I'm Hi and welcome to this week's Three Legs Four Wheels F-1 podcast. It's Paul here with

Dan, Chris, Lee. And? Oh, is that me? Sean.

Hello, Sean. Hello, Sean. Good to have you back on the show.

Hello, yes. I see you've downgraded your level of guests from recent weeks, I hear. Not at all. Not at all. Not at all. Have you got somebody else coming on afterwards? You've got like Nika Rosberg coming on in the second half or something like that. No, Sky got to him first. They did. well he's's the guest that you couldn't get. What can you say? It's like, you've had everybody else, but you couldn't get him. I think my sense of human might have put pay to that about two years ago. Oops. It hasn't crossed you off the Christmas card, is he? I remember the exact show that you're talking about. Well, you didn't give your name. You just gave your thoughts on Rosberg before we'd even started recording anything. So, we are coming up on the 2018 season. Finally. This week. This week. Good God. I know. It's a matter of days away. It'll be less days by the time people listen to this because this is usually Tuesdays.

But it depends if I get busy with work tomorrow or that PC that repaired this afternoon still works.

Both are likely.

I'm really hoping so.

So, where do we go from here then?

Season preview.

Yeah, let's start with the season.

We can't really preview the Australian Grand Prix because we're kind of going in a bit blind. We've seen what's happening in testing. I don't know, Sean, correct me if I'm wrong, but there's nothing really jumping out at us as if to say, you know, well, that's a surprise or, well, why is that team doing that?

It doesn't seem as though there's anything in particular that's outstanding from testing.

Well, you said correct you if you're wrong, and guess what?

I'm wrong!

I would say there's a couple of surprises out there.

The two that jump out at me right away is the reliability at Tora Roso and the pace at

Haas.

I don't know how genuine it's going to prove to be, but it's fair to say, I mean, Tora Roso

completed, I think, the most running in the first test.

They completed a lot more testing miles than did McLaren, which, you know, and Toa Rosso, of course, the new Honda factory team.

Which leads us to maybe revisit what we thought about McLaren's relationship with Honda.

You know, how much of it was Honda's fault, how much of it was McLaren's fault? Or how much of it is just a coincidence that Honda have got their act together, seemingly, just around about the time that McLaren got problems with a new engine supplier. Conversely, or not conversely, or in addition to, Kevin Magnuson's run in testing, sixth fastest in the final test, using the super soft tire.

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