F2 Austria 2023
Austria marked the first of the much touted “four races in one month” thing. Hard to tell if it’s actually good or bad so I’ll move on…
F1 Austria 2023
Austria
While Leclerc and Verstappen battled (briefly), Sainz battled his team (as usual), Hamilton battled his car (but not his tyres) and everyone else battled track limits, including the stewards for hours after the race. Special shout out for Ocon, King of track limits.
F2 Austria 2022
The Austrian weekend started badly for Ralph Boschung who withdrew before anything even happened due to his apparently relentless neck issues. While Ralph did all the doctors appointments or whatever, he asked Roberto Merhi to step in “to drive the MoonMobile” and, quite frankly, if I were in that situation I would also hand over my car to an ex-F1 driver. In Amaury Cordeel news, he was back after his Silverstone ban and with a clean slate, free to start collecting penalty points again…
F2 Austria 2020
To think I was excited at the start of last season after having to wait through the whole of the winter break. Little did any of us know how torturously long the wait for the 2020 season would be. However, just as the sun always rises after a long dark night, after spending lockdown on Twitch watching sim races and progressively weird cooking streams (I’m looking at you Sacha Fenestraz and James Pull), life finally has meaning again. F2 is back.
F2 Austria 2019
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…