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

[Petrus1983]

5 mins until F3 - hopefully it will be as good as yesterday.

[Sandpit Steve]

Here goes, should be a good one.

[Sandpit Steve]

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]

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]

Great weekend for the British drivers in F3 this weekend!

[Sandpit Steve]

Now onto F2, for their first feature race of the year.

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

[Petrus1983]

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

[Sandpit Steve]

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]

The rookies in F3 have had a cleaner race!

[Castellet]

Great entertainment.

[Petrus1983]

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

[Sandpit Steve]

Antonelli - believe the hype.

He’s having a great first feature race.

[Petrus1983]

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

[Sandpit Steve]

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

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]

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

[Petrus1983]

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]

This whistling is actually annoying.

[mattikake]

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]

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]

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?