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Koketsu ni irazu nbako zio aizu! And welcome to Shift F1, a podcast about speedy race cars.

That, by the way, is Japanese for you will not get the Tigers' CUB without entering into the Tigers' den.

Roughly equivalent to nothing ventured, nothing gained, as our drivers ventured out into the wet into the unknown for maybe a championship deciding race.

Daniel Dwyer, you are with me. I am, by the way, Drew Scanlon. You chose that phrase for me, and it's made me one of the longest ones I've ever done.

Yeah, that's the first time I got to choose one, which is great. And I was like, I don't know how you pick these, because these all seem very hard and difficult to say.

So I guess, waxed and I picked the toughest one, but very appropriate, considering all of the battles and all of the danger and all of the madness that went on during this Japanese Grand Prix.

Yes, speaking of madness, Rob Zachney is on assignment this week, but we're going to hold the down for young Rob.

If you're new to this podcast, a very warm welcome to you. And if you're new to Formula One itself, we've got an episode just for you.

Our preseason primer assumes no prior F1 knowledge and explains how the sport works and who everybody is. So if you'd like to go back and listen to that, it's episode 178.

Also, this show is supported entirely by our audience over at patreon.com slash shift F1, where every month we release bonus podcasts and videos exclusively for our patrons.

They cover racing documentaries and films, F1 video games, experiments with other racing series and a lot of weird things.

So if you'd like sport the show and get access to all that fun stuff, head over to patreon.com slash shift F1, or click the link in the show notes.

What's going on in patreon land this month, Danny?

We'll put up our episode on truth in 24, the documentary about Audi's 2008, 24 hour of lima.

And yeah, that's up. So you can go listen to it right now. Not sure if we're going to do truth in 24,

or two truth harder, but we'll have plenty more stuff at the patron feed over the coming months, including this month as well, because this is not this month.

This was last month's because I was a little bit tardy at the end of October or September.

And I'm asked of thank you to all of our incredible title sponsors, kick-atcha of the art, Ashteen Blackjack, Michael Mayes, Gordy's Army, at Talking Autos, Olivia Evans, Pirates, Cardcastle, Iron Station Studios, Alan McCrary,

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Hashtag Bunny's Slimes, Snigs, Alex Gouche, Max Faltar, Circuit Demon, Troy Stammer, Bertor Roca, William Rump,

Urbine Clinical Research, Lackland the Maddened Man, my favorite Eldenman character, and Jason Kelly.

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