You are listening to Miss Apex Podcast. We live F1.

Welcome to Miss Apex podcast. I'm your host, Richard Reddy, but my friends call me spanners.

So, let's be friends. Today, we are going to be covering the second test in

Bahrain in what I think has officially been the busiest offseason in Formula One. I think as a

F1 community, we are paying closer attention to F1 testing than ever before. And the media is covering it more frenzedly than ever before.

I don't think a previous closed-door shakedown would have had top journalists such as John Noble

on a Spanish hillside on a bench with a telephoto lens. Everyone has in the press been all over, every misstep, every

success, every breath that has come out of the driver's bodies. And that could lead to some

what do you call it irresponsible speculation, which is exactly what we're going for on this show

today.

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I'm joined by someone who's been paying close attention to every detail of testing.

It's Matt to rumpets.

Hello, Matt.

Sorry, I'm still spooling my turbo.

I need about five more seconds.

Oh, really?

Well, I've got a little tiny turbo.

I've got a little tiny turbo, so no spooling. Oh, you're all ready to go. No spooling required. In that case, I'm going to jump from the P2 position, which is you, to the P1 position, which is our fantastic favourite Miss Apex, baby Chris Stevens. Hello, Chris.

Hello, Span. I don't think I deserve to be in P1. I think I'm in the Williams class being overweight at the moment.

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