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
🔗:
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🔊
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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
🚨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:
.
@PREMA_Team
's
@arthur_leclerc7
says taking the Formula Regional European points lead with a 'crazy' win at Mugello is the "best feeling of my career"
.
@PaulAron16
has been F2's top rookie of 2024 so far, and before the next round he will debut in single-seaters' top level by driving for
@Envision_Racing
in Formula E's
#BerlinEPrix
:
.
@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:
.
@arthur_leclerc7
stunned in the second Formula Regional European race at Mugello, coming from almost a lap down and two pitstops to win in changing weather
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:
"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:
.
@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:
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.
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”:
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
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."
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.
.
@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:
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
🚨 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.
"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:
He's leading the
@FIA_F2
standings at the halfway stage, but Ferrari junior
@callum_ilott
has confirmed that he's yet to have any talks about a potential seat in
#F1
next year
.
@PaulAron16
was overjoyed to finish on the podium in the Bahrain
#F2
feature race, and proud of the “huge leap forward” he and
@HitechGP
made from testing:
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?
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.
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.
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:
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:
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
.
@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_
“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:
• 18th through the Spa speed trap
• 12th on top speed down the Kemmel Straight
• Pole by 0.168s
Even with a "perfect slipstream", Hitech GP and
@PaulAron16
lost on the straights in F2 qualifying. But he took pole by nailing sector two's sweeping turns:
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
EXCLUSIVE: Andreas Jenzer has confirmed to Formula Scout that his Jenzer Motorsport team will bow out of FIA
#F3
following this month's season finale, after 15 years racing in
#F1
's support paddock.
Read the interview here ⬇️
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
:
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:
.
@MercedesAMGF1
junior Andrea Kimi Antonelli took his first car racing win in a stunning three-way photo finish with his
@PREMA_Team
team-mates in the opening F4 UAE race of 2022
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
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
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.
#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
"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:
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:
Teams from the Italian and Spanish Formula 4 championships tested at
@circuitspa
today, and
@Kacper_Sztuka
emerged fastest of the 66 drivers that took part:
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:
Thomas Bearman, younger brother of F1 and F2 racer Ollie, will make his single-seater debut in Euro 4's Red Bull Ring round this week with
@HitechGP
as team-mate to British F4 stars Deagen Fairclough and Reza Seewooruthun.
Read more here:
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?
🇵🇾
@JoshuaDuerksen1
's surprise move up from FREC to Formula 2 for 2024 has gathered a lot of attention, including from Paraguay's president.
Click below for the full story:
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.
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:
"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.
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
Formula E has bought the intellectual property rights of W Series, the defunct FRegional series for female racers.
FE's CEO Jeff Dodds and founder Alejandro Agag spoke exclusively to Formula Scout about buying the IP, and if FE wants its own junior series
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