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Metzy Nooth Inder Bolter Fallen and welcome to Shift F1, a podcast about speedy race cars.

That, by the way, is Dutch for, uh, to fall with your nose in butter.

Which is really an expression after my own heart.

Uh, but it means roughly to be at the right place at the right time in honor of something that we will get to later in the show, uh, joining me.

Rob, Zachny, how are you, Rob?

Uh, feeling incredibly guilty, uh, for the fact that I apparently cursed, uh, the Belgian Grand Prix.

Like, you're all excited about, like, it being rainy and, you know, boy, hope it, hope it gets good and rainy at spots.

Boss always great in the rain and then somebody did point out that I had also said that we were in the middle of a long dry spell for good, uh, Belgium GP races.

So, yeah, like, I don't take full responsibility.

I think some other people made their own choices, but I'm definitely part of it.

Uh, well, Danny may have sent the rain, the Irish rain, uh, our way, because he's actually still over there.

I, no, I said he'd be back this weekend, but, um, he would be back, uh, next week.

Um, so we'll have that to look forward to if you're new to this podcast, a very warm welcome.

Uh, if you're new to Formula One itself, boy, you picked a interesting time to start it up.

Uh, but we've got an episode just for you, our preseason primer episode assumes no prior F1 knowledge and explains how the sport works and who everybody is.

So if you'd like to understand exactly what happened this weekend,

you can go back and look at, uh, episode 137 and then hop right up to to this one.

Also, the show is supported entirely by our audience over at patreon.com slash shift F1,

wherever month we release bonus podcast and videos exclusively for our patrons, uh,

the cover racing documentaries and films, F1 video games, experiments with other racing series,

and a lot of weird things.

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