The race is on, and with Mercedes and Lewis Hamilton leading the way into Formula One's summer break,

we try and make some sense of the performance patterns of the first part of the season

and explain the latest power unit paranoia that's arisen.

And we delve into why Aston Martin thinks it has a shot at getting Sebastian Vettles,

Hungarian Grand Prix second place back.

I'm Ed's draw, and joining me to unravel these topics are Scott Mitchell and Mark Hughes.

Scott, how are you enjoying a little bit of respite after 11 races in however many weeks?

Yeah, it doesn't feel like the summer break has started just yet because obviously we had such

a chaotic and brilliant Hungarian Grand Prix to pick over. There's been all sorts of fallout from

that. And then obviously you get into the busy process of trying to plot out two and a half

weeks, three weeks of content without any races to help you out.

So, yeah, the first week after the season, the first half of the season ostensibly finishes

that never actually feels like some time off.

But yeah, I suppose it's quite nice.

I have to it's very different to previous.

Obviously last year was completely unusual, but it's very different to previous. Obviously last year was

completely unusual, but it's very different to previous seasons I can remember with

a summer break because season's so good. And yeah, it's nice to have a little bit of a

breather, I suppose, but I'm actually like every weekend, every Grand Prix, I'm just excited

to see which way the pendulum swings this time and what happens on

track. So it's kind of curious. Happy to have some time off, but actually quite eager for it

to start again already. Yeah, I think this is probably the best season we've had in a long time

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