The race is on, and as Formula One wakes up after its August break, we ask who needs to do better in the upcoming triple header at Spars, Zandthort and Monza, and what might follow, both in terms of the on-track action and what the increasingly amorphous calendar will look like.

I'm Edgshaw, and joining me to tackle those key questions and more,

ask Scott Mitchell and Claire Cottingham.

Well, Claire, we'll say hello to you first as our special guest.

You're F1 journalist, broadcaster, commentator, presenter.

Basically, you do everything.

So the main thing is I don't want you to show me up as an amateur presenter on this. No, well, that, I would have had to have redone that about three times. So you did at first go. So no, absolutely. No, thank you for having me. It's really exciting to be here. Yeah, it's good to get some special guests on every now and again.

We haven't done it too much, but we're having to do it a little bit more often. And our second not so special guest is Scott Mitchell, who's normally lying around the place. He's enjoyed a few days off during the break. How are you, Scott? I'm fine. I take umbrage at what you've just said there though. I do many things on this podcast, but I've never recorded one horizontally.

So I'm always... I take umbrage at what you've just said there though. I do many things on this podcast, but I've never recorded one horizontally.

So I'm always, I'm always upright and ready for action.

I'm never phoning in a podcast.

You can accuse me of many things, Ed, but I do not, I do not come to these podcasts half-baked.

I'm sure I can remember you after one race,

calling one in a slightly reclining position,

probably having worked solidly for 30 hours.

Yeah, I slightly reclined is,

it's not horizontal, is it?

I might have recorded many a podcast at an obtuse angle,

but never, never fully reclined, never fully

horizontal. Excellent. Well, that's, that's the important topics we've, we've chosen to hear.

Anyone saying we're scraping the barrel during the August break is entirely wrong. So let's get

on with probably the one big thing that has happened, Scott. And before we start piling the

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