00:02mercedes returned to its brackley base thrilled to get another grand prix win in canada five from
00:08five to start the 2026 campaign and young gun kimmy antonelli's record fourth straight career win
00:16but while its first major upgrade for the year was a step forward with its cars sweeping both
00:21saturday's sprint and sunday's grand prix technical director james allison says the joy has been
00:26marred by george russell's dnf merc's first for the season on george's pu failure it was an engine
00:34kill caused by a failure in the battery which which just suffered a catastrophic failure third of the
00:42way into the race and brought george's race to an end there we could see enough at the end of
00:48the
00:48race that the battery was fairly unhappy some heat damage there that engine kill also destroyed the
00:55thrilling wheel-to-wheel duel between its drivers russell and antonelli for the races lead but
01:01while the garage had its heart in its mouth across those 30 laps allison says the team is not about
01:06to
01:06intervene instead letting them race on it's a funny experience watching your drivers race as hard as
01:14they did in canada a bit of you wishes they were robots that would just get the performance out the
01:20car without fighting one another but the larger and better part of the team i think is thrilled by
01:25that fight as long as they don't touch one another the squad's bigger focus is getting upgrades onto
01:32the car in this opening season of the super hybrid era where development is king and the gains are bigger
01:38than ever before these are new rules the development rate is really steep something like quarter of a
01:47second a month so if there was a power cut here in brackley in the same up the road in
01:52bricksworth for
01:53six weeks that would be all of the advantage that we've eked out so far this season gone in a
01:58flash
02:07monaco 2026 marks the start of formula one's european season
02:11with its most historic events its greatest hits coming thick and fast
02:18starting with three double headers each separated by a weekend up to the summer break all up there's
02:24nine events including two sprints to be held across the sports european heartland in just 14 weeks
02:33monaco though also marks the return of the sports support series in full force
02:37with feeder f2 f3 and porsche supercar
02:43f2 is set to continue on from its inaugural north american tour and there italian gabriele mini
02:49who is part of alpine's academy is the man to beat
02:55the 21 year old has been the most consistent with one win in miami but behind him just six points
03:01covers second to seventh including red bull's nikolet solov in third who has two wins to minis one
03:10for f3 it's been a long wait since the last race in australia in early march and the remaining rounds
03:16all
03:16in europe but american ugo ugo chukwu leads the standings heading to monte carlo
03:25the 19 year old and spanish rival bruno del pino have one win each and just seven points are between
03:31them del pino and great britain's freddie slater are also equal on points 15 covers the top six
03:40all-female series f1 academy where red bull's alicia palmowski is atop the standings doesn't
03:46return to the track until july's british grand prix at iconic venue silverstone
03:53instead monaco sees much-loved tin top series porsche supercup return and with an xf1 world
03:59champion on the grid in jacques villeneuve his own return to racing since 2023
04:06the 55 year old left f1 following the 2006 german grand prix his 163rd start and his 31st for sauber
04:15following which he raced in everything from nascar to le mans and australian supercars
04:24villeneuve who is making his debut in the supercup series took part in pre-season testing in
04:28barcelona spain last month with the canuck in the category's new 911 cup car one that will feature
04:34his world-famous helmet colors as his livery for the eight-round championship
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