Sam Bird

It's Harry Benjamin with you.

I'm joined on the sofa by British racing driver Sam Bird and our BBC F1 correspondent Andrew Benson.

That, I mean, before we even get into the racing action, which was, uh, spoiler alert, won by Max Verstappen in a brilliant first victory of the season.

We'll come onto that.

We appreciate that.

Uh, we'll, we'll progressively make our way up through the podium, uh, in, in the next coming years hopefully.

Um, right then, before we properly wrap things up, driver of the day, Sam Bird.

I'm gonna go with Lewis.

And well, for Max Verstappen, he was in a class of his own all throughout qualifying, topped all three segments on his way to securing his first pole position of the year.

And to dissect everything that we've just seen from that qualifying, alongside myself, Harry Benjamin, I've got British racing driver Sam Bird and BBC F1 correspondent Andrew Benson.

And I mean, magnificent, Sam, wasn't it, for, for Max?

Yeah, absolutely.

But, you know, there was another interesting prospect that was happening just a little bit away in Spain itself, because Zane Maloney undertook his first couple of testing appearances for Nissan at Califat and Monte Blanco very recently.

So he's got the sample Nissan's Gen 4 machinery alongside Sam Bird.

And there are a few onboards of that available on Formula E's subreddit, which is really cool.

And speaking of Nissan power drivers, though, Andretti, Felipe Drogovic and Jake Dennis, both of them tested Gen 4 for the first time.