This video provides the full race team radio communication for George Russell during the 2025 Spanish Grand Prix. It captures his interactions with his race engineer, Katu, covering race strategy, tire management, car performance, and responses to on-track events like safety cars and competitor actions.
and CH radio check. Sorry, I caught the end of your message there, Katu. Uh, sorry. Yeah, I I wasn't uh meant to be talking on your channel, but 5 minutes to formation lap, 3 minutes to formation lap. So tire wise uh everyone except for P19 Snoda who starting from pit lane are starting on soft tires and new soft tire starters are Past Street Norris P1 P2 and then P13 Lawson P14 Bman and then all the way down to P8 Colinto. Who are the last two cars on the grid? Big sights at Colito. Can we keep the umbrella or something? 2 minutes. 75 seconds. Fire up. Hit limiter on 1 minute. 45 seconds. Bite point find 25 seconds. 15 seconds. And just a reminder, you need that half second lift after the launch. Five. So clutch was 1 cent shallow tires so far. So lifting into turn 13 and posting on exit. And will be two burnouts starting at the timing line. Final one. E1 album. I see strat five. Last car approaching back of the grid. Even left and right. Copy that. All report. So look ahead. 3 behind 7 DRS enabled. Strat 13 available has one second ahead. 1 second will have the RS 1.1 doesn't have the RS of L clerk. 1.2 1.1 ahead of L clerk. So let's just get these rears back under control. Plenty to play for. Long race to go, but I can see you're doing the management. Just keep going at it. Just looking after these tires is our opportunity. Still target minus 4. So, approaching phase two now, George. And we're happy with those oxidations. No problem. So, I'm sure you can see it. Those Ferraris coming back towards us now. They pushed early on. Just keep an eye on your tire temps over the line. Still target minus 4. Lewis reporting a lot of graining. Ferrari talking of swapping cars. Overbalanced [Music] 5.2. Still scope air dip with high speed. So Gastly just hit it. So front has entered phase three. Just waiting for the rear. So target plus one. So rear in phase three now as well. George Stappen in the pit lane. So the stappen on a new soft tire and George we're seeing wind strength increased to 20 kph. That's same direction into turn nine. So, green 10, position four. Let's just keep closing this gap down to Lewis. Okay, George, you know what you need to do. You wish to [Music] extend. So, the clerk ahead 215 and the Stafford just behind Kimmy. So, 3 seconds behind. over staff car behind 3 seconds. Let's put the nearest off of the end if you're happy. Copy that. So look also pitted. So both Ferraris off medium. Got the snap on 1.8. How are the tires here, George? I mean I'm dropping but as expected. Yeah, got be happy with what you're doing there. is all coming to us. Got the snapping at 1.2. Track temperature still 49. Yeah. So, box remember pit limiter. So, reset diff. So, watching Gazzley on exit should be ahead. Overtake is available. Gazzly out 5 seconds. Target plus five. Lewis ahead doing 20.8. Same for the clerk. That was a bit four laps. So, green seven position five. Just confirmed that was four laps on set. We got that. So Lewis was a 20.3 last lap, but just remember it's a long game now. There'll be 43 laps remaining. End of this one. That last lap was a purple. Just be careful on that sliding turn 13. Too high last lap. So George, little bit of debris. Turn one, two. So we're in phase two here now green three position two. So George currently our race is solely with Lewis here. It looks like he's 10 seconds ahead of Lewis at the moment. I think he's going to have to go to the soft last. Yeah. Both of them might have to go soft. Yeah. or potentially a hard stamping in the pit lane. Stapping on pit exit should be a second of a bit ahead. Green default 21. Green default 21. Still happy with these oxidations. So judge first tire set was balanced front to rear same way front and rear. So tires are into phase three now. Okay George let's start to close up this gap now pushing me. This pace is good. George opportunities if we can close this gap a bit more. Clerk doing 20.8. So Colinto is 2 and 1 half seconds ahead of Lewis who will be blue flag. Got the clerk in pit lane. Just had a lock up front left. Let's see how it progresses. Seems okay for now. Copy. So box box opposite Lewis. Box opposite Lewis. So stage strat five reset diff entry diff high speed. This will be outlap critical. Halar at 2 seconds. Okay. So Lewis is inside our window now. Lewis has gone past. So we just managed from here. You got Colin Pinto blue flags ahead 1.6 Six Lewis currently 2.5 inside our window. So just remember you've got 23 to go ahead of this end of this lap. Blue flags ahead. Now we got Kimmy 2.3 ahead. So Lewis is 4 seconds inside the window. So let's just bring these tires in as we need to. George Strat 7 has been told to not to lose [Music] time. So Lewis was a [Music] 21 Lewis 20.9 now 7 seconds safe to him. Lewis was at 214. Got 21 laps remaining. Tires are entering phase two now. George. So Lewis in pit lane now. But Lewis has gone to the soft tire. Gap to Lewis. 13 seconds. That was a very slow stop for Ferrari there. Let me know. tire feel like it's getting rearwards now because I'm not pushing the motor. So, George, yeah, the uh the balance is moving slightly rearwards, but it won't be too long until we can start pushing on these tires again. Still phase two here. So, look ahead doing 193 a [Music] delta. So, he is one lap older medium tire. So Lewis, lap one was an 183 pushing quite hard off that slow pit stop. I don't know if to just you feel nice and detent. Yeah, that's fine at the moment. Essenti pit [Music] exit. So strat six and rear tires are phase two now George. So happy with these lap times at the moment. Just need to see where Lewis stabilizes. It was 197 198. Yeah, Nathan just giving his lap times. So 14 laps remaining up to the clerk. 4 and 1/2 seconds. 197 Lewis reporting rear going off already. Clerk 198. He's got portal letter all over him. We got double yellow turn 10. Safety car. Safety car. Safety car. Safety car. Strat one delta positive. There will be box. box off I think. Copy. Uh flap adjust. Where you at on balance? Yes. Okay, we are there. Double yellow here at turn 10. And then keep on your delta after you're through. Box box. So reset dip high speed clear on exit. So uh the stappen on the hard tire everybody else or most others on the soft safety car currently exit of turn 12. Okay. So we catch the safety car now. Uh 10 laps remaining. Cool. Oh, good. Copy. So, they cringing the car out of the way now. Turn 10 and green nine, position nine. So, we're starting to get clear track messages coming through. So, lapped cars may now overtake George. So stay online, no weaving whilst cars coming past. Colinto coming through. So just try and keep casings where they are. So wind looks like it's died down more similar to start of race now. Why is this AP car not in? They are just waiting for cars to uh to come back around cars. Don't think it'll be long now as those are all at turn five. So safety car in this lap. There'll be six racing laps remaining. Don't need me to tell you. It's flat out to the end now. So happy where we are on these tire temps. will be strat five for the restart. So, Past Street controlling the pace. T- strap five, safety car turn 12, safety car 13, safety car in DRS enabled. Gap ahead of the stamp on 1.2. Gap 1.4 1.1 laps. Four laps remaining and Max is under investigation now. Count 1.1. [Music] Don't know mate. Just pass it. So will have the RS. Yeah, obviously he's going to revert me. It's not it's not a last advantage. [Music] Strap 13. Let's go. Head down here. One lap to go at the end of this one. Yeah. Damage. Yeah. 9. We'll have the RS final lap and overtake exit turn 14. Yeah. Point 4. Nice driving. Good job, mate. Well done. Kept your head. Came in with a P4. So, we'll have green one, position 12, strat 14, picking up the rubber. Yeah, no idea what happened there. He just let me pass him and just drove into the side of me. Yeah, copy. So, yeah, Max got a 10sec penalty now. Smart. Sorry about the first. Just again, no pace in the first. First two lap my side. Yeah, no worries. Um, a good job managing tires today. Did everything we asked of you. Yeah, George, a tough one. Sorry for the call, but you were angry and I had to try to calm it, but well driven all. Good. Cheers. What what were the gaps to um McLaren before the safety car? Uh Pastry was 24 seconds. [Music]
