And the And welcome to Shift F1 a podcast about speedy race cars that by the way is Spanish for an angry red bull

Oh okay first something we'll get to later in the show I wonder what I'm Drew

Scanlon joining me from the Smoky Hellscape that is the San Francisco Bay Area.

Oh my God, yeah.

Danny O'Dwyer, how are you, Danny?

I'm doing well. I got my gas mask on.

The house is, thankfully, not anywhere near any actual fires so uh... yeah just

enjoying the the smokey breeze as it as it comes through

uh... if you are new to this Smoky Soltry podcast, welcome.

If you are new to Formula One itself, we recommend listening to our pre-season primer episode,

which assumes no prior F1 knowledge and gives the load out on how the sport works and who everybody is.

This year's Primer is episode 59.

So if you want to go back and listen to that, that's the number you'll be looking for.

I had someone in real life tell me that they just started they like just found the

podcast and they thanked us for mentioning the primer oh really? Yeah so people still find it.

Also like personally as someone who likes podcasts like jumping into a podcast and

feeling lost is a really kind of bad feeling and so I want to make sure that doesn't happen to people.

Yeah, especially in this like such a, there's like a language associated with F1.

I mean we do it in everybody, like, and it's everything from like the technical stuff down to just like like racer's names. They're just so like what other sport has this like menagerie of international like superheroes like they've all like superhearso like

heroes like they've all just got the weirdest so it's like yeah I totally feel like

if there are some sports where you need an intro and this is for sure one of them

yeah and because we can kind of confine all that explanatory

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