Within the round-up: Valtteri Bottas believes he’s driving higher than he did when he was profitable races at Mercedes.
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Bottas driving ‘higher than with Mercedes’
Regardless of sitting in final place within the drivers’ championship, Sauber driver Bottas believes he’s driving at the next stage now than he was as a Mercedes driver alongside Lewis Hamilton.
Requested whether or not he felt he was nonetheless driving on the similar stage he was earlier than he joined Sauber, Bottas replied: “I really feel like sure, particularly in qualifying this yr, I haven’t felt any indicators of being worse.
“If something, you retain getting higher with expertise. You acquire extra consistency, extra confidence. You’ll be able to resolve completely different points differently. You’ll be able to adapt to the automobile the extra time you spend within the sport. I really feel really I’m driving higher than what I did at Mercedes, however clearly it’s not that seen.”
Meyer Shank snag Armstrong
Marcus Armstrong will change from Ganassi to Meyer Shank for the 2025 IndyCar season, pairing with Felix Rosenqvist.
Armstrong raced in his second season of IndyCar in 2024, finishing a full season programme for the primary time. He scored a single podium end in Detroit with two additional prime 5 finishes to finish the yr 14th within the drivers’ standings.
“This yr I received nearer to the place I need to be efficiency smart, together with oval racing for the primary time, and I’m wanting ahead to persevering with to push up the order with Meyer Shank,” stated Armstrong. “We need to be on the entrance, preventing for wins and I imagine we’ve got the recipe to do it.”
Envision maintain Buemi and Frijns
Envision Method E workforce has introduced an unchanged driver line up for the upcoming 2025 season, retaining each Sebastien Buemi and Robin Frijns.
The 2 mixed for 5 podium finishes over final season with Envision ending sixth within the groups’ championship. The pair will seemingly be compelled to overlook a spherical subsequent season on account of a calendar conflict between subsequent season’s Berlin Eprix and the WEC’s Six hours of Sao Paulo.
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Drugovich lands IndyCar check with Ganassi (Racer)
”We needed to check him a yr in the past and we’re catching up on that. Not directly, we had been launched to Drugovich final yr at Le Mans and had been impressed with him up shut and private. We need to get to know him and we predict it’s price doing.”
Christian Ho set to change into first Singaporean driver to race in Method 3 (Straits Instances)
”F3 goes to be a complete new ball recreation with higher, sooner drivers and whereas it’s going to get more durable from right here, I do know I could make it. All F3 races will likely be proven reside on TV earlier than the F1 races. I actually hope that with extra publicity, extra Singaporeans in addition to native sponsors will be capable to catch me in motion and assist my quest to change into the primary Singaporean F1 driver.”
AIX sees early return on funding in F2 and F3, however ”F1 is the objective” (Method Scout)
”Successfully F1 is the objective, even when it’s by half possession or half advertising technique, however that’s a few years down the road. Clearly, stepping straight into F1 just isn’t best, particularly in case you’re testing the waters to see from an investor perspective what the yield could be versus what you set in.”
Singapore GP workforce discuss (Williams)
‘Be part of the workforce as they collect to listen to from James Vowles, Alex Albon and Franco Colapinto forward of the Singapore GP weekend’
Meet China’s first F1 driver and his pet cat Sweetcorn (Straits Instances by way of YouTube)
‘As a baby, racing fan Zhou would typically tune in to Method 1 races at odd hours with the TV quantity turned down as his mother and father had been already asleep. His room was coated with posters of his idol, two-time world champion Fernando Alonso, and the primary helmet that Zhou owned was unsurprisingly a duplicate of the Spaniard’s. Now competing in his third F1 season, the Sauber driver is making the identical mark on followers in his house nation.’
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