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Saturday of a sprint weekend can only mean one thing. We have got two sessions to review the sprint race that happened earlier on today and the qualifying session that has just unfolded as we're recording this episode. Sam, we've got a lot to talk about.

A lot to talk about, because dare I say it, it's been quite exciting.

Spice. A little bit, yeah, you know, you're like, you know, I'm not the local Indian,

I'm looking for a curry to choose, do I go for a corm and now a little bit of spice, maybe a booner, maybe a McCarney. There's some real options on the menu, and I want it a little spicy. And that is what Canada has delivered. I don't know, it's because we've just had this gap, which feels like we've been out of F1 for eternity. So watching a Pirelli tire roll round the blooming Argos catalogue might be interesting.

But this was fun.

I had fun today.

Circuit Jill Villeneuve, the lemon and herb of the F1 world.

Who'd have fought it?

One step up on the spice scale.

Exactly.

We'll get to the qualifying session a little bit later on in this review.

We're going to start out with the sprint race that happened earlier on, so just to make sure we're doing this chronologically.

And as mentioned, a little bit of spice.

So in the end, George Russell from first place managed to win the sprint Grand Prix, but not without some controversy with a battle with his teammate, Kimmy Antonelli. But Kimmy Antonelli not finishing second on the road because Lando Norris was in between them, again related to the battling that the two Mercedes had. Sam, we've had a lot of Mercedes domination so

far this year, but one thing that has been absent to this point has been battling between those

two Mercedes drivers. But if we can take this as the race went, a good start or a reasonable

enough start from both of them meant the scene was set for that sort of

thing. Today was the day that they stopped being teammates and they started being competitors.

It felt like they crossed a line into...

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