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One of our most unusual intros, I would say, because, well, first and foremost, this is surely the first time I've ever done anything late breaking wise in my badminton kit.

Yeah, that's true.

While you'll be batting about Shuttle Cox later on, let's bat about some F1 news that's come out because we've got some big topics in discuss.

Right.

We have got some breaking news that isn't at all breaking when it's coming out.

But it is for us at least,

which is that Jonathan Wheatley is leaving Audi. Where is he going to go? Nobody knows,

Astor Martin. But right now, the only thing that's confirmed is that he has left Audi due to personal reasons. It means that Matea Bonotto will take on essentially the full responsibilities

left by Wheatley as the team principal on top of what he's already doing. So going back to a bit

more of a traditional one man at the top model. Sam, this is, this kind of came out yesterday,

that this might be a thing that someone, someone might be looking

towards an Aston Martin role, again, that bit's not confirmed, but Jonathan Wheatley's just

done two races for Audi. Yeah, two races for Audi after what felt like a really good start

to the Audi journey. You know, he was part of the key transition from Stakesalbert into what became

Audi. He seemed to be really working well with both drivers, engine supplier, and

Bonotto, who of course was kind of the managing director, CEO style role that was going on

there at Audi. And yet, apparently there's been an out by Aston Martin where they don't

follow the traditional understanding of what a team principle is.

I ain't about this fluent team principle nonsense.

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