2024 F1 SUPPORT RACES THREAD - F2, F3, ACADEMY *SPOILERS*

2024 F1 SUPPORT RACES THREAD - F2, F3, ACADEMY *SPOILERS*

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Petrus1983

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8,819 posts

163 months

Saturday 2nd March
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5 mins until F3 - hopefully it will be as good as yesterday.

Sandpit Steve

10,181 posts

75 months

Saturday 2nd March
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Here goes, should be a good one.

Sandpit Steve

10,181 posts

75 months

Saturday 2nd March
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Browning’s car sounds horrible, but it somehow still has race pace. It can’t be firing on 5, so perhaps it’s the team’s suggestion of a lose exhaust, or something that shouldn’t be in the airflow flapping around?

Petrus1983

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163 months

Saturday 2nd March
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Sandpit Steve said:
Browning’s car sounds horrible, but it somehow still has race pace. It can’t be firing on 5, so perhaps it’s the team’s suggestion of a lose exhaust, or something that shouldn’t be in the airflow flapping around?
Even then you'd expect a performance reduction.

I'm wondering if Arvid Lindblad is managing his tyres as he's certainly not fighting like yesterday.

Petrus1983

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Saturday 2nd March
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Great weekend for the British drivers in F3 this weekend!

Sandpit Steve

10,181 posts

75 months

Saturday 2nd March
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Now onto F2, for their first feature race of the year.

Field pretty split on strategy, hard>soft won last year.

Petrus1983

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163 months

Saturday 2nd March
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That's a great shame - neither driver who's out did anything wrong - Fittipaldi had no where to go.

Sandpit Steve

10,181 posts

75 months

Saturday 2nd March
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With Crawford losing a podium for reliability there as well, and Cordeel and Bearmann tripping over each other into the pits, this is quite the upside-down race.

Edit: and there’s Martins out as well, with a box full of neutral.

Petrus1983

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163 months

Saturday 2nd March
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The rookies in F3 have had a cleaner race!

Castellet

164 posts

19 months

Saturday 2nd March
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Great entertainment.

Petrus1983

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163 months

Saturday 2nd March
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Beautiful driving from Antonelli considering it's his 2nd race.

Sandpit Steve

10,181 posts

75 months

Saturday 2nd March
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Antonelli - believe the hype.

He’s having a great first feature race.

Petrus1983

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163 months

Saturday 2nd March
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Absolutely - a well deserved point for him and a 'clean' weekend!

And a double for Maloney - brilliant!

So it's not even noon here in the UK and I feel like I've already seen 4 great races - F1 later will be the cherry on top smile

Sandpit Steve

10,181 posts

75 months

Saturday 2nd March
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Petrus1983 said:
Absolutely - a well deserved point for him and a 'clean' weekend!

And a double for Maloney - brilliant!

So it's not even noon here in the UK and I feel like I've already seen 4 great races - F1 later will be the cherry on top smile
Definitely a good start to the season for F3 and F2. A lot to live up to for the big boys in a few hours’ time

Big Nanas

1,389 posts

85 months

Saturday 2nd March
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Enjoyable race, that was.
The 'whistling' noise is very curious - commentary team said it's the aerodynamics that are making it.

Petrus1983

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Saturday 2nd March
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Big Nanas said:
Enjoyable race, that was.
The 'whistling' noise is very curious - commentary team said it's the aerodynamics that are making it.
It makes sense to me as you can hear it on the onboard footage - I wonder though if they'll look to amend the floor a little to stop it - however, I'd prefer close racing.

asfault

12,287 posts

180 months

Saturday 2nd March
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This whistling is actually annoying.

mattikake

5,058 posts

200 months

Wednesday 6th March
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Really interesting to see lindblad do so well Vs sztuka. Sztuka wasted him in Italian F3 but that was reversed here by miles. Lindblad was great and some quality moves too.

Browning for a bit lucky but a win is a win. The problem was just an exhaust shroud so little power loss. Controlled that well


Petrus1983

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Wednesday 6th March
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I certainly don't have the talents of PIaP for a full foreword of the weekend - but the schedule is here -

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.formula...

And it looks like F3 has been replaced by the F1 Academy for the weekend -

https://www.f1academy.com/

ColdSyphon

181 posts

158 months

Wednesday 6th March
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Petrus1983 said:
I certainly don't have the talents of PIaP for a full foreword of the weekend - but the schedule is here -

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.formula...

And it looks like F3 has been replaced by the F1 Academy for the weekend -

https://www.f1academy.com/
Does anyone know what the F3 drivers do between races because their season (and F2 too) has some enormous gaps in the calendar between rounds?