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Hello and a very warm welcome to the late-breaking F-1 podcast presented by Harry Eid, Sam Sage, and me, Ben Hocking.

We're back reviewing races the first time in 2023.

The Bahrain Grand Prix is in the books, and Max Verstappen starts the year the same way he ended last year with a pretty dominant victory ahead of his teammate, Sergio Perez. But joined on the podium by Fernando Alonzo in the Aston Martin. Great start for Red Bull. Great start for Aston Martin. And Sam, we're about reviewing races. So it's great for us too. Oh my goodness. I got that little excited tummy feeling. You're like where you're on like the top of a roller coaster and you're about to go down the big dipper on the roller coaster. That's how it felt watching the five red lights build when we started watching the Bahrain Grand Prix. It was like, here we go. The roller coaster starts. We are back.

I'm so excited to be doing a race review for the first time in the season. Only a few more of these to carry on out through the year. You know, we're going to be here every single time. But, you know, what a good start. Max Verstpping and Red Bull looking on on theously good, slightly scary.

And also being that little little menace, Harry, you're back, you're feeling good.

How's it going?

Oh, man.

Elplan.

Elplan.

Also, how's Laplan going, Ben?

You know, in the same way that Rome wasn't built in a day, I never said Lepland was going to work in one race.

Esteban Alcon's got this in the bag.

He just needs to, I don't know, read the rule book.

But after he's done that, it'll be fine.

The only thing I can think of with O'Plan is it starts with the same letter as

Loser, Loser! El Plann is the goat.

La Plan is nothing, mate. You're nothing.

Savage.

Well, I'm glad you've used your opening monologue to go all straight to Laplan. I thought we'd at least

take like 15 minutes until we'd get there, but it'll happen, folks. Just you wait and see.

Plenty to chat about today. We're going to be discussing our moment of the race. Driver of the

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