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Hello and a very warm welcome to the late-breaking F-1 podcast presented by Sam Sage and me, Ben Hocking, here on this non-F-1 Sunday,

something I've become far too accustomed to saying.

Sam, how was your breakfast, mate?

Just with that intro, you just want to cut to you like black and white. They ask if you're fine, you say you're fine, but really you're not fine because you have just been missing Formula One for that long. Yeah, I have a lovely breakfast, thanks, mate. I have a sausage roll heating up in the air fryer, of course, as well, to re-chrisp that lovely pastry. And then I had these little hash-brown tater tots on the side. It was, honestly, I'm living the dream out here. It's great time. Being an adult is fun. The hash and the brown. Wow. You know it. Put them together. You get a tater-top. Love that. Well, yeah, today should have been the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix,

but we've got a lovely episode for you anyway.

Before we started, Sam said,

we're going to have a lovely recording today.

So we have a nice recording.

So we're going to do everything we can to ensure that is the case.

We're going to do a bit of an underrated, overrated circuit edition later on in the show.

A bit of a reshuffle at Red Bull.

But we're going to start with our dear leader, Stefano Domenicali, because the F1

CEO and president believes the championship will make the necessary changes to strengthen

the 2026 regs while maintaining that the sport is

heading in the right direction amid increasing global interest. He said, I can see an incredible

result in terms of positivity from the bigger fan base on what is the effect on racing. Definitely,

I take on board the criticism related to certain situations that we have to manage,

related mainly to qualifying.

If I see the survey of what is going on all around the world with new fans of Formula One,

the result is magnificent.

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