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Hello and a very warm welcome to the late-breaking F-1 podcast presented by Sam Sage and me, Ben Hocking, on this midweek Wednesday episode.

Unfortunately, no F-1 this weekend, but Sam, we've decided today we'll go in the same clothes as we did on Sunday

because we are dirty little buggers. We are messy boys. Yes, it's just channeling my inner

Kim Woodburn, you dirty little bugger. Yeah, that's how we roll. We've got nothing else to live

for at the moment. So it's just getting through every day until Formula One's back.

These were the dark times.

Well, we had a month for dark times.

No more dark times, please, Ben.

Okay, no problem.

Well, good news for you, Sam, is that we're playing Formula Four tunes later on.

So this is bound to be a good episode because of that alone. But on top of that, we've also got an interview with the one and only Matt Maggi. He coming up later on in the show, too. I spoke to him last year, had an opportunity to speak to him earlier in the week. So you'll hear that interview shortly. But let's start with Oscar Piastri and

Red Bull. Because according to Autosport, Oscar Piacs has been identified by Red Bull as its leading

candidates who replaced Max Verstappen if the four-time Formula One world champion were to leave the

sport. Sources cited by Autosport in the Miami Paddock say this view is shared internally,

even though Vastappen remains under contract for next season and the team continues to publicly

maintain that he is staying.

The report adds that team principal, Laura Meckes and Oliver Mintslaff, are prepared to

activate a contingency plan centered on Piastri in the unlikely but

possible event, the Stappan departs for a rival team, takes a break from Formula One or exits the

sport entirely. It should also say on this, whilst it's a report by Autosport, Sky Sports have

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