The race is on, and Hasse has announced that Pietro Fittipaldi will make his Formula One debut

as standing for the injured Roman Grogon at this weekend's secure Grand Prix.

But how good is he?

And what does it mean for Brazil to have a driver back on the F1 grid?

I'm Ed Straw and joining me to answer those questions in this episode of the Race F1 podcast Extra, Aval Harunji and Lito Cavalcanti.

Well, it's a slightly different format for this podcast. It's split into two conversations,

the first with our junior single-seater expert to take a look back at Pietro Fittipaldi's

career in detail so you know what to expect from the 24-year-old. Then we'll have the Brazilian

perspective from Lito Cavalcanti to look forward to after that. But first up, here's Val Harunji. Well, Val, thanks very much for joining us all the way from Moscow. Pietro Fittipaldi, he's a driver, obviously I'm aware of. I followed him from afar, but I don't have a great handle on him. So what can you tell us about him? Is he any good? I guess is the big question F1 fans will be asking.

Pietro Fedopalde has four titles in car racing. So to answer, is he any good? The answer is yes.

If you're not any good, you don't win any titles in car racing usually. Maybe one or two

if you're really lucky. Is he F1 good?

If I'm being honest, like is he full-time F-1 driver good?

Is he done something in his career that made me think that he would be a full-time F-1 driver over all of the other juniors around him?

No, not really.

And that probably wasn't looking at like it was going to change anytime

soon because his junior career is pretty much done and dusted for a couple years now. He's

been doing a very eclectic variety of racing with some intermittent success and also a pair of broken

legs and a spa wet crash.

But is he any good?

Yes, but not if one good, would be my summary.

Yeah, that seems fair, because you've mentioned he won four titles,

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