This is Off Track.

We'll say this officially on air.

This is a very loose format, as you could probably tell by the fact, our producer is in a robe while we're on air.

And drinking wine, evidently.

That's, God.

I wish I was drinking wine.

You and me both.

I'm in... We're in vastly different time zones. We are. We are about as far as you can get before you start going back the other way.

We are in fact, yes. We are 12 hours apart. Yes, it is off track with Hancho or Rossi today. It's off track with James and Alex, uh, if that helps.

But in, in lieu of, uh, Alex Rossi being present, Alex Jakes of F1 TV fame joins us on the show.

What's happening, pal? Thank you very much for having me. We've finally managed to do this after

you tried to recruit me after Austin. And I was like, I'm on a plane home.

Which was like, and I also just don't want to do it. So, and I get it. I get that. It's totally

fine. Totally fair. I always wonder, because you are a new father, congratulations.

Thank you. This is the one part of the conversation that Tim will be able to inject any experience in.

So I figure we'll get it out of the way early.

So that way we don't have to hear from them anymore.

But I always, I always wonder, you know, when you have a young child, I talked to a

lot of people in the business, you know, in racing that have

kids and they can't wait to go to a race because it's just like an opportunity to sleep and

catch up on sleep. Not to say that you're excited to be away from your family, but have you

been able to get a little bit more sleep now that you've been on the road for a little bit?

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