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I'm your host, Richard Reddy, but my friends call me Spaners. So, let's be friends. Welcome to Mist Apex podcast. I'm your host, Richard Reddy, but my friends call me Spaners.

So, let's be friends. Welcome to the Bahrain Grand Prix race review.

We had an exciting race and didn't we, we deserve it?

Before the race, I was like, please, like you can make Piastri last forever on his tires.

You can have Sonoda finish P20.

Let Hamilton be banished to the guttable performance levels of Formula One.

But please let us have some interesting and exciting racing.

And I think we did.

And I think I'm done blaming the cars.

I'm done blaming the big heavy cars and

harking back to this magical time with 200 kilogram cars in the 90s, which by the way, yielded

very, very boring races. I think I'm now squarely saying, let's just have proper tracks on proper layouts with well-managed surfaces

that don't need resurfacing and redoing every five minutes. We're not going back to 90s cars.

We're not going back to Grootire V-10s. I just want real tracks that these cars can race on.

But today, we'll talk about Piastri taking a full claim to title contender status

as he enjoyed a flawless weekend, whereas Norris enjoyed a floorful weekend.

A floorful weekend.

We saw Hamilton's problems continue, and we saw Sonoda make his fans rest just a little

easier. I also have the difficult task of informing you that Russell was probably the best driver

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