Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 podcast with Matt and Tommy.

Podcasts galore this weekend because of course it's a sprint weekend and we have had the Chinese Grand Prix sprint and a lot to talk about, as always.

You know, these new regulations are serving something,

whether you don't like them or you do like them.

I, look, overarching feelings.

Let's just go straight in with it, how we feel after that one.

And look, I understand some people had some comments from our last podcast

where perhaps we went in very hard on the regulations

and actually forgot to really talk about SQ3, so I apologize for that.

But after the sprint today, my overriding feeling is that that was pretty great to watch.

Now, I am as a Formula One fan having an internal struggle of what I'm watching

and whether I should enjoy it. That's kind of the thing I'm sat here going, oh, these are, I've always

wanted loads of overtakes. We've now got them, but it's done in a different way to what I like.

Yeah. But I think overall, the first half of that sprint was great to watch.

And yes, there's battery deployment tactics.

Some people might argue that there's no skill involved in that.

I would disagree.

And it kept it interesting for the first half of the sprint.

And I remember sprints last year where we'd get literally no overtakes

and it would stay in basically the position that they started in.

I would take that, as in this, what we've just seen, over that any day of the week.

That's the trade-off, isn't it?

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