Lawson to run RB in check

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Lawson to run RB in check

Laurent Mekies, RB workforce principal, says that reserve driver Liam Lawson – who raced 5 occasions for the workforce in 2023 – will probably be working in one in all their automobiles in a check subsequent week.

“It’s a really privileged scenario to be in, as a result of not all the time do you have got truly the following man [Lawson] able to go,” Mekies mentioned.

“And in that case you actually know they’re able to go – they’ve raced 5 races with this workforce final 12 months, he has been fully embedded with us for the reason that starting of the season. He does all of the sim work, together with at-race assist. So it’s superb to know that he’s type of able to go. After all it’s irritating for racing drivers to not be within the automobile. He’s been driving the Pink Bull a few weeks in the past, he’s going to drive our automobile subsequent week in testing. There usually are not so many alternatives, however we attempt to maintain him heat and completely happy.”

McLaren signal 13-year-old karting prodigy

McLaren have introduced they’ve signed 13-year-old karting prodigy and reining world junior karting champions Dries Van Langendonck because the youngest member of their driver growth programme.

Van Langendonck at present races within the OK-Junior class of the FIA’s European Karting Championship. McLaren’s F1 enterprise operations director Stephanie Carlin mentioned Van Langendonck has proven “large potential” in his karting profession.

“We’ll now be working carefully all through Dries’ growth as he takes step one in our expertise pipeline and joins the McLaren household,” mentioned Carlin.

Hadjar and Antonelli reprimanded

Formulation 2 championship chief Isack Hadjar and Mercedes junior Andrea Kimi Antonelli each obtained a reprimand from the stewards after being thought of to have ‘pushed in a way probably harmful to others’ in qualifying.

Each drivers had simply accomplished flying laps inside seconds of one another and had backed off on cooldown laps. Nonetheless, each Ritomo Miyata and Zane Maloney behind them have been trying consecutive push laps, which neither Hadjar nor Antonelli have been warned about.

Miyata approached Hadjar at pace on the exit of Raidillon and was compelled to maneuver off the racing line to move the Pink Bull junior. Moments later, Maloney caught Antonelli in a lot the identical style. Whereas the stewards decided that each groups failed to tell their drivers of the automobiles approaching, each had commented an offence regardless. Each Hadjar and Antonelli obtained their first reprimands of the season, however won’t lose any grid positions for in the present day’s dash race.

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