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Hello and a very warm welcome to the light-breaking F-1 podcast presented by Harry Ead, Sam Sage and me, Ben Hocking.

I like to think that this podcast is your ray of sunshine, ladies and gentlemen. It's the highlight of your week, if not that

possibly in your top 50. We'll take that as well. But we're going to kick off the podcast on a more

somber note because we're not going to be the ray of sunshine this week. Instead, I'm worried.

I'm petrified, to be honest with you. And I'll explain why.

If you tuned into last week's preview episode, you would have heard us talk about Carlos

Science's contract, which was duly announced the morning after we pressed publish. So here we

were discussing the rumors of it, and then F1 decided to do that to us.

The reason I'm worried here, and Sam, I'm interested, do you share this worry? Because we've got

two topics on the list tonight that might very well be in a different position when people

listen versus when we record.

I mean, firstly, folks, sometimes when Ben opens up the podcast, I have literally no idea he's going to say. And he passes it to me every time. And I go, I've got to reply here.

This isn't part of the schedule. And folks, if you know me, I'm a very confused man.

So that had no idea with that. When he started saying, we're somber, I'm like, wait, what's happened? What have I done? What have we done? Nothing is fine. Yeah, Ben's actually speaking from the Graving. Skill organising is better than we could. True. So much so. last week, you know, Carlosigning the deal literally hours, mere hours after we finish recording the podcast.

I've had several people message me and go, maybe you should start recording on a Thursday because it's just not working for you, is it?

I feel like it's almost part of our comedic appeal now that we predict the news. Ironically, we're late breaking, but we're the earliest news you'll find. I think we get it right a lot of the time.

So I reckon Mystic Meg, because we're talking about a few things ago, budget caps,

FIA, sprint races, let's see, can we get, I'm tapping my head, you can't see it. Dang on why I feel like he can do the action, like a strange man. I wonder if we're getting it right. Let's see. Can we, can we bait the FIA into making the decision that we want made? Harry, any ideas what's going on in this podcast? Because I have none. The only thing I was going to add to this is entirely unrelated. My neighbours in the flat downstairs are having their bathroom redone. So if you hear any banging on drills. I was wondering what that noise was. Did you hear the drill? Yeah. Just about. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So if you hear a drill, that's what's going on. They keep randomly turning the water off. They don't tell me when that's happening. It's been a fun game I played with them today as to when I have water in my flat. So yeah, so that's an insight of town. My day's been so far. I hope. This is payback for the fire alarm that you left on for months, I reckon.

It probably is.

Yeah.

It's better for the beeping.

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