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The Race is on, and F1 is back after its unexpected early season hiatus, but with rule tweaks

in, news emerging about potential bigger changes as early as

2027 and upgrades are plenty. It's hardly been a quiet month. I'm Ed Strawer and joining me to

hit the big talking points from the April break and look ahead to the Miami Grand Prix are Ben

Anderson and Scott Mitchell Mell. Well, Scott will come to you first. What have you been doing?

Are you ready to go after this

unexpected break? Yeah, I think so. It's been, it's gone really quickly because I was talking to,

we've been, we've been kept busy between breaking news and doing different things on site

at a few different places. Some teams put stuff on.

We've had the chance to do a couple of exclusive little looks at certain things as well,

which will come out over the next two or three weeks on our various platforms.

And I was talking to someone at Hasse up at their HQ in Banbury about this, that it's just been, it's the summer break without the

break element. Like, everyone's just carried on working and just found loads of other stuff to do.

So, and in the meantime, F1's changed in the background. So I'm, I'm really excited to get to, to, to, to, to, to Miami and see

what this is going to be like in person because it's a bit like,

it's a bit like summer holidays at school where you look forward to seeing everybody again,

but you also want to see what's different.

Yeah, just about everybody I've spoken to who's involved in Formula One has had the same experience

where you thought, ah, it's this month, we can get a load of stuff done without having to work

ourselves excessively. But F1

being F1, then it just turns into another flat out push and there's all sorts of stuff going

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