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Cotto leje de la tête! And welcome to Shift F1, a podcast about speedy race cars. That, by the way, is French.

The language, what they speak in Monaco, I'm told.

For, it costs the eyes in your head. Basically, the equivalent of costing an arm in a leg, because we're in Monaco. I'm Drew Scanlon joining me. Rob's acne. How are you, Rob?

A little alarm, does I look at our document? I wonder what happened to the love of my life? Mariana.

Well, you're just keeping a head a little, Rob. But Danny is not here. Danny is on assignment, but we will do our best to bring his Irish energy without him.

If you are new to this podcast, a very warm welcome. If you are new to Formula One itself, we recommend listening to our preseason primer episode, which assumes no prior F1 knowledge from you, and explains how the sport works and who everybody is.

So if you'd like to go and do that, that's episode 137. Also, the show is supported entirely by our audience at Patreon.com slash Shift F1, where every month, we release bonus podcasts. I almost said bonus objects.

And videos exclusively for our patrons, covering racing documentaries and films, F1 video games, experiments with other racing series, and a lot of weird things. We're the bonus objects, Rob.

As we said, if you would like to support the show, you can get access to all that fun stuff over at Patreon.com slash Shift F1 or click the link in the show notes. This month, we will have our third and final episode about drive to survive season three, which I'm very much looking forward to speaking of those beautiful patrons, the loves of our lives, all of them.

We have our title sponsors to thank for the show will romp Reagan, Jason Kelly, Jason Chadwick. It's there are, let's see, three O's, two wise and one S in my document here.

So that's why I have to say that. I'm legally obligated. Umberto Roca, Bailey foot, Abdullah Alfani, Sam G, Greg Salt, circuit demon, oh yes, food, Drew Stewart, Jack Ben, Connor McManor's, and BPM.

Or as we all know, stands for beloved Pastor Maldonado.

Shout out to a real one.

Today, however, we will be discussing the upcoming Monaco Grand Prix, the aforementioned.

But before that, we have a little bit of nearest starting with some calendar changes. We had mentioned that Canada, the Canadian Grand Prix was canceled due to COVID,

and that Turkey had stepped in to host a Grand Prix. But now the British government has seen fit to add Turkey to its red list, which means that's a list of countries that require returning citizens to quarantine in a hotel for two weeks before they re-enter the UK.

And since most teams have bases in the UK, that's not going to work. So Turkey is hereby canceled.

I am so pissed.

Like, like, first of all, admittedly, we don't know if last year, some pretty singular circumstances, right, you had a combination of a really, like, a green track that was green in a way that we do not see in F1, like it was a new track surface, and then it was wet and cold.

And so admittedly, that is as close as we will probably ever get to Chairman Bernie's why don't we just put sprinklers on the track idea.

And it made for us on ice.

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