The race is on, and we've let members of the race members club set the agenda for us in this edition of the Race F1 podcast.

We've got a batch of questions on all sorts of topics, many related to the first pre-season test.

I'm Edshaw and joining me with all the answers are Scott Mitchell and Mark Hughes.

Well, Mark, hello, how are you enjoying this brief pause after the flurry of launches

and the first test that seemed to mean February just went by in a flash?

Yeah, it's like a step change, isn't it?

I don't know about where you are, but it's coincided with a change in the weather.

Suddenly it was spring today for some reason.

And it's just come, it's almost like all that stuff between Aber Dhabi and now is just some weird dream.

And we're now preparing for the real season.

But yeah, still some unfortunate, horrible weirdness going on on the background, of course.

Of course, yes.

Well, I'll pick up on the more pleasant topic of the weather.

It's not very springy down here.

It's looking a bit gloomier.

So certainly the north is prevailing. And Scott, the point mark makes there about all of the Aber Dhabi stuff now finally seeming to be in the past and it's getting on with the new season. It's quite fun, isn't it? Yeah, I think it's important that we've been able to effectively draw a line under the end of last season, finally. And I think Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes played a part in that.

They said that they weren't going to forgive or forget what happened in Abu Dhabi,

but they were at a point now where they needed to move on and focus on 2022.

So I think we can take that as sort of our cue to do the same.

The reason being that F-122, there is a lot to be excited about and is really fascinating,

but we just haven't really been able to fully embrace the new era and look ahead to the

new era because we've been spending too much time looking back, rightly so, because

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