Chequered Flag Extra: Palmowski’s F1 Academy dream & Norris’ title advice

F1: Chequered Flag

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🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Izzy Hammond and Harry Benjamin are back with more F1 ramblings. This week, will Kimi Antonelli’s hot form continue? We answer your hot takes. F1 Academy racer Alisha Palmowski discusses the return of her season in Canada. Can she compete for the championship? Plus, world champion Lando Norris gives title advice to Arsenal midfielder Declan Rice, and former McLaren mechanic Marc Priestley explains F1’s latest engine change. F1 returns for the Canadian Grand Prix next week, with live commentary across the 5 Live network. Search F1 on BBC Sounds.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:07.3	Experience football like never before on BBC Sounds.
0:11.0	Live commentary from the biggest names and the biggest matches in the Premier League,
0:14.8	Champions League and internationals.
0:19.7	Expert Insights on the Wayne Rooney show
0:22.4	I know what it's like obviously scored two goals in that final and that was an amazing feeling
0:27.0	and stay on top of everything football every day with the Football Daily podcast
0:32.1	football from five live listen only on BBC sound I don't want to give advice no but it's good though because you've probably been through like loads of little losses as well before you've got a massive win.
0:42.3	Plenty, plenty.
0:43.3	This was sent in by Owen.
0:44.3	Kimmy Antonelli will drop off at the end of the season like Oscar Piastri did last year.
0:51.3	I don't like him putting that into the universe.
0:53.3	Some changes around harvesting and deployment limits too should all mean that cars can be driven
0:59.0	flat out around a qualifying lap, which is not what we have right now.
1:03.0	Going into my second season in F1 Academy now, I think I just feel so much better prepared than last year, to be honest.
1:10.0	Hello, Harry. Hello, Izzy. Hi. It's been a while. It has been a while. How are you? I'm really tired. You've been gallivanting in Japan, haven't you? Yeah, I've been in Japan for two weeks while you were in Miami, which meant I was 13 hours ahead of what you were doing. So that would have been, the race would have been at what time? Sprint was about midnight, maybe 1 a.m. Okay, that's actually doable. That was doable. I did that. And then the race, because obviously three hours, different, all of that shenanigans. I'm going to be honest with you, Harry. I didn't watch it live. And you know what? I won't hold it against you.
1:45.0	Because I do think it was about 4 a.m.
1:47.0	Yeah, that's rough. That is a tough one to get up for. Yeah. But actually, the race being moved three hours ahead of time because they had the rain, the lightning, the storms, all that. It did us all a favour because obviously nothing happened in the end. But we were all quite pleased because it meant we could actually we actually got a bit of a after we did the podcast and all the editing and everything was all the
2:04.9	work was done you had a bit of a jolly didn't you not jolly we just had an we had an evening we could
2:09.7	go out for dinner suddenly suddenly were a cup of bottles wine bottle of wine deep with damon hill
2:14.7	which i didn't have on my bingo card. So, and he's got some good stories.
2:19.4	I'll tell you that.
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