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

Folks, we're sorry. We haven't done one of these episodes in a very, very long time, but we're turning over a new leaf for 2023. We're going to get more of these Friends of the podcast episodes in. And we're starting out strong because

we are joined by none other than Anthony Davidson. Thank you so much for joining us, Sam.

Hello, yeah, no problem at all. Yeah, it's good to be here.

Good stuff. Are you feeling refreshed out of the 23 season? We've obviously had first livery a couple of days ago, so we're starting to get back into it now. Yeah, I am. Yeah, getting, starting to get itchy fingers now, waiting to get back into it. It's funny, when you get to the end of the season, you often think, oh, I can't possibly

do another one of these. They're way too long, and I just want to enjoy this winter break as long

as possible. And then it gets about two weeks in, and you start thinking, hmm, it wasn't so bad

after all. And you're really thinking, come on. Yeah, so, yeah, keen to get back on the road now and fully recharge, rare it to go. Good stuff. Well, in that case, I'll hand over to Sam, because he's going to ask you about your early years, properly grill you. I'm kidding. Yeah, well, go ahead, son.

I think,

I think grills a good start because actually I'm going to completely diverge from the questions we prearranged because you mentioned it before we jumped onto actually recording, and you've just eaten. And our lovely listeners have a weird thing about knowing what people have for dinner. And I just want to know if it's okay with you. Tell me no, tell me, I'm going to shut up.

What did you have for dinner this evening before you came on?

Well, it's okay with you. Tell me no, I'll tell me a shout out. What did you have for dinner for Sivi before you came on?

Well, it's my son's favourite, and he's had a long holiday at school.

And so I cooked for heaters tonight.

Oh, yeah.

So it's always a winner in this family.

And particularly off and hanging around with my Mexican teammates in WEC for the last couple of seasons.

Yeah, they taught me all the ins and outs of how to do it properly.

So, yeah.

I should maybe get you on to do a cooking lesson.

Not to it.

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