For the first time in a month it's race week again.

Formula One is back after the summer break.

We've got 10 races remaining in this incredible

2024 season starting in the Netherlands this weekend.

Welcome everyone to F1 Nations preview of the Dutch Grand Prix at

Zandville. I'm Tom Clarkson and joining me is Dutch journalist Eric Van Harren from

De Telegraf. Eric it is great to have you on the show. How are you?

I'm fine. I'm excited for the season to get started again. I hope I sound a little bit

excited. You sound excited Tom so that's good to hear but I don't know how it is with you but the

Formula One is now and so such a good momentum it's so exciting every weekend and then

I think it's good for everyone to have a short break two three weeks and then for for as dutchees it's great we start now in Sanford again of course.

Well everyone's coming back refreshed and relaxed I'm slightly bored of looking at

Instagram photos of drivers on boats in hot places. It seems that's

what all 20 drivers have done except actually Valtry Botas. So I notice has

been he's been training on his mountain bike ahead of the gravel

mountain bike world championships in Belgium at the beginning of October but it seems everyone

else has been on a boat well actually Lewis as well as been in Africa, hasn't he? Well, actually, Lewis as well as being in Africa, hasn't he?

But yes, refreshed, recharged.

Look, what are you looking forward to most

as we look at the final 10 races of the season.

Well, last year of course it was quite the dominant season from one team and one driver in particular

and now we have like every race weekend it's it's a question mark before the weekend which team is the dominant one of course McLaren is great in every kind of circuit I think at this moment

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