The race is on and it's all happening in the F1 driver market with George Russell standing in for Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes, Jack Aitken standing in for Russell at Williams, and Hass also announcing its 2021 driver lineup of Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin.

I'm Ed Straw, and joining me to discuss these moves is Mark Hughes.

Well, Mark Kello, presumably you'll still hold up in your Bahrain hotel, so any expectations of a quiet end to the season with the titles done and

dusted? It's just been utterly shattered, hasn't it, with what's been going on the past few days?

Yeah, this is the busiest time of the year as it's turned out. Not only, you know, are we working

on all the end of season stuff and the season review stuff, but yeah, it's suddenly just

gone manic in the driver market as well

partly only partly thanks to lewd's positive COVID test but yeah an awful lot happening

so partly as a result of we've also we've also had um the replacement of uh temporary replacement of roman

groujean for this weekend it has so yeah all and all an awful lot happening in a very compressed

few days in between two races which is a good excuse for some extra podcasts we've already done one

on pietroittipaldi.

You can find that in our feed as the last episode. That came out on Monday at some point.

So we're going to look at the subsequent driver moves. So let's start off with where we have to start off.

George Russell in the fastest car in Formula One. Currently it's a one weekend appointment,

although obviously he could get the second

outing in Abu Dhabi.

This is really significant, isn't it?

He gets the chance to show what he can do.

Yeah, absolutely.

He's looked every step of the way in his career, he's done absolutely everything that could be expected of him he's

always delivered and it it just was a sort of constant frustration for the rest of us watching him

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