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As another season of Bring Back V10 enters its closing stages, that means it's time for us to take your questions about anything to do with F1's glorious V10 era.

Once again, we've been overloaded with incredible questions,

so there's no chance we'll get to them all,

but we'll do our best to get through as many as we can

across this show and some bonus episodes

for the race members club in the coming weeks.

So get ready for our first batch,

where the topics range from a world without Michael Schumacher,

if McLaren ever truly valued David Calthard, and who we'd all choose as our dream guest

for an episode of Bring Back V10s, with all sorts of other madness in between.

I'm your host, Glenn Freeman, and as you may be able to hear, my sinuses have gone full

Gerhard Burger in 1997. So I'll need two guests who can do most of the talking for me,

and who better to fit that bill than Ed Straw and Ben Anderson. Ed, there's all sorts to pick

from in today's list. So which question are you most looking forward to? First, I'd just like it noted that I've got Alex Verz on standby to replace you for the middle stages. This podcast should they need arise. That's absolutely fine. I'll then come back and win whatever the German Grand Prix equivalent is. Excellent. I think Alex Verst will be a good host as well. So perhaps he could be the future of bring back V10s. But anyway, yeah, very, very simple answer to favourite question. There's one that involves non-qualifiers and allowed me to make a spreadsheet. So that's just heaven for me. Yeah, I'm sure when that, I'm sure when people submit questions like that, they are, they are desperate, they are hoping that A, it gets chosen and B, that Ed is on the episode where it gets put forward and we don't like to disappoint. Ben, what are you choosing? Well, before I do, Glenn, does it mean this sinus thing and this Gerhard Berger thing mean you're retiring at the end of the season? Oh, that's a good question. I hope not. I hope that when I come back and win at Hockenheim,

I'll be reinvigorated. I won't have fallen out with my boss, as Gerhard did, and we can

continue myself and bring back V10 slash Benetton can continue to live happily ever after.

Excellent. Okay, fingers crossed for that. Yeah, my pick, well, there's three, I think, a total of three.

Oh, come on.

Michael Schumacher, what ifs?

So I'm looking forward to all of those.

Yeah, Schumacher, we always tend to have someone or something seems to emerge as a recurring

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