The race is on, and finally it was on for real with a dramatic Austrian Grand Prix won by Valtari Bottas.

It was a race weekend of dramatic on-track action, interest, technical intrigue, controversy, clashes, protests, all drama we expect from the first race

of an F-1 season. And although it was another Mercedes win, it could easily have been one of the

Red Bull drivers that triumphed. I'm Ed Straw, and joining me to review the Austrian Grand Prix

as Scott Mitchell and Mark Hughes. Mark, you were our representative on the ground in

Austria while the rest of us were engaged in endless Zoom meetings and lots of messaging to people in the paddock.

From afar, and the involvement we had, it seemed this closed race was a tremendous success in the circumstance.

Did it feel like that where you were?

Yes, it did.

And I think the remarkable thing was it just felt absolutely as normal when the race was

on it just you didn't didn't really notice any difference and it was you were sort of brought out of

that revere just at the end when you saw the three guys just standing there looking very sad and

lonely on their makeshift podiums in front of

them, MD grandstand. That sort of broke the spell. But up, you know, from the buildup to the

race, right to the check and flag and all the, all the drama in between, it was a great Grand Prix.

And it's the incredible achievement, really given the circumstances and it was it was

such a nice happy way to get it started and it was worth going through the slightly invasive

COVID-19 testing well I haven't finished with that yet I've got several more of those to do before I

am home because I'm staying here for the next one and for Hungary.

So, yeah, I mean, it's not the most pleasant thing in the world, but, you know,

it's better than spreading the disease around, isn't it?

Yeah, you won't have any arguments on that.

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