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Hello and a very warm welcome to the late-breaking F-1 podcast presented by Harry Eid, Sam Sage, and me, Ben Hocking.

A few days removed from the first race of the season of Bahrain Grand Prix, and we are back with another episode. Sam, are you off the Alonzo

hype train yet? Have you found your station? Are you still firmly aboard? I'm never getting off,

mate. I am, I've got, I bought a worldwide ticket, you know, a 16 to 25 rail card. I'm too young,

I'm too old. Hey, come on now. No chance of that.

I've got a 25 to 60 plus. 30. Oh, yeah, I get my OAP card. Thank you. Get my free travel to ride. But me and Al-A-Lahara there together conducting the journey firmly, all aboard. Bloody loved it, mate. Absolutely loved it. I've been on that hype. On that hype. hype is hype since like practice on Friday.

I've been buzzing about it. Harry,

I imagine you've just imploded. Oh man, it's been joyous. I'll tell you what,

I feel like maybe, including Ben here, but maybe we as a podcast, enjoyed the race more than

the majority of everyone else who watched F1. And I was like, oh, right. Seeing the reaction yesterday, I was like, oh, okay. We ain't up the vibe. No, we're not. We're just against the vibe. Sounds about right. It does sound about right. But yeah, you know. We've never been cool, so I'm not shocked. I don't care. I still enjoyed it. So what have Rebel had won the championship already? Me? In my mind, I'm just going to cut, you're like trim them off and push them out to sea, and then I'll just watch everything from third onwards, and that's my championship. I think your appreciation for the race deviated depending on your opinion of Fernando Alonzo

and really how much of Fernando Alonzo's difficult years you endured because I mean we were

around for the McLaren days and once you've seen that seeing what we saw on Sunday is Sunday is a better day for him, much better day.

Yeah, I mean, he went through the hardship, right, to see the light.

And I imagine he would describe it in one word, and that would be karma.

Good. That's a nice 2017 reference there.

Hello, Jolian Parma. Yeah. good that's a nice 2017 reference there yeah hello jolly and palmer we've got plenty to talk about today it's actually going to be fernando alonzo that takes on our first topic but also on the show we're

going to be discussing williams and how they managed to get a point on Sunday. They're off the mark at the

first possible opportunity. We're also discussing F1 teams considering a 600 million entry fee,

whether that's a good decision or not. Can't possibly foresee where we're going in terms of

our opinions there. But we will kick off with Fernando Alonzo

because his second podium since his return to Formula One,

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