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News and features from junior single-seater racing, tracking the progress of future F1 stars since 2011. Covering F2, F3, F4 and more. news @formulascout .com

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Want to learn more about McLaren's new #F1 junior Dries Van Langendonck and his karting rivals? Follow @KartingScout for weekly results and reports from the international karting scene, as well as interviews and special features introducing the latest racing talents 🏁
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. @McLarenF1 has signed karting superstar Dries Van Langendonck, the reigning world champion on OK Junior karts, to its driver development programme. Read more here:
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Nine years ago, Formula Scout highlighted 10 teenaged talents to watch in karting. Now that George Russell has signed for Mercedes, four of them could be in title-contending F1 cars in 2022 🔗:
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Red Bull junior Liam Lawson has just won on his DTM debut at Monza, and become the series' youngest ever winner in the process aged 19.
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Fans of FIA F3 star and Williams F1 junior @FranColapinto made him trend online in Argentina last week🇦🇷 It's all part of his mission to get a 2024 F2 seat, as he explained on this week's Formula Scout Podcast🔊 Spotify: Google:
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Euroformula race-winner @cembolukbasi is planning to step up to Formula 2 for next year, with hopes of appearing in December's post-season test after driving an old GP2 car in preparation
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🚨BREAKING🚨 The FIA has confirmed that the Formula 3 World Cup will return to the #MacauGP this year, and that the November event will run over two weekends:
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. @MercedesAMGF1 junior @PaulAron16 will make his #F2 debut this weekend by replacing Clement Novalak at Trident, while Roman Stanek has overcome a budget scare to keep his seat in the team's other car:
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As Lewis Hamilton turns 37, we revisit his very first days in a racing car - and find out the impression the future #F1 legend left on the team that guided him through them back in 2001:
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"Up there with one the strongest team-mates I’ve had, if not the strongest" The lead two in the #F2 title race are also team-mates, and @PREMA_Team duo @OscarPiastri and @ShwartzmanRob aren't surprised they've pushed each other to the top:
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Formula E teams are considering starting a support series to extend the use of the current Gen2 chassis once the more powerful Gen3 car is introduced
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. @PaulAron16 's consistency has become an aspirational trait for his #F2 rivals, as he leads the points without having even won a race. It's an unconventional way to have a high-impact rookie season, and he's keeping calm about his championship challenge:
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Aston Martin #F1 driver ambassador and #WSeries racer Jessica Hawkins has just become a race-winner in TCR UK at Oulton Park. She started second on the reversed grid and leapt to the front at the start, surviving a couple of safety car restarts and pressure from Max Hart to win.
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Is @PaulAron16 in contention for the #F2 title in his rookie season? He sits second in the points after three rounds and is pleased his approach has reaped rewards, but is wary “it’s easy to get too comfortable too quickly”:
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Rookie @cembolukbasi has pointed out a need to improve qualifying as key to scoring his first #F2 points as he adapts to the series' Pirelli tyres after success on Euroformula's very different Michelins
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Remember the rain in Sunday's F2 race? @enzofitti doesn't. "Honestly I didn’t even notice it was raining. I had no idea it was. I drove like normal, and for me I didn’t really feel much. "At the end it was a little bit more slippy, but it’s funny I had no idea it was raining."
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. @1gorFraga : winning the #ToyotaRacingSeries title is an "unbelievable" achievement
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We have an announcement: It's @OfficialMPteam week!🥳 Throughout this week there will be news, features and interviews with members of the Dutch team that took @FelipeDrugovich to the @Formula2 title, and could secure a 2022 championship double.
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. @PaulAron16 is Formula 2's top rookie of 2024 so far, and makes his Formula E race debut at this week's #BerlinEPrix after doing a practice session last month. But he has learned a lot from FE already, as he explained to Formula Scout:
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Ferrari's Swedish junior driver @DinoBeganovic4 makes the move up to Formula Regional Europe for his second season of single-seaters with @PREMA_Team , and will begin the year in Asian F3
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IndyCar race-winner and F1 podium finisher Roberto Moreno will compete in this year's Formula Ford Festival, 41 years after he won the event
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🚨 Noda Racing has informed the organisers of Euroformula that it will not be racing at the Red Bull Ring this weekend, despite their driver Juju Noda remaining on the latest edition of the entry list.
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Euroformula has dropped its controversial 'Noda rule', which set a lower minimum weight in this year's technical regulations for cars driven by women:
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Feature: How #IndyCar star Patricio O'Ward became Red Bull’s next #F1 project at the #AustrianGP
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"Slowly I am definitely feeling more like a racing driver." As @JMCorrea__ 's rehabilitation from injury continues while racing in FIA F3, he's reveals his sights are set on a step up to F2 or IndyCar for 2022:
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The historic hat-trick @OscarPiastri could claim Becoming F2 champion after his FR Eurocup and FIA F3 titles would be a huge achievement for Alpine's leading junior, but what does that do for his 2022 plans?
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Robert Shwartzman is no longer part of the Ferrari Driver Academy. The 2019 FIA F3 champion and 2021 F2 runner-up spent last year as a Ferrari junior and as its F1 test driver, and has been linked to holding a new role in the team for this season.
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Marta Garcia was fastest in the first ever official @f1academy track session in day one of testing at Barcelona. A 1m41.308s lap put her 0.406 seconds ahead of Prema team-mate Bianca Bustamante, with Lena Buhler 0.684s back in third and Amna Al Qubaisi 0.956s behind in fourth.
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Alex Dunne is the latest addition to the #MacauGP entry list. The GB3 runner-up completes the Hitech line-up after an impressive F3 test debut at Imola:
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Euroformula has dropped its controversial 'Noda rule', which set a lower minimum weight in this year's technical regulations for cars driven by women:
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The second three-season cycle for @FIAFormula3 begins in 2022, and there are at least 18 teams interested in taking one of the 10 available places:
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2018-19 #MRFChallenge 🏆: Jamie Chadwick Wins: 6 Poles: 0 Podiums: 9 📸: @MRF_Racing
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Driver-engineer relationships are key in racing, and this year Felipe Drugovich reunited with a man who made him a Formula 2 winner and now a champion. In an exclusive interview, Paolo Angilella explains the @OfficialMPteam masterplan behind his success:
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. @PatricioOWard gets an @FIA_F2 call-up for the Red Bull Ring to replace banned Raghunathan:
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. @R_Verschoor1 is still searching for sponsors to continue racing in #F2 , but his performances at Bahrain and Barcelona so far show he more than deserves his place on the grid with @mpmotorsport_
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Our top 10 junior single-seater racers of 2017 revealed in the final part of the Formula Scout Top 50:
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Going for the alternate strategy took @FelipeDrugovich from ninth to third in the F2 feature race in Monaco, and the @VirtuosiRacing driver thinks his late decision on tyres contributed to it being the race of his life
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“Round after round, we’ve been making steps forward” @PaulAron16 credits his @HitechGP team for the work behind his first #F2 pole in a tricky Barcelona qualifying, as the points leader now looks to clinch a maiden win:
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Juju Noda has made headlines by winning on her Danish F4 debut. Here, the Japanese talent explains how the first race weekend went for her and the @NODA_Racing team
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The #RussianGP is where the 2021 FIA Formula 3 title will be decided, and two drivers remain in the fight. Both are Red Bull-backed, are in their sophomore seasons and know each other well as past team-mates. Here's how Dennis Hauger and Jack Doohan stack up so far in FIA #F3 :
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Prema has added its @f1academy driver Bianca Bustamante to its Italian Formula 4 line-up for this weekend's round at Spa-Francorchamps.
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NEWS: Formula 2 points leader @OscarPiastri was at Monza today conducting a private #F1 test with @AlpineF1Team . He has previously driven the Renault R.S.18 car at Bahrain and Silverstone in Alpine Academy-organised tests. 📸: Formula Motorsport Ltd
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Six years ago, Antonio Fuoco was being overshadowed by Charles Leclerc in F2. Now, he’s put Ferrari on pole for its #LeMans24 return. He told Formula Scout last year about his evolving role in the Ferrari family and rapid adaptation to sportscars:
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. @PREMA_Team 's Dennis Hauger has stretched his FIA #F3 points lead with a fourth win of 2021 from pole at Zandvoort
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Mercedes #F1 junior Andrea Kimi Antonelli has taken another ADAC F4 double pole at Hockenheim, topping both qualifying sessions by some margin over @PREMA_Team team-mate Camara
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#1 Juju Noda wins on Danish F4 debut Bigger even than Schumacher's #F2 title, the first race in F4 for the 14-year-old @NODA_Racing prodigy made headlines across the globe after she won from pole
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David Schumacher will replace Ayrton Simmons at Charouz Racing System for this week's FIA Formula 3 test at Barcelona. The 20-year-old has 42 races of FIA F3 experience, and is set to race in the DTM this year. More to follow.
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Reigning Indy Lights champion and IndyCar star Patricio O’Ward has been signed to the Red Bull Junior Team:
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"I like that there is little track time, I like to be a driver who drives off of instinct." Mercedes junior @PaulAron16 believes the often-criticised FIA F3 format played to his strengths in his rookie season:
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Andrea Kimi Antonelli is the @FRegionalAlpine champion! 🏆
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Today marks 24 years since the sad death of Alfonso de Vinuesa, a driver who made it to F3000 and was once one of Spain's most exciting F1 prospects. @woodelliot_ searches for memories of the man, and some answers, in an exploration of his tragic story:
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A first #F2 pole for the points leader @PaulAron16 in a remarkably close Barcelona qualifying session, where just 0.006s cover the top three. Full report and results:
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2020 Toyota Racing Series 🏆: Igor Fraga Wins: 4 Poles: 3 Podiums: 9 📸: @TGR_NZ
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Every past @MercedesAMGF1 Junior Team member has made it to #F1 , and @PREMA_Team 's @PaulAron16 is one of its current proteges. He explains what being a Mercedes junior means, and his plan for @FRegionalAlpine success, in the latest Formula Scout Podcast:
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11 drivers have finished higher in an FIA F3 race in 2023 than @PaulAron16 , but only two have more podiums and none have been more consistently in the top five. Does the Mercedes F1 junior think consistency is enough for the title, or are wins on the way?
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2008 British F3 4th: Sergio Perez (4 wins) 5th: Marcus Ericsson (2 poles) May 29, 2022 #MonacoGP winner: Perez #Indy500 winner: Ericsson
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Palanga 1006km star Ralf Aron has joined younger brother Paul in Mercedes' junior ranks Aron was an F4 champion and won races in F3 for Prema, then became their team manager in FRegional, F3 and LMP2. He will be a Mercedes GT junior, and race in ADAC GT Masters and GTWC Europe.
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"One day you'll thank yourself for not giving up." In 2018, @PatricioOWard spoke to @FormulaScout in depth about his career. Today, the #IndyCar racer was announced as a Red Bull junior.
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Feature: Alonso isn't the only driver chasing success in both IndyCar and sportscars... @woodelliot_ on the story of @PatricioOWard , who is maximising a golden opportunity in @IndyLights
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Is WEC star Doriane Pin switching to single-seaters for 2024? Prema has entered her for an F4 debut at Sepang this weekend, along with two karting frontrunners:
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#IndyCar 's Patricio O'Ward will go into his surprise #F2 debut this weekend "stone cold" on preparation:
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. @BillyMonger wins the @EF_Open Pau Grand Prix with a wet-tyre gamble, claiming the first victory of his racing return:
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Junior single-seater stars honoured at #BRDC Awards Enaam Ahmed - Best BRDC Gold Star driver not in #F1 Marcus Armstrong - Best Commonwealth driver in FIA #F3 Jamie Chadwick - Special Achievement Sophia Floersch - Courage & Sportsmanship
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#F2 and #F3 race on different weekends in 2021, and there's serious talk of drivers spending money to be in both. @woodelliot_ looks at a problem that was already brewing, and an oversight now set to help the super-rich:
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. @FIA_F2 race-winner @Nobu_Mat13 will compete in @EF_Open this weekend with @CarlinRacing , while @CameronDas has switched from Fortec to Motopark.
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Former #F2 racer Mahaveer Raghunathan had made his #F1 test debut with @alfaromeoracing . The Indian completed 71 laps at the Hungaroring on Tuesday, in a private test that was kept under wraps
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The standout Formula 4 drivers around the world in 2020 🌍 Formula Scout was in many F4 paddocks this year, and got to witness some of #F1 's future stars make their mark in single-seaters These are the ones that made the biggest impact on and off-track:
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