New Coke to add out to Mal and welcome to Shift F1, a podcast about speedy race cars.

That by the way, is a Dutch expression for, now the monkey comes out of the sleeve.

Whoa, excuse me, roughly analogous to the English expression to let the cat out of the bag in honor of a number of announcements we will get to later in the show.

I'm going Dutch again since we have two Italy races this year and only one Dutch one. So I mean, how do you how do you not do the monkey sleeve thing?

It's such a well-known idiomatic expression. There's a lot of good idioms, Daniel Dwyer, who's back with us. How are you, Danny? How are you doing? Good to be back. Although I will say I did quite enjoy listening to Shift F1.

Last month, which was quite a, quite a treat. I haven't been able to do that in a while. But yes, I am back. I am back in the hellscape that is the Western American time zone for Formula One fandom.

Speaking of lovely treats, also joining us, Rob Zachney. How are you, Rob?

Not bad. Refreshed after a week's vacation and wish we had a slightly more action packed race to talk about, but it was still interesting.

Speaking of action packed races, Danny, I wanted to get your thoughts on spa, the race that never was.

Dude, I was having so much fun with my family and stuff that when the race was on, I was in Europe. So it was like perfect time to watch the race, but we had a day where I was all over my sister, all of our kids were paying together.

I was like, I can't, I need to do family things. This is the first time we've been home in two years, like for God's sake.

So I just turned my phone off and I was like, I'm going to get back to my sisters and we're going to watch spa and she might watch it with me because she was into F1 before I ever was.

She was my gateway drug as it were into the sport. She watched it when we played that. We would never podcast without her.

Yeah, probably, right? It's her and Joe Barron. I like the two people at least got me into F1 at different times in my life.

So they recorded it on their DVR, but it was confusing us because we went to start the video and it was like an hour of some other TV show.

And we were like, what the... And I was like, oh, maybe it got red flagged. Maybe there was rain and it got delayed and then the TV didn't want to show two hours of padding or 50 minutes of padding.

So they just threw on an episode of, you know, a place in the sun or whatever thing. They just have like buckets of they throw on whenever there's a sport to like.

And so then she was flicking to the other live channel and she basically I did a thing where I didn't look at the television and like put my hands up to my ears a bit and said,

it's just describe what you see. Like, are they racing? And she was like, they're racing, but it looks like it's behind the safety car.

Okay, how many laps does it say? It doesn't say how many laps? What? It doesn't say how many? I was like, is this like a weird channel four things?

We're watching on channel four. I haven't seen her broadcast, but I made the half. It doesn't what does it say anything else?

You said there's a timer and I'm like, oh, it is a timer. Okay. And how many are left? She said 59 minutes. I was like, I could not figure out what would have happened.

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