2026 Canadian GP Sprint Race & Qualifying Review
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Hello and a very warm welcome to the Late Breaking F1 podcast presented by Sam Sage and me, Ben Hawking. Saturday of a sprint weekend can only mean one thing. We have got two sessions to review: the sprint race that happened earlier on today, uh, and the qualifying session that has just unfolded as we're recording this episode. Sam, we we've got a lot to talk about. A lot to talk about, because
dare I say it. It's been quite exciting. The spice. A little bit. Yeah. You know, you're like, yeah, I'm I'm that the local Indian. I'm looking for a curry to choose. Do I go for a Corman? No, I want a little bit of spice, maybe a boomer, maybe a Makani. There's some real options on the menu. And I want it a little spicy. And that is what Canada has delivered. I don't know if it's because We've just had this gap. We feels like we've been out of F1 for eternity. So watching a Pirelli tyre roll round a blimming Argos catalogue might be interesting. But This was fun. I had fun today.
Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, the lemon and herb of the uh of the Fond world. Who'd have fought it?
One step up on the spice scale.
Exactly. Um, we'll get to the the qualifying session a little bit later on uh in this review. We're gonna start out with uh the sprint race that happened earlier on. So just to make sure we're doing this chronologically. Uh and as mentioned, a little bit of spice. Uh so in the end, George Russell from uh first place managed to win the sprint Grand Prix, but um not without some controversy with a battle with his team. teammates, uh Kimi Antonelli, but Kimmy Antonelli not finishing second on the road because Lando Norris was in between them, again related to uh the battling that the two Mercedes had. Uh Sam, we've had a lot of um Mercedes domination so far this year, but one thing that has been absent to this point has been battling between those two Mercedes drivers.
But if we can take this uh as the race went, a good start or a reasonable enough start from both of them meant The scene was set for that sort of thing.
Today was the day that they stopped being teammates and they started being competitors. It felt like. It felt like they crossed a line into poetry that. Well, thank you. You know, they do call me I was gonna say Sam Shakespeare, but that's what you're gonna pun. So remotely close to a pun. They'd just call him Sam Shakespeare. That's what I get gay on the streets. Um Yeah, they they crossed the line today, and I think we're now aware that there are two camps in that Mercedes garage. You could hear the outcry, the outburst from Antingelli over the radio, how frustrated he was. He lost his head for a bit there, and uh Papa Toto and uh Bono had to come over the radio to simmer him down just a little bit. But it was a spicy incident because Kimmy Antagani all over the back of George Russell for a lot of the Grand Prix, up until the point where Russell seemingly slow coming through the hairpin, which means that Antonelli is much closer, two or three tenths away.
We go through the chicane. Great rug again for Antangelli. And Kim uh um Korean Shangdot gave a really good breakdown of this instant after the sprint qualifying about why this probably should have been looked into as a bigger review. Uh and it wasn't by the screwers, it wasn't looked into in any way. But Kimi Antonelli was fully alongside as they hit the apex for turn one. Um and fully alongside the wing mirror with his front axle as they entered turn two. So more than comfortably alongside to be given the space and was not given any space. And I do think if this is not an intra-team battle, if this is let's say McLaren versus Mercedes. That is protested almost immediately. And yet Kimi Antonelli is told to basically shut up, stop winging, and get on with driving the car, which is I thought was a stern hand for someone who's been doing so well.
But I guess when it's uh against teammates, you kinda need to nip it in the bub pretty quickly.
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