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I'm Ben Hocking, and I'm here by myself.

There's no Harry, there's no Sam to reel me in on a sprint race weekend, which is scary enough in its own right, but they've completely left me by myself here on this one. Sam does have a valid

excuse. Harry claims he's in the sea, which is less of a good excuse, but we realize that

after debuting the qualifying review last week, it probably wouldn't be best positioned for us here at LBHQ to not go

ahead with it on literally week two. I appreciate the confusion around the Belgian

sprint race weekend and when we were going to do the review as a result of that. But here I am at

least on Saturday. We've had three competitive sessions so far this weekend, all of which

have been impacted by the rain in one form or another. And I'm going to at least attempt to

break down some of it. Could be a bit of a shorter one based on it being just myself. But then again,

it's a sprint race weekend. So if I do end up on a soapbox, this might be the first four-hour

recording that we've ever done on this podcast. Let's kick off with McLaren because Oscar Piastri

managed to finish second here in the sprint race this afternoon, eventually once it got going. Both

sessions today somewhat delayed as a result of weather.

But Oscar Piastri finishing second, Maximus Tapen did win the race, but I feel like at this point,

I don't really have too many more things I can say about him outside of he's very good at the

F1, and he proved it yet again by that overtake on Oscar Piastri.

But Piastri did manage to hold on to second place for his first podium in F1.

I can't say that, no.

He was in the top three in a session that wasn't the race.

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