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Wednesday and every Sunday. Quick program. Quick programming note before we get going on today's review.

You might notice as we go through some of today's episode that not all of the audio

is as crystal clear as it usually is.

You'll find that this is very much a one-off due to

technical difficulties. So we'll be back to normal in our midweek episode.

Hello and a very warm welcome to the late breaking F1 podcast presented by Sam Sage and me, Ben Hocking, eventually.

We got there.

We got there in the end.

A slight technical difficulty is hitting us here on this very early Sunday morning that we're not complaining about.

First review of the season, first race review of the season for the Australian Grand Prix, a race one from pole by Lando Norris, joined on the podium by Max Verstappen and George Russell, which probably doesn't tell you the whole story, but we got a semi-normal podium on a day that wasn't very normal.

It's weird that he's still managing us win it from pole after all the chaos at the start with the crashes, all the going off when the rain

came down in about 10, 15 laps ago. Yet, no, Norris, the constant man. He did what he didn't

really do last year, which just achieve a consistency that meant he was able to hold off

the likes of a step and Russell and the rest of the troop behind. So, yeah, lots to dig into.

There is plenty to dig into.

Obviously, the return of Discord submissions for the race review.

So we're going to be getting into moments of the race much later on.

The old classics are back as well.

We'll review our bold predictions from our midweek episode.

We'll also give out a driver of the day,

worst driver of the day,

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