Following the tragic events in Belgium, the three teams who had cars involved in the crash (Arden, Sauber Junior team and Trident) were only running one car, which meant Boschung was sitting this round out. Meanwhile, Japanese driver Marino Sato replaced Maini at Campos for the remainder of the season…
There was no F2 racing this weekend following the terribly tragic events that resulted in Juan Manuel Correa sustaining serious injuries and the death Anthoine Hubert. My heart goes out to all of their friends and family and I wish Correa all the best in his recovery. Stay strong JM.
The ever-revolving driver door at Trident continued to go around, as Boschung must have sorted out some money and was back, replacing Boccolacci, who replaced Tveter, who replaced Boschung…
Vital to note this weekend, was the ongoing saga of the Silverstone resurfacing. Important questions were asked, such as, just how will it rubber in, how slippery is it really offline, and will anyone ever be happy with it?
Tyres promised to be big thing over the weekend as Pirelli had apparently chosen two compounds that wouldn’t last any amount of laps, especially in the apocalyptic heat wave that has been the European summer this year. The drivers were clearly excited about this prospect, with the words “tough, challenging and interesting” being banded around…
Following Monaco, Nicholas Latifi headed off to carry out his Williams F1 test driver duties at the Canadian Grand Prix. In front of what I’m sure was a proud home crowd, he took part in Free Practice 1, where he successfully managed to avoid running over a groundhog…
Before packing up from Spain and moving onto Monaco, we had the F1 testing, featuring five of the F2 field. F1 testing veterans Jack Aitken and Nicholas Latifi were driving for Renault and Williams, with Latifi doing both days of testing, probably because Kubica and Russell couldn’t face another day of lugging the car around the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya after the Spanish Grand Prix…
Barcelona marks the start of the proper season. No more outliers and no more excuses. That includes for me, and if Nyck de Vries doesn’t start winning soon I’m going to have to reconsider how I research my season previews…
After Bahrain there was much fanfare over some Formula 1 testing, when the real excitement was actually that my F2 fav Louis Delétraz landed a job as Haas simulator driver. He is apparently very good at providing feedback about the car, but they probably also need his cheery persona to balance out all that Steiner swearing and inter-team crashing…
Normally I wound’t be so excited by an F2 practice, they can seem more like a 45 minute blip on a long weekend of racing. But not this time. This was the first time we got to glimpse the new F2 field out on track (aside from those six full days of testing earlier)…
