June 26, 2025 • 35 mins
In this episode, we break down all the action from the F1 Academy race weekend in Montreal. From Chloe Chambers’ first win of the season to Ella Lloyd’s incredible triple-podium performance, we cover all the key moments across a packed three-race weekend.
We dive into Dorian Pin’s Race 1 victory, Emma Felbermyr’s redemption drive in Race 2, and Maya Weug’s impressive comeback from P15 in Race 3. Plus, we highlight wildcard driver Mathilda Paatz’s promising pace and update the latest championship standings as the title fight heats up heading into Zandvoort.
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We dive into Dorian Pin’s Race 1 victory, Emma Felbermyr’s redemption drive in Race 2, and Maya Weug’s impressive comeback from P15 in Race 3. Plus, we highlight wildcard driver Mathilda Paatz’s promising pace and update the latest championship standings as the title fight heats up heading into Zandvoort.
Watch full episodes (including this one) on YouTube.
Submit your “Why Were You Yelling?” story to be read on the podcast! Send us an email at wayypod.storytime@gmail.com and tell us all about it!
Why Are You Yelling? is a podcast for people who get a little too loud about the things that matter and the things that don’t. Join Anna and Jessica every episode as they talk pop culture, current events, and more.
Follow @WAYYpod on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X / Twitter, and Facebook.
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Speaker 1 (00:34):
And we're live. I'm Anna and I'm Jessica, and this
is why are you yelling? Welcome back to another Flan
Academy race review. Today we are recapping round four Montreal, Canada.
Oh Canada.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
M hm, keep going.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
That's all I got, folks. You're welcome. We were racing caw,
it was beautiful. Thank you. I'm like and moving on.
We were racing at the circuit jill Ville Neuve. And
so before we get into our race recap, we're going
to do a quick refresher on what F one Academy
is and kind of the formatting of it because it's
still relatively new. Uh and I think all of us
(01:15):
could use it.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
There's been a minute since we've raced, and you know,
maybe some of you have showed up here because you
watch the Netflix documentary, or maybe you just happen to
click and you just because you're like, what the hell
are they talking about?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
So here's your refresher. So EF one Academy is Formula
ones All Win series. It was created to help give
female drivers another in a different pathway to kind of
like get to the pinnacle of motorsport basically, so it's
equivalent to like a Formula four and F four series
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to think of like the gb F four categories, the kind
of like more local ones. It's equivalent to that. So
like if you do well Ine Academy, there's a potential
that you could go on to race in like an
F three series or in different motorsports series. But basically
it's a way for female drivers to get experience and
to get exposure to motorsport in a way that they
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may not otherwise be able to. And so there are
eighteen drivers on the grid that are is it seventeen
of them or permanent?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
And the eighteenth is a wild card. See even I
need a refresh share. So all eighteen drivers are backed
by either a Formula One team or one of the
series official partners. So we've got like McLaren and Ferrari
and Mercedes and Red Bull and Red Bull Racing Forward.
But then we also have like the Tommy Hill figure
and we have Charlotte Tilbury, we.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Have American Express and Gatorade showed up and they sponsored
the wild card which we'll get into later, and so
that was like an orange car look pretty cool. But
they're always getting new sponsors like Wella just joined as well.
So yeah, each.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Round, each race weekend features up to two free practice sessions,
one qualifying session, and two races, one on Saturday and
one on Sunday. One of the races is a reverse
grid for the top is it eight finishers, so they
do qualifying top eight finishers, they do a reverse grid order, uh,
and then for the other race it's just the regular
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qualifying order. Everyone drives the same car, it's the Tautus
F four car and they use the same Autotenka engine.
So every round of F one Academy has a wild
card entry and so this is one driver that they
are only there for that one race. Weekend, and typically
it's someone who's more local to whatever track they're racing at,
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or they're at least from the country normally normally not,
or they have been in the last several Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah, they have been in the last several Yeah. This
time when I saw I was like, hmm, now, finer
sides of the pond.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, but yeah, that's kind of the overview of what
F one Academy is in the race format and how
how it all sort of works. So now we can
jump into our kind of picture of what we were
dealing with after Miami and heading into Canada.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yes, so going into the weekend, this is where we
were right after Miami, because it's been a while so
we probably had a refresher on that. So before we
jump into Montreal, let's take a quick look at where
things stood after Miami. So the championship picture, Maya Woog
held onto her lead in the Driver's Championship by just
one point after the only race in Miami. Dorian Pond
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closed the gap in the title fight with a standout drive,
charging from p six to take a thrilling win in
the sole race of round three. Chloe Chambers was set
to start on pole of race two, but weather had
other plans. The race was postponed due to rain, but
the good news it was rescheduled to run in Canada
with the original grid still locked in, which we found
out later. At the time they just said postponed, so
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we didn't know what was going to happen, and then
later on they were like, guess what, We're having three
races in one.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
We found time to squeeze it in between the F
one race.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah, and we're like okay. So the team standings at
the time, so Campos Racing remained in the lead and
managed to build a more comfortable cushion over MP Motorsport,
stretching their advantage from two points to fourteen points. And
so the things to consider going into Canada. So nobody
had been on this track, so rookies, veterans, it was
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everything was equal footing. Nobody had testing on this track,
nobody has driven on this track and other series before,
so nobody had any experience going into Canada, and they
and typically they do have testing sessions of tracks like that,
or they would have an extra practice session. But because
they had the extra race, I'm assuming that's why there
wasn't an extra practice session and they just didn't have
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time to do testing beforehand.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
I wanted to mention real quick. So the with the
the drivers not having any like they had never been
at this track before. I saw a clip online of
it was Dorian. She was sitting with George Russell and
he basically had on a computer pulled up he had
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the onboard from his qualifying lap and he was chalking
her through the whole lap because again she had never
raced on the track before, and he was like explaining
to her, Okay, this is how I took this corner
and this is what I did here, and it looks
like I'm kind of out of control and really slippery,
but he's like, it's on purpose. You got to take
a lot of curb and all this stuff. And I
was like, oh, that was really like cool that it's
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or at least and it could have just it could
have just been for the photo op and to post
a clip of like, look, we're supporting. Oh, it's probably
both that we're supporting the female drivers and stuff like that.
I'm sure, which fine if it is in.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
General, seems to be very supportive, which makes sense because
Toto is married to Susie Wolf and Susie Wolf is
like the director of F one Academy, So I've noticed that,
like because kimy Antonelli was also seen there like hanging
out with Mercedes and Susie during one of the races,
So it makes sense that, like it's George Russell and
Mercedes in general seems to be really supportive.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I'm like, it's nice to see that, yeah, because again,
the point of F one Academy is for these female
drivers to get some experience and to learn more about,
you know, driving these types of cars and driving on
these tracks and like for them, like do you know
how like invaluable that is to be able to sit
down one on one with a current not just a
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current F one driver, but one who's like doing very well. Yeah,
he's won races this year, so it's to be able
to sit down with him one on one and him
talk you through his mindset and like his strategy for
the way he handles a track. Yeah, I mean that's
invaluable experience. Yeah, So I just that was nice to see. Again,
you could the more cynical part is kind of like
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they're just doing for the photo op. But regardless, she's
still got the experience.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Oh yeah. I mean George Russell strikes me as the
type to probably care about something like that because he
seems like the do good type, and we make fun
of him for it a little bit sometimes, but I
think that he probably like I mean, he was probably
asked to do it, but I'm sure he was happy
to do it.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Yeah, but I got that vibe that he was like okay, yeah.
They were like can you do this and He's like yeah,
sure yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
So, like we said, they equal footing, so like it's
the opposite of Miami, where in Miami, all the veteran
drivers that have a year and f one academy already
they had been they had been to Miami already, so
that experience there, but now nobody had any sort of
experience and it was like an equal playing field. So
the only experience they had was like, you know, if
they got to sit down and talk to somebody about
it or the simulator that.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
They have mm hm.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
So. And also going into Canada, Maya and Dorion were
separated by just one point headed into the weekend, and
Chloe Chambers was not far behind. She was only eight
points off of Dorion, who was in second place at
the time. So with Chloe starting race one from poll,
the championship fight between the three was still wide open.
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And now we will jump into our qualifying highlights before
we get to all three races, which was a.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Nuts okay for our qualifying highlights. So my woog is
our championship leader. She had a difficult day with qualifying.
She had some electrical issues, failed to walk a lap,
and practice struggled again in qualifying. She ended up qualifying
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p fifteen. So that kind of set her up for
a tough weekend and added some tension to our title fight.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Yeah, it was rough. She was just she was a
part of the Ferrari curse this weekend. It was so bad.
That's all I could think about watching her. I was like, oh, bless, honey,
is that car? Is that car? Is the Ferrari car?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
I'm sorry you put that Prance and pony on it
and it's It was rough. So Chloe Chambers secured her
third straight poll. She clocked her qualifying lap late in
the session, coming in at one minute thirty eight point
one two five seconds, ultimately beating out teammate Alicia Plamowski
by about three tenths.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Yeah, they called her a megal lap because all weekend
in practice and in qualifying, it was just it was Alicia,
then Chloe, then Chloe, and then it was like and
it was always by like tense, and then all of
a sudden, Chloe puts us a megalalap and we were like, oh,
where did that come? Oh my, I know where it
came from. It came from my girl. That's my girl.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
It's one of those things where I think, I mean,
you see it even with like F one qualifying, where
they kind of will do just enough and certain parts
of qualifying to get through to the next round or
they'll do just but then when the pressure's really on
and it really matters, they just pull out craziness where
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they like are put like it's like give it every
single thing you've got, take every single corner at its
absolute limit, and then you get a megal lap.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I guess a megal lab I called it, and I
was like, there we go.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
So after qualifying it was a Campos Racing front row lockout,
so Palmoski was in P two after weekly holding provisional poll.
Earlier in the session during Pond racing for Mercedes qualified
P three. Roughly four tenths behind in the Campo's duo,
and early paysetters like Alba Larsen, Leah Block, and Ella
Lloyd briefly top time before being bumped down the order.
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As conditions improved. Ell Lloyd took p. Four, followed by
teen A Houseman in P. Five and Emma Felbermeyer in P. Six.
Rocky Nina Gateman, good job, Oh my god, stars tens
across the word. Ricky Nina Gademan put in a strong
showing to claim P. Seven. I almost said P four.
(11:28):
I don't know where that came.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
From because you just said P four for Lloyd's and
it's like it's right above it.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Yeah, I said P seven seven seven. Glory John qualified
P eight, which gave her reverse grid poll for Race two.
Leah Block and Rafaela Ferrera completed the top ten. This
qualifying session set the starting order for race three and
also determined the reverse grid lineup for race two. The
Race one grid had already been decided using the Race
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two starting order that was originally planned for Miami before,
so the first race, Race one was then make a
brace from Miami and then our race two and three
this weekend are normal planned race. It's for Montreal.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah cool, nice, So we can hop into our race
one recap and again this is the Miami makeup race,
so this was supposed to be the main race in
Miami that got washed out, and so that is the
grid order that it used. So to start things off,
the winner was Dorion Pond, followed by Ella Lloyd and
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Nina Gateman our biggest mover. So we kind of like
to highlight who like stood out the most during that race,
and I think the easiest way to do that for
the most part is who gained the most places. So
our biggest mover was Nina Gateman. She climbed from thirteenth
to fourth, and afterm Pelbemeier's disqualification, Gabon was bumped up
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to third in the final classification, so she was on
the podium, but not like you wouldn't have seen her
on the podium, but post race that's what happened. So
the things that happened during this race, Drian Pond kept
it clean and a chaotic start. She took the lead
on lap two after contact between Chloe Chambers and Alisha Palmowski.
Alisha pretty much locked up and then sort of slid
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into Chloe, which was devastating to me because I'm a
Chloe Chambers girl. I think she is so talented and
she's just cool. She's like an Oscar Piastre. He cools
a cucumber and just locks it in and goes and
so was very excited for her this weekend, and then
I was devastated because, I mean her and her teammate,
I mean, there are two Red Bull drivers. You know,
it's red, Like Alisha Palmowski is like the Red Bull driver,
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Chloe Chambers is the Red Bull Ford driver, and they
were just at at it and so which is kind
of on red for Red Bull teammates. So you know,
Alicia she is a rookie. I think, you know, she
just it is what it is. She slid into Chloe
and knocked her out, ended up kind of ripping off
the front wing a bit, and then Chloe had she
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was forced to pit, and then I mean her race
was kind of I mean, she she finished the races.
She ended up having like fast lap at times as well,
but it was not great because of that incident. Dorian
pond Endead of taking the lead of the race, and
she maintained it through the end, even with the safety
car later on by another incident, and it was her
third win of the season and she is now Because
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of race one, she retook the championship lead by twenty
four points, so she took it from and which was
horrible for Maya because Mimas had a horrible weekend, so
she her practice was bad, her qualifying was bad.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
From a one point difference to a twenty four point
n and just one race.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
So Ella Lloyd finished P two having climbed through the
field and held off challengers under pressure. Emma, sorry, Ella
Lloyd was just there the whole weekend. She was just
at the top the whole weekend. I'm like, what is
McLaren driver doing up here?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Who are you? Ma'am?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
I've heard of you and I've seen you, but you
are up here fighting and I was like, okay, ma'am.
Moving on to Mma Felbermeyer. She crossed the line in
P three, but she was later just qualified for being underweight,
which promoted Nina Gateman to the final podium position. Nina
Gateman therefore scored her best F one Academy finished to date.
In P three. Alicia Palmowski recovered to P eight despite
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a penalty stemming from her collision in early laps with
Chloe Chambers. Chloe Chambers rebounded from damage to her front
wing to finish in P ten or to finish P seven,
So she did finish in the point still, but she
was on Paul it would have been her race. So
but that's okay, Chloe, It's okay. Rafael Ferrara and Alba
Larsen tangled in midfield battles, mixing up the order behind them.
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Maya Woog, the championship leader at the time going into
the weekend, continued to battle mechanical gremlins and retired, deepening
her title challenged woes. So I mean race one was
just not it.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Not the gremlins and the woes.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Oh, we will move on to our race to recap,
which is the reverse grid race, and again that is
the top eight. It is reversed, so if you qualified eighth,
you are now in pole position and so on until
eighth and then after that it's how you just qualified
in general. So our winner was Emma felber Meyer and
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then followed by Ella Lloyd and Nina Gateman, and so
our biggest mover this race was Alba Larson, who we've
talked about before and Maya Woog each gained six positions
in the race, tying for the most spots gained for
their starting position. So I Ferrari seemed to have fixed
the car. This race. Things went a little bit better,
so Maya was able to you know, when the car works,
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she was good and yeah, so some things that happened
in this race. Emma felber Meyer bounced back from her
Race one disqualification in the best possible way, taking her
first F one Academy win with a dramatic last lap
overtake that was insane. That was super dramatic. It's like
three of them. It's like it's literally Nina Gateman was
first on the last lap and then it was Emma
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and Ella and it was just because these cars they're
so close. Like I'm telling you, like in Formula one
we get to just kind of watch. We're lucky if
we get to watch two people battle. Imagine watching in three,
which is what we got. We did get that a
little bit with Montreal, between the McLaren drivers and almost
Kimi into knowing, but these they're like on each other's ass.
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You're just like, oh my god, this is crazy because
they stayed pretty close together, so that was nuts. So
starting from P three on the reverse grid, she moved
m Felbermeyer moved past Ella Lloyd early and spent most
of the race chasing down Nina Gateman, who had taken
the lead on lap one after getting ahead of the
pulsitter Chloe Chong. A late race collision between teammates Nicole
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Harda and Eva an Agnostiatis brought out a safety car
with just a few laps to go. When the race
restarted for a one lap sprint to the finish, Felbermeyer
made her move into turn nine and snatched the lead.
Lloyd followed her through, giving Roden Motorsport a one to
two finish. Nina Gateman held on to P three, hearing
her second podium of the weekend and completing an all
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rookie top three. So that's cool fun. Dorian Pond finished
P four, just missing out on the podium, while Alicia
Palmowski and Tina Hausman came home in P five and
P six respectively. Leah Block rounded out the points in
P eight after a close battle in the closing stages.
Chloe Chambers spun on lap five and recovered to finish
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p fourteen, unable to make up ground after the incident,
which I was once again devastated. I was like, no, no,
why why that was me? So back to the girls.
Felbermeyer described the win as a moment of redemption after
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losing out in race one due to being underweight in
post race checks, which I think that's always devastating. Like
I still think of SPA last year with George Russell,
which I still think was an amazing drive. I seriously
like everybody gives George Russell shit, but that was extremely impressive,
and it sucked that he was disqualified because of being underweight,
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and that again that's also because there is no like
lap after so normally, you know, you finish the race
and you kind of have like that lap afterwards, and.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
It's a cool down lass and you get to pick
up all the little marbles and kebbles of the rubber
that's come off the tires, and they'll stick to your
tires to help make up some of the weight because
obviously all that rubber has fallen off your tires. So
the drivers will go and like drive into that to
pick it up to help kind of make the car
way more.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Yeah, and get to do that.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Yeah, for whatever reason, I think it's.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
It will spa as long as fuck it's in a
very long track. Yeah, so they were like, nah, come in,
which I don't know that they ever do a cool
down lap, Like, I'm not familiar with that, so I
guess we shall see. But so, yeah, so she was
really happy because she was obviously disappointed when she was
just qualified for race one and then she won race too.
So if there's any way to do it, do it
that way.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Yeah, And coming in underweight is especially frustrating because it's
not like it's really the river's fault exactly. Most of
the times, it's the fault of the team for not
properly calculating, yeah, and knowing what they need to do
to make sure they make the weight, because trust me,
they make these very precise calculations based on like the
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driver's weight and how much water they anticipate them losing
during the race, and how the tires are gonna wear,
and how much fuel they're gonna put in the car,
like all of that factors in and they calculate all
of that for the car to be like as light
as possible toward the end of the race. While still
making weight. So anytime somebody doesn't make weight, it's almost
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it's not the divers fault. Yeah, which sucks exactly.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Okay, so we will move on to our last race
of the weekend. It was race three, which is like
the actual grid that was set by or set in qualifying.
Our winners were. Our winner was Chloe Chambers, followed by
Ella Lloyd and Dorian Pond.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I was so excited Chloe got her redemption.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Yes she did. So. Our biggest mover was Maya Wood.
She went from fifteenth to six, gaining nine positions, a
very impressive recovery after the car troubles she faced throughout
the entire weekend. I think it's just a testament to
it was the car, clearly, not Maya. Let me tell
you something. We while that race was going on, we
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were in here putting all this up, and we had
we were listening on the iPad and we had been
watching or whatever, and I knew that we Chloe had
already won. We were we were excited or whatever, and
all of a sudden, I hear our national anthem, So
we're American And if you didn't know, and I'm like,
oh my god, it's our anthem. They never have our anthem.
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We never heard, so that was very exciting. Yeah, so
some things that happened in this race. Chloe Chambers took
her first win of the season, leading from pole and
handling multiple safety car restarts to seal a dominant victory.
Ella Lloyd finished P two for this third straight, with
Dorion Pond climbing back to P three to retain the
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championship lead. Early contact shuffled the order a bit, so
Palmowski kind of spun and she kind of had to
regain her footing and Dorion Pond briefly dropped back to
fifth before she you know, finishes third. There were three
safety cars this race, including incidents involving the wild car
driver pot Pats, Leah Block, Ferrera, Felbermier, and Courtney Crone.
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So there was a lie. I think this was the
race where there were five DNFs. It was. It was rough, y'all.
It was crazy. So Maya Wog charged from p. Fifteen
to P six, salvaging key points after a tough weekend.
Dorrian Pond now leads with one hundred and nine points,
Chambers sit second with eighty nine, and Maya Wog sits
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third with seventy two, so there's a bit of a gap,
but we are only they think this was technically the
halfway mark, so we still have plenty of racing to go.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
That was crazy.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
That was actually I was like, oh my god, there's
I was like one second direct and then I was like, okay,
it's over.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
What.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
I was like, wait, what's happening over here?
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Another one? There's more.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
I think everybody was just like I don't. It just
felt charged. Everyone's like, you know what we're going for
and fuck it.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
They were a little too crazy trying to take them
them curbs at much. Oh yeah, okay, So now we
are going to do our wild card driver highlight. So
we mentioned we I mentioned earlier. Every round we get
a wildcard entry, so it's a driver that is there
only for that one race weekend. So this season high
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Tech TGR joined F one Academy, so they're the team
and they have two full time drivers and then their
third seat is the wildcard entry, so every time there's
a wild card entry, they fill that seat for that team.
This weekend's wild card entry was Matilda Pats. She's a
German driver who began a career in European and world
level krding. She made her jump two single seaters by
competing in the French F four Championship, and this season
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she's in racing in the F four either says or
CEZ Championship. Either one of those is surely right. And
she earned her first putting at the season with a
second place finish at the Red Bull Ring. So this
round of e F one Academy in Canada, Gatorade sponsored
the wildcard entry as part of their new partnership with
e F one Academy, and so she drove the number
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eight Gatorade car run by high Tech tch R. She
said she's beyond excited to be the wild card driver
and shared how growing up she was inspired by the
passion and prior driver share for their teams.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Yeah, and something to note too another reason, like, I
think it's like three or four of the current rookies
on the grid were wild cards last season, so like
Alisha Pelmouski, Nina Gaideman, Ella Lloyd. And so if you
do get picked to be a wildcard driver on F
one Academy, if you perform well, there's a pretty big
(24:55):
chance you'll get picked to be a part of F
one Academy.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
That's a pretty high percentage chance that if you're a
wild card driver that you I'm.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Pretty sure I missed one too, Like, I'm pretty sure
it was like four or five of the road guys
from the wild card entry.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
That's well over fifty percent of the wildcard entries from
last year got full time seats this year in F
what Academy, which is nuts. So yeah, I mean, if
you're picked, I mean make most of your moment, Like,
get in there, girl, do your thing. So, looking at
Mattilda Patsa's weekend in Canada, in free practice, she was sixteenth.
In qualifying, she came p. Fourteen. She didn't finish Race one,
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but up until that point she had shown the strongest
pace of any wildcard driver this season, and after climbing
up to tenth and battling with Alicia Palmowski and Corney Crone,
she became a victim of the Wall of Champions on
lap ten, which brought her race to an early end.
So in race two she finished eleventh, getting three places
and in race three. In race three, in race three,
(25:55):
she spent off at turn seven early in the opening lap,
triggering a safety car. Oh so she was one.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Of our Yes, now, it was insane in race one
because typically the wild car driver does tend to stay
in the back, but she was fighting with Elisha Palmouski
and Alisha Palmouski, as we said earlier, as the red
Bull driver. She is a rookie this year. She was
a wild car driver last year. But she's been a
really strong contender, like for the championship. I mean, even
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though I mean she's not in the top three at
the moment, but she's I mean, she's battling the top drivers.
And so to see her battling Alicia was I was,
it was very impressive, and I mean, you know, she's
still very very new. Everybody was pretty impressed on the
broadcast as well. So I wouldn't I wouldn't be surprised
if we saw her as a rookie next year, just
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because I mean that in itself was really impressive. And
that's what I think people have to remember. This is
an academy. This is not it is not Formula three
and it's not Formula two. Everybody's here to like learn,
So I think you might look at it and say, oh, well,
she wrecked well, but she was ten battling like some
pretty good drivers up until that point, and then you
(27:06):
can look at someone like that and go, what can
we teach her from there? And I think that's really
the mindset you kind of have to adopt when you
watch this, is like, Wow, that's somebody I might be
able to like nurture and teach.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
It's you're much more focusing on the positives and looking
for the strengths as opposed to only focusing on the weaknesses.
You're actually looking for people because again, like you said,
it's to the purpose of it is to develop drivers,
and so you're you're like, Okay, what can we work with.
Is this a raw lump of clay we can shape
and mold like or is this somebody who we just
(27:38):
won't be able to teach anything? And so you're much
more looking for you know, it's one of those cases
where I mean we've talked about like an F one
red Bull, they are looking for a particular type of
driver who's going to push it to the limit, and
it would much rather you send it and go for
it and crash out as opposed to being like scared
(27:59):
and not going for it. And you know, not every
team is like that not, but they also have a
lot of money right to replace and Facebook cars, So
I think I think that with E F one Academy,
I think either it's a little more of that sort
of mindset of like we want to see you push
it and go for it and really try and if
you do crash out or you know, have an incident,
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then you know that's not the end.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Of the world now, And especially where that particular incident was.
I mean, it's called the Wall of Champions for a reason. Champion,
Champion money drivers have crashed in the wall, all within
the same races where it got its name from back
in the day before any of us were even born.
So I would not be shocked if we saw her
in F one Academy next year. So yeah, that was
really it was interesting. The car was really cool. I
(28:44):
was like, that's a but I also love orange. But anyway,
we can move on to our standings update. Our top
five drivers are. We have our first driver is Dorian
Pond but one hundred and nine points, followed by Chloe
Chambers at eighty nine points, Maya Woog at seventy two points,
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Ella Lloyd at sixty seven points, and then Alisha Palmowski
at fifty three points. Our team standings have changed. Prima
Racing now leads with one hundred and seventy eight points,
followed by Campost Racing at one hundred and fifty one points,
then MP Motorsports at one hundred and twenty two points.
So Prima was like, see y'all later.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Okay, Now we're going to do our driver spotlights. So
every time we recap and review an F one Academy race,
we not only spotlight and talk about the wald car driver,
but we also pick one of the permanent full time
drivers to kind of go a little more in depth
on them. So this week our spotlight is on Ella Lloyd,
who's racing under Roaded Motorsport and is sponsored by McLaren so.
(29:51):
She finished on the podium at all three races in Montreal,
securing second place each time. That was a nuts, always
a bridesmaid, but I'm like.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Second still really like that's crazy, very consistus.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
She's missus consistent. That's right.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Now.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
A little background information about miss Ella Lloyd. She went
for being a decorated show jumper and a gold medalist
at the Welsh Skiing Championship to scoring points in fifteen
of twenty five races during her car racing debut in
the twenty twenty two Janetta Junior Championship. That's actually nuts.
That's a lot.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
That is a lot to literally go from skiing to
going I'm gonna race cars? What the hell?
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Adrenaline junkie? I guess.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
I guess good on her.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
So, despite never karting competitively, she progressed quickly and found
immediate susset immediate success in the Janeta GT Championship. She
earned ten wins, ten pole positions and seven additional podiums
on her way to becoming vice champion in the pro class.
In twenty twenty four, she stepped into single seaters and
competed in British F four, where she scored four podiums
(30:52):
and finished eleventh in the overall standings. She made her
EF one Academy debut as the wildcard entry in Singapore,
where she finished in the point twice with P nine
and P seven, which were impressive results on her first
outing at the Marina Bay Street Circuit. That's actually really nuts.
She seems to have gotten success quickly.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Yeah, like the same way how the Larsen had gotten
a lot of success quickly, but like this is pretty
and she went say.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Skiing, never karting, and in two seasons was like, I'm
gonna just go in to F four and start getting
some podiums.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
I hate that. I love it for her. Yeah, I'm
just like I can't even pick up a new hobby
and when I do it, I'm not immediately good at it.
I'm like peace out.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
So in twenty twenty five, she was inducted into the
McLaren Driver Development Program and also took part in Formula
EA's first ever women's test racing with the Welsh Dragon
on her helmet. Lloyd now returns to British F four
while also competing in F one Academy with Roden Motorsport.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
She was really impressive to me, I mean, and she
this isn't her first podium. I think she actually won
earlier this season. It was just that is consistent, stint,
Like that's what you want, is somebody who's like, if
they're not winning, you still want them up there like that.
I don't know. She just was like every two seconds,
I'm like there she is again, there she is again.
(32:13):
So now looking ahead, we've got a bit of a
break before round five. Of the F one Academy season,
which returns at Zandfort on August twenty ninth. So we
have a we have a while, so the championship watch
So Jrian Pond now leads the Driver's Championship with a
solid twenty point gap over Chloe Chambers, but there's still
(32:33):
plenty of racing left and Chloe Maya or even Ella
Lloyd could still mount a challenge. Personally, I'm backing Chloe Chambers.
That's just I still think I think she's just watch out.
I mean, it's just nuts because you see like a
gap like that, you go, oh, and you just because
what the first race, it's the point you like cut
(32:56):
in half, the reverse grid race, and then the main
race is kind of help Formula one is it's twenty
five points. I'm like, there's still plenty. They got two
race races a weekend. Uh, Chloe, let's go girl. All
it takes is one race weekend.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
As we saw, the championship went from a one point
difference between first and second and the driver's standings now
there's a twenty four point difference in one race weekend.
So the standings could change very quickly exactly.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
I mean Maya went from leading to being third and
I was just based on like car issues, which is
no fault of her own. So I mean it was
it can change very quickly. But let us know who
you guys are putting your money on. Who are you
rooting for for the championship? Who do you see getting
that bag? But anyway, so the last thing we can
talk about for like just one second is if you
not already aware F one the Academy. It is out now.
(33:47):
It has been out since the end of May. It
we will be doing a review on it. We'll have
time to do it before they return.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
We got two months.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Surely I've finished it. I think you have just a
few episodes left. So if you're not aware what it is,
it is basically a documentary about the twenty twenty four
season of F one Academy, where you get to delve
into what their lives are like driving these cars, you know,
really seeing what they deal with, what the environment's like.
I would say it is nothing like Drive to Survive.
(34:17):
Obviously there are cars there. I just don't think the
storytelling devices are the same. I think if you're into
a more documentary style series you would enjoy this. There's
some drama, but it's not nearly it's just not the
same I would just Drive to Survive sort of gives
a little bit more reality TV at times, but it's
(34:38):
still filmed in a very pleasant, cinematic type way that's
like a documentary, and it does document things. I'm just
f one. The Academy is a lot more documentary style
to me. So if you enjoy that, I think you'd
like it. It's a really cool way to kind of
delve into the world, get to know it and become
familiar with some of the drivers. A lot of the
drivers that were there have moved on. But yeah, so
(35:01):
that's out on Netflix. Yes, it is out on Netflix.
So guess that wraps it up though. Yes, yeah, we
will talk at you in August after Zandport. Bye.
Let's talk about Hitler.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
That'll make sense later.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
I'm immaculately fani.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I don't know what to do.
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I swear I'm not stupid.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Take it or leave that. Sometimes you just want to
leave it.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
So I got to bar my mom's underwear and bar
wing or underwear. You just yeah, Lisa lights the jar
jar beats.
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I'm not gonna edit it out.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
No, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I guess I got.
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It's pretty great suck.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Why are you saying with a question mark clap?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Bitch?
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All right?
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Three?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Two? What? Actually?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
And we're live. I'm Anna and I'm Jessica, and this
is why are you yelling? Welcome back to another Flan
Academy race review. Today we are recapping round four Montreal, Canada.
Oh Canada.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
M hm, keep going.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
That's all I got, folks. You're welcome. We were racing caw,
it was beautiful. Thank you. I'm like and moving on.
We were racing at the circuit jill Ville Neuve. And
so before we get into our race recap, we're going
to do a quick refresher on what F one Academy
is and kind of the formatting of it because it's
still relatively new. Uh and I think all of us
(01:15):
could use it.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
There's been a minute since we've raced, and you know,
maybe some of you have showed up here because you
watch the Netflix documentary, or maybe you just happen to
click and you just because you're like, what the hell
are they talking about?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
So here's your refresher. So EF one Academy is Formula
ones All Win series. It was created to help give
female drivers another in a different pathway to kind of
like get to the pinnacle of motorsport basically, so it's
equivalent to like a Formula four and F four series
(01:51):
to think of like the gb F four categories, the kind
of like more local ones. It's equivalent to that. So
like if you do well Ine Academy, there's a potential
that you could go on to race in like an
F three series or in different motorsports series. But basically
it's a way for female drivers to get experience and
to get exposure to motorsport in a way that they
(02:16):
may not otherwise be able to. And so there are
eighteen drivers on the grid that are is it seventeen
of them or permanent?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
And the eighteenth is a wild card. See even I
need a refresh share. So all eighteen drivers are backed
by either a Formula One team or one of the
series official partners. So we've got like McLaren and Ferrari
and Mercedes and Red Bull and Red Bull Racing Forward.
But then we also have like the Tommy Hill figure
and we have Charlotte Tilbury, we.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Have American Express and Gatorade showed up and they sponsored
the wild card which we'll get into later, and so
that was like an orange car look pretty cool. But
they're always getting new sponsors like Wella just joined as well.
So yeah, each.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Round, each race weekend features up to two free practice sessions,
one qualifying session, and two races, one on Saturday and
one on Sunday. One of the races is a reverse
grid for the top is it eight finishers, so they
do qualifying top eight finishers, they do a reverse grid order, uh,
and then for the other race it's just the regular
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qualifying order. Everyone drives the same car, it's the Tautus
F four car and they use the same Autotenka engine.
So every round of F one Academy has a wild
card entry and so this is one driver that they
are only there for that one race. Weekend, and typically
it's someone who's more local to whatever track they're racing at,
(03:42):
or they're at least from the country normally normally not,
or they have been in the last several Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah, they have been in the last several Yeah. This
time when I saw I was like, hmm, now, finer
sides of the pond.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, but yeah, that's kind of the overview of what
F one Academy is in the race format and how
how it all sort of works. So now we can
jump into our kind of picture of what we were
dealing with after Miami and heading into Canada.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yes, so going into the weekend, this is where we
were right after Miami, because it's been a while so
we probably had a refresher on that. So before we
jump into Montreal, let's take a quick look at where
things stood after Miami. So the championship picture, Maya Woog
held onto her lead in the Driver's Championship by just
one point after the only race in Miami. Dorian Pond
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closed the gap in the title fight with a standout drive,
charging from p six to take a thrilling win in
the sole race of round three. Chloe Chambers was set
to start on pole of race two, but weather had
other plans. The race was postponed due to rain, but
the good news it was rescheduled to run in Canada
with the original grid still locked in, which we found
out later. At the time they just said postponed, so
(04:55):
we didn't know what was going to happen, and then
later on they were like, guess what, We're having three
races in one.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
We found time to squeeze it in between the F
one race.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah, and we're like okay. So the team standings at
the time, so Campos Racing remained in the lead and
managed to build a more comfortable cushion over MP Motorsport,
stretching their advantage from two points to fourteen points. And
so the things to consider going into Canada. So nobody
had been on this track, so rookies, veterans, it was
(05:24):
everything was equal footing. Nobody had testing on this track,
nobody has driven on this track and other series before,
so nobody had any experience going into Canada, and they
and typically they do have testing sessions of tracks like that,
or they would have an extra practice session. But because
they had the extra race, I'm assuming that's why there
wasn't an extra practice session and they just didn't have
(05:46):
time to do testing beforehand.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
I wanted to mention real quick. So the with the
the drivers not having any like they had never been
at this track before. I saw a clip online of
it was Dorian. She was sitting with George Russell and
he basically had on a computer pulled up he had
(06:08):
the onboard from his qualifying lap and he was chalking
her through the whole lap because again she had never
raced on the track before, and he was like explaining
to her, Okay, this is how I took this corner
and this is what I did here, and it looks
like I'm kind of out of control and really slippery,
but he's like, it's on purpose. You got to take
a lot of curb and all this stuff. And I
was like, oh, that was really like cool that it's
(06:30):
or at least and it could have just it could
have just been for the photo op and to post
a clip of like, look, we're supporting. Oh, it's probably
both that we're supporting the female drivers and stuff like that.
I'm sure, which fine if it is in.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
General, seems to be very supportive, which makes sense because
Toto is married to Susie Wolf and Susie Wolf is
like the director of F one Academy, So I've noticed that,
like because kimy Antonelli was also seen there like hanging
out with Mercedes and Susie during one of the races,
So it makes sense that, like it's George Russell and
Mercedes in general seems to be really supportive.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I'm like, it's nice to see that, yeah, because again,
the point of F one Academy is for these female
drivers to get some experience and to learn more about,
you know, driving these types of cars and driving on
these tracks and like for them, like do you know
how like invaluable that is to be able to sit
down one on one with a current not just a
(07:22):
current F one driver, but one who's like doing very well. Yeah,
he's won races this year, so it's to be able
to sit down with him one on one and him
talk you through his mindset and like his strategy for
the way he handles a track. Yeah, I mean that's
invaluable experience. Yeah, So I just that was nice to see. Again,
you could the more cynical part is kind of like
(07:43):
they're just doing for the photo op. But regardless, she's
still got the experience.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Oh yeah. I mean George Russell strikes me as the
type to probably care about something like that because he
seems like the do good type, and we make fun
of him for it a little bit sometimes, but I
think that he probably like I mean, he was probably
asked to do it, but I'm sure he was happy
to do it.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Yeah, but I got that vibe that he was like okay, yeah.
They were like can you do this and He's like yeah,
sure yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
So, like we said, they equal footing, so like it's
the opposite of Miami, where in Miami, all the veteran
drivers that have a year and f one academy already
they had been they had been to Miami already, so
that experience there, but now nobody had any sort of
experience and it was like an equal playing field. So
the only experience they had was like, you know, if
they got to sit down and talk to somebody about
it or the simulator that.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
They have mm hm.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
So. And also going into Canada, Maya and Dorion were
separated by just one point headed into the weekend, and
Chloe Chambers was not far behind. She was only eight
points off of Dorion, who was in second place at
the time. So with Chloe starting race one from poll,
the championship fight between the three was still wide open.
(08:52):
And now we will jump into our qualifying highlights before
we get to all three races, which was a.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Nuts okay for our qualifying highlights. So my woog is
our championship leader. She had a difficult day with qualifying.
She had some electrical issues, failed to walk a lap,
and practice struggled again in qualifying. She ended up qualifying
(09:17):
p fifteen. So that kind of set her up for
a tough weekend and added some tension to our title fight.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Yeah, it was rough. She was just she was a
part of the Ferrari curse this weekend. It was so bad.
That's all I could think about watching her. I was like, oh, bless, honey,
is that car? Is that car? Is the Ferrari car?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
I'm sorry you put that Prance and pony on it
and it's It was rough. So Chloe Chambers secured her
third straight poll. She clocked her qualifying lap late in
the session, coming in at one minute thirty eight point
one two five seconds, ultimately beating out teammate Alicia Plamowski
by about three tenths.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Yeah, they called her a megal lap because all weekend
in practice and in qualifying, it was just it was Alicia,
then Chloe, then Chloe, and then it was like and
it was always by like tense, and then all of
a sudden, Chloe puts us a megalalap and we were like, oh,
where did that come? Oh my, I know where it
came from. It came from my girl. That's my girl.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
It's one of those things where I think, I mean,
you see it even with like F one qualifying, where
they kind of will do just enough and certain parts
of qualifying to get through to the next round or
they'll do just but then when the pressure's really on
and it really matters, they just pull out craziness where
(10:33):
they like are put like it's like give it every
single thing you've got, take every single corner at its
absolute limit, and then you get a megal lap.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I guess a megal lab I called it, and I
was like, there we go.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
So after qualifying it was a Campos Racing front row lockout,
so Palmoski was in P two after weekly holding provisional poll.
Earlier in the session during Pond racing for Mercedes qualified
P three. Roughly four tenths behind in the Campo's duo,
and early paysetters like Alba Larsen, Leah Block, and Ella
Lloyd briefly top time before being bumped down the order.
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As conditions improved. Ell Lloyd took p. Four, followed by
teen A Houseman in P. Five and Emma Felbermeyer in P. Six.
Rocky Nina Gateman, good job, Oh my god, stars tens
across the word. Ricky Nina Gademan put in a strong
showing to claim P. Seven. I almost said P four.
(11:28):
I don't know where that came.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
From because you just said P four for Lloyd's and
it's like it's right above it.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Yeah, I said P seven seven seven. Glory John qualified
P eight, which gave her reverse grid poll for Race two.
Leah Block and Rafaela Ferrera completed the top ten. This
qualifying session set the starting order for race three and
also determined the reverse grid lineup for race two. The
Race one grid had already been decided using the Race
(11:54):
two starting order that was originally planned for Miami before,
so the first race, Race one was then make a
brace from Miami and then our race two and three
this weekend are normal planned race. It's for Montreal.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah cool, nice, So we can hop into our race
one recap and again this is the Miami makeup race,
so this was supposed to be the main race in
Miami that got washed out, and so that is the
grid order that it used. So to start things off,
the winner was Dorion Pond, followed by Ella Lloyd and
(12:28):
Nina Gateman our biggest mover. So we kind of like
to highlight who like stood out the most during that race,
and I think the easiest way to do that for
the most part is who gained the most places. So
our biggest mover was Nina Gateman. She climbed from thirteenth
to fourth, and afterm Pelbemeier's disqualification, Gabon was bumped up
(12:49):
to third in the final classification, so she was on
the podium, but not like you wouldn't have seen her
on the podium, but post race that's what happened. So
the things that happened during this race, Drian Pond kept
it clean and a chaotic start. She took the lead
on lap two after contact between Chloe Chambers and Alisha Palmowski.
Alisha pretty much locked up and then sort of slid
(13:11):
into Chloe, which was devastating to me because I'm a
Chloe Chambers girl. I think she is so talented and
she's just cool. She's like an Oscar Piastre. He cools
a cucumber and just locks it in and goes and
so was very excited for her this weekend, and then
I was devastated because, I mean her and her teammate,
I mean, there are two Red Bull drivers. You know,
it's red, Like Alisha Palmowski is like the Red Bull driver,
(13:34):
Chloe Chambers is the Red Bull Ford driver, and they
were just at at it and so which is kind
of on red for Red Bull teammates. So you know,
Alicia she is a rookie. I think, you know, she
just it is what it is. She slid into Chloe
and knocked her out, ended up kind of ripping off
the front wing a bit, and then Chloe had she
(13:54):
was forced to pit, and then I mean her race
was kind of I mean, she she finished the races.
She ended up having like fast lap at times as well,
but it was not great because of that incident. Dorian
pond Endead of taking the lead of the race, and
she maintained it through the end, even with the safety
car later on by another incident, and it was her
third win of the season and she is now Because
(14:15):
of race one, she retook the championship lead by twenty
four points, so she took it from and which was
horrible for Maya because Mimas had a horrible weekend, so
she her practice was bad, her qualifying was bad.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
From a one point difference to a twenty four point
n and just one race.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
So Ella Lloyd finished P two having climbed through the
field and held off challengers under pressure. Emma, sorry, Ella
Lloyd was just there the whole weekend. She was just
at the top the whole weekend. I'm like, what is
McLaren driver doing up here?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Who are you? Ma'am?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
I've heard of you and I've seen you, but you
are up here fighting and I was like, okay, ma'am.
Moving on to Mma Felbermeyer. She crossed the line in
P three, but she was later just qualified for being underweight,
which promoted Nina Gateman to the final podium position. Nina
Gateman therefore scored her best F one Academy finished to date.
In P three. Alicia Palmowski recovered to P eight despite
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a penalty stemming from her collision in early laps with
Chloe Chambers. Chloe Chambers rebounded from damage to her front
wing to finish in P ten or to finish P seven,
So she did finish in the point still, but she
was on Paul it would have been her race. So
but that's okay, Chloe, It's okay. Rafael Ferrara and Alba
Larsen tangled in midfield battles, mixing up the order behind them.
(15:36):
Maya Woog, the championship leader at the time going into
the weekend, continued to battle mechanical gremlins and retired, deepening
her title challenged woes. So I mean race one was
just not it.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Not the gremlins and the woes.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Oh, we will move on to our race to recap,
which is the reverse grid race, and again that is
the top eight. It is reversed, so if you qualified eighth,
you are now in pole position and so on until
eighth and then after that it's how you just qualified
in general. So our winner was Emma felber Meyer and
(16:12):
then followed by Ella Lloyd and Nina Gateman, and so
our biggest mover this race was Alba Larson, who we've
talked about before and Maya Woog each gained six positions
in the race, tying for the most spots gained for
their starting position. So I Ferrari seemed to have fixed
the car. This race. Things went a little bit better,
so Maya was able to you know, when the car works,
(16:34):
she was good and yeah, so some things that happened
in this race. Emma felber Meyer bounced back from her
Race one disqualification in the best possible way, taking her
first F one Academy win with a dramatic last lap
overtake that was insane. That was super dramatic. It's like
three of them. It's like it's literally Nina Gateman was
first on the last lap and then it was Emma
(16:57):
and Ella and it was just because these cars they're
so close. Like I'm telling you, like in Formula one
we get to just kind of watch. We're lucky if
we get to watch two people battle. Imagine watching in three,
which is what we got. We did get that a
little bit with Montreal, between the McLaren drivers and almost
Kimi into knowing, but these they're like on each other's ass.
(17:18):
You're just like, oh my god, this is crazy because
they stayed pretty close together, so that was nuts. So
starting from P three on the reverse grid, she moved
m Felbermeyer moved past Ella Lloyd early and spent most
of the race chasing down Nina Gateman, who had taken
the lead on lap one after getting ahead of the
pulsitter Chloe Chong. A late race collision between teammates Nicole
(17:41):
Harda and Eva an Agnostiatis brought out a safety car
with just a few laps to go. When the race
restarted for a one lap sprint to the finish, Felbermeyer
made her move into turn nine and snatched the lead.
Lloyd followed her through, giving Roden Motorsport a one to
two finish. Nina Gateman held on to P three, hearing
her second podium of the weekend and completing an all
(18:02):
rookie top three. So that's cool fun. Dorian Pond finished
P four, just missing out on the podium, while Alicia
Palmowski and Tina Hausman came home in P five and
P six respectively. Leah Block rounded out the points in
P eight after a close battle in the closing stages.
Chloe Chambers spun on lap five and recovered to finish
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p fourteen, unable to make up ground after the incident,
which I was once again devastated. I was like, no, no,
why why that was me? So back to the girls.
Felbermeyer described the win as a moment of redemption after
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losing out in race one due to being underweight in
post race checks, which I think that's always devastating. Like
I still think of SPA last year with George Russell,
which I still think was an amazing drive. I seriously
like everybody gives George Russell shit, but that was extremely impressive,
and it sucked that he was disqualified because of being underweight,
(19:03):
and that again that's also because there is no like
lap after so normally, you know, you finish the race
and you kind of have like that lap afterwards, and.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
It's a cool down lass and you get to pick
up all the little marbles and kebbles of the rubber
that's come off the tires, and they'll stick to your
tires to help make up some of the weight because
obviously all that rubber has fallen off your tires. So
the drivers will go and like drive into that to
pick it up to help kind of make the car
way more.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Yeah, and get to do that.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Yeah, for whatever reason, I think it's.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
It will spa as long as fuck it's in a
very long track. Yeah, so they were like, nah, come in,
which I don't know that they ever do a cool
down lap, Like, I'm not familiar with that, so I
guess we shall see. But so, yeah, so she was
really happy because she was obviously disappointed when she was
just qualified for race one and then she won race too.
So if there's any way to do it, do it
that way.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Yeah, And coming in underweight is especially frustrating because it's
not like it's really the river's fault exactly. Most of
the times, it's the fault of the team for not
properly calculating, yeah, and knowing what they need to do
to make sure they make the weight, because trust me,
they make these very precise calculations based on like the
(20:15):
driver's weight and how much water they anticipate them losing
during the race, and how the tires are gonna wear,
and how much fuel they're gonna put in the car,
like all of that factors in and they calculate all
of that for the car to be like as light
as possible toward the end of the race. While still
making weight. So anytime somebody doesn't make weight, it's almost
(20:35):
it's not the divers fault. Yeah, which sucks exactly.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Okay, so we will move on to our last race
of the weekend. It was race three, which is like
the actual grid that was set by or set in qualifying.
Our winners were. Our winner was Chloe Chambers, followed by
Ella Lloyd and Dorian Pond.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I was so excited Chloe got her redemption.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Yes she did. So. Our biggest mover was Maya Wood.
She went from fifteenth to six, gaining nine positions, a
very impressive recovery after the car troubles she faced throughout
the entire weekend. I think it's just a testament to
it was the car, clearly, not Maya. Let me tell
you something. We while that race was going on, we
(21:20):
were in here putting all this up, and we had
we were listening on the iPad and we had been
watching or whatever, and I knew that we Chloe had
already won. We were we were excited or whatever, and
all of a sudden, I hear our national anthem, So
we're American And if you didn't know, and I'm like,
oh my god, it's our anthem. They never have our anthem.
(21:42):
We never heard, so that was very exciting. Yeah, so
some things that happened in this race. Chloe Chambers took
her first win of the season, leading from pole and
handling multiple safety car restarts to seal a dominant victory.
Ella Lloyd finished P two for this third straight, with
Dorion Pond climbing back to P three to retain the
(22:03):
championship lead. Early contact shuffled the order a bit, so
Palmowski kind of spun and she kind of had to
regain her footing and Dorion Pond briefly dropped back to
fifth before she you know, finishes third. There were three
safety cars this race, including incidents involving the wild car
driver pot Pats, Leah Block, Ferrera, Felbermier, and Courtney Crone.
(22:27):
So there was a lie. I think this was the
race where there were five DNFs. It was. It was rough, y'all.
It was crazy. So Maya Wog charged from p. Fifteen
to P six, salvaging key points after a tough weekend.
Dorrian Pond now leads with one hundred and nine points,
Chambers sit second with eighty nine, and Maya Wog sits
(22:48):
third with seventy two, so there's a bit of a gap,
but we are only they think this was technically the
halfway mark, so we still have plenty of racing to go.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
That was crazy.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
That was actually I was like, oh my god, there's
I was like one second direct and then I was like, okay,
it's over.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
What.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
I was like, wait, what's happening over here?
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Another one? There's more.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
I think everybody was just like I don't. It just
felt charged. Everyone's like, you know what we're going for
and fuck it.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
They were a little too crazy trying to take them
them curbs at much. Oh yeah, okay, So now we
are going to do our wild card driver highlight. So
we mentioned we I mentioned earlier. Every round we get
a wildcard entry, so it's a driver that is there
only for that one race weekend. So this season high
(23:41):
Tech TGR joined F one Academy, so they're the team
and they have two full time drivers and then their
third seat is the wildcard entry, so every time there's
a wild card entry, they fill that seat for that team.
This weekend's wild card entry was Matilda Pats. She's a
German driver who began a career in European and world
level krding. She made her jump two single seaters by
competing in the French F four Championship, and this season
(24:03):
she's in racing in the F four either says or
CEZ Championship. Either one of those is surely right. And
she earned her first putting at the season with a
second place finish at the Red Bull Ring. So this
round of e F one Academy in Canada, Gatorade sponsored
the wildcard entry as part of their new partnership with
e F one Academy, and so she drove the number
(24:25):
eight Gatorade car run by high Tech tch R. She
said she's beyond excited to be the wild card driver
and shared how growing up she was inspired by the
passion and prior driver share for their teams.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Yeah, and something to note too another reason, like, I
think it's like three or four of the current rookies
on the grid were wild cards last season, so like
Alisha Pelmouski, Nina Gaideman, Ella Lloyd. And so if you
do get picked to be a wildcard driver on F
one Academy, if you perform well, there's a pretty big
(24:55):
chance you'll get picked to be a part of F
one Academy.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
That's a pretty high percentage chance that if you're a
wild card driver that you I'm.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Pretty sure I missed one too, Like, I'm pretty sure
it was like four or five of the road guys
from the wild card entry.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
That's well over fifty percent of the wildcard entries from
last year got full time seats this year in F
what Academy, which is nuts. So yeah, I mean, if
you're picked, I mean make most of your moment, Like,
get in there, girl, do your thing. So, looking at
Mattilda Patsa's weekend in Canada, in free practice, she was sixteenth.
In qualifying, she came p. Fourteen. She didn't finish Race one,
(25:33):
but up until that point she had shown the strongest
pace of any wildcard driver this season, and after climbing
up to tenth and battling with Alicia Palmowski and Corney Crone,
she became a victim of the Wall of Champions on
lap ten, which brought her race to an early end.
So in race two she finished eleventh, getting three places
and in race three. In race three, in race three,
(25:55):
she spent off at turn seven early in the opening lap,
triggering a safety car. Oh so she was one.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Of our Yes, now, it was insane in race one
because typically the wild car driver does tend to stay
in the back, but she was fighting with Elisha Palmouski
and Alisha Palmouski, as we said earlier, as the red
Bull driver. She is a rookie this year. She was
a wild car driver last year. But she's been a
really strong contender, like for the championship. I mean, even
(26:22):
though I mean she's not in the top three at
the moment, but she's I mean, she's battling the top drivers.
And so to see her battling Alicia was I was,
it was very impressive, and I mean, you know, she's
still very very new. Everybody was pretty impressed on the
broadcast as well. So I wouldn't I wouldn't be surprised
if we saw her as a rookie next year, just
(26:44):
because I mean that in itself was really impressive. And
that's what I think people have to remember. This is
an academy. This is not it is not Formula three
and it's not Formula two. Everybody's here to like learn,
So I think you might look at it and say, oh, well,
she wrecked well, but she was ten battling like some
pretty good drivers up until that point, and then you
(27:06):
can look at someone like that and go, what can
we teach her from there? And I think that's really
the mindset you kind of have to adopt when you
watch this, is like, Wow, that's somebody I might be
able to like nurture and teach.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
It's you're much more focusing on the positives and looking
for the strengths as opposed to only focusing on the weaknesses.
You're actually looking for people because again, like you said,
it's to the purpose of it is to develop drivers,
and so you're you're like, Okay, what can we work with.
Is this a raw lump of clay we can shape
and mold like or is this somebody who we just
(27:38):
won't be able to teach anything? And so you're much
more looking for you know, it's one of those cases
where I mean we've talked about like an F one
red Bull, they are looking for a particular type of
driver who's going to push it to the limit, and
it would much rather you send it and go for
it and crash out as opposed to being like scared
(27:59):
and not going for it. And you know, not every
team is like that not, but they also have a
lot of money right to replace and Facebook cars, So
I think I think that with E F one Academy,
I think either it's a little more of that sort
of mindset of like we want to see you push
it and go for it and really try and if
you do crash out or you know, have an incident,
(28:21):
then you know that's not the end.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Of the world now, And especially where that particular incident was.
I mean, it's called the Wall of Champions for a reason. Champion,
Champion money drivers have crashed in the wall, all within
the same races where it got its name from back
in the day before any of us were even born.
So I would not be shocked if we saw her
in F one Academy next year. So yeah, that was
really it was interesting. The car was really cool. I
(28:44):
was like, that's a but I also love orange. But anyway,
we can move on to our standings update. Our top
five drivers are. We have our first driver is Dorian
Pond but one hundred and nine points, followed by Chloe
Chambers at eighty nine points, Maya Woog at seventy two points,
(29:05):
Ella Lloyd at sixty seven points, and then Alisha Palmowski
at fifty three points. Our team standings have changed. Prima
Racing now leads with one hundred and seventy eight points,
followed by Campost Racing at one hundred and fifty one points,
then MP Motorsports at one hundred and twenty two points.
So Prima was like, see y'all later.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Okay, Now we're going to do our driver spotlights. So
every time we recap and review an F one Academy race,
we not only spotlight and talk about the wald car driver,
but we also pick one of the permanent full time
drivers to kind of go a little more in depth
on them. So this week our spotlight is on Ella Lloyd,
who's racing under Roaded Motorsport and is sponsored by McLaren so.
(29:51):
She finished on the podium at all three races in Montreal,
securing second place each time. That was a nuts, always
a bridesmaid, but I'm like.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Second still really like that's crazy, very consistus.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
She's missus consistent. That's right.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Now.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
A little background information about miss Ella Lloyd. She went
for being a decorated show jumper and a gold medalist
at the Welsh Skiing Championship to scoring points in fifteen
of twenty five races during her car racing debut in
the twenty twenty two Janetta Junior Championship. That's actually nuts.
That's a lot.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
That is a lot to literally go from skiing to
going I'm gonna race cars? What the hell?
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Adrenaline junkie? I guess.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
I guess good on her.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
So, despite never karting competitively, she progressed quickly and found
immediate susset immediate success in the Janeta GT Championship. She
earned ten wins, ten pole positions and seven additional podiums
on her way to becoming vice champion in the pro class.
In twenty twenty four, she stepped into single seaters and
competed in British F four, where she scored four podiums
(30:52):
and finished eleventh in the overall standings. She made her
EF one Academy debut as the wildcard entry in Singapore,
where she finished in the point twice with P nine
and P seven, which were impressive results on her first
outing at the Marina Bay Street Circuit. That's actually really nuts.
She seems to have gotten success quickly.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Yeah, like the same way how the Larsen had gotten
a lot of success quickly, but like this is pretty
and she went say.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Skiing, never karting, and in two seasons was like, I'm
gonna just go in to F four and start getting
some podiums.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
I hate that. I love it for her. Yeah, I'm
just like I can't even pick up a new hobby
and when I do it, I'm not immediately good at it.
I'm like peace out.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
So in twenty twenty five, she was inducted into the
McLaren Driver Development Program and also took part in Formula
EA's first ever women's test racing with the Welsh Dragon
on her helmet. Lloyd now returns to British F four
while also competing in F one Academy with Roden Motorsport.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
She was really impressive to me, I mean, and she
this isn't her first podium. I think she actually won
earlier this season. It was just that is consistent, stint,
Like that's what you want, is somebody who's like, if
they're not winning, you still want them up there like that.
I don't know. She just was like every two seconds,
I'm like there she is again, there she is again.
(32:13):
So now looking ahead, we've got a bit of a
break before round five. Of the F one Academy season,
which returns at Zandfort on August twenty ninth. So we
have a we have a while, so the championship watch
So Jrian Pond now leads the Driver's Championship with a
solid twenty point gap over Chloe Chambers, but there's still
(32:33):
plenty of racing left and Chloe Maya or even Ella
Lloyd could still mount a challenge. Personally, I'm backing Chloe Chambers.
That's just I still think I think she's just watch out.
I mean, it's just nuts because you see like a
gap like that, you go, oh, and you just because
what the first race, it's the point you like cut
(32:56):
in half, the reverse grid race, and then the main
race is kind of help Formula one is it's twenty
five points. I'm like, there's still plenty. They got two
race races a weekend. Uh, Chloe, let's go girl. All
it takes is one race weekend.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
As we saw, the championship went from a one point
difference between first and second and the driver's standings now
there's a twenty four point difference in one race weekend.
So the standings could change very quickly exactly.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
I mean Maya went from leading to being third and
I was just based on like car issues, which is
no fault of her own. So I mean it was
it can change very quickly. But let us know who
you guys are putting your money on. Who are you
rooting for for the championship? Who do you see getting
that bag? But anyway, so the last thing we can
talk about for like just one second is if you
not already aware F one the Academy. It is out now.
(33:47):
It has been out since the end of May. It
we will be doing a review on it. We'll have
time to do it before they return.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
We got two months.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Surely I've finished it. I think you have just a
few episodes left. So if you're not aware what it is,
it is basically a documentary about the twenty twenty four
season of F one Academy, where you get to delve
into what their lives are like driving these cars, you know,
really seeing what they deal with, what the environment's like.
I would say it is nothing like Drive to Survive.
(34:17):
Obviously there are cars there. I just don't think the
storytelling devices are the same. I think if you're into
a more documentary style series you would enjoy this. There's
some drama, but it's not nearly it's just not the
same I would just Drive to Survive sort of gives
a little bit more reality TV at times, but it's
(34:38):
still filmed in a very pleasant, cinematic type way that's
like a documentary, and it does document things. I'm just
f one. The Academy is a lot more documentary style
to me. So if you enjoy that, I think you'd
like it. It's a really cool way to kind of
delve into the world, get to know it and become
familiar with some of the drivers. A lot of the
drivers that were there have moved on. But yeah, so
(35:01):
that's out on Netflix. Yes, it is out on Netflix.
So guess that wraps it up though. Yes, yeah, we
will talk at you in August after Zandport. Bye.
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