Chequered Flag Extra: Ranking F1 races as a fan & is Antonelli champion-elect?
F1: Chequered Flag
BBC
4.2 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
What does it cost to attend every F1 race as a fan? Izzy Hammond and Harry Benjamin are joined by superfan Brandon Burgess to find out. They discuss the best and worst races on the calendar from a fan perspective. We also discuss the latest listener Hot Takes following the Canadian Grand Prix. Would George Russell have beaten his team-mate Kimi Antonelli if he didn’t retire in Montreal? With the championship gap now at 43 points, is Antonelli champion-elect?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:06.0 | Experience football like never before on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:09.5 | Join the Football Daily podcast to dive into the fallout |
| 0:12.2 | from an unforgettable Premier League season. |
| 0:14.6 | Wow, these fans have got absolutely wild. |
| 0:18.1 | And all the build-up to an incredible football summer to come. |
| 0:21.7 | Overhead, King! |
| 0:23.6 | That is sensational! |
| 0:28.3 | Expert Insights and the biggest names in the game on the Wayne Rooney show. |
| 0:32.2 | Just coming to the club was already a dream control, a privilege, never saw, dreamed about being the captain of the club. |
| 0:33.8 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.0 | In all my life, I've always wanted to travel to every race in a season I thought is it actually possible to do it And then in 2025 I attempted it for £20,000 So what did come out on top at the end? What came out on top of the last year? It was Silver State. What was it? It was British Grand Prix, yeah. Wow. And on the other end of the spectrum? The other end was, I think it was Vegas on the top of my head. |
| 0:56.0 | To be fair, a day in Vegas is rough anyway. Yeah. Hello, Harry. Hello, Izzy. We are back again with another bumper episode. We've got a lot to come today, including a very special guest, who's done quite a bit of travelling watching the F1. Yeah, he's literally just landed back from the Canadian Grand Prix, |
| 1:11.9 | which isn't as long a flight as you might think it is, but... |
| 1:15.0 | Still pretty impressive. It's still a fair whack, we'll give him it. So we're going to speak to |
| 1:18.0 | him shortly, but good race at the weekend, I thought. Wasn't it? Very exciting. Kimmy Antonelli |
| 1:25.1 | win. He did. Four in a row now. First ever driver to get his first four Grand Prix victories consecutively. That's pretty impressive. It's a complicatedly worded statistic. It is. But it's quite interesting. Yeah, it is. It's quite good to know. We were robbed though, weren't we, with that retirement from George Russell? What could have been? Yeah. |
| 1:44.3 | Do you think they might have come together, though, if George Russell had stayed in the race? It was looking a little bit hairy, wasn't it? Nipper and tuck. If I was Toto, I'd be a little bit nervous at that point. But gave some other drivers some good results. How good was that fight for second and third? It was like, I feel like I got, maybe I shouldn't say this, transported back to 2021 a bit, |
| 2:01.5 | where it was like Hamilton Vastappen going at it. |
| 2:03.8 | It was such good racing. |
| 2:04.8 | And of, How good was that fight for second and third? It was like I felt like I got, maybe I shouldn't say this, transported back to 2021 a bit, where it was like Hamilton Vastappen going at it. It was such good racing and a Ferrari in second is pretty cool. Really impressive, very happy for Lewis, but also very happy for Max as well, because I feel like that car is finally coming together and he's able to show us what he can do, which we know is a lot. McLaren's not so good. |
| 2:18.6 | A bit of a nightmare weekend for them. |
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