Alfa Romeo queried stewards over Stroll’s off-track pass on Bottas · RaceFans

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Alfa Romeo rue Stroll’s move on Bottas

Valtteri Bottas instantly bought on his radio to complain about Stroll’s first-lap move on him throughout the Hungarian Grand Prix.

Stroll drew degree with Bottas on his outdoors as they approached flip 4 and pulled forward as they rounded it. Nonetheless as he utilized a slight steering correction on the exit, Stroll put all 4 wheels over the white line on the exit of the nook. “The Aston overtook me outdoors the observe, flip 4”, Bottas informed his staff.

Alfa Romeo’s head of trackside engineering Xevi Pujolar confirmed the staff had queried Stroll’s move with race management. “We reported it however we have been informed that was okay,” stated Pujolar in response to a query from RaceFans. “That was it, we needed to depart it, we left it there.”

Stroll went on to complete tenth, two locations forward of Bottas. In whole 15 lap occasions have been deleted throughout the race for working extensive at flip 4, together with one by Stroll on lap 9.

Lo plans to put money into present staff

Hong Kong billionaire Calvin Lo, who’s backing one of many new F1 staff candidates for 2026, says he’s contemplating a further funding in one of many present groups.

“There have been talks about the potential for Mr Lo getting concerned with a second present F1 staff.” stated an announcement issued on his behalf yesterday.

He’s eager to lift the game’s profile in Asia, the place 4 races on the 2024 F1 calendar will happen.

“To make F1 actually world, we can not neglect about this a part of the world,” Lo stated. “There are a lot of alternatives left untapped in F1.”

Martins calls staff mate’s move “too optimistic”

Victor Martins was not impressed with ART Grand Prix staff mate Theo Pourchaire’s tried overtake throughout the Method 2 function race on the Hungaroring, which just about resulted in a conflict between the 2 frontrunners.

“Theo tried to go on the within of flip three, which was a bit an excessive amount of optimistic, after which we have been arriving side-by-side into flip 4, however I simply saved the road,” stated Martina. “I have to assessment once more, actually I don’t know what actually occurred however I centered forward and on myself.”

He felt “simply relating to the race” the transfer was not too aggressive “however when you take the championship and the place he’s, I’d say sure.”

“That sort of transfer at that second of the race is, for me, a bit too optimistic. However ultimately we didn’t contact one another, we tried to remain clear. I’m certain he ran a bit out of flip 4, actually extensive, as a result of he didn’t need to contact with me. So, ultimately it was a matter of hold it clear between staff mates.”

Pourchaire sits second within the F2 standings, and Martins is fourth, with each harbouring title ambitions. “We’re aggressive, each of us, and we all know that we don’t have to do errors,” Martins concluded.

Motorsport mindset ‘not regular for feminine thoughts’ – Patrick

Danica Patrick, IndyCar’s most profitable feminine racer, claims the abilities wanted to achieve success in motorsport don’t come naturally to ladies. She additionally identified the scarcity of ladies racing in junior classes and go-karts makes it much less probably any will arrive in F1 within the close to future.

Talking throughout a particular dwell broadcast of the Hungarian Grand Prix aimed toward and offered by kids, Patrick was requested whether or not she thinks there’ll ever be a feminine world champion.

“As I’ve all the time stated in my complete profession, if it takes 100 guys to come back via to discover a good one and it takes 100 ladies, that takes a very long time to discover a good one, proper? So it’s simply the percentages should not in favour of there all the time being being one or being a lot of them,” she stated.

“On the finish of the day, I believe that the character of the game is masculine, it’s aggressive. It’s important to deal with the automotive, it’s important to be – not solely simply the automotive, as a result of that’s a talent, however the mindset that it takes to be actually good is one thing that’s not regular in a female thoughts, in a feminine thoughts.

“For me I do know if someone tries to blow off or make it tough on me, I’d go into like an aggressive kill mode, proper? It’s like – nnn! – and also you simply need to go after him. And that’s simply not a pure female thought. And I say that as a result of I’ve requested my mates about it. They’re like ‘yeah, that’s not how I believe’. And so I simply assume that that’s why there aren’t as many [women]but it surely doesn’t imply there aren’t.

“So I believe it’s attainable. Will I see it? I’m 41. Will I see it in my life? I don’t know, possibly. Possibly it is going to be you.”

She added feminine participation in motorsport is on a trajectory that’s “all the time steadily on the incline” for roles out and in of the cockpit.

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‘Jack Doohan has joined countryman Oscar Piastri in an unique F2 membership following the Function race on the Hungaroring. He claimed a grand chelem: pole place, quickest lap, and victory after main each lap. It was solely the seventh time in F2 historical past the feat had been achieved and solely the second time in a function race.’

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