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The Races

The Races on and the wraps came off the Audi F1 team at its launch in Berlin

on the same day Honda presented its new power unit in Tokyo.

But what did we learn from these two launch events as we edge ever closer to the start of pre-season testing?

I'm Ed Straw and joining me to tell all his first Val Hurunji and later Scott Mitchell Maln.

But it's been a very busy day for Formula One, not only the Honda launch and the Audi launch,

but also the racing bulls.

The V-Cabo 3 has been shaken down at Imola as well.

Head to the race website to take a look at that.

But for now, we're focused on Audi and Valhuringi.

You are there at what sounds like a real party.

There's a real party, I guess, because I've had to go downstairs from where the parties

at to record this bit.

And I'm also not really the partying type.

But I can tell you is this place is the Kraftwerk in Berlin, which translates to power plant

and used to be a power plant in the middle of Berlin and is now just, I guess, a hangout

place.

Somebody mentioned during the presentation one of the other journalists that it's like the

nightclub scene in John Wick 4, and then I looked it up, and it is actually that exact same

location for anybody who's enjoying that.

But it's a really interesting, but kind of in Congress launch event where all the team

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