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Formula One.

Well, a record equaling 8th consecutive poll for Max Vastapen, but he had to fight hard for it. I'm joined by Ben Edge with our league commentator Alice Powell W series race winner and F1 analyst and Andrew Benson the BBC's F1 correspondent and Ben he had to fight really hard with this one but he

got his eight consecutive poll he did it was close though it was mighty close

and right up to the end there. We wondered whether Oscar Piastra was going to be able to snatch it. He didn't but it was very close in terms of lap times

Max Vistappan though. He worked at his perfect level and we know how good he is.

Yesterday the Red Bull was not working as he had hoped it would work and he was sounding

a bit fierce on radio at times about how they needed to change it. And of course this

was an event where they only did one free practice session and then into

sprint events that might actually have changed things a bit because they had the

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