In the round-up: Valtteri Bottas hopes that Sauber’s performance in Miami will not be repeated in Imola this wekeend
In brief
Bottas hopes Miami “an outlier” for Sauber
Valtteri Bottas admits that he was disappointed with the performance of his team in last weekend’s Miami Grand Prix weekend.
Bottas finished 14th in the sprint race and 16th in the grand prix after multiple penalties for drivers ahead. He says he is anticipating a stronger performance in this weekend’s Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix.
“I hope [Miami] was an outlier,” he said. “In the last two events, we’ve been in a better place.
“The next race is at a very different track. So with some new bits on the car, then we’ll see again. But it is tight and small gains can make a big difference.”
Giltare wins disrupted FREC race
Evan Giltaire took victory in the second Formula Regional European Championship race of the weekend in Hockenheim that was heavily disrupted by Safety Cars.The ART driver beat Prema’s James Wharton off the line to take the lead with race one winner Rafael Camara in second. But three Safety Car periods over the 30 minute race kept green flag running to just two laps out of the 15 scheduled, allowing Giltaire to take his first win in the series.
Ferrari academy driver Camara leads the championship after the opening round on 43 points, ahead of Prema team mate Wharton.
Pulling becomes first female British F4 winner
Alpine junior and current F1 Academy championship leader Abbi Pulling became the first ever female driver to win in British F1 by taking victory in the championship.
Pulling dominated the race from pole position, leading every lap to win from fellow Rodin driver Jack Sherwood. It was Pulling’s third race win in two weekends having claimed victory in both F1 Academy races in Miami.
Deagen Fairclough won Sunday’s third race to sit atop the championship standings on 88 points, 21 ahead of James Higgins. Pulling sits fourth with 44 points.
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F1 TV record set in United States after Miami Grand Prix (Independent)
'According to figures released this week, Sunday’s race attracted an average audience of 3.1 million viewers on ABC – beating the previous record of 2.6 million from the debut event in Miami two years ago – and peaking at 3.6 million. The figure was a 48% increase on last year’s event, while all three Miami races have attracted more eyeballs stateside than any American F1 race in history.'
Da Costa discusses his 'amazing' Berlin blockbuster victory (Formula E)
''The closing stages are actually the calmer ones. It's the first 25 to 30 laps that are tricky. Awareness, I think it's the key word here, try and keep your car clean. Try and put it in the right place at the right time!''
Thanks, Mom: Blomqvist’s mother plays big role in career rise (IndyCar)
''She’s quite a highly strung individual. Even worse for my brother because he used to crash all the time when we would go karting, but he doesn’t race anymore. He gave her a heart attack. She still gets nervous with me, too. My dad’s a bit more, he’s like ‘Be careful,’ every time.''
Argentinian racing great Traverso dies aged 73 (Straits Times)
'Juan Maria Traverso, one of Argentina's most renowned motorsport drivers, died on Saturday at the age of 73, the Argentine Drivers Association and the Turismo Carretera Racing Association (ACTC) said.'
What F1 drivers do during Miami GP race week (Red Bull via YouTube)
Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez play golf, drive remote controlled cars and discuss the departure of Adrian Newey.
SF Full Access - 2024 Miami Grand Prix (Ferrari via YouTube)
Behind the scenes of Ferrari's Miami Grand Prix weekend, with highlights including Charles Leclerc losing his phone playing American Football and Carlos Sainz Jnr taking an ice bath.
Formula Regional Europe round 2: Hockenheimring (Formula Regional Europe via YouTube)
Spanish F4 round 3: Navarra (Spanish F4 via YouTube)
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Special car. Special streets. 🧡
Watch Bruno Senna take his uncle Ayrton's Monaco-winning MP4/5B round the iconic track.#Senna30 #SennaSempre pic.twitter.com/OJEaFiPmgn
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Happy mother's day to all the mothers 🫶 pic.twitter.com/xeCjdh4N2M
— Max Verstappen (@Max33Verstappen) May 12, 2024
Adrian Newey shows his race pace! Passing at the hairpin he makes light work passing the V12 Matra MS120B. #MonacoHistoric #gwflatout pic.twitter.com/HfgXuWpn9v
— Goodwood Road & Racing (@GoodwoodRRC) May 12, 2024
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Comment of the day
This weekend’s Caption Competition winner is Asd!:
Adrian Newey reveals his decision to move to Mercedes in 2025…
Asd
Thanks to everyone who came up with caption ideas this week and a special mention to Constantijn Blondel, AllTheCoolNamesWereTaken, EffWunFan and NinjaBadger who all came up with particularly good captions.
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday to Stephen, Mclarengal, Quinn and Dbradock!
S
13th May 2024, 3:10
So much for the theory that Sprints ‘devalue’ the GP….
Jere (@jerejj)
13th May 2024, 6:34
Nice pass by Newey.
StefMeister (@stefmeister)
13th May 2024, 15:41
I see that they have increased the size of some of the gravel traps at Imola.
https://twitter.com/F1BigData/status/1788126010644328864?
I wish they would revert the Variante Alta back to it’s Pre-2006 configuration as it was a much more interesting and challenging corner. The quick flick over the kerbs that required precision as if you used too much kerb you would unsettle the car and lose time, But if you used too little you would also lose time.
As it’s been since it was revised in 2006 it’s now basically just an uninteresting slow chicane no different to most others.