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Shnew! And welcome to Shift F1, a podcast about speedy race cars. That everyone is

Bahrainian Arabic for what? In honor of all the weird things that have happened in the

past week, and the season hasn't even started yet. We will get to all of that. In a second,

I'm Drew Scanlon, joining me, Daniel Dwyer. How are you, Danny?

I'm good. I am shocked that Formula One is back. For some reason, we have waited so

long for these new cars, these new regs. I've been watching so much of testing, but I can't

believe this is a race happening in a few days. It's crazy.

Yes. I'm also joining us, Rob Zachney. How are you, Rob? I am shaken by the fact I guess I had

not seen the picture of Nikita Mazepin with his father, Dimitri, and so I did not realize the

situation there. Are there plans? Yes. Yes. What the fuck am I looking at, Drew? Look at this.

Wow. Wow. It's the same haircut. Yeah. It's the same guy. I hate it. I hate it. This is...

Have you not watched Drive to Survive Season 4 yet? I have not. I'm going to watch closer to

when we record our show. You can always tell it is a Mazepin on because they have brooding Russian

music on. Here come the evil bosses. If you are new to this podcast, a very warm welcome to you.

Welcome to the 2022 Formula One season in effect. If you are new to Formula One itself, we've got

an episode just for you. You just missed it. You can go back to episode 178. That's our pre-season

primer episode, which assumes no prior F1 knowledge and explains how the sport works and who

everybody is. So we will get you up to speed, so to speak, in only two hours. Also, the show

is supported entirely by our audience over at patreon.com slash shift F1. Every month over there,

we release bonus podcasts and videos exclusively for our patrons that cover racing documentaries

and films, F1 video games, experiments with other racing series and a lot of weird things. So

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