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Hello and a very warm welcome to the late breaking F1 podcast presented by Harry E, Sam Sage, and me Ben Hocking reviewing the Imola Grand Prix today after a win from Max Verstappen.

It was the quote-unquote perfect weekend for Max Verstappen.

He took the race win, got the fastest lap,

and got the eight points that is given out for the winner

of the sprint race on Saturday.

Helps him out a lot in the championship,

whereas Charlerclair only able to claim P6 after a late spin.

What did you make of that one, Sam?

I mean, oh my God, my voice is going already. It's a good start.

Welcome, welcome, folks, for the podcast. I hope you enjoy the Imla Grand Prix. It was definitely one that looked like it was going to deliver more than it promised when you think of mixed weather

conditions, a slippy track, how much drama we saw across the spring in qualifying. You thought,

hello, we're in for a bit of a belter here. And it definitely fizzled. But this, it's not disaster

for Charlotte Clare. It's not disaster for Max for Stuping. It's just the beginning of what we're going to see a lot of across this season, I think.

It is going to be drivers having big moments, drivers having mistakes, drivers having possible race-deciding incidents.

And I really respect the way Cheryl LeC Clare kind of went, you know,

everything to the wall, away we go, I'm going to risk it all right now. And he really didn't need to,

but he just thought, I'm doing it, doing it for the viewers. I'm doing it for the Tofosi watching.

You know, I don't need to risk anything at all, actually. I was quite comfortably sat in third. And I thought, for one extra fastest lap point, I'll really go for it. I'll really put my foot down here. And it really, really backfired on him. And I'm not, you know, disasterly worrying about Charlotte Clare here. He is not the driver on the grid that I think, like, one mistake, we're going to now see a trend of this. We're going to now see him struggling race to race. He won't go get back on the horse or the planting pony, so to speak, to try and get himself to the back, to the front of the grid. But this has been absolutely phenomenal for Reg Ball, for Stupon, for Sergio Perez, the fact they were to secure,

and correct me, stat man, professionally, please. Correct me if I'm wrong. It was this actually

their only, only their second one to six, twenty-foot, that is mind-blowing. That is genuinely

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