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Caramba, they're slurring it up and welcome to shift F1 a podcast about speedy raceguards. I'm Drew Scanlan joining me

Daniel Dwyer. How are you Danny? Very good. I know that idiomatic expression. That was Rob Zachney last week. Yes, indeed. Rob Zachney. How are you?

I'm doing I'm doing great. I think I'm probably I'm probably having a better week than Martin Brondle is. I've seen

me fall out from the from that commentary team yet, but I suspect at some point the elephant in the room will have to be addressed.

Well, if you're new to this podcast, a very warm welcome to you. Welcome to your elephants as well. If you're new to Formula One itself, we recommend listening to our preseason primer episode. It assumes no prior F1 knowledge and explains how this

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Coming in right under the line in May was our film review of the anime red line, which we all absolutely loved. It was pretty great. It was a movie that sort of got better and better and better and had a fantastic end to it. So I think talking about another podcast was a whole bunch of fun. I was I was way into it.

Movie goes places. It does. It really has a vision. Pretty simple like story of racing, but the everything else that happens around it. And I didn't really realize, but people after the fact were telling me that like it's used in like to this day as a high watermark for animation that like animation students and folks that are working in that field, it's kind of like required viewing, which I thought was quite cool.

Yeah, so check that out as along with all the other film reviews we've done over the years over on our Patreon. A massive thanks to all of our incredible title sponsors, especially someone who for some reason I skipped over for the past two weeks. I don't know why.

Cypher's training, hyphen, turf, SCS. Thank you, Cypher's training. Thank you for training all those. Cypher's I'm not really sure what Cypher's training is to serve to sit presumably. Is that like Sisyphus, but it's now just Sisyphus. So it's is it put your training had to push a rock up a hill.

It's maybe you're like just taking the bad connotations of Sisyphus out and you're just like we're doing Cypher's training and you can push that boulder up the hill. You don't need to worry about what happens when you get near the top.

Yeah, right. Maybe it's a forklift that lifts boulders. I don't know. Check out Cypher's training's website or services I guess to find out is this really turned into a long advertising. This is the trick. You just don't get mentioned for two weeks and then you got you got a whole bit.

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Lacklin' the Madden Man, and of course Jason Kelly. Thank you all. Yes indeed. Well, everyone. Shall we take it to Spain? Let's do it. This this kind of felt like an this I don't know about you guys, but this felt like a throwback to like five years ago or something. I don't know. It just felt really maybe it's Spain because it's well trod and grand. Maybe it's it was kind of like a Mercedes error race where you weren't really caring about what was happening in the front.

But there was like a decent amount of overtaking happening everywhere else. But how do we feel about the quality of the overtaking because to me it sort of felt like, yep, that DRS zone.

Turn turn turn one. Sure does help people make a pass, which I think that fits in line with what Danny said though. Yeah, exactly. That's what it was like when DRS first came right and they were like, here is the overtaking spot. Please overtake here.

We should talk about qualifying though because it was a weird qualifying. The track conditions seemed so bizarre. Yes.

Yes. Like so there was a what brought out the red flag. Do you remember? Yeah. So a lot of spins out there with the damp conditions and particularly with the Alpha Towery drivers. Yeah.

And it was a red flag. I believe to clean up all the gravel that had scattered across. It looked like it was, I think it was botas who spun a nictory spun there like three times in a row. It was very, very funny. It was on that entrance to sector three.

And the F1 website, when I did the track walk last week, the F1 website did not have had not updated it to let us know that the final chicane was not being used. I didn't know that. So apologies to everybody. I was shocked when I watched practice.

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