Australian Grand Prix Review
F1: Chequered Flag
BBC
4.2 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Are we going too early to say George Russell will be crowned the 2026 world champion? After his dominant victory in Melbourne, Harry, Jennie and Marc look back at the opening race of the new season and ask just how big Mercedes’ advantage over the rest of the field might be. They hear from Russell, his teammate Kimi Antonelli and Lewis Hamilton.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | Hello, I've just nipped in before your BBC podcast starts to tell you all about |
| 0:09.4 | You're Dead to Me. We're the comedy podcast that takes history seriously. Also from the BBC |
| 0:13.9 | and presented by me, Greg Jenner. I should have told you that at the beginning. Sorry. |
| 0:17.9 | Anyway, like many other BBC podcasts, such as Desert Island Discs, Evil Genius, or In Our Time, your dead to me is available first on BBC Sounds, |
| 0:26.3 | a whole month earlier than anywhere else, in fact. So if you can't wait another day to hear |
| 0:31.2 | the very latest in history and loads of other good stuff, then listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:37.4 | Five Live Formula One. |
| 0:40.0 | Formula One is back. We are up and running in 2026, and we've made our way from Albert Park |
| 0:46.4 | to the beach here in St Kilda to chew the fat after the first race of the season. |
| 0:52.4 | My name is Harry Benjamin, and I'm joined by Jenny Gow |
| 0:55.0 | and the former McLaren mechanic Mark Priestley. |
| 0:58.0 | A race that saw the new regulations seen for the first time in race trim |
| 1:04.0 | and it was won by George Russell and Mercedes. |
| 1:07.0 | We will talk about how they won the race and our thoughts about that. But first of all, |
| 1:12.9 | Jenny, this new era of racing, did we like it? I liked it. I enjoyed it, especially the first |
| 1:20.3 | like 13, 14 laps. When it was dicey, they were having, you know, there was drama out on track. |
| 1:27.2 | And that's all for me, I want to |
| 1:29.5 | see. I want to see drama. I want to see battles for the leads. Yes, some could say it was a |
| 1:35.3 | little bit artificial, but I was okay with that. I just, I enjoyed the first due lapse. Yeah, |
| 1:41.3 | obviously we're getting to grips, aren't we, with this 50% internal combustion and |
| 1:45.1 | a near 50% split with battery management and trying to work out how that is unfolding on track |
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