Hello and welcome to the WTF1 podcast.

I'm your host,

and you're hosting with Ash.

Hi, Ash.

Hello.

Ash is back from doing the play-by-play slash broadcast at Pike's Peak.

We have a lot of F-1 headlines to talk to you about today as well as a preview of the Austrian

Grand Prix.

But before that, Ash, I want to hear about your weekend.

Yeah, it was pretty awesome.

I'm not going to lie.

If you haven't heard of Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, definitely look it up.

Essentially, you have big manufacturers like Ford and Hyundai and stuff

like that at Honda and stuff. One, there's different classes. So there's something called

exhibition where usually the manufacturers come. Ford Wright brought their mock E and you're,

and you're trying out your cars and seeing if they could make it from an elevation of 9,000 feet

around to 14, 115.

And air density is a whole thing, right?

Because whether you have a naturally aspirated engine or a turbocharger,

like they, you need air to do the suck, squeeze, bang, blow of what engines do.

Like, oxygen's a very important part of getting your car to move, even with a turbocharger.

So it's usually like a lot of mechanical failures, and it's also really physical on the drivers.

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