Kush Maini has been stripped of his pole place for the opening function race of 2024 after his automobile failed a technical verify.
His workforce mate, rookie Gabriel Bortoleto, will due to this fact begin Saturday’s foremost race from pole place.
Maini had taken pole place by 0.219 seconds over his workforce mate. Nonetheless the stewards discovered the first-placed Invicta-run automobile didn’t adjust to the technical rules. They dominated the entrance exterior left undertray strake was decrease than the permitted minimal peak.
Invicta mentioned the half which failed inspection had been broken on a kerb. “This didn’t enhance the efficiency of the automobile,” they asserted in an announcement.
Components 2 is utilizing a brand new chassis, the Dallara F2 2024, for the primary time this weekend.
As Maini has been disqualified for a technical infringement, all his occasions from the qualifying session have been deleted.
Bortoleto will due to this fact be joined on the entrance row of the grid for Saturday’s function race by Isack Hadjar. Zane Maloney and Dennis Hauger will share the second row of the grid. Rookies Ritomo Miyata and Zak O’Sullivan will occupy the third row.
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The dash race pole place may even change arms as a result of change within the outcomes of qualifying. Jak Crawford strikes as much as tenth, giving him pole place for the partially-reversed-grid race. The unique pole winner Taylor Barnard will begin second.
Talking earlier than the change was introduced, Bortoleto mentioned he was happy simply to qualify on the entrance row.
“I feel that’s a really optimistic first quali for me in F2, ending P2,” he mentioned. “I couldn’t think about this, to be trustworthy. I’m blissful that Kush’s P1 reveals that the automobile there may be, it reveals the tempo of the workforce.”
The reigning Components 3 champion, who’s a junior driver for Williams, mentioned he’s focusing on a podium end in his first weekend in F2. “I feel we have now the tempo,” he mentioned. “Within the take a look at we had been trying sturdy.
“So I’m going to do my finest tomorrow. If it’s potential to get a podium I shall be blissful, and on Sunday, the identical factor. I’ll do every thing I can to be there to attempt for the win or to get as a lot factors as I can.”
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