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Qualifying The softest compound that Formula 3 got this weekend was the soft tyres with the red colour. Liam Lawson was 16th fastest when he completed his first push lap, Richard Verschoor 21st and Simo Laaksonen was 20th fastest. After their cooldown lap to let the tyres recover and to avoid traffic they went again back up to speed for improving their lap time. Simo Laaksonen did much better this time he was 7th fastest, Verschoor 13th and Lawson 15th. The quickest lap time during the first run was for Armstrong with a time of 1:19.866. The second run on a new set of tyres got disturbed by a red flag caused by Logan Sargeant after he got launched off...

Spielberg was the 6th Formula 2 event. Jordan King and Patricio O’ward were behind the steering wheel this weekend. It was the first time for Patricio O’ward in a Formula 2 car and the circuit Red Bull Ring was new for him as well. A big challenge, but a great one to learn from it. Qualifying Team’s had to deal with the super soft compound tyres during the qualifying. The air temperature was still 30 degrees when the qualifying started at 16:55, and for Patricio O’ward it was going to be his second outing ever in the Formula 2 car. Jordan King was 15th fastest when he completed his first push lap followed by Patricio O’ward (16th). Jordan managed to...

Patricio O’Ward is MP Motorsport’s surprise choice as its stand-in driver for this weekend’s FIA Formula 2 round at the Red-Bull-Ring. The Mexican Red Bull junior will sub for Mahaveer Ragunathan   O’Ward is the reigning Indy Lights champion and made his IndyCar debut with Carlin this season. The 20-year-old from Monterey who joined the Red Bull Junior programme earlier this year is now called up to join Jordan King in MP Motorsport’s Formula 2 line-up for the Red-Bull-Ring. “I’m really excited to come over to Europe to try my hand at Formula 2”, said O’Ward. “I’m thankful to MP Motorsport and the Red Bull Junior programme for allowing me this opportunity, and the Red-Bull-Ring is a great track for...

Qualifying started straight away with a red flag. Alesi got in a collision with Deletraz in the out lap at the start of the qualifying. Jordan King was 12th fastest after his first flying lap with a time of 1:45.664. Mahaveer Raghunathan was 16th at that moment. Jordan’s second push lap was faster but not enough to keep his 12th position. Mahaveer and Jordan went both into the pitlane to collect a new set of tyres after their time and grip ran out during the first run. All drivers were improving on their new set of tyres sector by sector, but the red flag went out another time during the push lap of Jordan and Mahaveer. The clock got stopped...

Formula 2 already had some race weekends completed. For Formula 3 this was only the second race weekend of the season. It was a warm and challenging start of the weekend, but it ended positively for some of the drivers. Qualifying For each driver, there were two sets of new tyres and two opportunities to make a fast lap time. Richard Verschoor was 15th after the first run, Simo Laaksonen 23rd and Liam Lawson finished his first run 24th. All driver went in the pitlane for a new set of tyres. The second run is the most important one because the track keeps improving and so the lap times as well. However, Richard Verschoor was only able to finish the...

Monaco is a small circuit, and there is not much space to claim and give other drivers enough room to get a clean qualifying lap. For this reason, the organisation decided to split up the field in two groups of 10 drivers. A group of even start numbers and a group of uneven start numbers. Mahaveer Raghunathan had to start with his group the qualifying at 13:20 local time. Most drivers went out on a used set of tyres to get a feel of the track conditions before they went on a new set of super softs. All drivers had only 15 minutes to place a lap time, so there was only time enough for one set of new tyres....

The cars flew from Azerbaijan back to Europe where they got quickly prepared for the next race in Barcelona. The Spanish GP was the 3rd race weekend for the Formula 2. Race 1 All kinds of small incidents happened during the first lap of the race followed by a safety car. Jordan moved up to the 13th position and Mahaveer to the 15th position. The pit window went open, and many drivers were doing their pitstop going from the soft compound to the hard compound. Jordan and Mahaveer both drove for a long time in the top 10 with Jordan even in the top 3. They were one of the few that still had to do their pitstop. Mahaveer Raghunathan...

The first FIA Formula 3 race took place this weekend in Barcelona. An exciting one with 30 cars at the start. A number of cars that you won’t see very often, but it made FIA Formula 3 one of the hardest formula series in 2019. Race 1 The start of the race was at 10:15, but not for Liam Lawson. He went into the pitlane just before the start of the race. An uncontrollable technical issue was the problem. The mechanical crew of the organisation had to come over to fix Liam’s car because it was an area of the car where the Formula 3 teams are not allowed to come. Simo Laaksonen starting from 6th had a reasonable start...

The second race of the season took place in the city Baku (Azerbaijan). The races were full of action and chaos with an excellent result for Jordan King during race one. Qualifying All drivers left the pitlane to warm up their tyres. Gelael stopped on track during the warm-up procedure and caused a red flag in the first 5 minutes. Jordan King was driving alone after the restart of the qualifying and took this opportunity to set his time. His time was only good enough for P14, but he was the only one that skipped his warm-up lap to use his advantage of the track position. Mahaveer Raghunathan was 19th fastest after his first run. Everybody went out on track...

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