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The race is on, and the F1 driver markets is the gift that keeps on giving with Pierre

Gassley potentially taking the vacant seat at Alpine, but only on the proviso that Alfa

Tari is able to replace him with IndyCar

ace Colton Herter. So why do Alpine want him and how should F1 resolve the controversy over

Herta's super licence eligibility? I'm Ed's draw and joining me to answer those questions and many

more is Scott Mitchell Maln. Hello to you, Scott, from a very warm and muggy Como.

We're talking about the driver market today again and as a whole, this is a story that you've been all over with plenty of details that have been broken coming from you originally. We know fans love driver market chat. Do you revel as much in chasing it? Yeah, I think so. It's one of those things where this kind of stuff is just a lot harder, I think, to really

understand the truth of.

I think the team's often misleading, and I think deliberately misleading and often very

unhelpful, not necessarily in terms of the individuals we speak to, but just in terms of what's being

said officially. I think a good example of that is the McLaren Daniel Ricardo situation where

the official message, it's not incompatible with reality, but it really does only provide

a small glimpse at it.

So it is harder to find out what's going on.

That does make it a lot more fun and a lot more rewarding when you do feel like you've got a handle on it.

It's just a different type of thing to chase than say when you're trying to understand

an area of car or driver performance

or that kind of thing or, you know, new races being added to the calendar and regulation

changes and that. I think what makes driver market stuff so much more fun in general, I think

for us and for the audience is,

it's, you're just dealing with people.

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