Too close to call? 2025 British Grand Prix Preview - with David Tremayne
F1 Nation
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🗓️ 3 July 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Red Bull's Max Verstappen and Mercedes' George Russell have their sights set on challenging the McLarens. Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton hopes the home crowd can inspire another stunning Silverstone performance.
Tom Clarkson and F1 Hall of Fame journalist David Tremayne look forward to a British Grand Prix which is too close to call.
Is Max Verstappen facing a 'defining weekend' as he goes up against McLaren in his upgraded Red Bull? Is talk of Verstappen's future affecting his current team, his potential future team, Mercedes, as well as George Russell and Kimi Antonelli.
David and Tom also talk about the stars of the season so far, including Racing Bulls' Isack Hadjar, debate whether Hamilton or Charles Leclerc can be on the podium, and discuss how Williams can recover from a double retirement at the previous race in Austria.
David Tremayne writes fascinating features for the official F1 website - read them here
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| 0:00.0 | Full credit to McLaren. I really, really like the fact that they let them race. I just can't |
| 0:07.5 | separate the two of them right now. Having seen Lando win the Australian Grand Prix, I'm sure Oscar |
| 0:13.5 | would like to return the compliment. Welcome everyone to Silverstone for F1 Nation's preview of the British Grand Prix. |
| 0:24.4 | I'm Tom Clarkson and joining me here in the paddock is F1 Hall of Fame journalist David Tremaine. |
| 0:31.1 | Great to have you on the show, David. |
| 0:32.7 | Your features on the F1 website are essential reading. |
| 0:36.3 | What have you got planned for us this weekend? |
| 0:39.0 | 1995 British Grand Prix won by Jay Herbert. |
| 0:43.3 | The race in which Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill had a coming together, didn't they? |
| 0:47.6 | Indeed so, in which Michael was very unhappy, and Damon wasn't very happy either. |
| 0:54.0 | And they both got reprimanded by the stewards |
| 0:56.7 | which is interesting. Brilliant. And that comes out on Sunday? I think so. Yeah. Sunday morning I guess. |
| 1:02.5 | Well look forward to reading that. The British Grand Prix is always a huge weekend for the sport |
| 1:08.5 | and never more than now as it celebrates its 75th birthday. |
| 1:12.9 | The first ever race taking place here at Silverston in 1950. |
| 1:18.3 | So let's look at the main talking points ahead of the weekend. |
| 1:22.0 | Let's begin with McLaren. |
| 1:24.6 | Oscar Piastri leads Lando Norris by 15 points at the top of the world |
| 1:28.6 | championship. Oscar has five wins to Lando's three. David, who do you think is going to have |
| 1:35.5 | the advantage this weekend? I think McLaren is, but if you're asking me which of the two of those, |
| 1:40.5 | I think it's incredibly difficult to tell. I mean, this is what is so fantastic about this |
| 1:46.0 | year. And you've got two totally different kind of drivers. I loved it. There was something on |
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