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Make sure to check out new episodes every Wednesday and every Sunday. Hello and a very warm welcome to the late breaking F1 podcast presented by Harry Ead, Sam Sage,

and me, Ben Hocking, here on a non-F1 preview. Well, it's not a preview at all.

It would be a preview if there was F-1 this weekend. There is not F-1 this weekend, therefore it is not a preview. I hope that's cleared everything up, guys. Whoa. You can't turn up an episode and start slapping people with the facts like that, man. You've got come in a little chill. Oh, easy. That's why Harry Eats here. it's the horizontal lead.

Yeah, well, that's one.

My name now,

I've just been told off by producer Kirsty for being too horizontal. Yeah, slapping fact. I don't think Ben's ever delivered a fact with a slap before. Here it is. Surely. Right in the face. He's just taking it, Mr. Reed. Take it. Wow. Okay. What we're talking about today, Ben? Please don't slap me. I won't be slapping you because we're going to be talking about today, Ben?

Please don't slap me.

I won't be slapping you because we're going to be talking about the FIA a bit later on

and there's plenty of slapping to go around there.

We've got the news that Colton Hurtt will be racing in F2 next season.

Our thoughts on that, a little bit of F1 back and forth for this Wednesday episode.

But we are going to start

with the title contenders, because with four rounds to go, things are really, really hotting up.

This feels like a bit of a slow burn of a season, but we've got to these last few races,

and a number of different scenarios could play out with just those four races to go.

So what we're going to do, hopefully, F1 have provided us with three different title contenders,

and there are three of us.

So we're going to split up the workload a bit, and we're going to take one of these three drivers each,

and we're going to say what we think should make them the most hopeful for the rest of this year. What is maybe the one reason why they should be encouraged

versus the other two? And then we'll also go to a why they should be a little bit worried

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