How to follow British Grand Prix on the BBC

Round nine of the Formula 1 season is the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, which is also the fourth sprint event of the year, from 3-5 July.

Mercedes’ George Russell took victory in round eight in Austria and was joined by Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and team-mate Kimi Antonelli on the podium.

Teenager Antonelli maintains his lead at the top of the drivers’ championship, with Russell’s win lifting him back up to second place and 40 points off the Italian.

Saturday’s 17-lap sprint race gets under way at 12:00 BST, with the main 52-lap grand prix on Sunday starting at 15:00.

Commentary of the race will be available across BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Sounds and the BBC Sport website and app.

You can also listen by asking most smart speakers to “play BBC Radio 5 Live” or “play BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra”.

Make sure to listen to every episode of the Chequered Flag podcast. For the first time this year, the post-race show for every grand prix is available to watch on BBC iPlayer and YouTube, external.

All times BST.

Friday 3 July

First practice: 12:30-13:30 (BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra via BBC Sounds and smart speakers)

Sprint qualifying: 16:30-17:14 (BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra via BBC Sounds and smart speakers)

Saturday 4 July

Sprint: 12:00-13:00 (BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra via BBC Sounds and smart speakers)

Qualifying: 16:00-17:00 (BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra 3 via BBC Sounds and smart speakers)

Sunday 5 July

Race: 15:00 (BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Sounds and smart speakers)

For those of you lucky enough to be going to Silverstone, it should be a mostly dry and warm weekend – not as hot as the heatwave of the previous week.

Friday is set for sunny intervals with a gentle breeze and a high temperature of 25C, while Saturday’s sprint race and qualifying will be the same, just a touch warmer at 26C.

For the grand prix on Sunday, the weather follows the same pattern as the previous day, with any cloud cover clearing for the post-race celebrations from 5pm.

Silverstone returns to hosting a sprint event for the first time since the format was introduced in 2021.

Sprint qualifying has three sessions, where now the six slowest cars are knocked out from the first two – like normal qualifying.

These sessions, known as SQ1, SQ2 and SQ3, last 12, 10 and eight minutes respectively.

This will make up the grid for the sprint race.

Only the top eight finishers score points, with eight points awarded for first place to one point for eighth, which will get added to the overall drivers’ championship standings.

Following Silverstone, the final two sprint races take place at the Dutch Grand Prix in August and the Singapore Grand Prix in October.