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Hello and a very warm welcome to the late-breaking F-1 podcast presented by Harry Ead, Sam Sage, and me, Ben Hocking, live in studio.

That's not a thing, because this is still pre-recorded.

We're live as we're talking, though. That's true. We are together. I wasn't talking to the people. I was talking to you. We're live. Everything is alive, really. Yeah. Everything's live. That's pretty deep. What is live? Everything is live. This plant next to me is not alive. No, no life in those. It's mad-made. The magic's gone.

Sorry, telling you, listeners.

We've once again designed to waffle for the first 30 seconds.

So we'll continue to do so for the next 75 minutes or so.

We've got Formula Fortunes making a return a little bit later on. Come on.

But before we get there, it's the first Sunday episode that we've done in

a while where there hasn't been an F1 race to watch and therefore review. So we thought it'd

be a good opportunity with five races, one sprint down in the season so far, to reflect on how

all the teams are doing, because there's some variety in how happy and unhappy some of

these teams will be after those first five races. We're going to give three-word summaries

for each of them. We'll go around in a little circle and then we'll discuss what each of us

thinks of the season so far, where our three-word summaries have come from. So we'll go in

championship order as it is

right now. So of course we start with the defending Constructedist Champions, McLaren. Samuel,

three words? My three words for McLaren, which I definitely didn't write about six minutes ago.

Zach hugs Oscar. God, this is going to be a long episode.

There's a long of meaning behind it, actually.

I think that that rather physical act of the big old, yeah, and big American bear that

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