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We don't have a Harry Eve this week, but we do have one location.

One location. It's very cottages. It's your home. Very cottages. It's lovely, lovely country feel to it. I'm never been here before. Oh, country podcast. Oh, them country boys. I can't believe I've been here before. Yeah, I know. First time. How long you lived here now? Just over two years. Just ridiculous. How long we've been friends? Oh, too long. Too long. It's delightful, mate. Thank you. Really love it. If you watch it on YouTube, which you can do, the whole bits of the episode, don't know which bits, but the lovely fireplace behind us. Ben, you sit by the fire at nighttime, telling country stories to the locals. Yeah, when it's not overly smoky. I try our best, but yeah, we should have Richard Litt it for the, the ambience. Yeah, and we should have all worn checkered shirts and

put some wood in the background. Yes. And we could talk to them in weird, low Canadian accents,

like, oh, hello, everybody. That's a whole accent that was. That almost started out in the Papatoteo. It was close. It's all the same person, really. Indeed. What are we talking about? Good question. Good question. We'll be playing F1 overrated, underrated, which means we will be at one point or another relying on the soundboard. The actual old one.

The OG soundboard.

We'll have to see if that works.

Should Red Bull be worried at all about Max Verstappen and GP Lambiasi's relationship at Red Bull?

Alex Palo, rumours that he might be in line for a position in F1.

We'll be discussing that.

We'll kick off, though, with a few comments

from Christian Horner regarding Red Bull and their development plans this season. Essentially,

the plan is, we're done now. We're quite happy with... Game over. Yeah, we're quite happy with

where our car is. And he says not to expect a whole lot more in terms of upgrades. So we'd

thought we'd have a look at that in the first instance, but also have a look at some of the other teams and question, should they be going all out this season? Should they be parking it for next year? But we'll start with Red Bull. Is this the right call to essentially put what sounds like a pause on development? This is like the kid at school that always got his own work done the day it was set.

You know, it was like, the teacher's given the homework, aka the 2023 season. And Christian Hall has gone home and immediately done his homework. And he's like, ha, over the summer break, I can relax. I can put my feet up. Or he's hoping that every other member of the career, he's kind of left it to the last minute. and it's now scrambling to,

oh, what is this to me?

You go, what's four plus seven?

He's got a deal with the teacher that you already knows what 2024 is. Yeah, he's got a jump on it already. My point here is, I think they've nailed the timeline. They're obviously runging with this slight, and we say slight, because after the removal of

the wind tunnel time, they got for winging the title anyway, that extra 10% wasn't huge.

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