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The F-1 summer break is over and it is time to go racing again.

We are 14 races down with 10 to go, starting with the Dutch Grand Prix.

I'm Rosanna Tennant and you find me in a very sunny paddock here in Zanvort,

about 100, 200 metres from the North Sea,

and we're nestled in the sand dunes here with centre parks just over the way,

some holidaymakers nearby, but it's back to work for me,

and it's back to work for the BBC's F1 correspondent Andrew Benson and the former Formula One driver Jolian Palmer. Guys, this is nice. I'm sure you were here early, Jolio, but it was pouring rain earlier. Now we've got beautiful sunshine. Who knew the banks of the North Sea could be so nice? I really like coming to Zambor. It's a really pleasant race to come back

to the start of the second part of the season. I like the old school feel of it. Sand dunes, the

lack of runoff, the grass and gravel is always a bit of fun. And I think the Dutch know how to

throw a party as well. So it's always fun to be here. Some of the music acts were warming up as we

walked into the paddock earlier on this morning. There is a feel-good factor here, a bit of a party atmosphere. Max Verstappenad, you alluded to it earlier on in the press conference, that there's a bit of driving, and then there's quite a lot of party atmosphere going on. Yeah, I mean, once the race weekend gets underway, it can be quite an intense experience here there's like house music playing all day every day the media centers are tense basically it's

not changed that much since I was coming back coming here in the 90s for what used to be called

the masters of formula three race and when Formula 1 lost this race 1985, I never thought it could come back without

major changes to the track. And yet here we are. There have been some small changes, some

banking added here and there, but basically it's the same as it was back then. And you can't

say that about many Formula One circuits. So it does, as Jolian say, have that old school feel,

some crazy corners, particularly this highly banked hair bin that I referenced a minute ago.

And it's not my favourite race weekend of the year, I have to say.

Here we go.

It's a bit hard work in lots of different ways.

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