Shackbar! And welcome to Shift F1, a podcast about speedy race cars. That, by the way, is

Arabic, what they speak in Bahrain. Actually, they speak according to the internet, 240 languages.

Whoa, it's too many. Too many. That might be all of them. But Arabic is the official language.

For what's up or how are you? Now, the testing is out of the way and the season is here. We're about

to see what's up with these cars and how they are. I'm Drew Scanlon, joining me, Danny O'Dwire.

How are you Danny? I'm doing great. I forgot you did the thing where you say a different, you speak

in a different language at the start of the podcast. So you're really startled by Shackbar?

Really, just, I was very confused. I had one of those feelings of turning up to class for the exam

where suddenly I was on a podcast where I didn't speak the language, which isn't totally new,

terrifying dream for me. Which considering this is, I believe, our ninth year during this,

you think I'd be used to it by now? Well, Rob Zackney is also here. Harry Rob.

Not bad. Feeling better than some F1 teams I could name.

Which one? Let's go first. Who's, who got the worst testing? McClaren?

McClaren? That's, I mean, that's kind of my tip. I think. I mean, anytime you have a team

unveil its new car with like a, well, here it is. I guess you know you're in for a special season.

It will be memorable. We've gone with papaya this year.

If you are new to this podcast, a very warm welcome to you. And if you are new to form

the one itself, we've got an episode just for you, our preseason primer episode, which just posted

last week, 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 216. Also, this show is supported

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