Welcome to the Marshall Pruitt podcast and an episode of Catching Up, what is Catching Up?

Short form interview series.

Normally it's with someone who, very famous, very well known, Indy 500 winner, champion of something.

Not exactly falling in that category here, but this is my champion of Formula One coverage

and Racer Magazine Brotherhood.

That being Chris Medland,

you might have seen his beautiful, sparkly face.

Season one of Drive to Survive, was it, mate?

I don't know what you did to piss him off.

I don't know if we saw you in subsequent seasons,

but all kidding aside, man, that racing series

you cover, it sure is in the news every day.

The on track part, Chris, the racing sometimes gets forgotten because Karen Horner and

Karen Wolf and all kinds of people are constantly sniping at each other.

So I figure you're coming out of Qatar here.

Might be worth doing a bit of a catch-up on the season that you have witnessed so far

and how we've gotten to a place where is it wrong to say bitchiness is kind of the number one output product of Formula One right now.

So why don't we talk about that, Chris?

I think there's been a lot of pent-up tension within Christian Horner waiting for the chance

to fight with Mercedes properly and to try and win another championship because Horner got used to it

and Red Bull got used to it by the end of 2013, won four straight with the dominant team

and then suddenly you get 2014 happens, Mercedes are just all conquering and no one can

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