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Hello and a very warm welcome to the late breaking F1 podcast presented by just me today, Ben Hocking.

I've been left to my own devices, which is an utterly terrifying prospect, as it always is.

I might seem like I know what I'm doing with the other two around,

but I sometimes become surprisingly lost.

But I'll give it my best shot over the next 30 minutes or so, as I do have some thoughts on the qualifying session.

We just saw the Japanese Grand Prix qualifying.

Yeah, Vastappen's all right,

ain't he? Yeah, we'll be talking about that, obviously. Quite a few things I want to get to.

Not such a good Saturday for Logan Sargent, a bit on Alfa Tauri. Of course, won't necessarily get into the Sonoda Ricardo news today while I'm on my own,

but we'll be discussing that one, probably midweek,

assessing whether we think they made the right decision in retaining Sonoda and Ricardo,

but plenty to get into, into the qualifying session, of course, McLaren, second and third,

Ferrari's both making Q3, but no third poll in a row

for Carlos Signs, Mercedes struggling again, Aston Martin potentially even more, so plenty more

to get into today. I'm not even going to complain about the time. It is early European time. Fully aware, this is one of only about

three times that I have to do this per year. And there are plenty of dedicated fans all

around the world that do this many more times than three times. So I'm not going to complain once.

But if you think I am in any way tired or sounding wrong or just getting things incorrect more than usual,

let's blame it on that rather than anything else. Let's start out front. And when I say out front,

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