Chequered Flag Special: F1 75 Launch

F1: Chequered Flag

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4.2 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Rick Edwards joins Jennie Gow, Harry Benjamin and Andrew Benson at the F1 75 launch event. The team look ahead to the start of the new season, discuss the glitz and glamour of this new day in the F1 calendar, and speak to the drivers, including George Russell and Lando Norris, as well as the team bosses, including Toto Wolff, Christian Horner and Fred Vasseur.

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0:40.5	Hello and welcome to the O2 Arena here in London, where for the first time ever, Formula One, is building up to the 2025 season with a launch event.
0:48.6	I'm Rick Edwards. And for this very special occasion, I'm doing a bit of moonlighting, switching from Five Live Breakfast to be here this evening.
0:55.0	I'm joined by Jenny Gow and Harry Benjamin who are effectively here to babysit me.
1:00.0	If you've been used to hearing Josh Hartnett and the back at base series on this feed recently, rest assured the next episode will be released next Wednesday and continue right up to the start of the new season and then the usual
1:11.5	Check of Flag podcast with Jenny and the team will resume. And a reminder that the full series
1:16.4	of Back at Base How to Go Racing is available on BBC Sounds. So this is an early bonus episode
1:22.3	of the Checkered Flag podcast for you. Jenny, Harry, we don't really know what to expect from this launch event.
1:29.4	We'll see some new liveries, although I think the Ferrari is still going to be red.
1:33.4	So I think we can be rest assured on that one. But it's to build the excitement of the new season.
1:38.6	F-1 has never really, well, has never done this for a start. I did do an event back in 2017 where
1:42.9	we had some cars driving
1:44.5	through the streets of London and that generated so much fanfare. But already this is on another
1:48.8	level. Yeah, it was great, but already this is on another level. You know, it's a sellout of the
1:52.6	O2. We've got not just fans, but all the teams are here, all 20 drivers have actually been here
1:58.6	all day having to chat to us beforehand. So, and we're actually
2:01.1	live on the red carpet now. It's sort of a weird mix of BAFTAs and an F1. Because I guess on the car
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