Welcome to another rather different week in sports cars podcast, part of the Marshall Pruitts podcast collection.

With thanks as always to Cooper Tyres, to the Justice Brothers and to Toronto Motors.com.

And I bring, I'm afraid afraid both bad and good tidings this

christmas week uh dear listeners uh the bad tidings are that uh poor old marshal pruit

feeling a bit under the weather um a bit of i think uh it's a nasty tooth problem which if

anybody's had nasty teeth problem, would know that the pain

that that inflicts is somewhat debilitating. So Marshall, and for that, Manor-Shabran, have a

fabulous Christmas. We miss you for this end of year podcast, but he will be back, I'm sure,

next week. The good news, though, is that we,

we put out a clarion call to top quality broadcasting talent. Nobody was available.

So instead of that, we put out a kind of a clarion call to top quality racing talent and no one was

available and then

I was out one evening

and just shambling along

on the pavement

in South London. It's a

shattered husk of a man

but that's enough about

the Daily Sports Golf car photography team.

Someone handed me a number, and I'm delighted to say that we've got,

very recently ex-Mazda factory driver,

LeMond winner, all around very much taller than his manager, superstar.

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