Steiner annoyed by lack of apology from race director

Within the round-up: Haas workforce principal Guenther Steiner believes the workforce deserved an apology from the race director after final 12 months’s United States Grand Prix.

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Steiner aggravated by lack of apology from race director

Haas workforce principal Guenther Steiner is aggravated he didn’t obtain an apology over a misunderstanding which led to a stewards’ determination going in opposition to his workforce eventually 12 months’s United States Grand Prix.

A penalty given to Fernando Alonso following a evaluate instigated by Haas was overturned when Alpine identified Steiner’s workforce had submitted their attraction after the 30-minute deadline had handed. The stewards got here down on Alpine’s facet and restored Alonso to the factors on the expense of Haas driver Kevin Magnussen.

Guenther Steiner, haas, Albert Park, 2023 — Steiner’s protest was initially upheld – then overturned

The stewards famous Haas had mistakenly been informed by an official in race management – which Steiner later stated was the race director, Niels Wittich – that they had one hour to submit their paperwork. “When the race director says you’ve got an hour you’re taking his phrase for it,” stated Steiner in his forthcoming ebook.

“What actually annoys me is that after we had a gathering about it the race director denied saying what we thought he’d stated and wouldn’t even apologise. And he’s the race director, for fok’s sake! If he’d stated, ‘okay guys, look, I’m afraid I foked up’, we’d have been okay about it.”

Bedrin the shock pacesetter in F3 testing

The FIA Formulation 3 championship began its second in-season check at Imola on Tuesday, and Nikita Bedrin was the shock pacesetter in each classes.

The Jenzer Motorsport driver is presently twenty third within the standings with a finest end of fifteenth, having stepped up from Formulation Regional Center East the place he gained two races initially of this 12 months.

Bedrin topped the morning session at Imola by simply 0.024 seconds over Prema’s Mercedes junior Paul Aron, with Hitech GP’s Alpine junior Gabriele Mini an additional 0.048s behind. Lower than a second coated the highest 18 drivers, and MP Motorsport’s Jonny Edgar was ninth quickest regardless of crashing.

His workforce mate Franco Colapinto was quickest for a lot of the afternoon session. Trident’s factors chief Gabriel Bortoleto stopped with a technical downside however then returned to trace and went quickest. A purple flag interval brought on by his workforce mate Leonardo Fornaroli crashing left little time late on to set flying laps, however Bedrin maximised his alternative to go quicker than Bortoleto by 0.322s.

Pulling leads F1 Academy check

Pulling headed F1 Academy testing at Paul Ricard

Preparations proceed for the primary season of F1 Academy, a Formulation 4 sequence that has been created by Formulation 1 completely for feminine drivers.

After their first pre-season check at Barcelona earlier this month, the 15-car area was again on observe at Paul Ricard on Tuesday. Each are tracks the sequence will race at later this 12 months.

Alpine junior Abbi Pulling – driving for Rodin Carlin – set the quickest lap of the day, and topped two of the 4 classes. A parallel F4 check additionally occurred that was being run by France’s well-known Winfield Racing Faculty.

New Eurocup-3 sequence makes observe debut

Eurocup-3, the brand new continental sequence primarily based round modified Formulation Regional chassis, made its observe debut yesterday at Valencia’s everlasting race observe.

All 5 of the groups signed as much as the sequence have been in motion, with 13 vehicles on observe as testing started. MP’s Sebastian Ogaard topped the morning session by 0.152s over Campos Racing’s Esteban Masson, who led the best way within the afternoon by 0.501s over Palou Motorsport’s Javier Sagrera. Each driver set their finest lap within the second session.

The check additionally marked the observe debut for Palou Motorsport, a workforce that has been launched by 2021 IndyCar champion Alex Palou. They ran two vehicles at Valencia, though are but to announce any drivers for Eurocup-3’s inaugural season.

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