#Callum ilott number 6

[belles1011]

wearing my emotional support horse girl tshirt for today

[alonsoings]

oh i’m so dead 😭😭

plus bonus cardboard callum

[ilottthepilot]

what's the context about david malukas?

ok quickfire recap:

david malukas signs a contract to drive the #6 car for mclaren this season

david breaks his hand in a cyling accident before the season starts

callum ilott fills in for him for the first two races

david's injury is worse than expected and the recovery is taking a while

callum has a wec clash so théo pourchaire fills in and does decently well

david still has not recovered and there is a clause in his contract that mclaren can fire him if he misses a certain number of races. mclaren takes that out and fires him

théo signs with mclaren full time for the rest of the indycar season (except the indy 500, which callum does), dropping out of super formula

théo has an incident with agustin canapino on track in detroit, gets hate messages and death threats, mclaren rallies behind him and publicly stands up for him and ends a business partnership with JHR, agustin's team

JHR suspends agustin for a race, nolan siegel races road america for them instead

david malukas finally recovers from his injury :) and signs with meyer shank for the rest of the season, starting with this weekend

nolan siegel wins le mans in the lmp2 class with united autosport (which is owned by zak brown)

yesterday: théo tweets about how excited he is to race at laguna seca this week

today: mclaren announces that nolan siegel will drive the #6 car for the rest of the season starting this weekend AND that nolan has a multi year contract

which leads us to david malukas's tweet which was deleted within less than 10 minutes

basically it's a response to mclaren putting a 3rd replacement in the car when david is already back on track himself

also edit: IMPORTANT CONTEXT, théo was not doing badly for a rookie and it does not seem like there is any reason to replace him from a results standpoint at this point

[f1]

McLaughlin fastest but Newgarden takes pole at Gateway | IndyCar

Penske team mates Scott McLaughlin and Josef Newgarden finished one-two in qualifying for the Gateway 500. But while McLaughlin was the fastest of the two, Newgarden will start first in today’s 500-kilometre race. That’s because McLaughlin was one of six drivers since the start of the weekend who were handed nine-place grid penalties for exceeding their allotted pool of four engines for a season. Other drivers impacted were championship leader Alex Palou and his Ganassi team mates Scott Dixon and Takuma Sato, plus Andretti Autosport’s Kyle Kirkwood and Juncos Hollinger rookie Agustin Canapino. McLaughlin will still be recognised as the P1 Award winner given to the fastest qualifier and earned a championship point with a two-lap average qualifying speed of 182.951 miles per hour (294.431 kilometres per hour). With the grid penalty, he is expected to start tenth. Meanwhile, Newgarden will inherit first place on the starting grid as he pursues a clean sweep of IndyCar’s five oval races in 2023, while also trying to begin what would be an improbable championship comeback with three races left in the season. Colton Herta qualified third-fastest and was the fastest Honda-powered driver, followed by McLaren driver Pato O’Ward, then Palou, who qualified fifth, but will start from the middle of the 28-car field after his grid penalty for an engine change which was announced this morning. Palou needs to score seven more points today than his Ganassi team mate Dixon, and four more points than Newgarden, to clinch his second IndyCar Series title. Felix Rosenqvist qualified sixth, ahead of Dixon in seventh, then Sato, Romain Grosjean, and David Malukas rounding out the top 10. Will Power was 12th-fastest to match his car number, and Marcus Ericsson qualified down in 18th. Both drivers were in rebuilt or new cars after a collision in practice yesterday evening where Power spun out of turn two, and was hit head-on by Ericsson. Advert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free Ericsson, who recently announced a move to Andretti Autosport next season, was in a backup car originally prepared for Palou. Also in the middle of the order, Conor Daly qualified 15th in his first drive for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, in the car previously occupied by Jack Harvey. Daly outqualified his full-time team mates Graham Rahal and Christian Lundgaard. Gateway 500 qualifying results Position Car Driver Team Engine 1 3 Scott McLaughlin Penske Chevrolet 2 2 Josef Newgarden Penske Chevrolet 3 26 Colton Herta Andretti Honda 4 5 Pato O’Ward McLaren Chevrolet 5 10 Alex Palou Ganassi Honda 6 6 Felix Rosenqvist McLaren Chevrolet 7 9 Scott Dixon Ganassi Honda 8 11 Takuma Sato Ganassi Honda 9 28 Romain Grosjean Andretti Honda 10 18 David Malukas Coyne/HMD Honda 11 7 Alexander Rossi McLaren Chevrolet 12 12 Will Power Penske Chevrolet 13 27 Kyle Kirkwood Andretti Honda 14 77 Callum Ilott Juncos Hollinger Chevrolet 15 30 Conor Daly RLL Honda 16 60 Linus Lundqvist Meyer Shank Honda 17 06 Helio Castroneves Meyer Shank Honda 18 8 Marcus Ericsson Ganassi Honda 19 29 Devlin DeFrancesco Andretti Honda 20 45 Christian Lundgaard RLL Honda 21 78 Agustin Canapino Juncos Hollinger Chevrolet 22 21 Rinus VeeKay Carpenter Chevrolet 23 15 Graham Rahal RLL Honda 24 20 Ryan Hunter-Reay Carpenter Chevrolet 25 51 Sting Ray Robb Coyne/RWR Honda 26 55 Benjamin Pedersen Foyt Chevrolet 27 14 Santino Ferrucci Foyt Chevrolet 28 33 Ed Carpenter Carpenter Chevrolet Advert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free IndyCar Browse all IndyCar articles via RaceFans - Independent Motorsport Coverage https://racefans.net/

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Athletes

Cars go vroom, pucks go slap.

Lando Norris +2

Daniel Ricciardo +5

Christen Press -2

Sebastian Vettel +10

Lewis Hamilton +16

Tobin Heath -4

Max Verstappen +6

Charles Leclerc +4

Nolan Patrick +2

Mat Barzal -4

Matthew Tkachuk -1

George Russell +25

Mick Schumacher

Pierre Gasly

Trent Alexander-Arnold -7

Ali Krieger -11

Ben Chilwell +13

Simone Biles

Lance Stroll

Mason Mount

Sidney Crosby +3

Ashlyn Harris  -18

Alex Albon

Auston Matthews -7

Brock Boeser +8

Kristie Mewis

Sue Bird +4

Megan Rapinoe -8

Vince Dunn -13

Tyler Seguin -21

Pernille Harder +7

Callum Ilott

Quinn Hughes +8

Leah Williamson -9

Yuzuru Hanyu -8

Jadon Sancho -7

Jamie Benn -5

Carter Hart -12

Elias Pettersson +6

Magdalena Eriksson +10

Travis Konecny -13

Tyson Jost -3

Eric Dier -21

Esteban Ocon

Jack Grealish

Jamie Oleksiak

Leon Goretzka

Julian Brandt -25

Alex Morgan -15

Emily Sonnett -35

The number in italics indicates how many spots a name moved up or down from the previous year. Bolded names weren’t on the list last year.

[indycar-series]

SURVEY RESULTS: THE OFFICIAL LESBIAN ICON OF INDYCAR

First of all I'd like to thank everyone who took the time to rate the Indycar grid. This year's voter turnout was much higher than the last time this survey was conducted, so I will consider that a W for the sport. More surveys along this nature are in the works so if you would like to participate in other fun Indycar surveys keep an eye out. This will be a lengthy report, so results are going under the cut to avoid clogging anyone's dash.

I will begin this report by explaining the methodology behind the Lesbian Icon Survey. Each driver was rated based on the vibes felt by each voter on a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being homophobic and 10 being lesbian icon. Ratings were entirely subjective and participants were instructed to leave personal opinions on drivers at the door and focus solely on the vibes. Ratings were added up and averaged to generate the driver's Lesbian Approval Rating (LAR). LAR is measured between 1 and 10 where the closer the LAR is to 10 the more of a lesbian icon they are. Conversely, if LAR is closer to 1 the more assigned homophobic they are. The photos used are the official Indycar driver headshots, and this was done to implement a control variable and take away bias of the survey creator. (Though I did get complaints that the headshots did a lot of them dirty)

Survey participants were also asked two demographic questions to gauge viewership of lesbians and wlw indycar watchers. The results to those questions are as follows:

Now for the meat of the survey: the ratings. This year we had 29 participants who rated 33 drivers on a 1-10 scale as described above. Based on the received ratings, the calculated LAR of each driver is as follows:

1. Tatiana Calderon (9.41 LAR)

2. Colton Herta (7.93 LAR)

3. Takuma Sato (7.76 LAR)

4. Callum Ilott (7.69 LAR)

5. Romain Grosjean (7.41 LAR)

6. Josef Newgarden (7.34 LAR)

7. Pato O'Ward (7.24 LAR)

8. Alex Palou (7.10 LAR)

9. Jimmie Johnson (7.07 LAR)

9. Rinus VeeKay (7.07 LAR)

11. JR Hildebrand (7.00 LAR)

12. Helio Castroneves (6.72 LAR)

13. Kyle Kirkwood (6.66 LAR)

14. Scott McLaughlin (6.00 LAR)

15. Felix Rosenqvist (5.93 LAR)

16. Marcus Ericsson (5.72 LAR)

17. Tony Kanaan (5.34 LAR)

18. Jack Harvey (5.31 LAR)

18. Simon Pagenaud (5.31 LAR)

20. Scott Dixon (5.21 LAR)

21. David Malukas (5.17 LAR)

21. Graham Rahal (5.17 LAR)

23. Juan Pablo Montoya (5.07 LAR)

24. Marco Andretti (4.93 LAR)

25. Ed Carpenter (4.86 LAR)

25. Sage Karam (4.86 LAR)

27. Will Power (4.79 LAR)

28. Devlin DeFrancesco (4.55 LAR)

29. Dalton Kellett (4.51 LAR)

30. Alexander Rossi (4.13 LAR)

31. Conor Daly (4.10 LAR)

32. Christian Lundgaard (4.00 LAR)

33. Santino Ferrucci (2.55 LAR)

Overall, we have an LAR range between the highest rating and the lowest rating of 6.86 LAR. The category with the highest number of drivers was 7.00 - 7.99 LAR with 10, followed by 6.00 - 6.99 with 9 and 4.00 - 4.99 with 9.

In conclusion, based on survey results there is a definitive Lesbian Icon in Tatiana Calderon in the Indycar series. On the opposite side of the scale, Santino Ferrucci was voted Most Assigned Homophobic driver. Runners up in the Lesbian Icon category are Colton Herta in second and Takuma Sato in third. Runners up in the Assigned Homophobic category are Christian Lundgaard and Conor Daly.

If I were to conduct this survey again in the future, there are several things I would change. First, I would make defining categories for the mid-points on the scale. Suggestions I received were 'supportive dad', and 'won't call you a slur but definitely in a frat'. Second, I would like to have results from a larger sample size however I recognize the overlap between lesbians/wlw and people who watch Indycar is not high. While responses are up from previous, the sample size is still too small to have an effective survey.

Pinglist for those who requested to be notified when the results are posted:

@stickerreds @penske-slut @whitewolfcraft @crowded-desk @lescedes @lights-out-in-monaco @teenageracedirector @hhawksy @martiniracing @i-lovealottbh

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Callum Ilott: Favourite Road Trip Tracks

I have spent a lot of time travelling as since I was around 10 years old my racing has been outside of the UK.

I enjoy driving and when my time allows I enjoy getting away with my family or friends for a trip somewhere new. I’ve put together a list of tracks which I hope you will enjoy as much as I do!

1: Kanye West – Through The Wire

I remember the drive to Silverstone in 2015 for my race debut in Formula 3. What a thrill that was for me racing at the home of British motorsport for the first time in my career. Silverstone is now one of my favourite race tracks and this takes me back to the journey I made from my home to the track.

2: Mr Probz, Robin Schulz – Waves

A memory that will stay with me forever is the day I signed a contract to be part of the Ferrari Driver Academy. Leaving Maranello knowing I was part of the most iconic motor racing brand in the world which I had followed for many years was a special moment. Each time I hear this track it reminds me of that time in Italy driving away from their HQ knowing I was part of their family.

3: Bazzi – Paradise

I enjoy spending time in the Alps for alpine adventures and relaxation. I’ve been there a number of times and I enjoy the drive there from Italy. This track reminds me of the winter last year when I spent a couple of weeks chilling and training before my 2020 race season.

4: Taio Cruz – Dynamite

I remember heading to London with a few friends to celebrate a birthday. I enjoy spending time in London when I get a chance. We all had a great evening and this track takes me back to that evening heading there with my mates.

5 & 6: Black Eyed Peas – Where Is The Love? & Beyoncé, JAY-Z – Crazy in Love

There are quite a few tracks that I remember from the time I was travelling to kart races with my dad during 2014, the last year before I switched to racing cars. Dad and I used to turn the volume up when these two tracks came on and usually it was after a good race weekend with a trophy in the backseat of the car.

7: Jason Derulo – Ridin’ Solo

The trip from my home in Maranello to Monza is a trip I’ve made a few times now but it’s always great to go to the Temple of Speed, partly because of the history and its unique high speed layout and also because it’s Ferrari’s home Grand Prix. I secured pole position in 2019 and remember playing this in my car heading home.

8: Dennis Lloyd – Never Go Back

I had a great time on holiday with some good friends who live in the States in 2019. There are a few tracks that take me back to those days in California and driving around the Golden State, with this one in particular as we headed out from home to the canyon to do some jet skiing.

9: Justin Bieber – Hold On

There is a nice beach which I like to drive to with friends when the weather and my diary allows. I had a trip there recently with great sunshine and plenty of Italian ice cream to cool me down!

10: Post Malone – Circles

I often drive alone when I’m on business. Driving to the Sauber base in Hinwil is something I’ve done a few times now. This track is something I regularly play and reminds me of the trip to Hinwil for the first time. What a great team of people I met there and they made me feel so welcome.

11: B.o.B, Eminem, Hayley Williams – Airplanes, Pt II

In 2019 I remember driving to the Red Bull Ring in Austria. I had a videographer alongside me capturing the trip for a social media post. This track was very cool with the sun out, sunglasses on and the beautiful scenery en route.

12: Estelle, Kanye West – American Boy

Monaco is a special place with the history and glamour associated with Formula 1. I’ve only raced there once, which was in 2019, and I remember driving there with real excitement. I finished my qualifying in P1 but then had a car issue on the grid before the race started which was such a shame. I hope I’ll get another chance to race at Monaco in the future. This track takes me back to driving to Monaco that year.

13: JAY-Z, Alicia Keys – Empire State Of Mind

I enjoy exploring parts of the UK when I can. A few years back I drove to Wales with some friends for a few days away, and this track reminds me of the great time we had with beautiful scenery and also lots of activities to do.

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SCHUMACHER STROLLS TO VICTORY

Mick Schumacher recovered perfectly from yesterday’s qualifying crash to stroll to victory in the F2 Feature Race after Callum Ilott stalled in the pits to cost him victory.

Ilott missed, what was effectively an open goal, after his title rival Robert Shwartzman was running outside of the top 10, meaning he could’ve retaken the Championship lead.

Schumacher made a perfect getaway, shooting through a number of cars to take P2 on the way into turn one, as behind him Ghiotto and Tsunoda dropped to P4 and P5, and Marcus Armstrong climbed his way up in to P11.

The German then challenged Ilott into turn one for the lead on lap four, but to no avail, as further behind Tsunoda retook P3 from Christian Lundgaard, only for Lundgaard retook the position into Parabolica, only for the Japanese driver to run wide and floor it to then get back ahead, somehow not earning a penalty for leaving the track and gaining an advantage.

Lap 6 saw Lundgaard get past the Carlin again at T1, as the pair went three-wide with Luca Ghiotto, who ended getting squeezed off the road, and also lost P5 to Roy Nissany into T4.

Tsunoda and Ghiotto then retook the positions before Ilott opted to pit from the lead, he then stalled as he tried to pull away and dropped right down the order.

This handed Schumacher the lead, as Nissany pushed Mazepin off the road at the first chicane, pushing him through the gravel and dropping him down the field.

Schumacher then pitted from the lead, and Ghiotto followed a lap later after leading, and he jumped Tsunoda for P3.

Mazepin’s afternoon then went from bad to worse as he dramatically slowed on the way to the Parabolica, dropping him to P19, but crucially, was able to get going once more.

Dan Ticktum then decided to pit from the lead, having run the alternate strategy, and he emerged ahead of Ilott, only to be passed under braking into the second chicane.

Ilott was on a charge, he fought his way into P7, getting past Armstrong into T1 and closing in on and passing title rival Shwartzman at the same place, just a lap later for P6.

Behind the charging Ilott, who also took P5 from Deletraz, the MP Motorsport cars made contact for the second weekend in a row, with Matsushita forcing Drugovich off the road again, into the second chicane whilst battling for P14.

Luca Ghiotto then lined up Lundgaard for P2 into turn one on lap 28, Lundgaard tried to challenge the Italian into the second chicane, but ran out of road and dropped back.

Zhou got back past Ilott, but fortunately for him, Shwartzman also lost P8 and reverse grid pole to Dan Ticktum with just two laps to go.

Ticktum also got P7 on the final lap, relegating Deletraz to P8, but Schumacher ran to the line unchallenged to take his first win of the season, and close in on the Championship lead, now joint between Ilott and Shwartzman, ahead of tomorrow’s Sprint Race.

RACE RESULT:

SCHUMACHER GHIOTTO - FASTEST LAP LUNDGAARD

TSUNODA ZHOU ILOTT TICKTUM DELETRAZ - REVERSE GRID POLE SHWARTZMAN DARUVALA

VIPS PIQUET AITKEN ARMSTRONG MATSUSHITA DRUGOVICH MARKELOV ALESI NISSANY SATO SAMAIA

MAZEPIN - DNF

[youandi29]

21 and 30 from the F1 questions? They seem intereating 😄

Oh ahaha not the most simple ones soooo :

21 - Who is the no-F1 driver you would love seen succeed ?

Honestly is it any doubt on that ? I mean I think everyone know I love Mick Schumacher no ? So yeah I would said Mick because I think he is such a sweet and passionate boy. He is been under so much pressure for years because people want him being like his dad. Yeah I would love seen him succeed and shut them up.

(I’m going to cheat on this one because come on there are so many 😭 like I want so badly to see Nico Hulkenberg on that podium, oh and Callum Ilott, he need to succeed too)

30 - What would you change in F1 ?

This is going to be long because I would change soooooo many thing in F1, let’s begin.

First of all I would change the budget for the teams. Or I would give to the small team more money or I would just put a limit to teams budget. Like every team can not spend more than 300 millions we year (don’t mind the number is randomly but you got the ideia). I think this would, first of all give a challenge to the teams because the biggest teams can’t not spend all the money they wanted and it would make the teams more equal.

Second, I would change free practice. I would impose to all the teams to have at least to different drivers to FP1. Let’s illustrate this one with Ferrari because of the FDA. The drivers of Ferrari are Charles and Sebastian so for Free Practice 1, Charles and Seb can’t drive the car. Ferrari need to put 2 other drivers, like Callum Illot and Robert Shwartzman to drive in FP1. I think this would be helpful for all the youngest drivers because before jumping in F1, they would have all a year of training in FP1 and this would be great for them. A little bit of a challenge for the F1 drivers but they’re in F1 for that no ?

Ok third one, I would change qualifying. The way qualifying is today make everything so easy for people who are winning and the biggest teams like Mercedes or Redbull (don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against theses teams, let’s just make F1 more fun). So I would put in place something like the reverse grid but not so simple.

Let’s take the EifelGP for exemple : the race before the German GP was Sochi, so let’s take the final resultas that was :

1 - Valtteri Bottas

2 - Max Verstappen

3 - Lewis Hamilton

4 - Sérgio Pérez

5 - Daniel Ricciardo

6 - Charles Leclerc

7 - Esteban Ocon

8 - Daniil Kvyat

9 - Pierre Gasly

10 - Alex Albon

11 - António Giovinazzi

12 - Kevin Magnussen

13 - Sebastian Vettel

14 - Kimi Räikkönen

15 - Lando Norris

16 - Nicholas Latifi

17 -Romain Grosjean

18 - George Russell

19 - Lance Stroll

20 - Carlos Sainz

So on Saturday you take this results and reverse them, it would but Carlos Sainz and Lance Stroll in the front row. We do a qualifying like a mini race, we have them like 30 minutes to race, overtake allow, DRS if you are in the second behind the next car, pit stop allowed if they want ( no one would pit in a 30 minutes race but okay)

They would start the eifel GP qualifying race in this order (reverse grid for the Sochi GP, the last race)

1 - Carlos Sainz

2 - Lance Stroll

3 - George Russell

4 - Romain Grosjean

5 - Nicholas Latifi

6 - Lando Norris

7 - Kimi Raikkonen

8 - Sebastian Vettel

9 - Kevin Magnussen

10 - António Giovinazzi

11 - Alex Albon

12 - Pierre Gasly

13 - Daniil Kvyat

14 - Esteban Ocon

15 - Charles Leclerc

16 - Daniel Ricciardo

17 - Sérgio Pérez

18 - Lewis Hamilton

19 - Max Verstappen

20 - Valtteri Bottas

I think this would make F1 so much excited, it would create so much overtake, battles and adrenaline for who is whatching. If you are quick and good at overtake you would overtake and finish on top. And teams would need to work on a strategy for Saturday too ( sorry Ferrari). So the order the drivers finish on Saturday would be the grid of Sunday race.

I, wouldn’t, change anything about the Sunday races, for me the 2 pits mandatory are not the solution. Managing the tyres is part of the things a driver need to know, if you make 2 pits stop what the purpose on managing the tyres ?

So yeah this is what I would change in F1. Thanks @krasnajawdowa for the questions, they are, indeed very interesting!

So there you have all my F1 changes, I’m going to present them to the FIA 😂

[vierschanzentournee]

Tumblr’s Favourite F2 Drivers!

Votes have been cast, counted and recounted (and recounted again because arithmetic is really hard and I’m sick), and the results are in! I’d just like to say a massive thanks to all 31 respondents (wait, 30, why am I thanking myself?), to everyone who reblogged the link, and to Jenny (@danytorpedokvyat) for the inspiration! I’m going to tag everyone who left a URL, just in case anyone’s been sitting up at night waiting for the results lmao, so brace yourselves:

@charlesleclerc @lucasdigrassis @curbstones-and-cowboyboots @rararaenbow @redbullricciardo @aroncant @harlot-of-babylon (it won’t let me tag you properly?) @racingamy @ladyrindt @emilia-jade @kingbottas @danytorpedokvyat @pushandrush (sorry, I don’t think yours will work either! I’m awful at tumblr) @tyretracks-andbrokenhearts @livinglegendsimplythebest @aaronoxladewilshere @onlyailisha @bozplz (what am i missing how does tumblr work) @destroyingdestroyers @danyandcarlos @f1-stereo

(whew!)

Now, onto what we all want: the results, which will be under the cut!

Tumblr’s Favourite F2 Drivers

Watching the votes come in was pretty wild - there were moments where certain drivers looked set to beat others, and then the tides would turn and someone who was wildly popular a day or two ago was suddenly completely absent from votes, or even receiving votes for least favourite! The points system worked like so: a vote for ‘favourite driver’ was worth 5 points, ‘2nd favourite’ 4 points, ‘3rd favourite’ was worth 3, ‘4th favourite’ 2 points, and ‘5th favourite’ paying just 1 point. An ‘honourable mention’ wasn’t worth anything (other than pride), and a vote for ‘least favourite’ didn’t subtract any points either. So, how did Tumblr vote for their favourite F2 drivers?

In 3rd place... Nyck de Vries (42 points)

I’ll admit, this one was a bit of a surprise to me! With 3 votes for favourite, the Dutch driver was the 3rd most popular choice for favourite (are you sure that’s enough threes, Nyck?) and his points haul gave a significant boost to his new team, Racing Engineering in the team rankings.

In 2nd place… Artem Markelov (78 points)

Everyone’s favourite soft Russian (or, at least, my favourite soft Russian) takes a strong second place, with a 36 point margin over de Vries. He was the second most popular choice for favourite, with 19.4% of votes for favourite!

And our winner is… Charles Leclerc (119 points)

I mean, we all knew this was coming. The golden boy of Tumblr, the hot property in motorsport, it seems that Leclerc just doesn’t know how to lose. But he didn’t just not lose - he absolutely destroyed his opponents, winning by a margin of 41 points over second-placed Markelov. He took 18 votes for favourite (58.1%!)

Let’s spare a moment to think about those poor souls who received zero points-scoring votes: Sergio Canamasas, Nabil Jeffri, and Stefano Coletti. The full standings are as follows: Charles Leclerc (119), Artem Markelov (78), Nyck de Vries (42), Oliver Rowland (32), Antonio Fuoco (25), Sean Gelael (23), Luca Ghiotto (17), Nicholas Latifi (14), Sérgio Sette Câmara, Roberto Merhi, Callum Ilott (13), Norman Nato, Alexander Albon (9), Ralph Boschung (8), Jordan King, Gustav Malja, Louis Delétraz (6), Raffaele Marciello, Sergey Sirotkin, Santino Ferrucci (5), Johnny Cecotto Jr (4), Nobuharu Matsushita (2), Robert Vișoiu (1), Sergio Canamasas, Nabil Jeffri, and Stefano Coletti (0).

Tumblr’s Least Favourite F2 Drivers

There were some surprises in here, but some results were pretty inevitable! We only had 25 responses here, as it was an optional question.

In 3rd place… a tie between: Johnny Cecotto Jr, Nobuharu Matsushita, and Raffaele Marciello (2 votes each)

I can understand Cecotto’s place here, with his reputation for fast but erratic driving, but Matsushita and Marciello are beyond me!

In 2nd place… Oliver Rowland (4 votes)

Oh, Ollie, the marmite of the F2 world. (Apparently) far less popular this year than last, it might have something to do with his threat to Charles Leclerc (who we’ve established is the favourite by a mile) and his championship?

And our winner (loser?) is… Sergio Canamasas (6 votes)

Could we really expect any different? The impulsive, aggressive Spanish driver has spent the past 6 years forcing everyone’s favourites off the track through his ‘robust’ defence, and although he could be said to have been improving recently, it seems to be too little, too late for Canamasas!

There were several other choices for least favourite, each with 1 vote: Markelov, de Vries, Nato, King, Sette Câmara, Boschung, Sirotkin, Vișoiu, and Delétraz

Almost, but not quite

Some drivers did better in the honourable mentions than in the points:

In 3rd place… an eight way tie! Ghiotto, Latifi, de Vries, Malja, Sirotkin, Gelael, Delétraz, and Marciello (two votes each)

I’m not even going to try and go into detail about what’s going on here

In 2nd place… Nobuharu Matsushita (3 votes)

He certainly got more honourable mentions than points-paying votes, poor guy!

And our winner is… Sérgio Sette Câmara (5 votes)

Surprisingly popular in the honourable mentions category is one of our latest race winners, and youngest driver on the grid, 19-year-old Brazilian (@lucasdigrassis) Sérgio Sette Câmara.

The Team’s Championship

I added up the totals of each team’s drivers (each driver was counted for the team they drove for last, as of Monza - so de Vries counts for Racing Engineering, Merhi for Rapax, and Sirotkin for ART, for example)

Prema Racing - 144 points

Russian Time  - 95 points

DAMS - 49 points

Racing Engineering - 48 points

Pertamina Arden - 32 points

Rapax - 23 points

Trident - 23 points

MP Motorsport - 19 points

ART Grand Prix - 11 points

Campos Racing - 9 points

There’s some pretty large gaps at the top of the standings - no one could stand up to the might of Charles Leclerc’s points haul, and Russian Time can only manage to get within 49 points of Prema. It’s another leap from Russian Time to DAMS, home to Ollie Rowland, one of both the most and least popular drivers on the grid, and Nicholas Latifi, no one’s least favourite, but no one’s favourite either. Then, things get incredibly close. Nyck de Vries’ move to Racing Engineering hauls them up into fourth, just a point down on DAMS, and the popularity of Sean Gelael is a great help to Pertamina Arden. Rapax and Trident find themselves with the same number of points - possibly something to do with the sheer number of drivers Trident has had this season. MP Motorsport, ART Grand Prix and Campos Racing round out the standings, and I know they’re dead last but I love my Campos boys anyway.

Demographics

I’m well aware that Tumblr doesn’t represent the majority of F2 fans, nor does this survey even represent the majority of F2 fans on Tumblr - the demographics here were entirely optional, and mostly just for fun (because I’m horrendously nosey).

So, I noticed like a week after I published the survey that I messed up the age options, so I’ve taken 25-34 and 25-49 and combined them into 25+, and I’m very sorry for any confusion my tragic arithmetic skills have caused!

30 respondents of 31 left their age - of these, 15 (50%) were aged between 18 and 24, 11 (36.7%) were between 13 and 17, and 4 (13.3%) were 25 or older. No one was aged over 50 - we’re a pretty youthful fanbase!

The same 30 respondents also left their gender - and hey, who said racing was a man’s world! 29 (96.7%) of those who specified identified as female; the remaining 1 (3.3%) said ‘other’. Now, if we could just have a few non-male drivers…

Finally, nationality. I only got 25 responses here, and one of them was Bacon, so let’s say 24. Of these, 7 self-identified as British - 11 said they were British, or else said they were English or Northern Irish (I don’t want to just lump you in, because I know how annoying that can be!). 4 said they were Dutch, 2 said Hungarian, and there was 1 each for Argentine, Australian & German, Belgian, Finnish, Moldovan, American and Irish.

To sum up; F2 has a rather young, predominantly female, but very international fanbase!

Honestly, if you’ve made it to here through all my rubbishy, tired ramblings, well done, and thank you! If I’ve made any errors, if you’d like to see all the data or want me to analyse something else, or if you just wanna shout about F2 or whatever, just shoot me a message (I don’t bite, I’m way too desperate for friends!)

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Palou takes a hat trick of IndyCar poles at Detroit | IndyCar

After winning the pole for the Indianapolis Grand Prix and the 107th Indianapolis 500, Alex Palou made it three straight and won the first pole position for the Detroit Grand Prix at the new Renaissance Centre circuit. While the two-dimensional layout of Detroit’s new downtown street race didn’t inspire confidence as a successor to the defunct Belle Isle Circuit, throughout practice and qualifying the very bumpy surface has proven to be more than a handful for the 27 drivers entered. But IndyCar Series championship leader Palou was able to conquer the jagged streets of downtown Detroit with relative ease, posting a lap of 1’01.859 to take his first pole at an IndyCar street circuit. He’ll share the front row with Penske driver Scott McLaughlin, who qualified in second place. Romain Grosjean returned to his otherwise excellent qualifying form on road and street courses, putting his Andretti third on the grid ahead of Scott Dixon in fourth place. The third row will feature this year’s Indianapolis 500 champion, Josef Newgarden, and the runner-up Marcus Ericsson, in fifth and sixth place respectively. Kyle Kirkwood had looked like a decent prospect for his second pole of the year, but he hit the wall at turn seven and damaged his left-front suspension bad enough that he couldn’t set a representative lap time in the second round of qualifying. Kirkwood will start 12th, behind Will Power, Simon Pagenaud, Felix Rosenqvist, Pato O’Ward, and rookie Marcus Armstrong. This was Pagenaud’s first time progressing out of the group stages this season, a first for the embattled Meyer Shank Racing squad. But for O’Ward, it was the first time he missed the Fast Six session this year, on what ended up being a lacklustre qualifying session for McLaren. Rosenqvist and O’Ward did fare better than team mate Alexander Rossi who just missed the cut in his first round qualifying group, and ended up 13th. The barriers in Detroit had also bit the likes of Christian Lundgaard, who qualified in 18th, and Colton Herta, in 24th. Helio Castroneves, a three-time winner around the old streets of Belle Isle along with Power and Dixon, spun during his session and qualified 23rd. Also, dubiously, Graham Rahal’s Rahal Letterman Lanigan car was the slowest qualifier for the second straight week. This time, however, Graham Rahal was saved the humiliation of being bumped from the field – he’ll start 27th and last in Sunday’s 90-lap race. With the bumpy streets and double-wide pit lane, this year’s Detroit Grand Prix could be eventful for any number of reasons – the green flag flies at 15:30 EDT (local time), 20:30 BST. Advert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free Detroit Grand Prix qualifying results Pos. No. Driver Team Engine 1 10 Alex Palou Ganassi Honda 2 3 Scott McLaughlin Penske Chevrolet 3 28 Romain Grosjean Andretti Honda 4 9 Scott Dixon Ganassi Honda 5 2 Josef Newgarden Penske Chevrolet 6 8 Marcus Ericsson Ganassi Honda 7 12 Will Power Penske Chevrolet 8 60 Simon Pagenaud Meyer Shank Honda 9 6 Felix Rosenqvist McLaren Chevrolet 10 5 Pato O’Ward McLaren Chevrolet 11 11 Marcus Armstrong Ganassi Honda 12 27 Kyle Kirkwood Andretti Honda 13 7 Alexander Rossi McLaren Chevrolet 14 21 Rinus VeeKay Carpenter Chevrolet 15 20 Conor Daly Carpenter Chevrolet 16 77 Callum Ilott Juncos Hollinger Chevrolet 17 29 Devlin DeFrancesco Andretti Honda 18 45 Christian Lundgaard RLL Honda 19 55 Benjamin Pedersen Foyt Chevrolet 20 78 Agustin Canapino Juncos Hollinger Chevrolet 21 18 David Malukas Coyne/HMD Honda 22 14 Santino Ferrucci Foyt Chevrolet 23 06 Helio Castroneves Meyer Shank Honda 24 26 Colton Herta Andretti Honda 25 30 Jack Harvey RLL Honda 26 51 Sting Ray Robb Coyne/RWR Honda 27 15 Graham Rahal RLL Honda Advert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free IndyCar Browse all IndyCar articles via RaceFans - Independent Motorsport Coverage https://www.racefans.net/

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Rosenqvist takes back-to-back pole positions at Texas Motor Speedway | IndyCar

Felix Rosenqvist qualified on pole for the Texas 375 at Texas Motor Speedway – his second consecutive pole at the 2.4-kilometre, 1.5-mile superspeedway. With the qualifying order set by entrant points, Rosenqvist was the tenth driver out of a bumper grid of 28 cars to attempt to qualify. But the McLaren driver immediately put himself at the front of the field. Determined to bounce back after being caught up in a first-lap crash in the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, Rosenqvist was the first and only driver to average over 220 miles per hour during his two-lap qualifying run. His two-lap average of 220.264 mph (354.481 kph) put him on the provisional pole ahead of Colton Herta. The likes of Josef Newgarden, Scott Dixon, and Arrow McLaren team mate Alexander Rossi came close to toppling him, but none of them were able to knock Rosenqvist off the top spot as he won his fourth career IndyCar Series pole position. Dixon, a three-time winner at Texas Motor Speedway, qualified second in his Honda-powered Chip Ganassi Racing entry. McLaren’s three-car outfit impressed during qualifying, as Rossi qualified third, ahead of Pato O’Ward in fifth. Josef Newgarden was Penske’s best qualifier in fourth place, between Rossi and O’Ward. In his first start of the season, Takuma Sato looked like he’d never missed a beat as he qualified sixth in his number 11 Ganassi/Honda. Alex Palou was seventh-fastest, while Will Power qualified eighth after he hit the rev limiter hard during his second lap. Sophomore driver David Malukas was ninth-fastest, while Herta eventually sorted down into tenth place. Of the three rookies, Benjamin Pedersen put in a surprising performance. The driver of AJ Foyt Racing’s number 55 car was 13th fastest, ahead of his team mate Santino Ferrucci and several other more experienced competitors and past race winners. Those included Scott McLaughlin, who was only 15th fastest after setting the pace during this morning’s first practice session, and St. Petersburg race winner Marcus Ericsson, who was last to run and took 16th. IndyCar’s annual visit to Texas could be one of the more entertaining outings in the circuit’s history if the range of aerodynamic kit options available to teams works as intended. There will be two additional practice sessions later this afternoon to help put rubber down on the outside grooves in the corners. The green flag for Sunday’s race is scheduled for 5:15 PM BST / 11:15 AM CDT (local time). Advert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free Advert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free Texas 375 qualifying results Position Car Driver Team Engine 1 6 Felix Rosenqvist McLaren Chevrolet 2 9 Scott Dixon Ganassi Honda 3 7 Alexander Rossi McLaren Chevrolet 4 2 Josef Newgarden Penske Chevrolet 5 5 Pato O’Ward McLaren Chevrolet 6 11 Takuma Sato Ganassi Honda 7 10 Alex Palou Ganassi Honda 8 12 Will Power Penske Chevrolet 9 18 David Malukas Coyne/HMD Honda 10 26 Colton Herta Andretti Honda 11 28 Romain Grosjean Andretti Honda 12 29 Devlin DeFrancesco Andretti Honda 13 55 Benjamin Pedersen Foyt Chevrolet 14 14 Santino Ferrucci Foyt Chevrolet 15 3 Scott McLaughlin Penske Chevrolet 16 8 Marcus Ericsson Ganassi Honda 17 77 Callum Ilott Juncos Hollinger Chevrolet 18 33 Ed Carpenter Carpenter Chevrolet 19 78 Agustin Canapino Juncos Hollinger Chevrolet 20 27 Kyle Kirkwood Andretti Honda 21 06 Helio Castroneves Meyer Shank Honda 22 60 Simon Pagenaud Meyer Shank Honda 23 51 Sting Ray Robb Coyne/RWR Honda 24 15 Graham Rahal RLL Honda 25 20 Conor Daly Carpenter Chevrolet 26 21 Rinus VeeKay Carpenter Chevrolet 27 45 Christian Lundgaard RLL Honda 28 30 Jack Harvey RLL Honda IndyCar Browse all IndyCar articles Advert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free via RaceFans - Independent Motorsport Coverage https://www.racefans.net/

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Power ties Andrettis pole position record at Gateway | IndyCar

Will Power won the pole position for the St. Louis 500 at Gateway Motorsports Park, the 67th pole of his IndyCar career – tying Mario Andretti’s record for the most pole positions in the history of major American open-wheel racing. The qualifying format for tomorrow’s 500 kilometre, 260-lap race around Gateway was the fastest two-lap average speed, similar to the format used at the Indianapolis 500. Power had to wait until the very end of qualifying as the number one driver in the championship, but with a friendly cloud cover and wind assisting his run, he set a sensational two-lap average of 182.727 miles per hour (294.071 kilometres per hour). He completed the run in 49.254 seconds. In addition to matching the historic milestone, Power has also gained one bonus point in the IndyCar Series championship battle. He now sits seven points ahead of second-ranked Scott Dixon, and 13 ahead of Marcus Ericsson. Ericsson will share the front row with Power after qualifying second-fastest. In fact, all of the ‘championship seven’ drivers, who entered the weekend separated by just 59 points, qualified in the top seven positions. Penske team mates Josef Newgarden and Scott McLaughlin were third and fourth respectively, followed by Ganassi team mates Alex Palou and Scott Dixon, fifth and sixth. McLaren SP driver Pato O’Ward qualified seventh, just minutes after his team mate Felix Rosenqvist spun at turn two on the first lap of his qualification attempt. Rosenqvist will start 26th and last tomorrow, not ideal as he seeks a strong run to ensure his IndyCar future – be it with McLaren or another organisation. Veteran Takuma Sato qualified eighth, ahead of Romain Grosjean who set the ninth-fastest time. However, Grosjean will serve a nine-place grid penalty for an unapproved engine change before the weekend. This demotes the Franco-Swiss driver to 18th on the grid, and elevates his rookie team mate Devlin DeFrancesco to a career-best ninth place starting position. DeFrancesco will share the fifth row with Alexander Rossi, who completed the top ten in qualifying. Further back, Helio Castroneves – who just signed a contract extension taking him into his age 48 season in 2023 – qualified 18th, ahead of another recent contract signee, Christian Lundgaard. Jimmie Johnson, who hasn’t run at Gateway since 2001 in NASCAR’s second-tier national series, qualified 21st, a disappointing result for the oval specialist. IndyCar fans in the UK and Ireland should prepare for a late start as the green flag waves at 23:30 BST / 17:30 CST (local time). Advert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free St. Louis 500 qualifying results (grid penalties applied) Position Car Driver Team Engine 1 12 Will Power Penske Chevrolet 2 8 Marcus Ericsson Ganassi Honda 3 2 Josef Newgarden Penske Chevrolet 4 3 Scott McLaughlin Penske Chevrolet 5 10 Alex Palou Ganassi Honda 6 9 Scott Dixon Ganassi Honda 7 5 Pato O’Ward McLaren SP Chevrolet 8 51 Takuma Sato Coyne/RWR Honda 9 29 Devlin DeFrancesco Andretti Steinbrenner Honda 10 27 Alexander Rossi Andretti Honda 11 26 Colton Herta Andretti Honda 12 18 David Malukas Coyne/HMD Honda 13 60 Simon Pagenaud Meyer Shank Honda 14 45 Jack Harvey RLL Honda 15 20 Conor Daly Carpenter Chevrolet 16 15 Graham Rahal RLL Honda 17 6 Helio Castroneves Meyer Shank Honda 18 28 Romain Grosjean Andretti Honda 19 30 Christian Lundgaard RLL Honda 20 14 Kyle Kirkwood Foyt Chevrolet 21 48 Jimmie Johnson Ganassi Honda 22 77 Callum Ilott Juncos Hollinger Chevrolet 23 21 Rinus VeeKay Carpenter Chevrolet 24 4 Dalton Kellett Foyt Chevrolet 25 33 Ed Carpenter Carpenter Chevrolet 26 7 Felix Rosenqvist McLaren SP Chevrolet IndyCar Browse all IndyCar articles Advert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free via RaceFans - Independent Motorsport Coverage https://www.racefans.net

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Rosenqvist captures Indy pole as disaster strikes points leader Ericsson | IndyCar

IndyCar’s two Swedish drivers experienced contrasting fortunes in qualifying for tomorrow’s Brickyard Grand Prix at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course. Felix Rosenqvist won his second pole position of the season. But championship leader Marcus Ericsson came to a stop during his out-lap in the first round of qualifying, and will start last for tomorrow’s second race on the Indianpolis grand prix circuit. Rosenqvist had just one chance to put his number McLaren SP Dallara/Chevrolet on pole during the Fast Six session, but he put together a stellar lap on a used set of alternate compound tyres to take pole position with a time of 1’10.227. It’s another strong result for Rosenqvist, whose future in IndyCar beyond 2022 is far from certain. He won the pole by nearly three tenths of a second over potential incoming team mate, Alexander Rossi, who will start on the outside of the front row. Rossi denied his future team a front row lock-out. Championship contenders Pato O’Ward and Will Power will start on the second row of the grid in third and fourth, respectively. Power enters the weekend just eight points behind Ericsson in the championship standings, while O’Ward is 36 points behind. Josef Newgarden was cleared to take part in this weekend’s race after passing a medical examination following Friday morning practice. He will start fifth alongside Christian Lundgaard, who made his IndyCar debut at this race one year ago. Álex Palou, who is at the epicentre of the most extraordinary off-track drama in IndyCar today in which he is the subject of legal action from his own team, was also the only Ganassi driver to advance to the second round of qualifying. The reigning champion will start seventh ahead of Rinus VeeKay (who won on this course last year) and Colton Herta (who did likewise earlier this year). Conor Daly completes the top 10. The big story of the first round of qualifying was Ericsson’s misfortunes. While on an out-lap, the Indianapolis 500 winner was instructed to shut his off car as a precaution when his Ganassi engineers spotted a potential critical failure. This brought out a red flag during group two in first round qualifying. Even if Ericsson had been able to resume running, he would not have been able to advance to round two because he caused a red flag. As a consequence, the championship leader will start 25th and last tomorrow, barring any other potential grid penalties between now and the start of Saturday’s 85-lap race. Also starting well down the order is his team mate Scott Dixon, who could only manage 20th in qualifying, and Romain Grosjean, who starts 21st at the track where he scored his first IndyCar pole position and podium finish one year ago. Advert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free Brickyard Grand Prix qualifying results Position Car Driver Team Engine 1 7 Felix Rosenqvist McLaren SP Chevrolet 2 27 Alexander Rossi Andretti Honda 3 5 Pato O’Ward McLaren SP Chevrolet 4 12 Will Power Penske Chevrolet 5 2 Josef Newgarden Penske Chevrolet 6 30 Christian Lundgaard RLL Honda 7 10 Alex Palou Ganassi Honda 8 21 Rinus VeeKay Carpenter Chevrolet 9 26 Colton Herta Andretti Honda 10 20 Conor Daly Carpenter Chevrolet 11 18 David Malukas Coyne/HMD Honda 12 60 Simon Pagenaud Meyer Shank Honda 13 45 Jack Harvey RLL Honda 14 29 Devlin DeFrancesco Andretti Steinbrenner Honda 15 3 Scott McLaughlin Penske Chevrolet 16 6 Helio Castroneves Meyer Shank Honda 17 15 Graham Rahal RLL Honda 18 51 Takuma Sato Coyne/RWR Honda 19 77 Callum Ilott Juncos Hollinger Chevrolet 20 9 Scott Dixon Ganassi Honda 21 14 Kyle Kirkwood Foyt Chevrolet 22 28 Romain Grosjean Andretti Honda 23 48 Jimmie Johnson Ganassi Honda 24 4 Dalton Kellett Foyt Chevrolet 25 8 Marcus Ericsson Ganassi Honda Advert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free IndyCar Browse all IndyCar articles via RaceFans - Independent Motorsport Coverage https://www.racefans.net