# Back at Base S3: 9. A New Era Bonus Episode Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/f1-chequered-flag-810128/back-at-base-s3-9-a-new-era-bonus-episode Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/f1-chequered-flag-810128/back-at-base-s3-9-a-new-era-bonus-episode.md Podcast: [F1: Chequered Flag](https://stenobird.com/podcast/f1-chequered-flag-810128) Published: 2026-03-19T00:05:00+00:00 Episode link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0n797k0 Audio file: http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download-rss/proto/http/vpid/p0n79fd7.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/f1-chequered-flag-810128/episodes/back-at-base-s3-9-a-new-era-bonus-episode Duration seconds: 1554 ## Resource Following the first two races of the 2026 Formula 1 season, we catch up with two of the sport's rising stars, Chinese GP winner for Mercedes, Kimi Antonelli, and Haas one-to-watch Ollie Bearman. With never-before-heard interviews from the series, we learn a little more about their lives on the road and at home. As they embarked on their second year racing in the world’s fastest sport, how would they adjust to F1’s new era of cars at the opening races of the season? F1: Back at Base is an IMG Production for the BBC. Co-hosts & Executive Producers are Sarah Holt and Holly Samos ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/f1-chequered-flag-810128/episodes/back-at-base-s3-9-a-new-era-bonus-episode/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/f1-chequered-flag-810128/back-at-base-s3-9-a-new-era-bonus-episode.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.