{"id":700588,"date":"2026-05-29T02:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T02:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/700588\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T02:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T02:10:10","slug":"podcast-russell-antonellis-canada-brawl-can-mercedes-avoid-destructive-f1-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/700588\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: Russell & Antonelli’s Canada brawl – can Mercedes avoid destructive F1 battle?"},"content":{"rendered":"

George Russell<\/a> saw the Canadian Grand Prix as a chance to relaunch his F1 world championship campaign but instead his worst fear was realised.<\/p>\n

Not only did he retire with engine issues, his team-mate Kimi Antonelli<\/a> was bang on his pace \u2014 at one of Russell\u2019s strongest circuits.<\/p>\n

Mark Hughes and Bryn Lucas explore the gripping Montreal<\/a> team-mate brawl we saw before Russell bowed out and what it means for a title race which the teenage Antonelli leads by 43 points.<\/p>\n

They also take an in-depth look at how the Mercedes<\/a> team-mates\u2019 driving styles differ, including how Antonelli creates extra margin over Russell, but only under specific circumstances in races.<\/p>\n

Should Russell despair about his position? Will his greater experience give him the edge over the season? And can Mercedes keep the duo from destroying each other on the track?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

All this and more \u2014 including Lewis Hamilton<\/a> looking back to his best in Canada and why this season really could be Max Verstappen<\/a>\u2018s last in Formula 1<\/a> \u2013 read more on that subject in Mark\u2019s latest column<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mark also answers your questions on the excitement of Montreal and the fairness of Russell\u2019s defence of Antonelli.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll feature more listener questions next week. Don\u2019t forget to post yours below.<\/p>\n

Can\u2019t see the form? Click here<\/a><\/p>\n

Click to read more from Mark Hughes<\/a> and don\u2019t miss an episode by subscribing on your favourite platform or YouTube, where a video version accompanies the audio podcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Russell saw the Canadian Grand Prix as a chance to relaunch his F1 world championship campaign but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,3024,25251,221012,82],"class_list":["post-700588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-george-russell","tag-kimi-antonelli","tag-kimi-antonelli-vs-george-russell","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}