F1 Team Radio Dataset

A comprehensive dataset of Formula 1 team radio communications with transcriptions.

Dataset Description

This dataset contains team radio audio clips from Formula 1 races along with their text transcriptions. Team radio communications are the real-time messages exchanged between F1 drivers and their pit wall engineers during race weekends.

Dataset Statistics

Top Drivers by Message Count

Data Fields

Driver ID Format

Driver IDs follow the official F1 format: first 3 letters of surname + first 3 letters of first name + identifier number.

Examples:

• MAXVER01 → Max Verstappen
• LEWHAM01 → Lewis Hamilton
• CHALEC01 → Charles Leclerc
• LANNOR01 → Lando Norris

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

# Load the dataset
ds = load_dataset("MikCil/f1-team-radio", split="train")

# View a sample
print(ds[0])

# Filter by driver
verstappen = ds.filter(lambda x: x["driver_id"] == "MAXVER01")

# Filter by race
monaco_2024 = ds.filter(lambda x: "Monaco" in x["grand_prix"])

Playing Audio

from IPython.display import Audio as IPythonAudio

sample = ds[0]
IPythonAudio(
    sample["audio"]["array"], 
    rate=sample["audio"]["sampling_rate"]
)

Fine-tuning ASR Models

This dataset can be used to fine-tune speech recognition models on F1-specific vocabulary (driver names, technical terms, etc.)

from transformers import WhisperForConditionalGeneration, WhisperProcessor

Transcription Method

Audio files were transcribed using Cohere Transcribe 03-2026, an efficient open-source automatic speech recognition model.

License

This dataset is released under the CC BY 4.0 License.

Citation

@dataset{f1_team_radio,
  author = {Michele Ciletti},
  title = {F1 Team Radio Dataset},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/MikCil/f1-team-radio}}
}

Acknowledgments

• Formula 1 for the original broadcasts
• Cohere Labs for transcription