Lights out, away we go – and now, we wait…

The 2018 Formula 1 season is under way, although it didn’t arrive before Michael Bailey’s new son (Congratulations Michael!). So Perry Hamilton (no relation) takes the chair for edition 216 of The NR F1 Podcast, reviewing the key action from the calendar opener in Melbourne.

From Sebastian Vettel’s jump on Lewis Hamilton to that catalogue of Haas errors – and no, the catalogue wasn’t from Maranello – it was a curious start to the new season, with the promise of much more to come.

The crew look back at Melbourne and ahead to the second GP of the year in Bahrain. (Definitely not China. Yet.)

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As for our most popular podcasts in the last 12 months, try these:

• e213 Reviewing the 2017 season over dessert – https://audioboom.com/posts/6538053

• e200 Our big anniversary! – https://audioboom.com/posts/6336063

• e146 Jake Humphrey sorts F1 by shouting from his kitchen – https://audioboom.com/posts/5736293

• e169 I still think I’ve got something special; the Stuart Webber interview – https://audioboom.com/posts/5971694

• e184 Our British GP review recorded live on the Silverstone grid – https://audioboom.com/posts/6098909

• e155 McLaren the disgrace and Max the idiot – https://audioboom.com/posts/5833341

• e199 Vettel fails and that’s probably that – https://audioboom.com/posts/6315458

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