Hello everybody and welcome to shift F1, a podcast about speedy race cars. I am Drew Scanlan. Joining me, we have

Danny O'Dwyer. How are you, Danny? I'm good. I'm excited to prime the season. I feel like

there has never been a season that required priming quite like this one. Yeah, certainly not in the history

of our podcast.

Joining us also, we have Rob Zagney.

How are you, Rob?

Still trying to wrap my head around some of the changes to how these things work.

So it'll be a learning primer for the first time in a number of years.

Fantastic.

Well, welcome everyone to our preseason primer episode. This episode is designed to explain everything you need to know to enjoy Formula One, even if you've never watched any motorsports before. We're going to talk about the cars, the rules, the teams, the drivers, everything. It's going to be a beefy one this year especially

because, as Danny mentioned, this season is bringing the biggest change to the sport in

over a decade. I mean, we've been doing this since 2014, and that was the last big regulation change. And I would argue,

yeah, and I would argue this feels like fundamentally bigger than the turbo hybrid era.

Like this is, this is a, we, we have fundamentally changed this sport, it seems like, from what

we've seen from testing so far.

No, I'm with you, Danny.

I was thinking about that, too, in terms of the scale of changes.

The big changes have historically been, like, we've overhauled arrow regs, and there's new rules about engines.

Right.

And this year, it's like, well, Arrow works different than it's ever worked before.

We've also changed the engines.

And also now there's new driver modes that we've just introduced.

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