Our top 5 drivers of the 2026 season so far
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Hello and a very warm welcome to the Late Breaking F1 podcast presented by Harry Eade and me, Samuel Sage. We are in the summer break, unfortunately, so no racing this weekend. But we do have lots to talk to you about. But firstly, if you want to talk to us about actual Formula 1, when the summer break ends, we're going to be in Amsterdam. We're going to a Grand Prix. Harry, where are we going? To Amsterdam.
Yeah, we are. We mentioned this before, folks, but we are heading to the Dutch GP, the next race in the F1 calendar. And on the 20th of August, that's the Thursday before the race, we're doing a meet-up. So if you'd like to come and join us... I won't say the bar's name because it's in the description. I can't remember it. Le Bruin something? That is exactly how the Dutch people would say it. Perfect. The actual name is in the description. It's at 7pm on the 20th of August. We're going to be there. We'll have some drinks. We'll say hello to you people. We'll have some great chats, obviously. If you'd like to come... There's a link to a form in the description. Please, can you fill that out just to confirm your attendance?
We did a form before. If you did that, you need to do this one as well. It's a new form. If you're coming, you have to fill out this new form. It's form 2.0. So please fill in the form. Otherwise, we don't know if you're coming.
Excellent. There's a lot of admin to go on a show where Ben is not here. So this is great. We only went through lots of different things today. Father Christmas and birthdays will appear at the very end of the show. The most important thing to point out. I'm going top, back, bottom to top.
That's how he does it.
chaos already right father christmas and birthdays will be here for birthday shout outs for those people on patreon um the return of real or no real not created by me how are you just leading this have you got the banker ready to go uh no he might not turn up today what do you mean the phone might ring and no one's there That's quite literally the whole point of the show is to play that phone jingle. Good. We're also talking about much, much news that is occurring because there's lots of debates going on. And we've had lots of announcements when it comes to tracks. For now, they're currently debating whether we should go back to Hockenheim and the German Grand Prix about maybe we should end the season there.
We've got a lot of issues, of course, with the Middle East right now and changing of circuits. We'll get into that. later on in the show we're also going to be talking about stefania carly's uh quotes and comments about what f1 thinks it should be what viewers want or don't want there's a whole lot to go into that when we get into that one shortly but to start the episode we thought that was summer break activity we'll be walking through our top five drivers of the season so far so harry why don't you run through from five to one who are your top drivers so far
Thank you. I will do. My top five drivers of the season so far, I've gone for number five, Liam Lawson, number four, Lando Norris, number three, Lewis Hamilton, number two, Max Verstappen, and number one, Kimi Antonelli.
Oh, it's a me. Number one. Well, it's a great top five, actually. Love that top five. Very good. Did you actually number them or I just made up? They're numbered.
Producer Kersky can back me up with this. I sent them numbered as well.
It's a rarity. He's a 30-year-old man. He's discovered numbering lists. Very good. I'm 30 now. I've discovered how to count. Right, five down to one for me.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–11:48
2
Who are Harry and Sam’s top five drivers of the 2026 season so far?
11:48–14:04
3
Why did Harry rank Kimi Antonelli, Lawson and Norris where he did?
14:04–16:49
4
What reasons does Sam give for his differing top-five picks (Gasly, Verstappen, Antonelli)?
16:49–48:21
5
How do the hosts evaluate Max Verstappen’s performances in an inconsistent Red Bull?
48:21–56:56
6
What evidence do the hosts use to argue Lewis Hamilton’s season turnaround?
56:56–1:07:06