Has Russell's title bid gone off-track already? Your questions answered
The Race F1 Podcast
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🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Can George Russell get his title bid back on track, or is Kimi Antonelli now the firm favourite for the title? That's just one of the questions you threw at us about the increasingly intriguing intra-team battle developing at Mercedes - and we answer several more in this mailbag episode, featuring questions sent in exclusively by The Race Members' Club.
There are also questions about plans to reintroduce V8 engines by 2030, the difficulty of following races in 2026, and whether F1 should be concerned at how easily Gasly's car appeared to flip over in Miami.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | The Racer |
| 0:04.4 | The Racer's on and can George Russell get his title bid back on track |
| 0:15.7 | or is Kimmy Antonelli now the firm favourite for the title? |
| 0:19.3 | Might Lando Norris be a factor given McLaren's revival? |
| 0:22.7 | And what are the implications of the FIA's plan for a V8 engine future? |
| 0:26.4 | I'm Edgraw and joining me to answer those questions |
| 0:28.2 | and many others from our listeners are John Noble and Scott Mitchell Mowm. |
| 0:32.9 | Well, we're here still in Miami, hence the slightly unusual backgrounds. |
| 0:38.0 | We just want to have a little bit more time in Miami, didn't we? |
| 0:40.3 | It's nice to, it's nice not to rush home after a Grand Prix. |
| 0:43.9 | That always adds a little bit of extra, extra stress, especially when you're trying to work for everything. |
| 0:48.3 | But yeah, on this occasion, it's given us an opportunity to actually record a podcast that isn't the post-race podcast together in reasonable spirits |
| 0:57.5 | and health on a Grand Prix Monday, which isn't always a given. So yeah, I'm happy that we've done this. |
| 1:04.7 | I'm still loving the new race start yesterday, three hours earlier. And I was thinking when we got |
| 1:08.9 | to bed, just gone 11 o'clock last |
| 1:11.3 | night I was thinking this would be two three o'clock in the morning and then we still have to get up |
| 1:15.1 | the same time so six seven o'clock to catch European day that would have been made a terrible day |
| 1:21.0 | today it makes so much difference that's the amazing thing I can honestly say that I feel about three |
| 1:27.1 | times more alive than I normally do on a post-Gronprie week. So I'm very positive about that. But we've got loads of questions from you from the race members club. These all came from our questions from the Miami Grand Prix. We thought we'd work through some today. And there's plenty about George Russell. And we're going to start off, Scott, with a combination question from motorsport, Mike and Matthew McMahon. |
| 1:48.6 | Is Montreal George's last chance to show he can be a title contender? |
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