And the Sun Banoi everyone and welcome to Shift F1 a podcast about Speedy Ray Scars.

I am your host this week Drew Scanlon.

Danny O'Dwyer is having a child. Congratulations to him and his wife for little

Pastor Maldonado O'Dwyer.

Can't wait to see the pictures on Twitter.

So please send him congratulations.

By the way, that is not German at the top of the show.

Son Beno means hello in Mongolian because that's where I am right now,

the capital of Mongolia, Ulan Batar.

So apologies for the maybe erratic schedule that this is being posted on and apologies for the audio quality.

I've got my trusty Lavelier microphone here.

But yeah, gonna try to whip up a German GP episode for y'all. The German GP lately has not always happened. They have

been alternating it between the Hockenheim ring and the Nuremberg ring in the past, you know, a few

decades or so, but in the near past, I guess they've ran out of funding for each of the places and sometimes we just don't get a German GP.

In fact, one of the years that we didn't have a German GP, Danny and I actually made our own German GP over on when I was a

giant bomb. We raced in the Formula One video game a full race distance. so if you're a giant bomb premium member you can you can check that out

but yeah Germany this year is back and at the Hachinheim ring. The Hagenheim ring of course in

Hagenheim Germany located in the southwest corner of the country is a 4.5

or 2.8 or 4.5 kilometer 2.8 mile track that is in the

configuration it's currently in which it has been in since 2002. It's got 17 turns and Kimy Reichenin of McLaren in 2004 hold the

race lap record at 1 minute 13 seconds. 780.

We've been racing here in Formula One for quite some time since, looks like the first race was 1970, but really

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