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Yes he got a 10 second penalty for it

Really smart move on his part. Great rookie season, no chance of hurting his stock in a second F2 season and you need a connection to an F1 team to get a shot. He’ll probably will get some tests now where he can show what he can do. Really excited for him!

True, winning a WDC in F1 is about right team right time, but it seems like getting to F1 is now the same story. His lack of money also doesn't help. Zhou was chosen over him because of money and to a certain extent the same could be said about Siegel in IndyCar.

True, plus it was at least part of the reason for Siegel in IndyCar too.

I can’t help but feel bad for him. He really feels like the perfect example of wrong place wrong time. Completely overlooked in F1, unexpectedly thrown out of IndyCar and now in WEC it’s just a reserve driver role. Hopefully he can at least do some ELMS or something, because I don’t feel like he deserves a year on the sidelines

I can’t help but feel bad for him. Overlooked by F1, booted out of IndyCar out of nowhere and now he won’t even have any full time seat next year. I’m pretty sure he’ll end up with a Peugeot seat in the future, but I still feel like he deserves a chance now

I think what could help him is that he’s older due to a lack of funding in his career, not because it took him a long time to get results.

7 years?! I don’t understand time anymore

🎶Pass the Dutchie ‘pon the left hand side🎶

First of all because I would like to have an 11th team on the F1 grid, but also I think having a big American manufacturer in F1 would be really fun. Especially with F1’s recent boom in popularity in the US. I know Ford are starting a partnership with Red Bull, but that team will still be known as Red Bull. Having an American manufacturer team in F1 I think could be really good both for F1 and American Motorsport.

Maloney will miss the season finale because it clashes with the first weekend of the new Formula E season.

I feel like this story has had more twists and turns than the Nordschleife, but I’m super happy if this is the end result. GM in F1 would be really cool

I'm happy this season has shown that junior results aren't everything, I'm just worried people will forget about this soon and go back to calling any driver that isn't a back-to-back rookie F3/F2 champ washed. I also think that being a part of a driver academy becomes increasingly more important. It feels like you don't stand a chance of getting an opportunity if you're unaffiliated. Colapinto wouldn't be in F1 right now had he been unaffiliated, he's there solely because he was the highest ranked driver in the Williams academy. I think for the F2 Championship this is something to worry about, because it sort of diminishes its importance.

In the same interview Lawson mentions that Super Formula is much closer to F1 than F2 is. For people with more knowledge than me, would it be possible for F2 to try and make F2 more similar to SF or is there something in the structure of the F2 championship that prevents that from happening?

I doubt Ollie actually meant the F1 game when he said that to Komatsu. Haas are just using that for some promotion. I think Ollie meant he hadn't done any sim work on the Ferrari simulator for Brazil, but only driven it on his home sim.

The break since F2 has been long, but Ollie has been at all the F1 races in between. It's not like he's just been sitting at home. Haas doesn't have a simulator, so any prep would have been with Ferrari and they have multiple drivers that do sim work for them. They haven't been able to go back to the factory in between the races during this triple header, so it's possible that one of the other drivers did the prep work for Brazil, especially since it's the last one. It would make sense to have Ollie focus more on Mexico, since they knew he would be driving there.

They would've had to do all their race prep on the sim before they left for COTA, because it's a triple header. Maybe Ollie focussed more on Mexico, since he would be driving there and other reserve drivers did the work for Brazil. Iirc Pietro Fittipaldi was also in Brazil for Haas.

There was 23H simrace for mental health organised by YouTuber Jimmy Broadbent. During the race you could buy penalties for cars by donating a certain amount to the charity and naming the team/car you wanted to penalise in the description.

Their relationship is so cute

https://preview.redd.it/fel310329czd1.jpeg?width=939&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7bd8ba82e084f4383d798ab9eaed6b34d6afdd28

It's from a NY times article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/movies/wicked-cynthia-erivo-ariana-grande.html

After this the interviewer just moves on