Back At Base S3: 1. All at Risk

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A new era of Formula One is about to dawn. There are new rules. New cars. A brand new team. Start a team, it's the best thing to do. And the next generation of star drivers. Hi everyone. I'm Oli Berman. And I'm Kimi Antonelli. Are letting us inside their cars. And their homes. We're in Monaco. We just got off the simulator. Familiar faces are returning. We've done it all, we've seen it all, and it's made me realize that I'm definitely not done. And a Hollywood legend makes an entrance.

I am Kiana Reeves. There will be drama somewhere, if not everywhere. Change happens quickly in the fastest sport in the world. The 2026 season is set to be seismic. In recent years, we've been through a number of biggest evers, but this one really is. Biggest shake up of F one. I think the biggest step the sport has ever seen. And the story of this new era begins just like every season inside the team's top secret.

I'm Rosamond Pike, and in this series we have once again been given unprecedented access to some of the biggest names in F1. But this time, we're doing things a little differently. In series one, we followed the Mercedes and Williams teams as they built their cars over the winter. This is not coal mining, this is Formula One motor racing. And in our second series, We went racing with Aston Martin and champions McLaren. I really wanna reward them with everything and that's my motivation.

This time, we go behind the scenes during the rookie racing campaigns of two F1 drivers tipped to become future world champions. Mercedes star Kimmy Antonelli and British house driver Ollie Behrman are taking us along for the ride. Yes, we do mean that literally. I'm gonna go like a madman. We also have VIP access as they lift the lid on life away from the track. So there's gonna be less nights of me ordering deliveroo and more nights of calling my mum up and asking her to cook dinner.

In this series, we're also following the startup Cadillac Formula One team as they race to join the grid for the very first time. Their uncharted journey is fraught with jeopardy, but they have unlocked their doors and inside. There's some sleepless nights ahead for all of us, I'm sure. The brand new Cadillac team and next generation star drivers carry the hopes of hundreds working relentlessly inside their

They cannot race without each other. The skills inside the cockpit are matched by the brain power and dedication back. The buzz around F1's new dawn is building, but the new technical rules for 2026 have cranked up the pressure on the teams like never before. This week is the busiest. of the whole year. So you picked a great week to come and see us. I love In 2016 in Monaco, I was thrown into the path of legends. I met both Lewis Hamilton and Nicki Lauda. Their sense of calm is so impressive.

I'm drawn to that mental control, the precision, the passion the total and utter focus at the expense of everything else. And when you couple that with the speeds they're racing at, the constant changes to the car, new rules, new technical hurdles to overcome or embrace It is an endlessly fascinating sport. It's all a drama, unfolding at every second. Oh my goodness. That was threshold. Broadcaster Holly Samos and journalist Sarah Holt

have been working in F1 for over fifteen years. This chap on the forklift, are we in his way? It is like we're at a track, just about to go in the Cadillac garage. And they'll be our guides. As we join the race teams and our rookie stars for the drive into Formula One's future. In Formula One it's just absolute brutal pure competition. I wasn't able to celebrate the day after I was straight into school doing exams. Every driver wants to beat their teammate and that

it should be. Yeah if you want to make it first of all you have to believe that you have what it takes. It's gonna be same sticks for everybody. Where are we now? This is F1 back at base. All at risk.

It's July 2025, and summertime's in bloom. The UK has been sweltering in a series of heat waves, but at the British Grand Prix, things are about to get even hotter. After twelve races on the road, The 10 Formula One teams and their 20-star drivers are back where it all began. The iconic Silverstone Circuit, where F1 held its first World Championship race back in 1950. Taking to the track where so much history has been laid down is next generation Mercedes star Kimmy Antonelli. Today.

The 18-year-old is a high-speed taxi driver, taking special guests on a hot lap around the track in a sleek Mercedes AMG GT sports car. Are you usually scared of this? No, I'm good. Good, okay. Yes, Holly is also on the VIP guest list for the hundred and sixty mile an hour ride. I'm gonna go like a madman. Okay, hold on. Oh that's good! You're waving to the crowd at the same time! Yeah yeah, multitask! It's like slow, it's it's nice and chill. How fast are we gonna go?

You missed the track! I think we're gonna do like two sixty maybe. Antonelli throws the car around Silverstone's famous sequence of fast corners. This isn't a qualifying lap in an F1 machine, but it's as close to it as he can get. A nice light for the crowd? and say hi as well. Hi everybody! Cops normally flat with the F1 Obviously the tires are at the end of their life so it's quite difficult for them. Tires at the end of their life is. Whoa, whoa! Oh someone cut here but we cut as well.

Drifting out of the last corner, Antonelli brings the car to a stop. Dressed in grey team shorts, t-shirt, and silver trainers, he emerges also wearing a huge smile. It's fun giving wide-eyed passengers a taste of F1's high-speed thrills. But it's hard to imagine. This eighteen-year-old has only been able to drive legally on regular roads for just six months.

When you passed your driving test earlier in the year. Did you actually have lessons or did you just go straight for the exam? Well for the practice exam I went straight. I actually no I did one lesson with my dad the night before the exam. But that was the only lesson I did. And which was reverse parking because I n never done before. So you literally learn how did you learn to drive as such? Was it literally off the road, on track?

Yeah, yeah, definitely because obviously for the driving license, you know, I wasn't able to learn on the road obviously because without the license I couldn't drive. Yeah. So I think you know Being a racing driver really helps as well. But I had to study to understand also all the signs and everything. The theory. Yeah the theory because that's quite different compared to F1. There's there's a lot of sign on the road which you don't have in F1.

So I had to really learn them so I in in order not to to mess up on the road. Did your examiner know who you were? Yes. She she she sat in the car, she looked at me. And then she realized. And then she was like, oh my god, you're Kim and Telly? I said, yes. And then she was super excited. And then During the the test we just talked about F1 but I think she was during your test Yeah but I think she was trying to trick me. She was trying to make me lose the focus so I will do a mistake.

She wa she was really nice. She was really nice. But I don't know if she has bad inten no, for sure she didn't have any bad intention, but she was trying to trick me a little bit. Well the fact she was talking to you through your actual exam is quite something. Yeah. Should we sit in the back of the garage? Escaping the demands of the British Grand Prix for an exclusive chat with us is no mean feat, especially when you're one of the hottest properties in the sport.

Antonelli joined F1 in 2025 as one of six rookie drivers, the most new faces seen in a single F1 season for more than 20 years. Signing a rookie driver also signalled a new direction for Mercedes. The team chose Antonelli to fill the racing boots of one of F1's greatest superstars.

As we heard in series one of this podcast. BBC Sport understands that Lewis Hamilton could make a shock move to Ferrari. I really wanted to do it for myself and and that's ultimately like to find out what was gonna be the best.

What about when you got the call about taking over the seven time world champions seat? That was uh that was quite a moment. That was quite a moment. I remember I was always with my family. It was just before summer break and uh I remember w I was in vis this video call there was uh Toto, there was Bono, there was James Allison, there was everyone. and uh you know to finally get the news that uh I would

be driving F one in twenty twenty five was uh was incredible. You know, I think I didn't sleep the the night. I just couldn't process, you know, I was like I couldn't believe it was actually true. And what about your family and friends? How did they take it?

Uh you know, also for my parents it took quite a while to process, you know, I think it's something we've been dreaming since a long time and we've been working really hard for it and I think it hasn't been easy but uh Also especially for them because they've done a lot of sacrifices and uh to to get me where I am today and uh I think you know also for them was a very special moment and uh and also you know to share the the news to to my friend. Honestly I had to wait quite a bit because

I got the news before summer break and I had to wait until Monza. Yeah. And it was hard because in that period there was a lot of speculation, you know, a lot of

talks and uh my friends were always asking me and I always had to deny and uh you know finally when I was able to tell them it was uh it was really nice to share. You know, like tell a fib? It's hard to do. It's so hard. I mean it's uh I'm honestly a guy who struggled to keep surprises, so it it was like so bad for me because I really wanted to say it but I just couldn't.

Another top secret project is also preparing to go public. After months of planning, a new F1 team is preparing to roll into the pit lane in 2026. And they're bringing a giant name with them: Cadillac. The Luxury Wing of General Motors. One of the oldest car manufacturers in the US and with serious racing pedigree in other series, Cadillac is intent on becoming the next All-American F1 team. But for now, this F one startup is breathing life into its ambitions in the heart.

of British Motorsport. On a sprawling industrial estate just meters from the Silverstone Circuit, the team is mapping out its future. And Holly and Sarah were invited for an exclusive First look. at the team's base. So it's early June and we're driving in to Silverstone Park. There are no signs on any of these buildings. Gosh there must be about 15 cars only

in this car park which is so unlike any other F1 team that we've ever visited, Sarah. Yeah I know. We're looking for the Cadillac F1 teams, UK headquarters, but they're so new that we uh we we can't actually find them. Okay right now we're outside what I think is the right building so uh let's go and see if we're at Cadillac Starting a fledgling F1 team from the ground up is a rare experience in modern F1, but there's one man who already has that on his resume.

Time pressured British entrepreneur and motorsport enthusiast. Graham Louden. I would tell you what I had for breakfast, but I didn't. So Loudon eat the bread. The last time a trio of new teams entered F1 in 2010, Loudoun was at the helm of the Manor F1 team. That's why, as he explains to Sarah, when Cadillac wanted to put a new F1 team together, they knew who to call.

Well Graeme, it's so exciting to be here with you today at the Cadillac Team's UK headquarters on the third of june twenty twenty five. But when did the project start and how did you get involved? Our project's been going for quite some some time now. Looking back it's probably about three years ago. I remember exactly where I was. I was I was driving on the A one and I got this phone call completely out of the blue.

So I took the call and effectively they were interested in trying to understand how you enter Formula One. How do you do the entry process itself? It's not obvious to anybody who doesn't try it and it's certainly not obvious to anyone who does try it either, how how you actually go about that. And I guess I was Mae'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio.

Into the world championship. Two things that you need to do to get a team in to the to the championship. First of all is actually understand the entry process itself. If you read the sporting regulations for Formula One, which are available on the internet, anyone can can download them. It looks as if it's really simple. There's even an entry form attached to it. But that's not actually how you enter. You you have to enter in response to an FIA process. The second piece of advice that I gave is

If you are gonna start a new Formula One team, then the entry process is one thing, but by far the best thing to do is actually just start the team straight away. Start building it. Start hiring the people, start investing in in the assets that you need and the premises and everything else. Start a team is the best thing to do. Cadillac may have been building their F1 Dream Team for a while, but their journey to the F1 grid has had a few bumps along the way.

Their entry is a revision of an original bid tabled by nineteen seventy eight world champion Mario Andretti and his son Michael, which was rejected by the sport in january twenty twenty four. The promise of a bigger commitment from General Motors and a management shift saw the team eventually being given the green light to join the championship in 2026. But even before then, Louden and his operation were already thinking and acting like a fully fledged team.

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We explained effectively to the FIA what we were gonna put in every sea freight container and what day it was gonna go and write down to every single item that was gonna go into every box and how we were gonna use it and how we were gonna recruit the people to use it and how we were gonna design the elements that were gonna be used with that equipment. It was hundreds and hundreds of pages of detail.

And then we presented it almost like a like a car brochure. The kind of parallel track to this was if you're serious about Formula One you have to start the team at risk. But you have to start the team. So It's a really strange process to do'cause you you're building up to a full sized Formula One team, you know, literally starting from

three people or something in in and one room. That scales really very, very quickly, you know. So before long we were spending, you know, north of twenty million dollars a month. Twenty million dollars. You were spent the team was spending twenty million dollars a month before you'd even got Yeah, yeah. I mean some months. Um you know, it it was fluctuating up and down because like now one of our big

costs now is the payroll because we have a lot of people now. Um but back then some of the some of the big costs would be I remember one month Yeah, we spent seven million dollars I guess on software and you know, we have no entry. So this is all at risk.

What it clearly demonstrated to anybody who was evaluating, you know, not just our readiness, our understanding of what was needed to build a f a Formula One team, but it also demonstrated the the desire as well because You know, you you don't take these risks uh lightly.

Loudoun has brought another F1 heavyweight on board to strengthen Cadillac's cause. Technical guru Pat Simmons has been bending his engineering brain to F one cars since nineteen eighty one and has won world championships with Michael Schumacher at Benetton and Fernando Alonso at Renault. But in the nascent days of F1's newest team, his job title at Cadillac still needs a bit of finessing. Yeah, what's my job title, Graham? It's it what's it?

I've got down executive engineering consultant. Hi, I'm Pat Simmons. I work for the Cadillac Formula One team and I'm Graham's mate. Holly spoke to Simmons, newly titled as Executive Engineering Consultant, about what tempted him to start a new chapter with Cadillac. Pat, you've been involved in F1 for Well, you tell me, over four decades, so

Uh yes it is over four decades. In fact, next year will be my fiftieth year in professional motorsport and of course most of that has been in Formula One. So I guess what forty four years at the moment in Formula One. Have you ever been involved in setting up an F one team literally from scratch before? Well, sort of. You know, when I first came into Formula One in nineteen eighty one it was with Tolman and of course that was our first year racing. I was employee number twenty.

So there weren't many of us to sort of get the thing off the ground and e even by the time we went racing, of course in those days you didn't have to start at the beginning of the season, we actually started uh I guess in May, something like that. And there were only just over sixty of us even then, so definitely first time at this scale, but uh a little bit of background to help.

So you you began officially beginning of the year, didn't you, beginning of twenty twenty five? Yeah, that's right. January first, uh, twenty twenty five is when I joined the team. So what I'm trying to do I guess is to have a look at what we've got and what we haven't got, trying to help where I can.

Uh but at the same time I'm really keen on keeping an eye on the future because everyone is really busy, you know. We we don't have as many people as uh an established team. We've got more work to do than an established team. But at the same time I want us to have a vision for the future and the the things we need to do as a really top ranking team as the years go on. So what was it for you that was attractive for this role?

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Yeah, with that sort of uh recommendation, how could I not do it? Absolut I mean it's exciting, isn't it? Not there's not many opportunities like this, I suppose, in this sport. Yeah, and that opportunity is the word, you see. Um yeah, there are lots of challenges. But each one of those challenges is an opportunity and it's a chance to do things just a little bit better than you've done them in the past. You know, the you don't have that legacy that you have to work with. You really can try and

put it the best you can in your imagination, in terms of how the team is structured, in terms of the processes, in terms of the way we go racing, the the way we treat our people, all those sort of things. Really, really want to do them properly. Some mornings feel like a marathon before your feet ever hit the floor. Which is why the little wins matter. Guessing your password on the first try? Win. All green lights on the way to work? Win. Finding your car keys in the

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For Sarah and Holly, there is no need to imagine just how Cadillac's Silverstone Factory is coming to life, because Chief Operating Officer Rob White arrives with umbrellas to fend off a sudden downpour to take them on an exclusive tour back at base. But this is unlike the factory visits that either have been on in the last two series of this podcast.

Cadillac are doing things differently for twenty twenty six. Rather than making car components themselves like most F one teams do, they are relying solely on external suppliers. Rob explains more during our VIP talk. Walk around the corner past somebody else's car park. How many buildings are you occupying now? We've got four buildings. To have the car on the ground and and running for the start of next year. And then there's the parallel challenge of

Building a full-scale Works Formula One team for the long-term future with ambitions to be properly successful at the sharp end of the sport. Are you on target? Everything's under control, uh but it's an extraordinarily tight timeline to the first first event. When we go inside the buildings you'll see on on the wall some of the tools that we have to keep track of it. We have a countdown timer on the wall that nearly everybody can see nearly all of the time.

And the clock is ticking. Cadillac had their entry approved in March 2025, giving them exactly a year to prepare for the first race of 2026. But when you're building an F1 team from the ground up, 12 months is a blink of an eye. And the countdown to the Australian Grand Prix isn't the only deadline the team are chasing.

Cadillac are also building a two hundred million dollar high-tech headquarters in Fishers, Indiana, just twenty miles north of the famous Indianapolis Speedway on the other side of the pond. While that is under construction, the team is operating out of its makeshift Silverstone home. So tempting as it is to go through the door that says no access, we'll go through the other one. So will the components for the 2026 car be built here? before Fishers comes online in the US.

Uh so the the simple truth is that nearly everything for the twenty twenty six car will be outsourced. The usual suspects that other teams have have used but we've got a pretty robust plan. We know where everything's coming from. For the next stop of Sarah and Holly's exclusive tour, Rob opens the doors onto an enormous, empty warehouse.

A makeshift canteen with a microwave and kettle, tables and chairs, has been set up in one corner, but the rest of the unoccupied space is waiting to be filled with machinery, equipment, and people. F1 constantly requires all the teams to evolve, but this vast, vacant space. puts Cadillac's race to join the grid into sharp perspective. Oh this is a lovely big space isn't it? It's like an aircraft hangar. What we have in front of us is an empty shell.

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Uh so the good news is we've got nothing to break today. What do you mean you break stuff? So that's a a big rig which is set up uh for the purposes of of chassis homologation testing. Oh, so you're braking cars over there. Oh let's pause here to dust off the F1 dictionary. Homologation is a process where the sports governing body, the FIA, tests the car and its components to make sure they meet certain safety and technical standards.

Now, back to the tour. So I think you asked us earlier on whether we're ahead or behind as we speak. early June then we're in the process of homologating our first uh our first chassis. There isn't anybody else who will be doing that just yet. Um it's a good example of where we're sort of ahead.

But we're ahead because it's a very high risk activity for us because we've never done one before. So it isn't the race chassis that we're homologating. It's our first proof of concept chassis. And so to the earlier questions about So that's a full size race car floor. Same story. That will not be on the car in 2026. But that is informing the learning that we must do to know how to make Design.

of of stuff that needs done really, really quickly, but there's a lot of interdependencies that mean that y you can't do this thing until you've done the thing before and there's a lot of those things all lined up that need to happen. So So you're entirely right. The length of time needed to set it all up is is is considerable.

Back in the blistering heat of midsummer and a few days after the British Grand Prix, house driver Oli Behrman is taking some history lessons from a four-time F1 world champion. It looks so small though. So so tight. You have three pedals. Huh? You have three pedals. Right foot brake. Behrman is leaning over the cockpit of Alan Prost's mighty nineteen eighty eight McLaren. At the Goodwood Festival of Speed, where motorsport stars gather once a year for a high-speed British garden party.

Next gen drivers can ask the advice of those that have conquered F1 before them. Is this the era where you would have qualifying engines? Um we have qualified engine. With extra power. Yep. We have qualifying engine. Uh If Ollie was being a prost fanboy, and who can blame him? The Hass driver also had his own supporters out in force. The twenty year old Brit may be in his rookie F one season, but he already has a huge following with three million fans on Instagram alone.

Sarah went offline to find some of them at Goodwood. What do you like about Oli Behrman? Give us all the goss. Well we support infancy with kind of an F3. an FOR and we've always just seen him as an amazing driver but he is also so funny. We saw him at Silverstone last week and on the main stage he was just so funny. He's done a lot of content on YouTube that we've been following for years and then obviously like TikTok and Instagram as well so we just follow him through that.

What is it that you like about Ollie? Um the fact that he's British and he's so young. Him being so young getting into F1 and achieving something so young is great. Are you excited about all these young drivers that are coming through like Ollie, Kimmy Antonelli? Yeah it's great because you've got the new generation and it inspires some younger people that want to get into motorsport. Tell us quickly why you're an Oli Berman fan.

Uh he's British and he just had a really promising start with his debut for Ferrari. So I've just I just liked him from the start really. The fans had gathered to see Berman drive up Goodwood's famous hill climb. And with the house driver such a man in demand, Sarah had to squeeze into the passenger seat for a quick chat before he hit the gas. We sat in a car at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.

What are we doing here? Um honestly I'm avoiding the the heat and I think you'll be quite happy now to be in this AC car which I'm about to drive up the hill. Uh so I thought it's a good occasion to have an interview here. Loads of fans here. We've spoken to some already. What's it like a young F1 driver, a massive fan base? Tell us. It's been incredible, you know, this event. Um it's

It's grown over the years and and last year I was here it was huge. But this year as an F1 driver coming back has been insane. The fan support is is incredible. Nothing like I've had before so. You know, I really enjoy coming to Goodwood every year, it's a beautiful part of the world, beautiful weather always, uh really scenic views and you know to have this amount of people supporting us here is fantastic. How do you handle the fan attention?

Yeah, it's um i it's something we have to get used to for sure. And I I think definitely over time I'll I'll become better at it and get more used to the amount of attention that there is because at the moment, you know, after a busy day like today for example or a Thursday in Formula One I often find myself really burnt out. And although it's amazing and it's It's always fantastic.

It is something that you need to manage and and do the best as possible. But you know, it's my first time ever experiencing this amount of fans, so it's a very special feeling. Have you had to make any other adjustments since um becoming an F1 driver? Has your life changed in other ways?

Honestly not too much other than that. You know I I try and keep a similar schedule to what I had before. Um try and maintain a normal life outside of racing which is important to me and make sure I enjoy everything that's coming as well.

Behrmann's global fanbase grew when he was handpicked by Ferrari to deputise for Assik Carlos Signs at the 2024 Saudi Arabia Grand Prix. Despite the pressure of driving for F1's most storied team, Berman brought home a haul of points on his F1 debut. Parachuted into Formula One this weekend, crosses the line, on debut with Ferrari and points for the Essex boy in seventh. Oliver Behrman, fantastic effort.

But the learning curve has been much steeper in his first full season racing for Haas. How's the rookie season been going, Olli? We're we're kinda halfway through, a little over halfway through. What's your assessment?

Yeah, it's certainly been up and down. Um I think we've shown some very high moments and and good potential. At the same time we've shown some more difficult moments and and I think that's just getting used to the sport and the car and and everything. Um so, you know, m on my side I'm not

I'm not really happy with my performances as a whole. There have been some fantastic performances that I've been really proud of. There's also been some that I'm not very proud of. So that's something that I'm trying to work on and and definitely with experience will come. Um and on the other side, you know, that those

Highs have been very high and and you know we've had some incredible qualifyings and some incredible results. So it's been a season of up and down so far. We recently bought an upgrade to Silverstone and I hope that can change our fortune for the second half of the season.

One rookie season once. So what does that mean? Does it mean you have to prove yourself or are you allowed a bit of margin for error? Are there less expectations for you? There are certainly less expectations than an experienced driver, um, but I what when saying that

it's more that I want to enjoy it to the fullest. Um because, you know, there's certainly a lot of uh pressure and and tense moments but, you know, I'm also in my rookie season and and absolutely loving uh what I'm doing. So I wanna make the most of that because I'm having my first experience of a lot of things and and just really enjoying it. I wasn't expecting to get in a car with you but this is absolutely fantastic. Thank you for taking the time to check.

Goodwood is a place where F1's past meets its present, where racing legends run on the same piece of road as rookies bursting with ambition. And it's the same story. The pinnacle of motorsport stands on the precipice of a new age in When reworked rules are set to shake up the And at Cadillac.

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