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the numbers just don't add up for Verstappen finishing any higher without the SC. I can't understand why there are comments all over the web that Verstappen is quitting, disappointing performances on track and serious meetings with senior Red Bull management discussing what's next but no one here s...

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DOLOMITE wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 15, 2025 1:24 pm
She was basically last in every race in Middle East, my expectations are low.

Initially she was up to 10s a lap off the pace but as she actually got to drive an F4 car for a few laps her speed improved significantly. By the end of the last session she was much much closer if still slowest.

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BF4, GB4 & GB3 are testing today at Brands Hatch Best lap times after 4 sessions GB3, 23 cars 01 1:19.633 Freddie Slater 02 1:19.758 Alex Ninovic 03 1:20.104 Deagen Fairclough 10 1:20.704 Abbi Pulling 23 1:23.655 Bianca Bustamente GB4, 17 cars 01 1:26.690 Alex Kattoulas 08 1:27.942 Ava Dobson 09 1:2...

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BF4, GB4 & GB3 are testing today at Brands Hatch Session 1 GB3, 23 cars 01 1:31.330 Deagan Fairclough 02 1:31.951 Freddie Slater 13 1:33.638 Abbi Pulling 22 1:43.077 Bianca Bustamente GB4, 17 cars 01 1:35.865 Enzo Hallman 08 1:38.713 Megan Bruce 11 1:40.135 Ava Dobson 13 1:42.131 Holly Miall 15 1:45...

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22 year old Farah AlYousef has been confirmed by F1 Academy as the wild card entry at Jeddah this weekend where Hitech will engineer her car. With a karting background she drove this winter in the F4 Middle East Championship and also completed the 3 day test at Jeddah for F1A. With very little open ...

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The news that Verstappens (all of them) are planning to depart from F1 is heart breaking for 10s of millions of fans who can't imagine what the sport will be like without the leadership that's been shown on and off track so undeniably well over the past decades. All drivers, especially new rookies, ...

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Well, it wasn't a scrappy performance from Bearman, was it... Started last, gained 5 places in 5 laps, drove as high as 8th and finished in the points again having kept Antonelli behind him for 15 laps. He's finished in the points in 3 of the 4 GPs so far. I suggest he's probably earnt the right to ...

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Piastri was as good as he's ever been, great job.
Russell did well assuming there is no DRS penalty.
Gasly & Ocon good
Bearman outstanding, fancy beating Antonelli on track.

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Still with the laughable, risible insults screamed at Norris. The guy who is so terrible that he still leads the WDC and most importantly, isn't Australian or Dutch 😏 Do you really think that your childish, miserable unjustified rudeness means you are held in high esteem? He's not the fastest race d...

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I found myself a little frustrated at some of the virulently obnoxious comments posted on this thread about Alex Dunne & Luke Browning. Berated, abused and accused of on track behaviour that frankly doesn't even come close to Verstappen violence. Only for the posters to see Dunne & Browning (in thei...

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Garbage day for Norris, he could not compensate for the car issues especially the last 2 sets of tyres. Lot of work for him to push back. Best job I've seen from Piastri, first time he's been very quick and very calm. Who would have thought that it would only take 4 races for Antonelli to push Russe...

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Paolo_Lasardi wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 11, 2025 6:23 pm
See Red Bull "surprisingly" finding speed overnight ...

It is surprising isn't it!

Whenever Honda need their car to produce faster times suddenly straight line speed improves.

I've no idea how they could make that happen.

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Slater was very impressive, I suspect that without the repeated safety cars he may well have won especially given his fastest lap, 0.2s quicker than Tsolov, and 0.4s quicker than anyone else. I wonder if there's a team principal out there who has the same influence/money as Wolff and fancies someone...

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Oliver Wheldon, 14 year old US born son of deceased dad Dan, secured pole position for the opening race of the USF Juniors season at NOLA Motorsports Park. His time (1m39.06s) was 0.2s faster than Leonardo Escorpioni (Zanella Racing) who was next best of the 22 on the grid. The Andretti Global junio...

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I apologise for Downing Browning... My excuse is mind dimming, I had spent a long time in hospital Friday trying to comprehend how it was possible to meet so many medical consultants who refuse to listen when a patient talks to them. It's almost as pleasant as receiving such confidence from those wh...

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Shocking performance by Luke Downing (Hitech) and Alex Dunne (Rodin) to grab the second row in the F2 feature race. Both, obviously, start on row 4 in the sprint race. Downing, who won the British F4 championship in 2020, the GB3 championship in 2022 finished 3rd in the FIA F3 championship in 2024. ...

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Bearman again showing everyone how utterly useless he is. Fancy missing FP1, two thirds of FP2 on hard tyres, then gets to run on a set of softs and can only set the 9th fastest lap time, some 0.3s faster than his team mate Ocon. I mean compare him to Verstappen, who also missed FP1, managed 7th fas...

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UnlikeUday & Siao7 wrote: I like the new look of Hamilton

I think it suits him!

I agree

If he was into hip hop on Sunday afternoons

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As usual, UK legal restrictions enforced by parliament have no rational justification and are simply constructed to keep morons who consider life's great experiences are only possible if you, the individual, has to sit behind a desk Monday to Friday from 08:00 to 17:00. How can you justify restricti...

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FREC's day 2 of their test at Barcelona saw a morning session with new tyres seeing faster lap times. Session 1 was quick with new tyres 01 E. GILTAIRE......1:35.424 02 P. CLEROT........1:35.606 03 F. SLATER........1:35.616 06 M. DE PALO.....1:35.796 20 D. PIN...............1:36.615 Session 2 was mu...

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Care to elaborate on your suspicions? It is just the some old tired variation of "the car is build around Verstappen", "Red Bull will do anything.." I quite like it when those who get it wrong most times express an opinion which is only even more wrong. Verstappen secured pole position with an admi...

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Doriane Pin recorded the 20th best (of 25) lap time at Barcelona during day 1 FREC's preseason test.

Her time of 1m37.658 was 0.8s off the pace of Evan Giltaire who was 4th fastest

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FREC held day 1 of preseason testing at Barcelona today. Trident's Matteo De Palo topped the times in the afternoon session with 1m36.475. Freddy Slater (1m37.298) was 16th quickest while Doriane Pin managed 20th place (1m37.658). Both were driving for Prema. Many other well known drivers filled the...

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The four tests held by GB3 this season saw Freddy Slater fastest in . Days/Sessions Fastest 2/8 3 2/8 1 1/4 0 2/6 3 . A total of 7 days on track with a total of 26 sessions saw Slater fastest in 7 of them. He missed one session but the day before used both days allocation of new tyres to record fast...

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I will wait to see what happens.

I suspect that some of the updates applied to Verstappen's car at Suzuka will, remarkably, be absent in Bahrain.

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British F4 held a test day today at Oulton Park

Fastest time in both morning & afternoon sessions were set by Henry Joslyn (Fortec, 1m19.782).

Alba Larsen (Chris Dittman, 1m21.356) and Ella Lloyd (Rodin, 1m21.452) were 21st & 22nd (of 24) fastest but both were less than 1s outside the top 10.

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Ava Dobson finished 12th in race 1 in GB4 at the back of a line of nose to tail cars starting from 8th. She was more competitive in the race than qualifying. Megan Bruce was involved in an early collision, stopped for a new nose but finished last. Race 2 was even better for Dobson as she finished 10...

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Good news, at least for me, is that now 16 year old Alba Larsen has signed to drive 7 of the 10 British F4 races in 2025 with Chris Dittman racing. She misses 3 races due to F1 Academy conflicts. Alba who was impressive in her F1 Academy debut (4th & 7th in Shanghai) and improved from test day 1 in ...

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Nina Gademan was cleared by the Medical Complex but her car was not repairable in the time available to PREMA so she sat out the sessions.

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F1 Academy Jeddah practice session 5 was topped by Lia Block while session 6 by Maya Weug..

Session 5

01 2:05.824 Lia Block
02 Chloe Chambers
03 Ella Lloyd
04 Doriane Pin
05 Alisha Palmowski

Session 6

01 2:05.405 Maya Weug
02 Chloe Chambers
03 Ella Lloyd
04 Alisha Palmowski
05 Alba Larsen

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F1 Academy Jeddah practice session 3 was topped by Alisha Palmowski while session 4 by Maya Weug.. Session 3 01 2:05.040 Alisha Palmowski 02 Maya Weug 03 Ella Lloyd 04 Doriane Pin 05 Chloe Chambers Session 4 01 2:05.330 Maya Weug 02 Alisha Palmowski 03 Chloe Chambers 04 Ella Lloyd 05 Doriane Pin The...

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Not sure if there is news elsewhere but I've learnt that Nina Gademan was taken to and kept in hospital in Jeddah this evening after an "incident" during an F1 Academy test session. Gademan crashed towards the end of F1 Academies 2nd test session while trying for quick times to improve her position ...

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I have to say that I didn't expect him to be embarrassed by Hadjar & Bearman.

Still and all, that just goes to show I know as much about driver assessment as really important people like Helmut Marko & Flavio Briatore...

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Bearman is such a disappointment, he makes it to Q3 when his team mate doesn't, but only qualifies 10th. Worse he was just 0.3s slower than Antonelli despite driving a stencil designed car, only having used tyres and out qualifying his experienced team mate. 06 ANT 1:27.555 07 HAD 1:27.569 08 HAM 1:...

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FormulaFun wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 05, 2025 6:35 am
Don't really understand those grass on fire business, surely just water the grass

Grass Fires = 油だけは止めてください

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GB4 race 1 qualifying at Donington Park 13 1:28.551 Ava DOBSON USA 17 1:28.742 Megan BRUCE GBR 21 1:29.638 Holly MIALL GBR 23 1:30.163 Lily-May WATKINS GBR 24 1:32.132 Caitlyn MCDANIEL USA Bruce & McDaniel both had fastest lap deleted for track limits Pole went to 01 1:27.724 Isaac PHELPS GBR Jan Ma...

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Very predictable. I'm kind of surprised so many people thought he'd reach Q3 given how clear it is that Max is driving around a lot of problems with that car. Personally, I expected it to be clearer to observers that Verstappen's last and fastest lap also saw the car faster in a straight line, corn...

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Both F1 Academy Jeddah practice session 1 (sandy track, 35degC temp) & session 2 (cleaner & cooler) were topped by British driver Emma Lloyd (2:05.367s) after 5 hours of track time. At times a variety of drivers led the list but despite Pin & Weug being included there was constant changes. Chambers,...

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Doriane Pin has entered 110 races, won 17 and podiumed in 31. She has entered 21 Formula Regional races (F3) 34 Formula 4 races (F4) . 7 FIA World Endurance races (LMP2, Oreca) . 8 International Sports Car races ..........(Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo 2) ..........FIA LMGT3, IMSA GTD, GT World Challe...

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Female drivers in the GB4 morning test session today, some of whom were sitting in a single seater for the first time

15th Megan Bruce 1m29.6s
18th Ava Dobson 1m29.9s
22nd Holly Miall 1m30.4s
23rd Caitlyn Mcdaniel 1m33.2s
24th Lily-May Watkins 1m36.5s

Indian Aryaman Bansal was fastest 1:28.340

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