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Welcome to Mist Apex podcast for the Mexican Grand Prix preview.

Jonathan Simone here hosting Matt Trumpets alongside me. Five weekends to go,

Matt, in the Formula One season. Oh, it's going to be a good title race. Yeah, I do like how McLaren have

absolutely engineered this to go down to the wire by simply deciding not to work on their car anymore. Yeah, exactly.

It's the opposite. I feel like I've done more work on my road car than McLaren have done on

their Formula One car with a budget of $200 million a year. That's something we'll discuss in this

podcast. We're going to talk about the points race, the championship battle, but fascinatingly, I want to know, and we both

want to know here, Matt and myself, how we think Max Verstappen will handle wheel to wheel racing

to win this season. The last time he was in a close title fight, 2021, we all know how he handled

that. So ruthless racing from Max, but will he do it the same now that he's on the chase

and he's not the one defending a title lead? That's something we'll talk about that. We'll also

preview the Mexican Grand Prix in general. There's a lot to talk about. The step in tire compounds

is back. I think half the grid will be missing for practice one. I don't know if I want to watch

practice one anymore, but we'll see. Anyway, and then finally we'll be missing for practice one. I don't know if I want to watch practice one anymore, but we'll see anyway.

And then finally, we'll also talk about tape gate, how sticky tape.

I think sticky tape's the right way to put it, Matt.

Sticky tape, or is it more gaffer tape, something a bit more aggressive?

Gaffer tape, duct tape.

Sometimes it's helicopter tape if you put it on the car. There's loads of different names, but we all know what you mean because you can fix literally anything with it. Yeah, so TapeGate, for those who don't know, we'll talk about it in a moment's time, but how it's caused a stir in the F1 paddock at the moment. Maybe it was 200 mile per hour tape.

That might be the most ridiculous name for tape I've heard as well.

Anyway, let's get into it.

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