Junior Formula. Discussion of F2, F3, F4, Formula Renault, TRS, W-Series, Indy Lights, etcOpen Wheel 

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As well as F2, the FREC title will be decided today. The second race has been cancelled due to heavy rain, which has put Oliver Rasmussen out of contention, so it's now between Gianluca Petecof and Arthur Leclerc with Petecof leading by 7 points. Leclerc missed qualifying which means he starts from the back for the final race.
 
That's how do a title decider! This has been my first full season was F2 and, my God, I cannot fault it. It's everything F1 should be. Ilott went from 3rd to 10th, and Schumacher went from 3rd to 18th after several huge lockups. I wanted Ilott to get it, but realistically it's best that he hasn't. He doesn't have a drive next year and if he had won he would've been forced to leave F2, so at least he has that option open to him.

In other news, Leclerc has spun off into the gravel which means Petecof is the 2020 FREC champion!
 
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I'm glad I checked here and got to see the last 11 laps, the Virgin EPG said it didn't start until 12:50, same with last weekends GP saying it was on at 15:10, all the other sessions have been correct.

It is a little silly that if Ilot had won he could have damaged his career with the way the F2 championship works. I don't think winning a championship that's sole aim is a stepping stone to F1 should have you scrambling for a alternative career path because there isn't a seat in F1, or because a lower F2 driver bought their way in.
 
Nice start to Piastri's F2 career in the post-season test. Fastest rookie and 5th overall.

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Is Liam Lawson moving up to F2 as well ?
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Don't think anything has been confirmed yet. Would have to imagine though, that he would be the leading candidate to fill Mazepin's vacant seat.
 


Since he's a Red Bull Junior driver I'm assuming he's taking Tsunoda's seat at Carlin.
 
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Since he's a Red Bull Junior driver I'm assuming he's taking Tsunoda's seat at Carlin.
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Him and Lawson were testing for Hitech GP, the team they both raced for in F3, so I expect this is for Hitech. Carlin are keeping Daruvala and have added Ticktum.
 
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Just seen this on FormulaScout.

https://formulascout.com/a-guide-to-modern-day-formula-3/73545

The first thing it seems to mention is the fact junior single seat racing prior to the current format prided itself on being open to building with any chassis and engine configuration each team so desired. But now there is a universal engine/chassis configuration for all series (that I am aware of. For example FIA F2 and F3 uses a Dallara chassis with a Mechacrome engine. BRDC F3 uses a Tattus chassis powered by a Cosworth engine).

They are saying this is a bad thing. Why?

Also it says not all series adopted the "Regional F3" spec. How do you tell a Regional F3 series from a non-regional F3 series?

I am keen to learn as I am an excited newbie to junior single seat racing and I am eager to start seeing properly drivers go up from F4 through various F3 series to FIA F3 and F2 and on to F1.
 
This is the guy who posted videos of him driving a Lamborghini Urus at like 328kph on the roads in Instagram, then claimed it was "to promote awareness of road safety" or something banal like that, and then threatened to take legal action against Josh Revell when he made a video calling Deledda out for all of this.


F2 needs some kind of superlicense points system like F1 does or we'll keep having disasters like Raghunathan and Deledda.

It's also worth pointing out that Deledda's team mate will be Matteo Nannini, who will be doing the full F2 AND F3 season in 2021. That was always the risk with splitting the calendars that someone rich enough will just do both series' and unnecessarily fill up a seat someone quicker and not-as-rich won't be able to fill. Talk about backfiring.
 
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Nannini is at least passable as a driver. Deledda is the first F2 driver with no karting experience. Truly breaking barriers in motorsport. The Armco ones, that is.
 

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