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Now, you might not be able to see this, but this might be the strangest conditions we've ever done a podcast in.

Yeah, we've done live shows.

Kirstie's doing a little thing now.

Hello. I'm in full Freddie Mercury drag wearing high heels. Ben, you've got an outfit in the other room. Yeah, I've played this better. You have. We're in a party room and we're here to disco, but actually we've got to do a podcast first. honestly, if you ever question our dedication to his podcast again, I will have none of it.

Harry Sengs. we've got to do a podcast first. Honestly, if you ever question our dedication to this podcast again, I will have none of it.

Harry Seng's massive apologies.

He's being, I'm really shafted by the British transport system.

Yeah, come on.

British?

British?

Sorry.

It's a good start.

It begins with be.

Belgian.

Belgium qualifying.

You got it.

So, what seems to be custom now, wet weather qualifies. Lime. Why is it always raining? So wet. All the time. Max Verstappen at least claimed the fastest time, but we know that he'll have a 10-place grade penalty, so he'll start from 11th tomorrow, meaning seemingly out of nowhere, Charles LeCler, who qualified second, will start from Pol. Yeah, this happened exactly the same last year as well. And Perez once again, promoted from third to second again. It's a repeat, direct repeat at the top three. Shocks that Ferrari have been able to somehow, well, when I say Ferrari, I mean just the Clare, science all the down in what eighth place, because starts seventh of course. Which looked like where they should have been. Perfectly acceptable. And I said to you when we were watching the qualifying, this is a, you know, driver can make the difference kind of condition. And maybe Lecler, we know he absolutely blitzes it on a one-lap pace. He probably is the overall best qualifier in the field at the moment in terms of raw pace. He just played it here today. He really managed to kind of put

the pedal down where it needs to be. He masked the conditions and he will start the front.

Whether he can actually hold on to that by the end of sector one, it would be a very different

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