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Make sure to check out new episodes every Wednesday and every Sunday. Hello and a very well welcome to the late breaking F1 podcast presented by Harry Eid, Sam Sage,

and me, Ben Hocking on this midweek episode. We're back as a trio once again, Sam. We don't have any F1 for a few weeks, but there's enough excitement about the three of us all being together, though that doesn't matter for a little while. That's right. That will carry us through. We're going to talk about the three of us being best friends for one hour straight, and no, no, I'm joking, I'm joking. We have got some good stuff. Harry is here. Harry, are you well, sir.

Bonjour. Yes, I'm well. French, Harry. Continental. Harry will be the start of this summer

break. You'll be pleased to know. I'm well. I am well. Pleased to be here. It's great once again

to be back as a three. I know we did on Sunday, but consecutive episodes as a three has been rare of late. So very happy to be here. And a bit of a special episode today because we have a guest coming on a little bit later on. So I had the opportunity to talk to a very special guest. They'll keep it under wraps until we get there in the middle of this episode.

Ooh, who can it be?

But it was a lovely chap, and I hope you enjoy it.

Bag French.

Guest spot.

Well, we're going to kick off today's episode with some comments from Lewis Hamilton

after this weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix.

Had a bit of a tough one, didn't he?

And he called himself useless and said Ferrari probably needs to change driver after failing to reach Q3, while teammate Charlerclair, of course, took pole position.

It followed another pool weekend in Belgium, where Hamilton was knocked out early in both sprint and full qualifying and LeCler now leads their one lap head to head 12-5 this season.

After his exit at a track where he holds a record nine polls, Hamilton said on team radio,

every time, every time. When asked about the message, he told Sky Sports, it's me every time,

I'm useless, absolutely useless.

The team have no problem. You've seen the cars on pole, so they probably need to change driver.

Sam, are you concerned about these comments, or are they more frustration in the moment?

I'm concerned. I'm concerned for him. Lewis Hamilton wears his heart on his sleeve. We've said this before. He's a very open person. When he discussing how he feels about things, he takes things very two hearts. Quite a sensitive chap. I quite admire that in the world of Formula One. It's very different to what we're used to when Formula One drivers, all athletes, tend to bottle things up.

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