And the Hello everybody welcome to shift F1 a podcast about speedy race cars we got a little a little off season episode here things happened in the off season

breaking news breaking news broke breaking news we're gonna fix it with me as always Daniel O'Dwire. How are you Danny? I'm doing great. I'm off to

Ireland's tomorrow. Ooh fun. Which is a country that I'm from that I cannot think of anything that connects it to Formula One except Eddie Irvine

And Eddie Jordan that's it just a pack of Eddie's and I'm pretty sure one of those is from the

north but we'll take it. Okay and Rob Zachney how are you Rob? Not too bad

excited to be talking and thinking about what I'm always thinking about I've one but

finally excited to have an outlet for all these spicy off-season takes.

Exactly we're all just screaming at our friends and families about this and they just return blank stairs at us.

Perhaps most of our listeners have the same problem, which is why we're all part of this

sort of communal support group we call shift everyone.

Well, let's jump right into our deep seated need to talk.

I think this is the one story that that kicked off our specific

need to do a news episode and that is the removal of Maurizio Arriva Bene as the team boss of Ferrari.

He is out and technical director for Ferrari.

Matia Benoto is in. So I mean I personally kind of liked Arriva Beni what little I heard from him. He seemed to be a very straightforward talker, but in the past few years, I had not heard from

him almost at all.

So, I mean, most of my, and I think all of our talk about the team of Ferrari was just down to a lot of wild speculation because they weren't very good at talking to the press at all?

Well, so this is, I mean, right there, like we're starting to get into what is the deal with

the Rivabane.

I also kind of liked Riv Benet and in the press interviews I'd seen

with him he actually came across to me at least as slightly soft-spoken you know a

little uncomfortable with the press but one of the reps on him was that he just

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