You are listening to Mist Apex Podcast. We live F1.

Welcome to Miss Apex Podcast. I'm your host, Richard Reddy, but my friends call me Spaners.

So, let's be friends. We are into launch season. Believe it or not, on January

the 18th, we've seen cars on track and we've seen two launches, kind of. So we are going to be

talking about some breaking F1 news, news about Lewis Hamilton's race engineer for 2026. And we'll also be going through some of the

launch stuff and some of the beefs that are already building up in Formula One. But first, I want to say

save the date if you're in the UK or willing to travel to the UK. We're going to be carting February

the 27th in Milton Keynes. We're just finalising the final details. But if you want to get

on that list now, send an email to Spanners at missedapex.net. Spanners at missed apex.net with the

subject line carting and just say that you're interested. The second I get confirmation, I'll

push it out to those people who said they're interested first and the patrons and then I'll announce it on the show properly. So we are into launch season.

Two launches so far, kind of. We had Red Bull and I can't believe it's not Red Bull. They launched

in Detroit at 3am UK time. I watched the whole thing so you don't have to.

Not on purpose. I just happen to be awake. I'm not training for the Australian Grand Prix

straight away. And we've already got manufacture of beef. The Yanks are at it already.

Cadillac and Ford are about five minutes into F1, and they've started going at each other in the press.

Blue on Blue Guys, friendly fire.

Perez did a long interview.

Is that vindication for us Perez fans?

He said a lot of things about his time at Red Bull.

And we've had a car on track, and we've had internet accounts doing aeronanalysis on fake AI cars, as well as launch model cars.

So this is prime time for the squiggly line gang who are out in force all over social media.

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