You are listening to Mist Apex Podcast. We live at one.

Welcome to Mist Apex Podcast. I'm your host, Richard Redding.

But my friends call me Spanners. So let's be friends, especially as it's Christmas.

And my gift to you, this Christmas was going to be a magazine show made up of several different segments.

But this particular interview with Alex Brondle was so informative, entertaining, and generous from Alex

that we decided to make it a standalone episode. So we'll get those other segments to you early in the new year.

But Alex Shed loads of stuff about the F1 feeder series, F2, F3, and a little bit about carting as well.

And it's a fascinating insight into what drivers have to do to get themselves up the F1 ladder.

So I'm going to play that for you right now. After I remind you that we are an independent podcast produced in the podcasting shed with the kind permission of our better halves.

We aim to bring you a race review before your Monday morning commute. We might be wrong, but we're first.

Here's that segment right now.

Hi guys, Spanners here and we are going to be talking about the junior series today.

And I'm joined by Matt Trumpets. He's here just in case you thought that he'd disappeared. Hello, Matt.

Hi there. Welcome forward to it.

Now, I think you and I, we might have to confess that at this point in our our careers, the sim racing and the carting isn't going to be enough to launch us into Formula 1 sadly.

Yeah, I after several rounds at Buckmore. I have to admit that I am thoroughly mediocre and nothing I do will make me fast enough for Formula 1.

I stay awake at night dreaming of being mediocre. So obviously we have to look to the next generation. I assume at some point I will catch the next NFT or Bitcoin wave or simply win the Euro millions.

And then I can get my young lad or my young lady into carting and Formula 1 and they can they can carry the mantle and be the Formula 1 champion.

I definitely would have been had I been a billionaire.

Yes, well, money solves many problems in motor sports. I've heard that money can be exchanged for goods and services. And we want to know just how far money can get you and talent can get you in the junior series.

But we have absolutely no experience at all in in watching really Matt something we wanted to do for ages was have a mistake pegs feeder series, but it's actually hard to find enough people that are knowledgeable about it to get that kind of project up and going.

Yeah, there's actually because there's so many of them and because people come and go so quickly it's it's it's quite an undertaking to stay firmly on top of it and know who's coming up and who's headed out.

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