And much area for a lot to make a lot of

And welcome to Shift F1, a podcast about speedy race cars.

That, by the way, is a Brazilian Portuguese expression, meaning this is too much sand for my truck.

Which means something is too much for me to handle this weekend.

Apparently proved a little too much sand for some.

But we will get to that later in the show. I'm Drew Scanlan. Joining me, Danny O'Dwyer. How are you, Danny? I'm doing good. I like that. I was like, is that a car at the end of that phrase? I'm like, I think over the years, we've been doing this for, you know, over a decade. I think I'm slowly learning like 18 different languages. It's great.

Also, very Brazilian to not be able to get, you know, the sand especially.

It's probably because you have too many like samba dancers in the back of the truck.

I see.

Or, or, I don't know.

I was going to say guns for the favelas, but then I was realized that I don't want to do the one thing.

I don't want to,

I don't want to annoy the Brazilian,

you don't ever want to annoy the Brazilian online people.

Oh no.

No, don't do that.

So let's see how I do after saying that. Rob Zakeney is on assignment this week. We wish him well and hope he is 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 preseason primer episode, which assumes no prior F1 knowledge and explains how the sport works and who everybody is. So if you'd like go back and listen to that, it's episode 298. I don't know about you, Danny, but I frequently, whenever I'm meeting new people and they're like, oh, what do you do? And I often mention, I also have an F1 podcast on the side and they go like, what? Tell me more. And I found that having the preseason primer is like a great thing to just throw out in person. Like people often say, oh, I want to get into F1 or like, I don't know where to start or it just seems like cars go around in a circle to me. I said, do you just like ad libis? You just like, you just sit them down and then go, okay. Do do you have two hours here's how it goes it's

also yeah it's a great way to just get out of that sort of awkward conversation it's like you just

go listen to the podcast exactly or you can we can just like ask questions about i was at a party

on the weekend a friend's birthday party and you, you know, you're meeting new people,

you're chatting, and then somebody brought up the Isle of Man TT.

And, yeah, there was like a good six people just having a conversation about the TT.

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