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Hello and a very warm welcome to the late-breaking F-1 podcast presented by Harry Ead and me, Ben Hocking. No Sam Sage today, as we would have referenced on the preview podcast.

As you know, if you did listen to the preview podcast, Sam underwent some surgery this weekend.

Good to say that everything went well.

We don't know exactly when Sam's going to be back.

It might be a couple of episodes before you hear his dulcet tones once more.

But we will do our best to infill with out there analogies

and Monaco hate, maybe, who knows. We've got a lot to get through. It's a very annoyed late

breaking F1 podcast, Harry, because because of the delays, we're missing the start of the Indy 500.

Yeah, folks, currently the Indy 500 is about to start in 32 minns, I think.

So this could be the shortest podcast we have, we've ever done.

So there you go.

Yeah, I mean, there's no Sam here, so maybe it actually will be slightly shorter.

And unfortunately, you know, we can confirm that they don't, they don't remove

a moron as a personality trait when you do a surgery, which is a shame.

So he'll still be a moron when he comes back.

They wanted extra money for that, and we just didn't have the money to pay them, but

sorry.

Sorry, guys.

But even though the Indy 500 is mere minutes away for the two of us, we are still committed

to doing the podcast straight away after the Grand Prix, despite the fact that the Grand Prix

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