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

Welcome to Inside F1 with Joe Sayward.

I'm your host Richard Reddy, but my friends call me Spanish.

So let's be friends here on Mist Apex.

We bring you a variety of voices, drivers, journalists, statisticians, presenters and pundits.

And King amongst them all, certainly in experience wise, a person who has been to every single

Grand Prix since 1988. It's the infamous Joe Sayward.

How's it going, Joe?

Hello, yes, all is well. I've just come back from Monza, which was yesterday I got back.

So yes, everything's fine. It's been, I've been away from home for much of the last three

weeks going to Belgium and Holland and Italy.

And now I'm having some time off because thankfully they canceled the Russian Grand Prix.

And I don't have to do anything for two weeks, which is a real luxury.

Wow, put your feet up. You live in France, but your experiences in the paddock

mean that you're never alone. Is there anyone now where you think, oh, actually,

I don't know them that well, because there's a few new kids like Sidal and and Yoss Capito.

Well, is it hard when new team managers come in as a journalist?

Yes, it is, but it's in the case of Capito. He was there 20 years ago.

So I know him from that.

Sidal, yes, he doesn't know me. He doesn't, you know, we got to build that relationship.

And that takes time. But in terms of the people in the paddock,

there'd been enormous changes since the pandemic. So there's huge numbers of people.

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