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Welcome to Mist Apex podcast on your host Richard Spanner's ready and I'm joined by Matt

Rumpets. Hey, Matt. This is a

Preseason now. I'm making the call and making the switch. I'm going early. This is preseason

we're talking about the fortunes of upcoming teams, the regulations for the year. It's all

looking forward. No more reflecting. It's all about 2021 now.

Seven Sundays to race and friends. Oh, that is definitely preseason. And hang on, that's seven

Sundays until Bahrain. Yep. That's interesting because I know there was some chat about if

Portemau gets cancelled, they might fill it in with a Bahrain too. Presumably Shakir Grand Prix

again, but there's no plan to fill in the Australia spot. So that Australia spot is definitely

gone now. Yeah, I think I think they are hoping that maybe later in the year they can fit it in.

But I think again, as we are seeing, much like last year, it's going to be a bit of flying by

a seeded old pants in terms of the calendar and the schedule with the goal once again to get

at least 17 races in. So they collect maximum TV money and help. In fact, I believe we had

a story about that or we even talked about that because the lack of money last year is going to

start to bite the teams this year. And we've seen them going out of the way to get extra investment

just so that everyone can come up to the new cost caps and be as competitive as possible with

the teams that already have the established advantage. I hope we get an Australian Grand Prix.

I mean, you know, I think us Brits and Yanks, we have a sort of a love hate like brothers

for the Australians and I hope they get their Grand Prix. Yeah, if nothing else, it will slightly

ungrumpify Uncle Steve to have an actual Grand Prix in his country. I think all Australians,

in my experience, are like Uncle Steve, Steve Amy, our video editor was on the panel last week. I

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