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Welcome to Inside F1 with Joe Saywood on Mist Apex Podcast.

I'm your host Richard Ready and today I'm joined by the most experienced F1 journalist.

In the multiverse, someone who has attended every race since 1988, he stalks the paddock for news.

Like a Lonzo stalks for understeerima sadis. If a team principal sneezes, this man knows where you can find the hanker chief.

It's Joe Saywood. Hey Uncle Joe.

You can't put me off my tee that.

Yeah, thank you for that. I was wondering around the paddock thinking that I'm covered in snot from now on.

There's a lot of new listeners to Mist Apex. You've joined us over the winter Joe.

So I just wanted them to make sure that they knew that Uncle Joe prowls the paddock.

You've got your finger in every pocket. You have lunch and volavance at every motorhome except one.

Well, there are several actually that I'm not particularly popular at.

The fact is if you're going to tell it how it is, sometimes you're going to knock a few noses out of joint.

And some of those noses are very expensive noses.

And I was thinking about this earlier today with Ted Kravitz.

He really faced a pretty severe backlash when he criticized or pointed out what was going on at the end of 2021 saying Lewis Hamilton was robbed of the title.

And then there seem to be this embargo of the whole of Sky TV.

And that puts an awful lot of pressure on a journalist if a team is that upset that they just won't speak to you.

I don't agree. It's because they're stupid if they have an embargo on you because that means you can't.

You can say what you like and they don't have any combat.

It's their choice if they want to say what I'm not talking to him.

But ultimately, if they don't talk to me, I will make up my mind without their input.

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