Hello, welcome to the Ringer F1 show, part of the Ringer podcast network.

I am your host, Megan Schuster, and we are here today with a special summer break episode

to talk about the biggest storylines across the second half of the F1 season.

I feel a little bit like a traitor doing this when Spaners is on his summer holidays and isn't here to roast me for my hyper-American use of the word storylines, but I have full faith that our guests today will help keep that alive. That is Tim Hureini, the host of The Nailing the Apex podcast. Tim, thank you so much for joining us. We really appreciate it. Yeah, Meg, thanks so much

for having me. Really appreciate it. Yeah, there's nothing wrong with the word storylines.

Okay, we, I use it a lot in Canada as well. We use the word storylines. Find a new slant. It's a normal

word where we're all just doing our best here. Tim is joining us all the way from Italy,

which we could not appreciate more. He's on a whole separate continent. We were originally

going to record this on Thursday, and then I believe you had a slight, was it a hiking

mishap? What exactly went down? Because we haven't talked about this yet. Yeah, so first of all, my apologies for yesterday. We were, like Megan said,

supposed to tape on Thursday. And, okay, so we are on Sardinia. So we're on an island off

the coast of Italy. Very beautiful. Okay, it's very, very beautiful here. So we were going to,

we were going to one of these beaches that we had sort of planned out on our trip. And we were like,

okay, we want to go to this beach. We want to check out this beach and this one. And one of them,

we watched like a bunch of videos on like, okay, like, how do you get to it?

Can we just park and then sort of walk in? Or like, how does that, how does that work?

Because it is very remote in the location that this one particular beach was in. And, you know, all these influencers are like, yeah, you know, we just, we hiked up here.

It was only a few minutes. And then we got onto the beach and it was super dope. And I'm like, yeah, you know, we just, we hiked up here. It was only a few minutes.

And then we got onto the beach and it was super dope. And I'm like, okay. And then, you know, you watch another video. And the one guy's like, hey, this is Ryan. Oh, you know, we're on the coast off of Cernetia. We're on this one beach and blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, okay, cool. how did he get there?

And he's like,

oh,

there's a number of different ways

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