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Hello and a very warm welcome to the late breaking F1 podcast presented by Harry Ead, Sam Sage and me, Ben Hocking.

It's good to see you, Sam. How are you, mate?

Oh, I've got to see you for a minute, you know. It's been a while.

We definitely haven't just recorded what you thought was Wednesday's episode. Harry's here as well. I've not seen you either. Thanks for the T, mate. Oh, yeah, Sam's on the T's again. It's only one. One T Sam. One T Sam. It's very boring. Limiting him to one T. Someone's saying that they loved three T, Sam.

So.

Yeah, I... Sorry, that was horrible. I could hear myself swallow them. Oh, that is one of the worst noises in human history. Mastication, I believe it's called. Is it really? Is it? That's the thing. I hate the sound of people chewing. you don't like mastication

well

anyway

there's no hate the sound of people chewing. You don't like mastication. Well, anyway.

There's no way that discussion's carrying on.

What are we talking about today, Ben?

What are we talking about today?

Good question, Sam.

We'll be playing F1 order, please, later on.

We're also going to be discussing

Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonzo and Max

for Stapp and have they distanced themselves as the three best drivers in Formula One.

We'll be discussing Bridgestone and whether they're set to replace Pirelli in a couple of years' time.

But we're going to start today's episode with qualifying and more specifically qualifying penalties because the last few races,

we've seen a lot of penalties for impeding come about. So LeCler in Monaco, he got a three-place

grid drop. Gasly decided to block everyone in Spain, got a six-place grid drop. And we had three

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