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

Back with our first race review of the 26 season,

the Australian GP is in the books and a one to finish for Mercedes, just as they

qualify. George Russell winning ahead of Kimmy Antonelli, the two Ferraris in behind.

Charlotte-Claug completing the podium with Lewis Hamilton in fourth. I mean, I'm not really

sure what we were expecting going into this one, Sam. It's a question that we've been asking for many months now.

But Mercedes has got to be pretty happy with how things are going.

Yeah, I hate that that was the only thing that I probably was expecting to happen.

The Ferrari launch off the start and the Mercedes one to finish.

It was the only predictable thing in what turned out to be a Grand Prix of chaos, confusion, not entirely sure how it's all working. There's a lot going on. We're going to break some of it down, of course, in the show. Harry, you are awake. You've made it. I know, this is tough for you early morning, so well done. It is tough. We have it tough as Europeans, obviously. Oh, God. No, not the first race review.

Our biggest city of the world that listens has just turned off.

Yeah, well, we certainly had a race.

Yes, we're going to run through everything that happened in the Australian Grand Prix.

Plenty of retirements,

plenty of drivers finishing slightly added positions that we'd expect. But we will start out front

with the Mercedes duo finishing 1-2, George Russell, taking the race win after converting

that pole position from yesterday. Kimmy Antonelli, not the smoothest weekend. He had that crash,

obviously, in FP3 yesterday,

but a great job by the Mercedes mechanics to put that car back together for him to qualify second,

and he took advantage of that finishing second as well. I dare say, though, Sam,

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