Damon Hill
1996 world champion on BBC Radio 5 Live at Silverstone

McLaren clearly not dominating like they did last year. Not being the team that were able to set the pace for everyone but they will still be in the mix. Lando did perform well in the sprint, it is very difficult to tell if they have the pace over a long race.

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Rosanna Tennant, Harry Benjamin, F1 correspondent Andrew Benson and 1996 world champion Damon Hill will be taking us through the British Grand Prix today.

To tune in, you can click the 'listen live' tab at the top of the live page, head over to the BBC Sounds app and search for 5 Live if you're going to be out this afternoon or you can ask your smart speaker to "play 5 Live".

You can also get analysis, previews and reviews from the F1: Chequered Flag podcast all weekend - including an interview with Lando Norris. Just search 'F1' on BBC Sounds.

Earlier we asked you, the audience, to cast your votes on who you think will win at Silverstone.

The poll is now closed and here is who you think will take the chequered flag at the British Grand Prix:

48% of you think Kimi Antonelli can convert pole position to a race win.

For Lewis Hamilton, 43% of the audience believe he can win his home race.

It is a 3% vote for George Russell and 2% for Charles Leclerc.

4% of our audience voted for 'someone else'.

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The C2 medium tyre - brand new - is the compound of choice for every driver up and down the grid at Silverstone today.

Mercedes continue to dominant in 2026 and now the Silver Arrows are 100 points clear of second-placed Ferrari in the constructors' championship following the fourth sprint race of the season.

McLaren and Red Bull both added to their tallies on Saturday but the pair stay in third and fourth, while Racing Bulls in sixth put another point on the board in their quest to catch fifth-placed Alpine.

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Kimi Antonelli added a couple of points to his title advantage after yesterday's sprint victory and now leads Mercedes team-mate George Russell by 43 points at the top of the drivers' championship.

Lewis Hamilton may have slipped back down to third in the standings but the seven-time world champion is still on second-placed Russell's tail, sitting just four points behind.

World champion Lando Norris has pulled a few points out on Ferrari's Charles Leclerc and McLaren team-mate Oscar Pastri after finishing third in the sprint, while Racing Bulls' Liam Lawson boosted his tally to 31 points with a P8 finish on Saturday.

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Haas' Ollie Bearman speaking before the race: "It's always incredibly special to be here in front of a home crowd. Special race, special event, I'll be giving it my all."

"The breeze has been here all weekend, we struggled a lot with that. Even though it's windy, it's less than yesterday."

Racing Bulls' Liam Lawson: "The car has been very good recently, it works well here. We'll try and get after it today."

Max Verstappen on why he is not starting from the pit lane: "Don't ask me that question. If it was up to me, I would've chosen something else."

Andrew Benson
BBC F1 correspondent at Silverstone

The strategy predictions do not bode well for an exciting race.

Mercedes are expected to have a pace advantage over Ferrari, as seen with Kimi Antonelli’s victory from second on the grid in the sprint, which is why Lewis Hamilton expects him to “disappear into the distance” if he maintains his lead at the start.

The main question is whether George Russell can get past the Ferraris fast enough to be any kind of threat to his team-mate.

The race is expected to be a one-stop, either on the medium and hard tyres or medium and soft, depending on degradation. The pit-lane time loss for a stop is about 20 seconds under green-flag conditions, nine seconds under a safety car.

Because of the high levels of energy management required, there may be some “yo-yo” racing up and down the field.

If you have been at the British Grand Prix this weekend, then you've taken it into the record books, as this year's event is the most attended Formula 1 event in history of the sport.

Across the four days at Silverstone, 564,000 fans have packed inside the famous circuit, beating the previous record of 520,000 spectators who attended the final Australian Grand Prix staged in Adelaide in 1995.

If you are there today - 175,000 of you in total - we hope it's a great race!

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Ian Fergusson
BBC weather forecaster

A warm, settled and breezy day at Silverstone, where air temperature is 23.6C, track varying from 37 to 43C. Dry with decreasing cloud. Wind is westerly, gusting lately to ~18mph.

FIA official risk of rain 0%.

Kris Holland
BBC News

For all the home support, it's easy to forget that Silverstone is a destination race for many international fans.

Oscar Solimano, from Argentina, is among those visiting for their first taste of the British Grand Prix.

The 33-year-old said he and his 10 friends would offer their support to countryman Franco Colapinto, who starts 19th on the grid for Alpine.

"We are big petrolheads, that's why we're here.

"It [Silverstone] is incredible, it's one of those places that you say 'hey, there's a true petrolhead passion here'.

"It's not like other circuits we've been to, here you breathe cars and motorsport."

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Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton on what makes Silverstone so great: "You're looking at it. All the fans here. It's such a privilege for us British drivers to be here. It's the best race of the whole year because the fans show up."

On if he reflects on his success here: "I don't reflect on it, I'm still building. Let's go."

"I love Silverstone, I love the fans here, thank you so much for bringing the energy"

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Isack Hadjar starts the higher of the two Red Bull drivers today, with the Frenchman out-qualifying team-mate and four-time world champion Max Verstappen for the first time since the Japanese Grand Prix to line up fifth at Silverstone - two places up the road from the Dutchman.

After failing to score points in the sprint, Hadjar said he had "mixed feelings" about the shorter race, as another slow getaway at lights out dropped him down the order. "We're still missing the pure performance to compete with Mercedes and Ferrari," he said, "but Sunday we'll be in the fight with both McLarens and hopefully bring home some solid points."

For Verstappen, who took his second podium of the season at the Red Bull Ring last week, he said "everything seemed a little bit off" for him in qualifying. As well as the balance of the car not feeling good, he added it was also "terribly slow on the straight for whatever reason, even compared to the other car."

He continued: "When you are slow on the straight here, you are more full throttle, you burn more battery and it is just like a spiral and it gets worse and worse to the end of the lap. It's like a double whammy."

Andrew Benson
BBC F1 correspondent at Silverstone

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Lando Norris acknowledged in his BBC Sport interview before the weekend that it was a bit frustrating to be reigning world champion but not in a position to defend his title, and nothing has changed at Silverstone. If anything, McLaren were struggling as much as at any race this season.

Norris, who won this race on his way to the title last year and starts sixth, was 0.766 seconds off Kimi Antonelli's pole position lap time.

"We are just slow in the straight, slow in every corner, the car is not very efficient, we lack downforce and we have too much drag," Norris said.

"We are in a bit of a pickle. It's also a track that highlights both of them. This is a track where you need to be efficient."

Oscar Piastri, who qualified P8, added: "Mercedes is clearly a step ahead right now, but we believe teams like Ferrari are not completely unbeatable, so we will keep chipping away, manage our tyres and see what we can achieve."

Rosanna Tennant
5 Live F1 reporter at Silverstone on BBC Radio 5 Live

The grid is starting to fill up, the cars aren't on it yet. They are doing their reconnaissance laps but the fans have found their places in the grandstands, they've found their seats. the media are all down here and then it is a who's who in terms of celebrities coming to the grand prix as well. I've seen Sir Chris Hoy, Sir Mo Farah.

I think we have a cracking grand prix ahead of us as well, with Kimi Antonelli, the young Italian driver on pole, being chased down by the Ferraris, which of course includes Sir Lewis Hamilton. I am standing on the Hamilton Straight, so a lot of support for the British drivers this afternoon.

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Mexico are preparing to face England at the famous Azteca Stadium tonight (or early Monday morning for us here in the UK) in the last 16 of the World Cup, so native Sergio Perez has done what any good fan would do and has put his shirt on to walk into the British Grand Prix paddock. Bold move, Checo.

It was a tricky Saturday for Perez and Cadillac at Silverstone, as he made contact with Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso in the sprint and was handed a 10-second time penalty. He was then out-qualified by team-mate Valtteri Bottas in qualifying and will start P20.

Perez said the team has taken some good learnings from yesterday's competitive action and thinks they could be in with a shout of mixing it with the midfield runners. "There will be a lot happening and we just need to be there at the right time as there can be opportunities," he added.