F1Brits_90
World Champion
F2 season will begin later today with the points for qualifying. & its a brilliant series always enjoy watching this, ive seen some quality drivers down the years Gasly, Vandoorne, Bird, Leclerc, Russell, Norris, Albon, Tsunoda & Mick Schumacher, & it weirdly starts where it crowned its champion & by a quirk of the calendar. by the time we race at our 2nd venue on the calendar it will have been 8 months (sept 2020 sochi - may 2021 monaco) since F2 have driven on a different circuit to bahrain. after final 4 races of 2020, testing & 1st 3 races of 2021 all in sakhir
Because of cost-cutting measures, the F2 & F3 championships will now adopt a new format. in F2 case instead of the 12 x 2 1 feature & 1 sprint we will have 8 x 3 2 sprint races & 1 feature races. forming the same 24-race season & F2 + F3 will alternate between weekends & will no longer be on the same weekend. The new weekend set up takes a bit of getting use to. so strap in
. the results of the Friday’s Qualifying session will determine the grid for the Feature Race that has been moved to Sunday now & starting grid for 1st race of the season Saturday afternoon (pre F1 qualifying) Sprint Race & the starting grid of 2nd Sprint Race Saturday evening (post F1 qualifying) will be determined by reversing the top 10 finishers of Sprint Race earlier in the afternoon. seems vastly complicated & is going to lead to some interesting moments in Monaco when i predict carnage but not in the way you think on track. so many people will try to be too clever for their own good.
in my opinion what they shouldve done for this new 3 race schedule is for race 1 qualifying sets the grid for Saturday afternoon & feature race. but from round 2 onwards the 1st Saturday sprint race grid should be decided on championship standings & then reverse the top 10 of that result like you normally would for saturday evening sprint race. as it would reduce the likelyhood for funny business & people trying to qualify 7th on the friday
drivers movement from 2020 to 2021
Joining
Oscar Piastri the F3 champion with Prema has Moved up with Prema Into F2,
Lirim Zendeli will join the championship with MP Motorsport.
After finish F3 5th in 2020 Liam Lawson has been promoted by Hitech to F2
Juri Vips after an aborted year in Japan Has joined Hitech
Youngest driver in the paddock, Théo Pourchaire after final 2 rounds in 2020 will join the championship on a full-time basis with ART Grand Prix,
HWA Racelab will enter a new driver line-up in Alessio Deledda and Matteo Nannini
Ralph Boschung has returned to Campos for his 1st full time ride since 2018
European F3 champion & Italian F4 runner up Gianluca Petecof has joined Campos
Left
Mick Schumacher had to Leave because F2 doesnt allow champions to carry on & also he has joined Haas
2020 runner-up Callum Ilott, left the championship to become a test-driver for Ferrari.
3rd in 2020 Yuki Tsunoda has left to join Alpha Tauri
Nikita Mazapin has left to join Haas
Luca Ghiotto left F2 to go to DTM
Sean Gelael has left to join WEC in LMP2
Artem Markelov, who drove for HWA Racelab in 2020,
Pedro Piquet vacated his seat at Charouz & left F2 after a single year
Giuliano Alesi has also left for similar reasons & to compete in Japanese F3
changing teams
Felipe Drugovich, left Carlin to join UNI-Virtuosi.
Dan Ticktum has left Dams to join Carlin
Marcus Armstrong has left ART to join DAMS
Roy Nissany moved from Trident to DAMS
Because of cost-cutting measures, the F2 & F3 championships will now adopt a new format. in F2 case instead of the 12 x 2 1 feature & 1 sprint we will have 8 x 3 2 sprint races & 1 feature races. forming the same 24-race season & F2 + F3 will alternate between weekends & will no longer be on the same weekend. The new weekend set up takes a bit of getting use to. so strap in

in my opinion what they shouldve done for this new 3 race schedule is for race 1 qualifying sets the grid for Saturday afternoon & feature race. but from round 2 onwards the 1st Saturday sprint race grid should be decided on championship standings & then reverse the top 10 of that result like you normally would for saturday evening sprint race. as it would reduce the likelyhood for funny business & people trying to qualify 7th on the friday
drivers movement from 2020 to 2021
Joining
Oscar Piastri the F3 champion with Prema has Moved up with Prema Into F2,
Lirim Zendeli will join the championship with MP Motorsport.
After finish F3 5th in 2020 Liam Lawson has been promoted by Hitech to F2
Juri Vips after an aborted year in Japan Has joined Hitech
Youngest driver in the paddock, Théo Pourchaire after final 2 rounds in 2020 will join the championship on a full-time basis with ART Grand Prix,
HWA Racelab will enter a new driver line-up in Alessio Deledda and Matteo Nannini
Ralph Boschung has returned to Campos for his 1st full time ride since 2018
European F3 champion & Italian F4 runner up Gianluca Petecof has joined Campos
Left
Mick Schumacher had to Leave because F2 doesnt allow champions to carry on & also he has joined Haas
2020 runner-up Callum Ilott, left the championship to become a test-driver for Ferrari.
3rd in 2020 Yuki Tsunoda has left to join Alpha Tauri
Nikita Mazapin has left to join Haas
Luca Ghiotto left F2 to go to DTM
Sean Gelael has left to join WEC in LMP2
Artem Markelov, who drove for HWA Racelab in 2020,
Pedro Piquet vacated his seat at Charouz & left F2 after a single year
Giuliano Alesi has also left for similar reasons & to compete in Japanese F3
changing teams
Felipe Drugovich, left Carlin to join UNI-Virtuosi.
Dan Ticktum has left Dams to join Carlin
Marcus Armstrong has left ART to join DAMS
Roy Nissany moved from Trident to DAMS