Author: TrappedInGravel

F2 Great Britain 2025

F2 Great Britain 2025

F2 arrived in Great Britain, to a track that you know will deliver great racing yet somehow still always manages to produce something unexpected. Also finally a track that John Bennett has actually driven before and I’ve just discovered that someone writes full race reviews for him on his website; I haven’t been so happy since 2019 and Ralph Boschung’s dual-language race blog. In other news, Arvid Lindblad was getting his first FP1 outing in the Red Bull on Friday, which he was apparently excited about, although maybe not as excited as me when I discover an F2 driver actually updates their website regularly…

F1 Great Britain 2025

F1 Great Britain 2025

Great Britain (an ode to Hülkenberg)

Another rainy Silverstone day.
Race start 239. 19th place. 
Expectations low. Chaos high.
Early pit stops, crashes, spins.
The path starts to clear.
Is it possible? It might be possible!
Battling Stroll. Corner after corner. 
Overtake! The podium in sight!
But Hamilton is coming!!
Stress. Stress. Stress. 
Chequered flag! Third place! 
The trophy in his hands!
It’s lego. 

Well done Nico! 

F2 Spain 2025

F2 Spain 2025

F2 moved on from the processional track of Monaco to the definitely never processional track of Barcelona (if you read this in an upbeat and positive tone please go back and reread in a more sarcastic tone)…

F1 Monaco 2025

F1 Monaco 2025

Monaco

The glamour, the history,
The random two-stop strategy,
Backing up the whole field to help your team mate,
Cutting the chicane to pass because you’re too impatient to wait (naughty George),
But at the end of the day, whether you win or not,
You still get to party on a yacht! (Especially Lando).

F2 Imola 2025

Illustration of F2 qualifying at Imola with Verschoor choosing to go the right way (aka on the track), while Goethe takes a more scenic and gravelly route, also known as "not the right way".

All the teams and drivers turned up to race in Imola as normal and everyone pretended that was indeed normal, despite Hitech’s team director William Oakes being arrested and charged with “transferring criminal property” after being caught hanging out with “a large amount of cash.” Just another day in the life of the F2 circus, I guess…?