The race is on.

And while it was a slightly tepid end to a dramatic season, Max Verstappen's victory from pole position in the Averdabee Grand Prix ensured that 2020 had one last sting in the tail.

And it creates the usual winter question of whether Red Bull can

translate a strong end to the year into a strong start to the next one. I'm Ed Straw and

joining me for a final race review of the season as Scott Mitchell and Mark Hughes. Well Mark,

hello, you've been our emissary in the desert over the past few weeks, haven't we? How are you

enjoying your

luxury lockdown hotel? It's quite a luxurious prison, yes, and I am enjoying the sunshine. I can't

like. It's nice having you breakfast outside in December. But yeah, it's a long time to be away.

And it's when you, those the triple header in the

Middle East it means that the feeling of Christmas has completely passed by because you

you just think it's it's I don't know September or something like that. And then you look at the date and

you think blind, yeah, it's Christmas. We've missed out on the annual thing of going to

Sao Paulo and being amazed that they seem to be putting up Christmas decorations quite early in

the year because they go mad for Christmas in Sao Paulo, but that's always what I remember

there. But also, Scott Mitchell, have you been having

breakfast outside in sunny Stockholm? No, because you've completely mischaracterized it there by

calling it sunny Stockholm. As I learned, I think was it on Saturday that we've, yeah, it was

Saturday because I learned that 12 days into December and we'd yet to register a

single hour of sunlight in in Stockholm so far this month. It has just been the six hours or so

of daytime have just been pure cloud cover and like one or two degrees temperature. So it has been, it has been Christmassy in temperature,

but not so much,

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