Back At Base S3: 3. Hope and Ambition
F1: Chequered Flag
BBC
4.2 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Hollywood legend Keanu Reeves makes his entrance in Episode Three of the podcast as the actor reveals why he has chosen to document Cadillac’s journey to the Formula 1 grid in a follow-up to his award-winning 2023 series about the Brawn F1 team.
Our expert F1 guides, Holly Samos and Sarah Holt, are also closely following Cadillac’s story, and they arrive at the team’s factory for a landmark moment for the team.
Under the watchful eye of Race Team Manager Pete Crolla, the team are preparing to send off their first sea freight of the season from their Silverstone headquarters.
They are also building the garage that will home the cars at the track for the very first time. The series continues to follow 2025 rookie drivers Ollie Bearman and Kimi Antonelli in-between the races.
Bearman reveals what he’s been doing at a test session in Italy. But there are also testing times in the World Championship for the Haas racer who has picked up more penalty points on his F1 Super licence and is in danger of a race ban.
Mercedes teenage sensation Kimi Antonelli finds himself in the spotlight for a very different reason, as we go behind-the-scenes at a top-secret photoshoot ahead of the 2026 season.
The Italian reveals what team commitments he has outside of the car but, like all F1 drivers, he’s always looking forward to getting back to his job inside the cockpit.
F1: Back at Base is an IMG Production for the BBC, hosted by Rosamund Pike Co-hosts & Executive Producers are Sarah Holt and Holly Samos.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I'm Ed Gamble, host of another BBC podcast, The Traitors Uncloaked. |
| 0:12.7 | But my show is available only on BBC Sounds, just like Ellis and John's Saturday bonus episodes, |
| 0:18.2 | The Pop Top Ten podcast with Scott Mills and Rylan, and comedy specials |
| 0:22.2 | from the likes of Harriet Kemsley, Susie Ruffle and Rommashranganathan. |
| 0:26.0 | However, and maybe I'm biased, it's really all about the traitors uncoaked. |
| 0:30.3 | So for a whole bunch of exclusive scoops and podcasts, listen only on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.7 | Episodes of F1 Back at Base are released weekly wherever you get your BBC podcasts. |
| 0:41.7 | But if you can't wait, you can listen to the latest episode now, a week early, first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:53.7 | Formula One is in a moment of in-between. |
| 0:57.0 | One era is ending and another is about to begin. |
| 1:02.0 | While the sport has one eye on the future, there are still races to be run in 2025, |
| 1:07.0 | giving more vital time behind the wheel for our rookie drivers. |
| 1:17.0 | But one team doesn't have to juggle the competing demands of a season |
| 1:21.2 | with plans for a major new rule change. |
| 1:24.6 | The new Cadillac Formula One team can devote all its waking hours to the |
| 1:30.3 | 2026 campaign. It needs to be great, it needs to be perfect, it needs to be representative of one of |
| 1:36.3 | the biggest car manufacturers in the world. And though the team can't yet script how their journey to |
| 1:40.7 | F1 will end, their story has already attracted attention from Hollywood. |
| 1:45.6 | There will be drama somewhere, if not everywhere. |
| 1:49.4 | I'm Rosamund Pike, and in this series we've been given unprecedented access to the American |
| 1:54.9 | icons of the road as they race to reinvent themselves as F1 contenders. |
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