Hello everybody and welcome to Shift F1, a podcast about speedy race cars. I am Drew

Scanlon, joining me as always, we have Danny O'Duire. How are you Danny? I'm doing good

in the preamble of the show. We had a five minute conversation about compounds of tires. It feels

like everyone is back, baby. Oh, we are back in it with a bullet also joining us as always. We have

Rob Zachney. How are you Rob? Feeling great, feeling already my confidence is shaken, given that

seemingly simple things with F1 are a little more complicated and weirder than you think they would be.

Well, it's a good thing we're here. Welcome everyone to our annual pre-season primer episode.

This is where we explain how formula one, it would help if I could get the name right, how it

works, who everybody is, and how to have fun watching it all while assuming you listener have

no prior knowledge of the sport or even racing in general. So if you are brand new to F1 or maybe

you've watched some netflix's drive to survive, you have come to the right place. And even if you

aren't new to F1, stick around because we're going to cover everything and everyone that is new

this season. But a little bit about this podcast regularly, we see it as sort of a companion

piece to the F1 season. We post an episode every week usually on Wednesdays to talk about the

news in the racing world, what to expect from the next race. And if a race has just happened,

what happened and why? Because there's always incidents to unpack and to armchair quarterback.

We also take a listener questions at shiftf1podcast.gmail.com. And of course, we are entirely

listener supported on patreon. Patrons get access to our discord channel and our back catalog of

patron exclusive episodes that cover racing documentaries like Senna and Michael Fassbender's

Road to Le Mans and cars and cars. And what's the worst one we've known? What's the stupidest

one we've done? Gone in six seconds. Fast and furious. Hey, that was fast and furious was great.

That was great. Yeah, we did that French art house movie. The one, what was that called again?

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