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Today's episode is called Boom Shackalaka Vamos. I'm your host, Richard Spaners Ready, and I'm joined by Matt to Rumpets.

How's it going, Matt?

Oh, it's going great. We had a race today. How could it not be going great?

It was really good, and as soon as the rain started to fall, I said to my wife,

not only am I going to watch the race now, I will be putting headphones in, and I do not want to be disturbed,

because this is going to be cracking. My boy sat down next to me, and what we saw next was just unbelievable.

But Matt, we predicted a Ferrari-dominated weekend.

But in the end, I feel they lacked race pace.

Well, maybe they did and maybe they didn't.

But personally, I was utterly stonkered at Mercedes' amazing strategy move of having Ferrari Barcelona themselves.

It was brilliant stuff from their chief strategist.

Certainly a bold tactic to have

two mediocre starts from their drivers as well, to avoid all the chaos. Indeed. Although you have

to hand it to Kimmy Rakenen, nobody saw him starting and getting ahead of Vershtappen in that kind of

weather. Are you going to say the race was ruined by Kimmy showing an unexpected and startling return to form?

Well, you know, I mean, let's face it.

What has he mostly done?

Every now and then in Q3, maybe he looks like he's going to win.

And then he drives over a curb or loses control of his car, finishes fourth, fifth, winds up being a strategy move for Ferrari. And then just today,

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