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Welcome to Mist Apex Podcast on your host Richard Spanner's Ready. You wanted cars on track? Well, you got them. Get all our thoughts on the first test.

Who was reliable? Were the lap times important? Were there any issues and problems? We'll basically be looking at the new toys at the disposal of all the teams and drivers. Are the new regulations working for following? Well, we'll find out what the drivers had to say about that. We'll be learning about the difference between different types of suspension from our suspension expert, Kyle Power, and why were the cars bumping up and down? Are these even the cars that we're going to see in Bahrain?

Be spec Bahrain cars. I'm also going to bully my panel today into committing to saying which driver they are supporting in nine teammate battles in Formula One. I am also joined by Matt to Rumpis. Good morning Matt. Good afternoon. I always forget it's afternoon for you sir and how is it? It's going pretty well compared to the Frigid Wies then we experienced the last two days.

The Frigid Wies land of rain and misery. Yeah, frozen precipitation and below zero temperatures, which it was 22 and then it was minus three and snowing and now it's like, you know, 12 and just like we have known we have no seasons anymore just different weather every day.

That's the third show in a row. I think you've spoken about whether we really have angler sized you haven't women. Yeah, you're pretty much have sorry. Before I'm sorry Americans, I'm letting down the side before I introduce you to the rest of the panel. Let me remind you that we are an independent podcast produced in the podcasting shed with the kind permission of our better halves. We aim to bring you a race review before your Monday morning commute. We might be wrong, but we're first.

We're joined on the panel by engineer and suspension expert Kyle power from it from a new slightly echo echo your office. Hello, Kyle.

Hey, how's it going? I would like to preface this by saying I am not a suspension expert in any which way whatsoever. I'd never keen interest for the differences.

I've been monitoring the preparation WhatsApp chat. You seem like you know your stuff and like all experts always go, oh, I'm no expert.

I think you do understand it. So you can take us on a on a tour of your pools and your pushes and your rods and your coils.

Oh, hopefully we can go on a call together and maybe learn some stuff. All right. Well, I wasn't expecting that, but I mean we also have my personal 24 hour on call emergency vet, Chris Catman Turner.

That's a fair description of your most important role. Surely it is although I'm a little bit disappointed to see the experience because when you asked me to come on the podcast and talk about

poor person. I had assumed you wanted my veterinary knowledge. Yes.

Other than some engineering waffle. Yeah, don't worry. I have a special window lined up where we can just focus in on on Matt and Kyle.

And they can talk about a little bit of the engineering side of stuff. But it has been F1 testing in Barcelona. I really think that's a fair description of it. So let's get into that.

Big 13 news.

OK, so Matt, we have had the first test in Barcelona. And as we all know with testing lap times, as I've consistently said, lap times in testing are the absolute number one most important thing.

And as we can see Lewis Hamilton one testing.

Yeah, well, from from that measure, you've got to be very excited because Mercedes was top of the charts. They put the best lap times in.

And if you're going to be concerned about a team that's not one of our problem children, which was the teams that really didn't get a lot of running in that would be a

offer and has then then if you're an Alpine fan, you're a bit concerned because they did not get a lot of mileage in and they did not put in particularly fast times.

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