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The race is on.

And F-1 off-track may have gone off to a predictable start in Bahrain, but off track, it's been a never-ending thrill ride with the Christian Horner saga continuing and big changes at Alpine.

I'm Ed's jaw and joining us to untangle those stories and tackle more listener questions are Ben Anderson and Mark Hughes.

Well, Ben, how are you doing? I hope I'm not too echo here. I've just got to my Jeddah Hotel and it's quite a cavernous room actually. It's very echoy. It does sound like you're in an auditorium somewhere in Jedder Ed. Perhaps I could have done a quick Jedder live podcast. Do you think there's enough interest enough one for a live show here? I'm not sure. I'm not sure. But at least we've got back-to-back races, keep the excitement going. Hopefully we can have a more exciting race this weekend than we had in Bahrain. Exactly. That's the hope. And yeah, obviously everyone's been making their way to do. I've got quite a few drivers on the flight and team personnel for the hopover from Bahrain. so yeah it's's almost like being in the paddock at baggage claim. And Mark Hughes, how are you doing? Good, thank you. I'm looking forward to getting a little bit of peace from all this F1 news when the race starts. Do you think that'll stop it? Well, during the time of the race from the lights of the flag, I'd hope so. There's a saying about that, isn't there? Yeah. Something about something stopping. But anyway, we won't get into that one. But obviously there's lots to talk about. And yeah, it's mainly off-track stuff really at the moment. But we've got to get into the Christian Horner situation at Red Bull again because it's intensified since our last episode with the Ofer Stappen speaking publicly he told a daily mail and i quote

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