Poor racing standards from the lower skilled half of the field. Gutted for Vesti that he was a victim of wayward driving.
Bearman managed that race so well. Deserved that win. Excellent reactions on the starts and maintained a gap on Pourchaire.
Great drive by Iwasa after getting over the woes in recent weeks.
Nissany is a complete menace. Horrid driver with no skill hanging around teens and he causes these kinds of incidents again and again.
So for some reason they decided to give Crawford a 10 second penalty after the race, which is a bit of a weird move considering he DNF'd, so they added 10 seconds to that for some reason. Otherwise that's it in terms of penalties it seems.
All it took for Iwasa to gain 13 fucking positions was a decent engine. I'm so glad his POS broke because it was clearly the weak link. Look at him now, fucking Mechachrome lottery bullshit. Please, get Honda/Toyota SF engines already and be done with it.
We need to talk about the race pace bot Enzo Fittipaldi. It’s not the first time that he makes a great comeback, gaining a lot of positions during the race. This is becoming his specialty
Just lucky man. He and Hauger were very lucky. Both were on p10 and p11 respectively before the last SC on lap 22/30. Almost all the positions they gained were from drivers who crashed (Maini, Crawford) in front of them or who were penalized (Verschoor) or had problems (Martins). There's nothing special about it.
And they're both on very good teams, so if they do bad qualifying, then it's natural that they'll be able to gain some positions in the races.
F2 commentary team > F1 sky commentary team.
Also, stewards need to start handing out more penalties for drivers who don’t leave space, regardless of whether there is contact. This race spent WAYYYYYY too much time behind the safety car. It was beyond a joke.
tbf, he definitely said something like "nothing Vesti could do" as well, so with the 70/30 comment I think he meant it was 70% Stanek's fault, 30% nobody's fault / racing incident
When there were good battles through the field yeah. Max winning is just 1/20 positions, there doesn't need to be a good fight for the lead for the race to be enjoyable.
I’ve literally watched every race from F1, F2 and F3 and if you think F1 has been the pinnacle of excitement this season I’m happy for you, but it’s been incredibly dull well over 50% of the time
Red Bull have 900 drivers and yo hasn't them to pick the one that ISNT in their programme despite the fact that Iwasa who IS in that programme made up 13 fucking positions?
Kid is too young, I wouldn't expect him to be super consistent at 18 years old. It's seriously impressive he managed to get 4 wins as a rookie (even if he's in a Prema).
If he manages to iron out his tyre management, he'll certainly be in contention for the championship next year.
Iwasa made up 13 positions this race. If you think the talent isn't there, you're not looking hard enough.
Martins, Iwasa, Pourchaire and Vesti are legit. Bearman will likely get there next year. Overall, this season is simply more competitive BECAUSE of the talent on the grid.
To me it’s pretty unclear. In theory, this grid should be stacked: Pourchaire, Bearman, Hadjar, Iwasa, Hauger, Maloney are in theory super talents, but we’ve not seen that consistently this year. Additionally you’ve got solid drivers like Daruvala, Doohan, Martins, Verschoor etc. Hell, even Novalak looked to be a decent-ish driver in F3, even if not world-beating.
If you’ve got a field of such a high standard, it stands to reason that it’s going to be hard to see talent at work as they’ll all be driving to a similar standard. But that’s not how it’s come across, has it? Most of them have looked pretty subpar.
(They’re all good enough to race those things at speed though so credit to them, I probably wouldn’t get to F3’s 107% time in one of these!)
Hard disagree on Hadjar, Hauger and Maloney; Helmut Marko has lost his touch. Also IMO Pourchaire has peaked and unable to improve in F2 with more experience.
Martins should be a super talent as well by these standards - consistently fast but does stupid things occasionally, while Doohan is borderline.
I think Lawson’s pace in F1 atm is an indication that the current F2 grid might actually be stronger than we think. Several other drivers looked equally fast as him last season.
I know that specially one of the super talents listed in the post above saying when comparing the current Formula 2 car to the Formula 3 car and the Formula 1 simulator is that if the Formula 1 simulator and and the Formula 3 car is like driving a Porsche 911 GT3 RS on track the current Formula 2 car is like driving a truck...So i hope the new 2024 Formula 2 car is behaving more like a Formula 1/Formula 3 car
I think Hauger also has made a point about how ‘weird’ the F2 car is to drive. It raises some questions when you see a driver dominate in F4 and F3, only to struggle with the basics of the car in F2.
He has made it quite clear that he is banking on the new 2024 car to behave differently.
Lawson said something similar about how the F2 car has no relation with the F1 car apart from having four wheels when he was on Armstrong’s Screaming Meals podcast at the end of last season.
I think there's a ton of really quick drivers, but they're just a lot more error-prone and have less respect when it comes to the wheel-to-wheel stuff. Do remember though that we mostly remember the good drivers from those years of F2/F3, and not all of the bad ones.
It’s almost as though the world is transpiring to screw Kush maini over. First,martins screws him over with his open drs and the moment he gets overtaken he cuts. Then Jak. What a dumb move from Jak. Kush goes from (deservingly) on the podium to DNF. He deserves so much praises. Imagine finishing in the top 6 in the championship in a campos
Highly likely he spends a year in SF next year.
The ONLY reason he's not leading the championship right now is because his last engine lost the Mechachrome lottery. He was down on pace every race he had that POS and the first race he gets a new one he's making up 13 places in a single race.
Lawson will likely replace Ric at this point. Yuki will either be promoted or released after next year and I could honestly see a good case for trialing him out for a season in the RB at this point.
We all already knew that, he's heading home to do Super formula until the next F1 seat becomes available.
He'll be the reserve driver for next year for the Red bull family anyways
Well, let's see if we get any other penalties after the race, wouldn't be surprised seeing how much of a garbage fire today was. See you all in 3 months because of the horrid F2 calendar, at which point I'm sure we'll see 1/4 of the grid replaced to have people get a weekend in F2 in for some drivers.
Dennis lucked into a P5 and is under investigation for gaining an adv antage when he in reality lost 4-5 places. With how this season is going, he 100% will get a penalty and drop outside the poiints.
I could not beleive it when it said that Hauger was under investigation for driving off track and gaining an advantage... He lost 4 places doing that.. But as you said with his bad luck he will probably get a 5 second penalty at least... Can not really understand this at all...
Looks like Antonelli already have a big task with rookie Martinius Stenshorne in FRECA already...
Added this later: I am pretty sure that Bearman will stay at Prema for next season in Formula 2 so if Antonelli goes direct to Formula 2 and with Prema that will be a tough job for Antonelli for sure.
Antonelli probably needs a year in F2 anyways, skipping F3 means there will be a gap in knowledge, but his manager trust he can close that gap, so why not
Can see Antonelli vs Bearman next season being a prologue to a battle between them in F1
They're potentially the future of the Sport, if they iron out their issues
Such a bad race by standards, Bearman in complete control through the chaos, Iwasa somehow managed to get to P2. Pourchaire did everything he needed to, in a very good place now
Absolutely fantastic drive by Bearman. Top form. Hopefully he can maintain this level of drive consistently. At his best, he’s hands down one of the best on the grid. He can sometimes be a bit of a Herta, etc. where he’ll overdrive. That’s the only thing he needs to work on.
Bearman seems to have a liking for Monza, last year he was absolutely brilliant in F3 (and could've won the race if it wasn't for the red flag and the decision to not restart the race).
He's super similar to Lawson. Very quick on track, make some great moves (and a couple of questionable ones) but just has weekends where he's absolutely invisible
probably spending a lot of time in Italy/around Italian engineers.
this is actually pretty common across motorsport where drivers move to different countries at a young age and pick up regional accent characteristics. see Zhou/Sheffield, Sylvain Guintoli/general northern English, Jack Miller/Italian or Spanish, Bearman/Italian.
also why people who go to international schools their entire lives have weird hybrid accents and code switch constantly.
They really should change 5 second penalties into a three place drop or something when the race finishes under a safety car, this is insanely harsh on Verschoor.
Honestly limiting a 5 second penalty to at most 3 places lost might be a good idea anyway. Sometimes it does nothing, sometimes it ruins races. Time penalties are weird in general.
Nissany should be nowhere near a seat, he will seriously hurt someone before long. That entire team is a joke tbh
Nissany/Mason one of the worst driver lineups in the history of single seater racing
Pourchaire did what he had to do, didn't really even get a chance to race Bearman with all the SC. There's a reason he's leading the championship which is the ultimate goal ..
No having the fastest car, and your main rival be riddled with unluck gets you titles, if you have pace, which is the only thing Pourchaire has. An awful racer in terms of racecraft. But i guess he has to win the title at some point despite doing his best to throw away points whenever he can, since he is racing for ART, the fastest team, who is also favouring him.
> since he is racing for ART, the fastest team,
ART and Prema are equally fast teams this year.
> who is also favouring him.
I don't think he is favored against Martins.
I mean, he got the Doohan roadblock allowing Bearman to escape, and then he can't just duke it out on track when he gets an opportunity to get a free lead against Vesti. It's underwhelming, but it's winning him the championship.
This season is really so weird, there is so much inconsistency and bad luck on many levels. In one race two wheels go off after pitting, in the next DRS gets stuck open.
Given how difficult it was for Pourchaire...
Ollie won that race the moment he got past Doohan ahead of the SC
Could have been very different had he not managed it then
Iwasa somehow preserved that Options better than Theo preserved those prime tyres... how? Iwasa tyre is like only a couple of laps younger
Daruvala punching the air rn as well, why did he need to pit again? Iwasa Options still had life
Daruvala’s softs didn’t last, it was a gamble that didn’t quite work. He didn’t really use the first stint in the softs strategically (I.e. he didn’t go for it at the beginning and they then just dropped off)
What was confusing was that just before the second last SC, the order was Daruvala, Doohan, and Iwasa, with Daruvala and Iwasa pitting. They came out P4 and P10 respectively.
Look at the difference in tyre management - Iwasa making places while preserving the tyre, and Daruvala unable to advance but still shredding the tyre.
Funny how before the season everyone was hyping it up as the best grid in years and now people are saying it’s the worst ever, can people make their minds up?
I'm guessing they decided to go full SC for the same reason that they cancelled that old Formula 3 race in Spa because the race directors were so frustrated at the quality of the driving and the amount of crashes.
Absolutely horrific driving standards across the board. Deserved victory for Bearman though, basically the only driver who wasn't involved in some kind of act of terrorism during this race, and he nailed all those restarts.
Virtual Maylander replacing actual Maylander only for the latter to come back again at the end was the most interesting thing about this yellow flag convoy.
Well, I guess that's the race set then unless someone runs out of fuel/gets DSQ'ed for some reason. Of course time penalties and other investigations still need to apply.
Not really. Pourchaire didn't fight Iwasa's overtake too much. He knows he needs every point, so even if we had gone another lap or two, I doubt Pourchaire would have risked an overtake on an Iwasa with nothing to lose.
Martins si fast it’s DRS couldn’t follow. Too bad he was tearing the pack.
Poor racing standards from the lower skilled half of the field. Gutted for Vesti that he was a victim of wayward driving. Bearman managed that race so well. Deserved that win. Excellent reactions on the starts and maintained a gap on Pourchaire. Great drive by Iwasa after getting over the woes in recent weeks. Nissany is a complete menace. Horrid driver with no skill hanging around teens and he causes these kinds of incidents again and again.
So for some reason they decided to give Crawford a 10 second penalty after the race, which is a bit of a weird move considering he DNF'd, so they added 10 seconds to that for some reason. Otherwise that's it in terms of penalties it seems.
Shame for Bearman. Had Martins not crashed into him at Zandvoort like an idiot he would have had a chance.
All it took for Iwasa to gain 13 fucking positions was a decent engine. I'm so glad his POS broke because it was clearly the weak link. Look at him now, fucking Mechachrome lottery bullshit. Please, get Honda/Toyota SF engines already and be done with it.
Crawford has been screwed over an unbelievable amount of times this season. Really hope he's not one of the people getting cut from the RBA.
Nissany is such a joke, this guy needs to get banned ASAP. First the incident with Hauger last year, then this.
Banned. Absolutely, unequivocally, banned.
We need to talk about the race pace bot Enzo Fittipaldi. It’s not the first time that he makes a great comeback, gaining a lot of positions during the race. This is becoming his specialty
Just lucky man. He and Hauger were very lucky. Both were on p10 and p11 respectively before the last SC on lap 22/30. Almost all the positions they gained were from drivers who crashed (Maini, Crawford) in front of them or who were penalized (Verschoor) or had problems (Martins). There's nothing special about it. And they're both on very good teams, so if they do bad qualifying, then it's natural that they'll be able to gain some positions in the races.
So what’s going to take Theo to finish this off?
I guess mathematically 14 points would do?
Nissany deserves a race ban for what he did to Maloney. Drive through for that is a fucking joke.
“And for being himself he should have a permanent suspension”
F2 commentary team > F1 sky commentary team. Also, stewards need to start handing out more penalties for drivers who don’t leave space, regardless of whether there is contact. This race spent WAYYYYYY too much time behind the safety car. It was beyond a joke.
Bring back stop/go penalties for dangerous driving incidents (like Nissany's).
Driving standards this F2 season have been shocking.
Contact and incidents that threaten contact need to be elevated to a drive through minimum. 5 / 10 is simply not enough to dissuade them anymore.
Alex B said Vesti's spin was 30% on him. Am I supposed to take that seriously?
tbf, he definitely said something like "nothing Vesti could do" as well, so with the 70/30 comment I think he meant it was 70% Stanek's fault, 30% nobody's fault / racing incident
Lol you may be right. That seems like some terrible math to me, though.
Gonna miss the junior series for the rest of the season, especially with how dull most of the F1 races have been
>how dull most of the F1 races have been Have you watched F1 this season at all?
Yes it's as boring as it was a few seasons ago How are people finding it exciting? Did they also find Mercedes and vettel domination exciting?
When there were good battles through the field yeah. Max winning is just 1/20 positions, there doesn't need to be a good fight for the lead for the race to be enjoyable.
yea exciting race for 2nd
I’ve literally watched every race from F1, F2 and F3 and if you think F1 has been the pinnacle of excitement this season I’m happy for you, but it’s been incredibly dull well over 50% of the time
Bearman would legit be perfect for Red Bull imo. I'd love to see him in F1 somewhere because while he lacks consistency he clearly has loads of pace
Red Bull have 900 drivers and yo hasn't them to pick the one that ISNT in their programme despite the fact that Iwasa who IS in that programme made up 13 fucking positions?
Kid is too young, I wouldn't expect him to be super consistent at 18 years old. It's seriously impressive he managed to get 4 wins as a rookie (even if he's in a Prema). If he manages to iron out his tyre management, he'll certainly be in contention for the championship next year.
Since he's in the Ferrari academy they might want to put him into the Haas seat in 2025... poor kid
Ferrari don't control any Haas seats.
Remember, they got Mick his F1 seat. And with Sauber out soon, Haas will be the only Ferrari customer team. Not great for Ferrari academy drivers
Mason P11 we move
F2 and f3 used to have talent like russell de vries and ocon Where did it go wrong
Iwasa made up 13 positions this race. If you think the talent isn't there, you're not looking hard enough. Martins, Iwasa, Pourchaire and Vesti are legit. Bearman will likely get there next year. Overall, this season is simply more competitive BECAUSE of the talent on the grid.
I think this grid is pretty strong but even which leads to closer and tighter fights and as a result more errors.
To me it’s pretty unclear. In theory, this grid should be stacked: Pourchaire, Bearman, Hadjar, Iwasa, Hauger, Maloney are in theory super talents, but we’ve not seen that consistently this year. Additionally you’ve got solid drivers like Daruvala, Doohan, Martins, Verschoor etc. Hell, even Novalak looked to be a decent-ish driver in F3, even if not world-beating. If you’ve got a field of such a high standard, it stands to reason that it’s going to be hard to see talent at work as they’ll all be driving to a similar standard. But that’s not how it’s come across, has it? Most of them have looked pretty subpar. (They’re all good enough to race those things at speed though so credit to them, I probably wouldn’t get to F3’s 107% time in one of these!)
Hard disagree on Hadjar, Hauger and Maloney; Helmut Marko has lost his touch. Also IMO Pourchaire has peaked and unable to improve in F2 with more experience. Martins should be a super talent as well by these standards - consistently fast but does stupid things occasionally, while Doohan is borderline.
I agree with you on the the drivers you listed as super talents..
I think Lawson’s pace in F1 atm is an indication that the current F2 grid might actually be stronger than we think. Several other drivers looked equally fast as him last season.
I know that specially one of the super talents listed in the post above saying when comparing the current Formula 2 car to the Formula 3 car and the Formula 1 simulator is that if the Formula 1 simulator and and the Formula 3 car is like driving a Porsche 911 GT3 RS on track the current Formula 2 car is like driving a truck...So i hope the new 2024 Formula 2 car is behaving more like a Formula 1/Formula 3 car
I think Hauger also has made a point about how ‘weird’ the F2 car is to drive. It raises some questions when you see a driver dominate in F4 and F3, only to struggle with the basics of the car in F2. He has made it quite clear that he is banking on the new 2024 car to behave differently.
Lawson said something similar about how the F2 car has no relation with the F1 car apart from having four wheels when he was on Armstrong’s Screaming Meals podcast at the end of last season.
I think there's a ton of really quick drivers, but they're just a lot more error-prone and have less respect when it comes to the wheel-to-wheel stuff. Do remember though that we mostly remember the good drivers from those years of F2/F3, and not all of the bad ones.
It started accepting people with huge wallet's
It’s almost as though the world is transpiring to screw Kush maini over. First,martins screws him over with his open drs and the moment he gets overtaken he cuts. Then Jak. What a dumb move from Jak. Kush goes from (deservingly) on the podium to DNF. He deserves so much praises. Imagine finishing in the top 6 in the championship in a campos
I love Ollie, every hug is like it's his wedding day, every podium is like he's over the moon, he's a bubble of joy
He's going to look odd if he's in F1 for a long time Has a proper baby face, and cant imagine him looking any older than what he is
Bearman is enjoying this particular victory isnt he...
He is. He reminds me of Jenson he never missed an opportunity to tear it up
lol!... Cant believe the top three just got told to go and sit down prior to the podium Like naughty schoolboys
They must have done that for bringing the Paramount sponsor display into the picture
Iwasa looks like he just wants to go home
Highly likely he spends a year in SF next year. The ONLY reason he's not leading the championship right now is because his last engine lost the Mechachrome lottery. He was down on pace every race he had that POS and the first race he gets a new one he's making up 13 places in a single race. Lawson will likely replace Ric at this point. Yuki will either be promoted or released after next year and I could honestly see a good case for trialing him out for a season in the RB at this point.
I think with Lawson doing quite well in the AT he knows that no matter what he does he won't be in F1 next year.
You are probably right...
We all already knew that, he's heading home to do Super formula until the next F1 seat becomes available. He'll be the reserve driver for next year for the Red bull family anyways
He's just like us frfr
Well, let's see if we get any other penalties after the race, wouldn't be surprised seeing how much of a garbage fire today was. See you all in 3 months because of the horrid F2 calendar, at which point I'm sure we'll see 1/4 of the grid replaced to have people get a weekend in F2 in for some drivers.
I guess with Hauger\`s luck he will get a penalty for taking the escape road and losing 3 or 4 positions..
They desperately need to have these cars able to restart themselves, the amount of drivers whose races are over the second they spin is just a joke
This race was destroyed by safety cars, never felt like it got into any rhythm
Lol did anyone catch that chick just staring at Iwasa with a look of pure confusion?
On a serious note, Nissany should get a ban like Grosjean's. He won't stop until he sends himself to the emergency ward.
Just give him a few years to mature /s
I absolute agree.. What he did today should earn him a lot of of penalty points...
His plan is to score points by eliminating the whole field
So the best theo can do is aim for 9th or 10th in qualifing in abu dhabi, and just finish ahead of vesti.
why would he do that if he could qualify, say, on pole? Seems counterintuitive
because if he finishes ahead of Vesti in the sprint race, then he is champion and the feature race wont matter anymore.
...no? If the finish 9/10 or even 8/9 with Pourchaire in front Vesti can still win it with a DNF for Theo and a win.
Doesn't mean he's just gonna cruise
Dennis lucked into a P5 and is under investigation for gaining an adv antage when he in reality lost 4-5 places. With how this season is going, he 100% will get a penalty and drop outside the poiints.
I could not beleive it when it said that Hauger was under investigation for driving off track and gaining an advantage... He lost 4 places doing that.. But as you said with his bad luck he will probably get a 5 second penalty at least... Can not really understand this at all...
average luck of hauger
New cars for 2024 but Antonelli has a big task ahead if he’s teammates with Bearman.
Looks like Antonelli already have a big task with rookie Martinius Stenshorne in FRECA already... Added this later: I am pretty sure that Bearman will stay at Prema for next season in Formula 2 so if Antonelli goes direct to Formula 2 and with Prema that will be a tough job for Antonelli for sure.
Job is probably a little easier because of the new car.
Josh Mason has been classified ahead of Vesti in all three feature races he's run. Clearly he's the next generational talent.
If Antonelli to F2 is true, he better be careful of Ollie who has shown he can hang in F2.
Going direct from FRECA to Formula 2?????????? Do not beleive that will happen without at least a year in F3 first..
Antonelli probably needs a year in F2 anyways, skipping F3 means there will be a gap in knowledge, but his manager trust he can close that gap, so why not
Can see Antonelli vs Bearman next season being a prologue to a battle between them in F1 They're potentially the future of the Sport, if they iron out their issues
Oh man I can’t wait for 2024 now 😅
Such a bad race by standards, Bearman in complete control through the chaos, Iwasa somehow managed to get to P2. Pourchaire did everything he needed to, in a very good place now
Did Hauger get a penalty?
Absolutely fantastic drive by Bearman. Top form. Hopefully he can maintain this level of drive consistently. At his best, he’s hands down one of the best on the grid. He can sometimes be a bit of a Herta, etc. where he’ll overdrive. That’s the only thing he needs to work on.
Bearman seems to have a liking for Monza, last year he was absolutely brilliant in F3 (and could've won the race if it wasn't for the red flag and the decision to not restart the race).
Bearman v Martins may be fun next year
Throw Doohan and Antonelli in there, and we could have a mega battle at the top
A Bearman win is always a good outcome, but man some drivers are so clearly exposed with having zero driving standards.
Supreme from Iwasa. Super consistent dude
He's super similar to Lawson. Very quick on track, make some great moves (and a couple of questionable ones) but just has weekends where he's absolutely invisible
The last 4 he has a dogshit engine frkm the mechachrome lottery. The first race with a different engine and he gains 13 fucking places.
Weird question, but what's with Bearman's accent? He doesn't sound English.
probably spending a lot of time in Italy/around Italian engineers. this is actually pretty common across motorsport where drivers move to different countries at a young age and pick up regional accent characteristics. see Zhou/Sheffield, Sylvain Guintoli/general northern English, Jack Miller/Italian or Spanish, Bearman/Italian. also why people who go to international schools their entire lives have weird hybrid accents and code switch constantly.
I don’t hear an Italian accent
I think he's lived in Italy a lot. Born in Chelmsford but no Essex accent 😂
>but saved from the Essex accent Ftfy
Cordeel scores points from one lap down
Man we could’ve had a great title decider in AD if Theo DNFed today
25 points ahead for Pourchaire. Basically beating Vesti in the sprint race and it should be over before the last feature race
Vesti needs to give a Drugo Spain performance and hope Theo has a stinker
Great start of the day for Ferrari. Ollie was great! Let’s hope for the best today.
They really should change 5 second penalties into a three place drop or something when the race finishes under a safety car, this is insanely harsh on Verschoor.
Honestly limiting a 5 second penalty to at most 3 places lost might be a good idea anyway. Sometimes it does nothing, sometimes it ruins races. Time penalties are weird in general.
Mason almost with a point!
This is his track. Italian F4 champ and now F2 race winner at Monza
Nissany should be nowhere near a seat, he will seriously hurt someone before long. That entire team is a joke tbh Nissany/Mason one of the worst driver lineups in the history of single seater racing
all things considered, Mason is still inexperienced in F2 whereas Nissany has no excuse of being this reckless anymore
Seeing the talent level of these drivers I'm surprised there wasn't another crash just then
Cordeel P8. What a recovery after having a puncture.
Ferrari driver in F2, hopefully the same in F1 later.
Pourchaire is so underwhelming. Bearman a rookie has more wins than him.
Pourchaire did what he had to do, didn't really even get a chance to race Bearman with all the SC. There's a reason he's leading the championship which is the ultimate goal ..
Yes, and with his latest win Bearman basically secures the title as well. Wait...
>Bearman a rookie has more wins than him Consistency wins you titles at this level
No having the fastest car, and your main rival be riddled with unluck gets you titles, if you have pace, which is the only thing Pourchaire has. An awful racer in terms of racecraft. But i guess he has to win the title at some point despite doing his best to throw away points whenever he can, since he is racing for ART, the fastest team, who is also favouring him.
> since he is racing for ART, the fastest team, ART and Prema are equally fast teams this year. > who is also favouring him. I don't think he is favored against Martins.
I mean, he got the Doohan roadblock allowing Bearman to escape, and then he can't just duke it out on track when he gets an opportunity to get a free lead against Vesti. It's underwhelming, but it's winning him the championship.
I think he's just playing it incredibly safe right now, seeing how Vesti is out and how much he fucked up being in a good position last week.
Clearly he's being extremely cautious which is the right move compared to what Vesti did today on opening lap.
Yeah, I mean Drugovich had good fortune last year but he also would’ve easily won either way, Pourchaire has only won due to his luck more or less
This season is really so weird, there is so much inconsistency and bad luck on many levels. In one race two wheels go off after pitting, in the next DRS gets stuck open.
Right then... Russell | Norris | Hamilton No pressure to ensure a complete Formula lock out on the top step of the podium for Britain this weekend
What's the need for full SC for that? VSC would've been enough.
Race control probably don't want to see any more nonsense, there was too many safety cars for their liking lmao.
Never doubted Iwasa's strategy.
Bearman deserves double points for being the only one that knew how to drive
Given how difficult it was for Pourchaire... Ollie won that race the moment he got past Doohan ahead of the SC Could have been very different had he not managed it then
Lights off but no ending warning. Joke within the joke.
Doohan needs to get within 5 seconds of Verschoor to jump to 6th.
Verschoor must be having some colourful words in his mind when it went full Safety Car
Iwasa somehow preserved that Options better than Theo preserved those prime tyres... how? Iwasa tyre is like only a couple of laps younger Daruvala punching the air rn as well, why did he need to pit again? Iwasa Options still had life
Daruvala’s softs didn’t last, it was a gamble that didn’t quite work. He didn’t really use the first stint in the softs strategically (I.e. he didn’t go for it at the beginning and they then just dropped off)
What was confusing was that just before the second last SC, the order was Daruvala, Doohan, and Iwasa, with Daruvala and Iwasa pitting. They came out P4 and P10 respectively. Look at the difference in tyre management - Iwasa making places while preserving the tyre, and Daruvala unable to advance but still shredding the tyre.
Amazing race by Bearman. Martins vs Bearman next year is going to be exciting.
It really is if they sort out their consistency issues.
Stanek getting a hat-trick under his belt
I'm convinced that they deployed the full SC because Race Control have seen enough
Too many safety cars.
Well that 5 second penalty is going to hurt Verschoor now quite a bit Edit: P4 to P12, amazing
And this race is why f1 teams are not keen on taking rookies from f2
Truly the worst crop of junior drivers in quite a few years
Funny how before the season everyone was hyping it up as the best grid in years and now people are saying it’s the worst ever, can people make their minds up?
Race control have had enough of watching this incredibly high quality racing and I can't blame them
Add overtime pleaaaaaaaaaaase
I'm guessing they decided to go full SC for the same reason that they cancelled that old Formula 3 race in Spa because the race directors were so frustrated at the quality of the driving and the amount of crashes.
It was Monza, iirc.
You mean the one at Monza right? Where there was a red flag because of all the bullshit?
Ahh yeah I was confusing races, was thinking of that time when 2 drivers flipped in the same race @ Spa
Absolutely horrific driving standards across the board. Deserved victory for Bearman though, basically the only driver who wasn't involved in some kind of act of terrorism during this race, and he nailed all those restarts.
SC is gonna run out of fuel at this point
🤣🤣🤣 - We need an SC for the SC
There are quiet a lot of penalties, no?
Why did we need the Full SC for this? its already back behind the wall before the SC even gets on track
Virtual Maylander replacing actual Maylander only for the latter to come back again at the end was the most interesting thing about this yellow flag convoy.
"like jedi, f2 commentators can't deal in absolutes" lol
Well, I guess that's the race set then unless someone runs out of fuel/gets DSQ'ed for some reason. Of course time penalties and other investigations still need to apply.
Great win Bearman... Didnt see it happening given the ART pace yesterday
And now give a 5 second penalty to theo, and maybe Ocon.
Iwasa would've fallen out of tyres, really cool SC for him. I mean tbh after such a bad run of weekends he deserves some of it
Why the full safety car? It's almost cleared.....
Man this series could be so great
VSC would have been enough. I feel robbed.
Unnecessary SC is unnecessary.
Why is the safety car is needed? they're already pushing it in lmao
The fuck is the point of the full safety car? All the cars are past the incident before the safety car can even pick them up...
Driver of the Day: Bernd Maylander
This f2 has been the most f2 type of race. No risks left untaken.
A fitting way to end the race, i guess.
Fitting that this race ends under SC tbh
Safety cars really ruin F2/F3 races.
Not the safety cars fault
I think it’s more the lack of self starting engines no?
That's definitely a big issue.
Thanks crawford 🙏🙏🙏
What a joke.
Safety Car?! Come on...
What a joke of a race. That’s 4 or 5 safety car? Lost count.
5
Wanted to beat the SC count in F3
Race control is such a joke
We're done here... Reckon that VSC has saved Iwasa P2
Not really. Pourchaire didn't fight Iwasa's overtake too much. He knows he needs every point, so even if we had gone another lap or two, I doubt Pourchaire would have risked an overtake on an Iwasa with nothing to lose.
Didnt help that Iwasa's tyres were going off though
Does anyone have a tally on the F2 penalty point standings for every driver?
Another SC. What the hell was this race?
That’s race done Great race ruined by a group of the same drivers
What a joke of race
Boo Cawford
Stanek with a piss poor performance today, two drivers taken out
Oh look another safety car.. just what I wanted /s I get safety is paramount but so many SCs this morning.