You are listening to Mist Apex Podcast. We live F1.

Welcome to Mist Apex Podcast. I'm your host Richard Reddy, but my friends call me Spanner,

so let's be friends. It's spring break. Still. We've enjoyed weeks of an F1 desert,

but soon we'll be breaking our F1 fast with a race in Baku in just six days' time. That's right,

because it's a sprint weekend. We'll be looking a little into that in the show.

We'll also be talking about the reshuffle at Mercedes. We'll ask, are there too many races in America?

Should we be exploring other seasons? And what's Kimi Reichen and the 2008 contender that everyone's forgotten about?

But first, a little bit of Mist Apex admin. We're going karting for the first time in 2023,

and we want you to come with us. So on July 1st, in the south of England,

do you want to come and go go karting with me? And possibly Matt and a bunch of the other crew.

We have on the verge of booking a nice little track, just 30 minutes from the M25,

and I think we're going to be releasing those tickets this week. So do yourself a favor.

There's only 42 spots. So email me now at spanners at Mist Apex.net,

with the subject line karting, and I'll get you on that invite list. Spanners at Mist Apex.net,

and we are also going to do, instead of our live coverage this time,

we're going to do some drive to survive style coverage. So expect contrived drama and red flags.

We'll try and do a live recording in the morning as well,

but you will get for your money, 45 minutes on track, which is plenty. That's three sprint races,

and a place in a final, there'll be pizza and chips, and there will be beer afterwards as well.

So for your karting and your pizza and chips, I think we'll be looking at about 140 quid,

but that's for a whole day of Mist Apex, karting, and a little bit of socialising as well.

Now then, we are still an independent podcast, produced in the podcasting shed,

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