And the Hello everybody and welcome to Shift F1 a podcast about speedy

race cars I'm your host Drew Scanlon Danny Dwyer is on dad duty

again this week but back joining me waypoints Rob Zachney. What's up Rob?

Hey just happy to be back. Little disappointed that Belgium doesn't get a national greeting from you.

Oh that'll be in the pre-Belgium show.

Did you not want to wait into the linguist? Okay.

Before I break out my Flemish which is quite good.

Yeah, I could not wait another week of no Formula One so here we are with some Formula One stuff.

That mid-season break man.

Well, it's peak silly season.

Yeah.

It's, I've been like refreshing racebands.net every day just like what's happening what's going on

but thankfully we did have a pretty good race to send us into into the summer break

what do you think of Hungary? I thought it was good when it was roughly the race I was expecting in a lot of ways, but it was also a race that I think remained really interesting if you were someone who like really enjoys tire strategy, for instance, again, the entire like, you know, if you really want to get with F1, you know, if you really want to get with F1,

you're going to get passionate about like tire performance and like, ooh, where is the

performance cliff going to be? And that was very much the story of

hungry yeah I mean I think maybe qualifying stole the show here because the

threat of rain and then lots of rain really threw everybody for a loop.

Ricardo actually got caught out in Q2 and just could not pull it together on the intermediate tires to get to Q3.

So I think he started 12th or so.

And actually the end of qualifying was exciting as well

because Reichenan set a really good time. I think maybe the best time of

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