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Welcome to Mist Apex Podcast. I'm your host, Richard Reddy, but my friends call me Spaners.

So, let's be friends. Today, we're going to look at how we think the racing rules should

look in Formula 1 when you should be able to overtake and when you need to leave the room

and all that kind of thing. Because F1 has gone from all the time you must leave it to space.

And that was for the majority of the time I've been watching Formula One, the rule, if you like, is just

leave space for people to race. Then we went into the 2021 era and it was just let them race,

let them do whatever they want, let Vestappan push Hamilton four car widths off at Brazil.

And then we've gone to these very, very prescriptive rules. And that's what I was calling for. I was like, come on. Let's just make the rules clear. No, no, no, no. Not like that. Not like that. So were we happy for any of those? No, we weren't. So it was the Piastri Norris incident that got me thinking about this because both of the drivers were racing hard.

Norris was doing everything to he could to stay in that gap and Piastri was trying to make it hard to do so.

And it's interesting to know where the line truly is because in a way it is subjective unless you can have really precise prescriptive rules detailing all of that out.

So to help me on this journey to try and establish what our baseline of racing rules

and our racing thinking is, is club racer Alex Ginzie Van Gene.

Hello, Alex.

Hello, Spanners.

Yeah, it was funny.

When you mentioned 2021, my whole body just tensed up.

Sorry about that. The PTSD of 2021, my whole body just tensed up. Sorry about that.

The PTSD of 2021 is still not left me when I think it probably has.

And then someone mentions it.

And I'm like, no, the racing was just not good because the rules weren't applied and the rules were wrong.

And now the rules are even more wrong and it makes me

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