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

George Russell has had a fantastic start. He's right up there behind the group, behind his team-mate Kimi Antonelli. His contender for the world championship. It is wheel to wheel action. We see some contact.

Max Verstasppen is motoring forward in the Red Bull from seventh place. The Dutchman is closing in on team-mate Isack Hadjar and he passes the Frenchman for fifth spot. But a little moment at Copse lets Hadjar back in. Can he pass? No, not this time.

Oscar Piastri will be in recovery mode now from P22.

Oscar Piastri: "I think I have damage."

Race engineer: "We have front wing damage, box, box."

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The Mercedes of Kimi Antonelli is just waiting for a moment to pounce on the Ferrari of Lewis Hamilton - just like in the sprint race on Saturday.

Charles Leclerc leads from team-mate Hamilton, with George Russell holding position in fourth.

There was contact on the opening lap and Brit Oliver Bearman seems to have been caught up in it, along with the McLaren of Oscar Piastri.

Rosanna Tennant
5 Live F1 reporter at Silverstone

There is not an empty seat in the house, every single seat has been taken, I can see the grandstand for Lando Norris, they're all on their feet cheering.

Silverstone is green!

Charles Leclerc has got past Kimi Antonelli to take the lead of this British Grand Prix!

And now Lewis Hamilton has also caught the Italian teenager, so that drops the championship leader down to third. And George Russell is right on his team-mate's rear wing too!

Max Verstappen has made up a place to sixth place.

Kimi Antonelli has arrived at his grid spot, closely followed by the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc. Nine-time winner Lewis Hamilon is just behind the pair, lining up with old Mercedes pal George Russell.

The Aston Martin of Fernando Alonso has stopped at Becketts. But the Spaniard gets going again quickly and now he can take his place with the rest of the field.

Here we go...

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.

BBC Sounds

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'.

The formation lap is under way.

Are we ready?

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%.