Canadian GP Preview: Will Antonelli & Russell Do Battle?
F1: Chequered Flag
BBC
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🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Eleanor Oldroyd is joined by F1 commentator Harry Benjamin and W Series race-winner Alice Powell to look ahead to the Canadian Grand Prix. Can Kimi Antonelli keep up his title charge? And will McLaren continue their resurgence? We get immediate reaction as the key protagonists speak with the media in Montreal, plus the BBC's F1 correspondent Andrew Benson joins the show to look ahead to the weekend and discuss F1's latest developments, including the most recent set of engine regulation tweaks.
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| 0:40.5 | Four races down and four victories for Mercedes so far, but three of those have gone to Kimmy Antonelli. |
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| 1:01.3 | Harry Benjamin and W series race winner Alice Powell. Hello both. Hello. Good evening. |
| 1:07.5 | Lovely to have you with us. I mean, it's been a weird kind of start to the season, hasn't it, Harry, in a way, because we're well into it. You know, we're halfway through May, over halfway through May, big gap before Miami. And then we've had another big gap to Canada. It does feel like an age ago, we started this season. We got going at three, you know, three in a row, first three races. Then obviously we had |
| 1:29.3 | this April break with the cancellations of Bahrain and Saudi. Then we finally got going again in |
| 1:34.2 | Miami and it was sort of straight back to it, sprint as well. But then we had another week off |
| 1:39.0 | and now we're back in Canada. It feels quite stop-starty. I feel like I'm going to have another |
| 1:43.3 | week off next week and then we get to Monaco and then it's a bit relentless. And then I think from Monaco we're going to start to feel like, oh, right now Formula One is back and going. But we'll be in June. It's kind of been permanently behind a safety car. And I'm usually sick of seeing Harry by this point because we could have several more races. But no, it's been a different season. That's sure to say. But I love Canada. It's a track that I've never actually raced on myself, but I have had the privilege of going and watching it. And it's a driver-favor favourite too. So I'm glad finally, F-1 is back and, yeah, to be racing and seeing them race at Montreal. We had a great race last year and I'm sure we're going to have another great one this year. Why is it so much for a favourite among the drivers? It's fast. It's a street circuit as well. So pretty much most drivers enjoy a street circuit, the challenge. There's a whole weather system there. I think we're meant to have potentially some showers at the weekend on Sunday. It's fast, low down force. You've got some medium speed corners. You've got real heavy braking as well. So it does produce a lot of overtaking. And that's what drivers love. They love that kind of challenge of being inches from the wall. And, of course, a track that you can certainly overtake on. Yeah and another sprint |
| 2:51.0 | weekend as well, Harry. Yeah, the first time we're going to have a sprint in Canada. Again, |
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