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Sam Sage and me Ben Hawking on today's Sunday episode I've very nearly got that

wrong because Harry's unusually sat next to me and Sam isn't.

So I almost said all of our names at the same time

and also none of our names.

That's a good start.

Barry sage is back.

Barry sage is here.

Very sage never goes away.

Nope. He's a constant.

He will never die.

That's a story for another day.

But we've got an exciting episode because whilst there's no F1 race this weekend, up predictions and there are a lot of seats to predict so I am hoping and now I'm

definitely saying this so it won't happen but I'm hoping we're going to have some

big differences in opinion here. As we said before recording, there are 13 options available that aren't guaranteed for 2025.

So if all three of us have picked exactly the same options, if anything, maybe now is that time to go out and pick lottery numbers because the chances are very slim that we get this exactly the same.

Precisely. Also coming up on today's episode we've got order please and a little bit on the 2026 regulations

But the bulk of our episode today is going to be predicting this 2025 driver lineup as Sam has already correctly identified. Seven drivers are locked in for next season which leaves 13 seats available.

So we're going to go through it team by team. Before we start with the teams that actually have positions open,

is anyone going to shock the world and say

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