The race is on, and while we're just a few weeks away from the start of launch season,

the wheels are already in motion for 2023, with the driver market soon to crank into life.

With as many as 11 seats free for next year, who will be the key players in the silly season,

and who can we expect to get tied down soon?

I'm Ed Straw, and joining me to answer those questions, and many more,

are Scott Mitchell and Mark Hughes.

Mark, hello, how are you doing?

I'm very well, yes.

I'm just still waiting for new cars to arrive,

so we've got something more 2022 to write about rather than 21.

But yeah, it's all going so far so good.

It's exciting time, isn't it?

It's all starting to slowly crank into life.

And Scott Mitchell, another person who's been writing plenty of out,

2021 and the season to come.

Are you enjoying still this little hiatus before things get going?

Yeah, I think it's always quite nice when you get to the off-season

because it's a good chance to talk about and write about things that you don't have time to

during the season itself.

So it's good in that regard. And then you actually get to

the off-season where you have all this stuff to transcribe and write, and you're then caught in

two minds, because it is nice to be able to write about this sort of stuff. And then you're just

...