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But here we are. Welcome, Portuguese Grand Prix time WTF on podcast. Welcome to Tom Bellinger and Katie Ferman, my two esteemed guests, not guests family. You know, it's just

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Samuel Lee underscore Giovannoli sleeping Grand Prix and Eunice underscore domain fun, then boring. I think Eunice is as nailed that pretty well. I think it was more that than the sleeping Grand Prix.

But yes, it's it was a, I mean, it's it all kind of just happened in that first part of the race, didn't it? And then it all settled down quite, I say, nicely.

It was almost like last year, wasn't it, Potter Mao in that sense, because there was chaos at the start, science taking the lead, all that sort of stuff. But as soon as the position sort of jostled around, you have the two Mercedes out in front, how much of course over to botters back in 2020 and then it was done. And again, it was that same kind of vibe, wasn't it?

It was like going to my three address view because it's pretty much that. Oh, yes, let's do that to me.

My three address of you is 2020 days are blue and that's not and yeah, it's kind of what you were saying, but also the fact that it felt very similar to a kind of standard 2020 race, I guess, if you like, not just the fact that we had a now record breaking, hamburger or

the hamburger, but the hamburger, as it was in the actual race, but that's now the most common podium ever informal one.

But the fact that you had botters doing well in quality, but ultimately not quite good enough in the race to much Hamilton Hamilton overtaking him for staff and kind of hanging on to the two Mercedes, it did kind of feel like we were back in 2020 for that race, didn't it?

It did indeed. Yeah, there's been a weird one really. I'm still in two minds as to whether or not the tracks good as much as it's a roller coaster, undulations, all that good stuff.

The best words.

The parts are being go cards for that.

But yeah, I was off the same opinion, what about you, Casey?

Yeah, I loved like the look of the cars going around the track. I mean, to have a circuit, like you say, that's such a roller coaster, like the TV footage that picked up, it just looks an awesome track to drive. And I'm sure the drivers like it, unless you're Max, the staff, and he said he never wants to go back here.

Which was nice.

Yeah, it's Max, you know, he will just say how it is and I'm sure probably someone at Red Bull went, yeah, we do want to sell Red Bull cans and put

Yeah.

No, I agree with with what Tommy is saying, you know, it seems that the beginning of the race is super action packed, there's loads of overtaking, which obviously we're all really happy about.

And then it sort of dies down and these massive gaps form and then it just becomes a bit dull.

You know, we're saying that I mean, it's difficult because we had to such insane races to kickstart the season that, you know, naturally anything that followed that was not as crazy as Imola and Bahrain was obviously going to be compared to being a bit boring and a bit dull.

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