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Tsukito Supon! Then welcome to Shift F1 podcast about speedy race cars. That, by the way,

is Japanese for the moon and a soft-shaled turtle.

Which is Rob roughly analogous to comparing apples and oranges.

Okay, I was wondering. It's a beautiful turn of phrase. I just couldn't parse what it could possibly mean.

Yeah, Rob, they all are. You look up Japanese idioms. You're like, man, this is just like, it's all poetry.

But yeah, apples and oranges, sure seems like we've got one class of team and driver and then everybody else.

I'm Drew Scanlon, joining me Rob Zachny. How are you, Rob?

Not too bad. I think I might have just watched the final nail be driven and then the Chicago Cup season with a really unusual air on a routine fly ball, which I guess makes it unusual.

But I was doing great until then. The cars were like just absolutely smoking the best team in the league and it's like, yeah, they're starting to surge the right time of the year.

And now, as with many sports in the teams, I favor, it's just like, well, who season starts next?

Well, that's the great thing about Formula One. The season doesn't end.

Rob, no, it just loops. Just loops.

Daniel Dwyer is on a time of this week. But he'll be back soon. If you are new to this podcast, a very warm welcome to you.

And if you are new to Formula One itself, we recommend listening to our pre-season primer episode, which assumes no prior F1 knowledge,

explains how the sport works and who everybody is.

And so if you'd like to go back and listen to that, it's episode two, 16. Also, the show would not be possible without our audience over at patreon.com slash shift F1,

where every month we release bonus podcasts and videos along with the ad free version of the podcast.

But the bonuses, cover racing documentaries and films, F1, video games, experiments, other racing series, and a lot of weird things.

So if you'd like to support 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. Rob, do you want to tell the people what we're recording tomorrow?

Oh my god. So we are engaging with the high stakes world of sailing.

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