You are listening to Mist Apex Podcast. We live at one.

Welcome to Mist Apex Podcast. I'm your host, Richard Spanner's ready.

We are an independent podcast produced in the podcasting shed with the kind permission of our better halves.

We aim to bring you a race review before your Monday morning commute.

We might be wrong, but we're first. No Matt Trumpits today.

But if you hang around until the end of the show, there will be a pre-recorded segment with Matt as part of our Meet the Panel segment.

So if you want to hear me just being a bit nosy and intrusive on Matt's life, then hang around till the end of the show.

But I'm really, really excited because in the shed today, we have the darling of F1 Media, the only person full stop that I ever have on a tweet alert.

I'm absolutely delighted to be joined in the shed by Chris Medland. Hello Chris.

Hello mate, how are you doing?

Oh, we're doing good. I'm hoping what you're going to do is revitalise my passion and energy for the upcoming F1 season.

Okay, how do you want me to do that?

With words and dance please Chris.

Dance will work on.

Yeah. I'm not quite there yet myself to be honest.

There's still too much from last year to sort out before I can get too excited about this year.

And I wonder for people professionally involved in Formula One, whether the schedule is actually going to be something that is making people take a deep breath

because the schedule from last season was already crazy and looking ahead, it's not really going to get any better.

No, and I think the big one was before we get into the tale of Woe of people that work in F1.

But the timing of the final race being so close to Christmas and I stayed out in Abu Dhabi for the test, the young driver test they did.

And then suddenly it was, you know, I got home on Thursday, Friday was the FI Gala.

So you had all the stuff kicking off after that.

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