A vaca foi pro prejo, and welcome to Shift F1, a podcast about speedy race cars.

That by the way, is Brazilian Portuguese for the cow went to the swamp, which is how

you describe a situation that started well, but ended poorly? I'm not actually sure the

sprint race idea started well ever, to be honest. But in my opinion, it is certainly

worn out. It's welcome. Maybe you disagree. I'm Drew Scanlon, joining me, Danny O'Dwyer.

How are you Danny? I'm good. Is this a sprint weekend? I didn't realize.

Oh, baby. Yeah. Hey, look, interlockwise is a is a terrific track full of it's one of

the old tracks that's still fun to race. It's just this and Monza, I think. And I guess

whatever. They're all great. New positive, Danny. But yeah, I don't know. I am as on the fence

event, the sprint race as I was after the first sprint race. I'm still waiting for the

penny to drop and it's just landed on its side. Also joining us, Rob Zachney. How are you, Rob?

Yeah, pretty much as deeply confused by the sprint race as Danny. I still think it's

could work out. Despite the fact that basically hasn't it? No, it's not entirely true. I would say

maybe it's success rate, generating interesting races is like 30%, which means that maybe more

judicious picks, maybe different championship environment. That would be more interesting.

But yeah, the sprint race thing is that it's got some it's got some headwinds. I think Max was

talking about them this week where a major issue is just that everyone is in protect the car mode,

which doesn't make the most dynamic racing. And the other thing is if the issues in the main

championship, the sprint race is just going to reproduce those issues in a new format.

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