The race is on, and Lewis Hamilton won a madcap Saudi-Arabian Grand Prix,

but only after several on-track scraped with title rival Max Verstappen,

as the championship battle was again engulfed in controversy.

The upshot is the pair head to the season finale level

on points after a weekend on which the advantage swung one way, then the other. I'm Ed Straw

and joining me to unravel one of the most remarkable races of the year are Scott Mitchell and Mark Hughes.

Well Mark, that was quite something, wasn't it? Yeah, it was thrilling, a bit scary in parts, and controversial, and yeah, it's all ramping up

and couldn't really have it any more dramatic, could we, going into the final?

Yep, level on points, that's exactly the scenario I've been hoping for all season,

and Scott Mitchell, you're enjoying the unusual circumstances.

Not only are you pointing in a slightly different direction to the rest of us,

but this is the first time. All three of us have been in the same place for a podcast

since the Australian Grand Prix that wasn't.

Look what happened then.

Yeah, exactly. Hopefully we managed to keep the world intact this time. Although, obviously, as we're doing this, there is some ongoing COVID complications going on, so maybe we're starting it all over again. The presence of us through altogether in the same room recording a podcast at Grand Prix is apparently now one of the signs of the apocalypse.

As is the fact the hotel, as you were just explaining

is trying to force feed you someone else's dry cleaning.

Force feed is a weird way of putting it.

But yeah, every time I keep returning to my hotel room,

there's someone else's dry cleaning hanging on my door.

I've done my best to tell the people at the reception

that it's absolutely not mine.

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