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

It might be the summer break, but late breaking never stops.

We're still here giving you, I was going to say analysis.

That's taking it a step too far.

Awful banter is probably more accurate.

There's plenty of F1 news going on still.

So we are here for it. Sam, I do have to wish you a very happy one year Oscar Piastri.

I'm not driving for you anniversary yeah it comes

very close to your birthday beng almost like it was a gift and to say your birthday happy birthday for

yesterday bengen thank you very much time uh i did yeah i had a start reminder yesterday that

it was exactly one year since f Alonzo moved to Aston Martin

because they happened on the same day. But yeah, what a gift. Yeah, I know. What a gift for you.

Not so much for Alpine. Oh no. Oh no.

I've got nothing to answer that. I've got nothing to answer that. Really?

Nothing to answer that.

You took what I was going to say, which was happy birthday to Ben. And I've already told him happy birth. He didn't eat it twice, does he? So get on with it, mate. I'll get on with it, mate. Got the message, mate. Exactly. It's all good. I'll do it again next year. Thanks. Okay, what are we discussing today? we've got F1 back and forth later on, an old classic making a reappearance.

We're going to be talking 24 on the f1 academy helmut marcos had something to say

which means of course we've got something to say about what he's had to say but we're going to

start with the feel good story of the summer which is alpine um not ideal in the words of sam story of the summer, which is Alpine. Not ideal, in the words of Sam Sage.

Following the departure of CEO, Lauren Rossi, about two and a half weeks ago,

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