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Hello. Hello and a very warm welcome to the late-breaking F-1 podcast presented by Sam Sage and me, Ben Hocking. We have another preview coming up for you. It's the Spanish Grand Prix coming up this weekend. Only two of us on

today's episode, but Sam, you're returning after your Monaco hiatus. I can't believe that we had

a Monaco review without you on it. And it was actually, as you've admitted, and we've all admitted

a good race. I am really gutted that I missed it.

And I even lauded it on social media for being good.

I think a thread about why it was good.

And I was sat on a hot train where the air conditioning had broke.

And it was stuck at a train station for about

two hours and I got stuck on the tube because someone pulled a fire alarm. So I was on there for an

hour. It was a British bank holiday public transport hellhole but I was in. But at least I had

a treat because when I got home, I was thinking, oh good Lord, Mokko is going to be rubbish, and it'll be a waste of my time. And I was surprised because, okay, don't get me wrong. If you pull it against all the great races, it doesn't stack up. But as Monaco goes, it was actually watchable. There was some enjoyable moments. The rain helped, and Carlos Sykes, during the world's slowest drift into a wall,

really made it all worthwhile. So, hey, gutting I could be here, but glad it was worth watching.

Indeed. And now we get to preview Spain. So coming up on today's episode,

under pressure, we give our picks there later on in the episode. Carlos Sines, after Monaco,

indicated that Q1 should be a slightly different format as Q1 is too dangerous, according to

him. We'll be discussing whether he has a point there and whether his format that he suggested

would work. McLaren have signed Rob Marshall from Red Bull, a massive acquisition for them.

So we'll be discussing that move from McLaren.

F1 in the United States, we'll be discussing that a little bit later on too.

But we're going to start with the preview for Spain.

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