 10? Lawson was P10 with a 22 .39.”
- 2024 Las Vegas Grand Prix · Race“So what's the pushing level?”
- 2024 Las Vegas Grand Prix · Race“Yeah, very difficult race with the tyres, as expected, Valtteri. Yeah, even Valtteri didn't expect that. So everybody two -stopped except for Magnussen. Magnussen finished P12. And Joe finished just behind him in P13.”
- 2024 Las Vegas Grand Prix · Qualifying“Yeah, super messy with the traffic. Yeah, wasn't ideal for sure.”
- 2024 Las Vegas Grand Prix · Practice 2“Reminder special one for turn seven.”
- 2024 Sa╠âo Paulo Grand Prix · Qualifying“And Valtteri, consider sacrificing turn 1 for a better 2 and 3.”
- 2024 Sa╠âo Paulo Grand Prix · Qualifying“And Valtteri, consider sacrificing turn 1 for a better 2 and 3.”
- 2024 Sa╠âo Paulo Grand Prix · Qualifying“Yeah, sorry to, sorry to tell you, but P11, P11. Oh, oh sh**. Well, good job anyway, good timings.”
- 2024 Sa╠âo Paulo Grand Prix · Race“Albin will not take part in the race, but his grid spot will be left empty.”
- 2024 Sa╠âo Paulo Grand Prix · Race“Yeah, difficult race, Valtteri. Seemed like we mostly struggled with tyre warm -up on the restart.”
- 2024 Sa╠âo Paulo Grand Prix · Race“Can't be too loud here. That's all I can do.”
- 2024 Sa╠âo Paulo Grand Prix · Race“We were at the sitting ducks on the restarts with the tyre warm -up, but anyway, as well, when things stabilised, we were still lacking pace.”
- 2024 Sa╠âo Paulo Grand Prix · Practice 1“Would you like to take another push lap instead? Ideally yes.”
- 2024 Sa╠âo Paulo Grand Prix · Practice 1“And now we should move to constant sock. I see you doing the switches already. Let's pass through the pit lane for the practice start.”
- 2024 Mexico City Grand Prix · Race“Yeah, solid job. Still, I mean, I think we had better pace than in the previous events, but still lots of work to do, but positive weekend compared to some others.”
- 2024 Mexico City Grand Prix · Practice 3“Do you have a balance limitation in turn 12?”
- 2024 Mexico City Grand Prix · Practice 3“No, I'll just explain it later. There's an issue with the braking.”
- 2024 Mexico City Grand Prix · Qualifying“And red flag, red flag, box, box, was a good lap, was a good lap, yes.”
- 2024 Mexico City Grand Prix · Practice 1“And stop in front for a nose change.”