The Pad-Hoc

You read that right. Nate has given himself a new nickname, and was more impressed with who he met while out walking the dog in Tampa than at the Rolex 24 in Daytona. Chris gets carried away with a stupid idea, and Lawrence only came home for the Red Bull launch

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Stop giggling at the back (OK don't, we get that part out of the way first before being semi-professional), but we do talk about actual progress at Aston Martin, potential progress at Alpine and maybe or maybe not progress at the FIA. And Nate promises to sing if you write him a song.

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Some actual F1 news at the start of 2022 as Otmar Szafnauer leaves Aston Martin, so Chris recalls his unique approach to Sunday media sessions. Lawrence has more than one shoe guy and Nate's plans for Daytona hinge on a swimming pool being finished.

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There's festive jokes, season reviews, highlights, lowlights, an interruption from Stefano Domenicali (sort of) and some very bold predictions for 2022. Plus find out the item of clothing Lawrence wants Ricciardo to sign now he's washed it, which race Nate dodged to make it through the year, and the outrage Chris caused by tweeting on a day off

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After we get over Nate's broken microphone, some actual debate and discussion about the final race of the season breaks out. We're really sorry, but we couldn't help it. Lawrence is also told what not to ask by a world champion, and Chris misses Juri Vips crashing in testing

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Laurence, Nate and Chris actually find themselves in the same place at the same time (eventually) so it's the first ever in-person episode. And we get a new scale of dirty from Laurence, a night on a yacht with Nate while Chris very nearly cuts Fernando Alonso while trying to spray him

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There's a story about Lawrence retiring his new best friend Kimi early, Nate leaving lunch with Lando early, and Chris not wanting to publish this episode early. And we actually get serious for a bit to pay tribute to Sir Frank Williams

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Nate tells his haters to piss off, Lawrence receives plenty of abuse from Guenther Steiner over brunch in Qatar, and Chris has a challenging time even before getting Kimi to speak for a whole 45 minutes

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There's a lot of fallout from Brazil, not least Nate having a very armoured car to avoid all the hate he gets for being biased, or something like that. Lawrence is now best friends with Felipe Massa and Chris manages to draw with an F1 driver at something

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Nate gets so inspired on his flight to Brazil he writes a poem about Yuki, Lawrence tries to work out where the Mexican fans get their energy from, and Chris has a new toy to play with that means the levels are weird but there's a lot of fun buttons to press, including a new jingle...

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