Hua Sha Tiansu, and welcome to Shift F1, a podcast about speedy race cars.

That, by the way, is Chinese for drawing a snake and adding feet.

An expression, meaning to do something unnecessary or excessive.

Are the 26 regulations a snake with feet?

We'll get into it. I'm Drew Scanlan, joining me. Danny O'Dwyer. How are you, Danny?

Look, man, it's my feeling that, you know, snakes should not have feet. You know, this is...

It's the best of all worlds, Danny.

Wait, but, oh, someone else is coming in. Oh no snakes should have feet snakes should have feet there

you go that's the f1 discourse right now see i see also joining us rob zackney how are you rob doing pretty

well uh you know it turns out i think i like snakes with feet they can slither uh-huh and they can

run uh-huh they can slither and skitter.

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