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Time to go qualifying for round two of the F1 Academy. Welcome everyone to the

street of Jeddah here in Saudi Arabia. We began our journey for season

three of F1 Academy at a brand new venue at China and the Shanghai International

Circuit. But now we return to where F1 Academy began its journey full time

with the F1 support series.

Last year, 27 turns around this Jeddah Corniche circuit for the drivers to

get up to speed with in this qualifying session. They've had some testing here.

They've had practice here. And now it's time to go and set some laps for

qualifying. A new format for those of you who are joining us for the first

in this qualifying session.

The top eight will be reversed for race one tomorrow, and then they will start

as they qualify for race two. Well, here to call you through all the action, we

have someone who competed in this very qualifying session, Carrie Schreiner.

We'll hear from her in just a while, but also to call you through the action,

myself, Chris McCarthy, and alongside me, Alice Park.

Great to be back and great for F1 Academy to be back as well. And also

see Nina Gaidman going out in this session who suffered a crash when she

testing here a couple of weeks ago. A lot of damage to the car.

She also hurt her back.

We were told that she was struggling with a lot of pain in her back during

practice but has managed to sneak off back to the hotel because of course they

were out at 2 o 'clock local time.

Earlier on today, it's now half past nine there, local time, and got a bit of

rest. So hopefully she'll be able to last out the session. All drivers going

on a brand new set of slick tyres, by the looks of it as well.

It was Maya Virk who was farted earlier from Alicia Palmofsky, Donny and Pan,

Chloe Chambers, Leah Block, 205 .357.

Interesting could be that Campos Racing, Alice, have decided to hold fire in pit

lane. Happy birthday to Rafaela Pereira, turning 20 years old today as well. We

pick her up in the racing bulls car.

Holding back in pit lane, is this a case of just looking to get some space on

track? I would say so. I couldn't quite catch what end of the pit lane that they

are on. And I've noticed as well, they are not on a brand new set of slicks.

actually, I don't think Dorianne was on a brand new one as well. They get three

sets of slicks for the entire weekend.

start pre -practice session on a new set so that's one set gone and then it's up

to you what you do with the other two and actually we saw that Dorian Pan last

time out in Shanghai she actually saved a set for race two which is

Where they would line up in race two is on fastest qualifying time. Of course,

race one is top eight reverse.

So interesting to see what the drivers will do with their tyres this weekend.

But looking like Campos are sitting it out. And there was Alicia, who was our

first race winner of the year, winning the reverse grid race in Shanghai.

She did a really great job, didn't she? We saw her for just one race.

last season. Ella Lloyd leading us down.

Carrie Schreiner, a winner in F1 Academy, now with a new role at Zauber.

We saw her in that livery last year. Carrie, great to have you with us again

commentary. This is going to be a different challenge for the drivers. You

to us a little bit about this in practice. Just remind the viewers the

challenge that Ella Lloyd will be facing now as she goes into Term 1.

in this qualifying session compared to what we have in practice because

conditions are very different out there.

Yeah, it's cooler. You have new tyres. You can brake later. It's just a

completely different driving style.

And also strategy is important.

How much warm -up laps you use, a few pits, if you do

depressions again.

But yeah, it's just interesting to see what the teams are doing from the

now.

It is.

We pick up there. Alice just looked to be taking us down to the hairpin, and

will set the first respective lap for us. She will. So the majority of the

drivers out on track, of course, apart from we saw the Kampoff cars, looks like

the Prema cars have decided to go back into the pits. But the track is so

different from when they were out earlier on this morning. And we've had a

couple of free practice sessions from Formula 1. We've had a qualifying

from Formula 2.

So the track's cleaned up. quite a lot but not just that the track temperature

nearly 30 degrees cooler where they're racing under the lights which is a great

experience for for all of these drivers that are out on track but um a lot of

them are sitting waiting ellenoid is not doing that at the moment she's getting

in dialed in as a lock up for that outside right tire as she goes through

that's been a corner that's not just been catching these f1 academy drivers

in pre -practice but we've also seen it's been catching a few of the f1

out as well It has.

We've seen lots of drivers running right there in Formula 2 as well. Gaidman,

Pan, Houtman into pit lane. So currently six drivers just sat in pit lane. But

Ella Lloyd, the McLaren Junior, big lock -up into the final corner there, Alice.

We've seen lots of lock -ups there too from the F1 drivers. And she got on that

paint on the outside there.

Settled on the outside.

I'm just trying to look. There's a bit of a headwind there, so it shouldn't be

massively affecting their braking. It's not going to be approaching a massive

speed difference compared to where they were earlier on. But we'll catch a

replay here. Is this going to be a fight for track space, or is that Courtney

Crone flying up on those curbs? And I think that's also what happened to Nina

when she was...

She hurt her back at testing here. She just got up on that curve and then it

sent her into the wall. So something the drivers have really got to be aware of.

I think you need to make the decision quite quickly whether you're going to

hoping to make it round the corner or, of course, they've got that runoff there

that they can just skate across. But, of course, if they use that runoff, that

lap time is deleted.

Ella Lloyd, big lock -up there. Emma Felbermayer at second, 2 .06 .5.

Nevertheless, it's the quickest time, but Maya Verg will now go out, and if

can get a clean lap here, I think we're going to see a change at the top,

because it wasn't the cleanest of runs for Ella Lloyd at the end, and we are

seeing Maya Verg going quicker. We're seeing some times deleted as well.

Leo Bloch, the first victim of that.

She currently now has no time on the board. That will be for track limits.

Maya Virk taking us through this second sector.

And she has been very quick so far this season. Let's see what she can do on

this flying lap. Can she get herself to the top? We still have drivers now just

making their way out of pit lane. So they have waited a little bit.

Maya Berg has also been waiting, but she's looking very quick now, Alice. So

strong in that middle sector, and she has been. Her strongest sector was

over free practice. It was that middle one, and particularly the final sector,

where she almost was trumping the rest of the field, pretty much, in that final

section. Let's hear from Block.

It feels like I have less grip than free practice.

So Leah's clearly not settled in her ART Williams -backed machine.

at the moment but Maya Berg she certainly looks much more at home

Leah and actually it just seems like that Maya's just got a lot more

seems a lot happier going into to this season obviously she's made the switch

teams from Prema over to MP we've got a yellow flag in the final sector so I'm

guessing that's someone that's had an excursion down at turn 27 oh and Leah

Block was just talking about how she felt she had less grip and she is off

the barriers at the final corner, and that is a red flag. The clock will be

stopped at 23 minutes exactly.

Leah Block off at the final corner into the barriers. She's reporting she is

okay, which is the main thing out of all of this. That's a shame. That brings an

end to Leah Block's session. She didn't take part in qualifying at round one

after an incident she had in free practice with Rafaela Ferreira. and

going to take no further part in this qualifying session. So similar to round

one, Alice, she's going to have to go from the back.

I mean, that's massive frustration for her because she had a good result. She

was looking a bit more at home in free practice, wasn't she? She finished P5

was briefly running in the top three for a while.

But that's similar, if anyone did watch the previous pre -practice session from

Formula 1, similar to Yuki Tsunoda. That's where he ended up. I wonder if

clipped. Oh, no, so she's had a lock -up really late on.

What happened?

Just hit the inside barely, and it shot me.

So that is exactly the same as what Yuki Tsunoda did. Just clipped that inside,

had broken the front left suspension.

and she's then shot into the barrow. You can see on the steering wheel there,

she's got the red flag notice from the FIA systems that all carbs get on the

dash throughout Formula 4 championships, Formula 3, Formula 2, and up to Formula

1 as well.

You can see the front left suspension folded in, and as you mentioned, Ali,

just... clipping that going into the corner we saw it in Formula 1 we saw

Tsunoda get caught out exactly the same way once she's committed to that line I

guess you're committed going in and it's so easy for that to happen It is.

She's just turned in slightly too early. Maybe it expected... Well, she was

complaining of lack of grip. That's potentially why she's probably turned

not feeling like she's had the bite of the front end throughout the entire lap,

and then possibly got down to turn 27 and just...

anticipated some understeer turned in and not quite been quick enough to turn

out of it when the front has bitten earlier than she anticipated so that

out with 23 minutes of the session left to go of course unlike pre -practice the

time will come to a stop you can see all the mechanics

sticking their arm up. It's tough for the drivers when they go through and you

see a sea of mechanics and you're almost looking. You'll know which F1 garage

you're outside of. So you're going down pit lane, roughly knowing. Well, that's

why you're seeing all the mechanics with their arms out, waving.

But Maia Verg just managed to sneak in a lap time. So that's a little bit of

pressure now on these drivers, Chris and Carrie, isn't it, to try and get back

out. on a new set of tyres, which I expect everybody will change onto if

haven't already, and then set a lap time. But quite a few of them have not

lap time at all.

Yeah, and we will get the thoughts of Carrie Schreiner on exactly that in just

second. Let's first hear from Alicia Palmowski, who we spoke to about the

heat of the Jeddah conditions. We can see how this affected Leah Block.

Not happy at all. She had to go from the back of the grid at China and

devastated is Leah Block because I think sinking in that she's going to have to

go from the back of the grid once again.

here at round two so easy to make just that small mistake going into the final

corner but the consequence we can see now that her car is being towed away and

she's got a massive massive task on her hands once again she did very well it

must be said at china but this is not the uphill battle she would have thought

she would be facing at both the first Couple of rounds coming into this F1

Academy Series season, and there we see her car being taken away, Alice.

They've had that huge gap, as we already touched on, and then this is going to

make it even worse. She's had all that waiting around, and for her to not

get a shot through to that very small area, you can see Susie Wolfe checking

with the ART team just to make sure that she's OK.

which thankfully for her, she is. She'll just be extremely disappointed and very

frustrated.

A driver that's full of character around the paddock is Leah and also extremely

determined to do well.

But it's nice to see Susie checking in to make sure that everyone at ART are

doing okay, especially Leah.

It certainly is. Carrie, when we get a situation like this in qualifying,

Tell us, how is it as a driver when you're coming in, sat there like Maya

is now?

What is it that's going through your mind? What are the discussions you're

having with your engineer?

Yeah, it's never an idea if they stop in qualifying session because you get

interrupted in doing your laps.

And yeah, it's not the best situation, but you have to just read it.

You just have to relax and calm down and try again with screens.

You cannot change the situation. You just have to continue.

Certainly is very tough. Good to see Tom Christensen is here.

Let's have a watch back at this again, Alice.

Yeah, so we didn't see. She's already turned in, clipped the inside wall, and

you're just a passenger then. And you can see the marshals doing a great job

doing the cleanup nice and quickly.

You can see straight away they're down there and checking everything out. She's

shaking her head, disappointment, clearing her off track. But same

Nuki Tsunoda, as we've made a mention already. So Aurelia Nobles has decided

wants a little bit of a setup change on her ART Puma -backed machine.

So funny bit of adjustment, but as Harry was saying, really got to try and

reset. And it's hot when you're sat there, all the heat soaked from the

The temperature in the cockpit will be way over 50 degrees, and you've got to

remember they've got all the Nomex fireproofs on your helmet. There's no

energy. I actually think, and I don't know, I wonder what Carrie's thoughts

on this, but when you're out on track, actually, you don't feel the heat as

much. It's when you stop, I find that's always worse.

Yeah, that's the worst situation. If you come back from a few laps and you sweat

and then suddenly you stop and all the heat comes into your cockpit.

I mean, they have their fans to cool you a little bit, but yeah, it's the worst

situation.

Very tough.

And then knowing you've got to get back out there, how do you then reset at this

point, Carrie, when you see the lights go green again?

You've come back in, you had that run plan, now you have to get...

back in the mode of going out to federal lap?

Yeah, just push. It's the same for everyone.

Just go out, do your warm -up, and then give everything.

All you can do. And we saw there just how easy it is to make a mistake around

this lap. You've done qualifying laps around here at Jeddah.

How tough is the challenge of doing laps around this circuit? We've just seen

how easy it is for your qualifying session to end here. Tell us how tough

challenge is doing F1 Academy around here.

Yeah, I mean, Leah was mentioning that the car is driving different than entry

practice.

The mechanics or the team knows what to do. They do some setup adaptation

because it's cooler and the situation is different. But you cannot predict

everything. You can jump in the car and suddenly it feels completely different.

And it's not easy for a driver to adapt so quickly if you feel not safe in the

car.

Mistakes happen so easily then.

Possibly a consequence, as we heard Leah saying, that the car just felt

completely different. And then all of a sudden her qualifying has come to an

end. But we're now back at full speed for qualifying, getting ready for those

warm -up laps.

And we can just see the drivers getting back up to speed.

Emma Felbermayer on our screen, just in at this pack.

Now we get ready for those push laps once again, Alice.

I can see what Emma's trying to do here. She's like, well, Maya's there.

Just a couple of cars in front. I want to tuck in behind her. But Rafaela

Ferreira's thought, no, hang on a second. I want to do that as well. So

decided, well, I'll give up on that one and backed off to give herself a bit of

free air.

And if you can grab a toe, of course, down the long front straight through the

section out through from 10 till 13. And then, of course, they make their run

from 13 all the way through up to 22.

That will make a big difference to your time, to your lap time. You don't want

to get too close, of course, and affect the error of the car.

but I will expect we're not going to see too many fast laps right now. I would

expect some of the drivers still trying to get their tyres up to temperature,

and Alicia Pomowski, clearly those rears aren't working as she'd like. She just

tries to turn it into turn one.

The rear says no, misses the apex of one, and then she's too far to the right

-hand side for the entry of two, but looking quite a handful at the moment,

Campos.

Yeah, almost had to take a step back there. Alicia Palmofsky looked like she

heading straight into the barriers at one stage, but just on the limit once

again there. Alicia Palmofsky coming through eight and nine. You think

that section, a Formula One car is absolutely flat out. They've got more

more aero, more downforce, bigger tyres.

Of course, these F4 cars, F1 Academy cars, they're constantly fighting the

wheel, as you can see. She's set a personal best. That's because she hasn't

a lap time as yet. Ella Lloyd. She's out front in clear.

air she's just gone fastest of anybody in the first sector a driver here that

never left the top five during testing and had abby pulling obviously the 2024

f1 academy champion out with her a couple of weeks ago uh passing her on

advice and coaching ella and at the moment it seems to be playing off of

early stages this is looking good for ella lloyd to try and challenge maya

verg who set the benchmark with a 205 .8

can Ella Lloyd go and get a first pole position for McLaren here

Around the streets of Jeddah. Wants to become the first podium finisher for

McLaren. Can she get that started with the first pole position?

Down towards the final corner she goes.

Sets that up very nicely for a good run. Down the start finish straight.

Ella Lloyd making her way down the start finish straight. Now this looks like a

good run for her. Watch the time in the middle of your screen.

There it goes. Almost one and a half tenths clear.

And Ella Lloyd is in provisional.

but will she stay there yes Alicia Palmofsky P3 and now Maya Berg in the

comes up to the line and she goes to the top with a 205 .635 it's very close

Emma Felbermayer briefly in third she's now fifth as Alba Larson she struggled

in practice Alice but now she's in P3

Again, that middle sector from Maya Verg is so strong compared to everybody

else. Just need to try and work on that first and second sector. There's our

wildcard driver, clearly getting to grips with life in F1 Academy.

She won the Saudi Arabian Karting Championship back in 2022.

Farah Al -Yusuf.

The 22 -year -old, so great to see her back out on track and, of course,

learning as much as possible and adapting to the quite tough conditions

they have out there at the moment.

That's Rima Chafali. Here is the world card last year.

Just missed out on points. Let's see if...

Farah Al -Yusuf can go and get herself some points this weekend. Whatever she

does, it's a great experience for her to be here this weekend. She heads up to

the line. Farah Al -Yusuf.

And it gets a time on the board now.

And it is still Berg leading the way so far.

Dorian Pan is a little bit away from where we'd expect her.

And a little look up there down to turn one, Alice.

Yes. Again, they're all struggling for grip at the moment out there. But one

thing to note, actually, and I did question whether I should mention it at

time, but Ella Lloyd didn't look like she crossed that pit entry line, which

you're not meant to do. So nothing's come up on our timing screen at the

So we'll keep you in check with that. But times are tumbling at the moment.

Chamber's fast as anyone in the first sector, but Maya Virk has gone even

quicker again in that mid -sector.

This is crunch time for everybody. You've got to keep it neat and tidy.

minutes approaching anyway of the session remaining.

So there's still plenty of time for them to improve, but the tyre life starts to

decrease. Alicia Palmofsky to the top of the times, but only for a few seconds

because her teammate Chloe Chambers now goes to the top, 2 .05 .1. Now we

haven't seen much of Dorian Pan in this session. Alba Larson to the front row.

Dorian Pan is going to go into the pit lane.

So Alba Larson provisionally will stay there. It's Chloe Chambers leading ahead

of Alba Larson, Alicia Palmofsky.

Virg, Ella Lloyd, Chloe Chong Emma Felbermayer, Dorian Pan, right now would

on the reverse grid pole. Let's quickly get the thoughts of Carrie Schreiner as

we see Dorian Pan come in. Close session out there, Carrie.

Dorian Pan down in eighth, just ahead of her. Emma Felbermayer, who currently

would be on the front row alongside Dorian for that reverse grid race.

She's doing a good job. But Chloe Chambers, of course, who was your

last year, she's doing a really good job out front.

Yeah, Chloe is a strong driver.

She already had really good moments last year winning a race in Barcelona.

So, yeah, it's good for her to be also here. Quite good.

The time's coming in very quickly. We're seeing the second time's drop.

Oh, and we're seeing how Bellahot can get very close to the wall. Those

highlights, Carrie, just how close you have to get to the wall. How hard is it

to do that lap on lap in a qualifying session?

It's really, really tough to be not too close, but you have to be as close as

possible to use the full line, to use the momentum from entry to exit.

So, yeah, it's really tough for Trevor.

And on this lap, Alba Larson, I think, Alice, we might see challenging that

of Chloe Chambers.

Yeah, she's looking pretty strong in the first and second sector. It's whether

she's going to take the dive into the pit.

A lot of the drivers electing to come in, have a little bit of a reset, have a

bit of a chat, shake on some water, but more importantly, put on a new set of

these Pirelli Flick tyres.

Chloe Chambers has just improved once again.

And as expected, Alba Larton is diving into the pits as quite a majority of

them. I think it was Emma Felber, yep, it was, who's taken into the pit lane as

well. But Chloe Chambers is still out there, made an improvement in the final

sector, was fastest of anybody.

And we're getting the sort of times and territory of lap time that we saw when

they were here in free practice. It was Alicia Palmowski that went fastest.

Overall, time -wise, it's been a test.

So we're getting into that. But I expect when they do bolt on a brand new set of

slicks, if they haven't already, we're going to dip into the two -minute 0 -4s.

Rafaela Ferreira, seventh.

Dorian Pan currently is out of the top eight.

And that is critical for this session.

Dorian Pan not currently in the top eight. Aurelia Nobels very close to the

there. Up to the line she goes.

Aurelia Nobles takes us to the line. T9.

So Dorian Pan, our championship leader.

Now T10 in the session.

Maya Virg, five points back from her, is T4.

And Alba Larsson, well, she was third last time. Once again, T3.

And she is doing a very good job. She is in her first full season.

in her third season of F1 Academy.

She's getting used to things very quickly in F1 Academy, Alice.

She is, and she really impressed last time out, qualifying third, so she's

matching that at the moment.

Joanne Giaconte as well. She also impressed. Two of the youngest drivers

the grid, only two days separating them in age.

Birthday. She was P6 in qualifying back in Shanghai.

And I think once you're around that...

area of sort of t7 t8 t8 of course is reverse grid for our race one tomorrow

that'll put you up to pole position you're then looking well you're

looking to go higher up but they're aware trust me the drivers are aware

around that t8 position um they'll they'll be fairly happy in terms that

then will go to the top but let's save the story

in P8. I can guarantee she wouldn't be happy at all with that. The points that

you can gather for race two are four points, whereas for race one, not as

points and only go down to P8 for points as well. But Joanne Chikonti, she's

coming in. No, she's continuing her lap. So down in 16th at the moment. Promotes

her up to P12.

Good time from Joanne Chikonti and she is right up there in the mix as well.

Joanne Chaconty. It's closed out there. Maya Berg, who is second in the

standings, is currently in T4.

Half a second back from Chloe Chambers, who is currently our leader in this

session ahead of Alicia Palmowski, Alba Larson, Maya Berg, Ella Lloyd, Chloe

Chong, Aurelia Nobles. Now goes to P7.

And that put Emma Felbermayer out of the top eight, meaning Rafaela Ferreira is

currently in P8 and has that reverse grid pole.

Ella Lloyd is on a hot lap here in P5. Could she challenge Clubby

Chambers?

So the later you leave it in this qualifying session, the better the track

be. The temperature's not really dropped, so that stayed roughly the

certainly the track will have improved.

However, of course, if you leave it too late and there's a late red flag, that

can really put you out of position if the session wasn't to restart again or

didn't have enough time to get round to the start line again. Oh, Ella Lloyd

just turning in maybe a fraction too early if she went through into 22 and

having to turn out of it again.

All the way around, taking the shortest distance, kicking up the duff there in

free practice, and then pick your braking point, kind of get the car as

as possible as you hit the brakes into the 27, get the car rotated, which she

does really nicely, on the throttle, head up, all the way out to the edge of

wall, and then try and not cross that entry line. You can see how she did it

there, but Nina...

is still in the pits.

She's set a lap time, which is only good enough for 14th at the moment, but of

course struggling with that back pain.

Ella Lloyd, did she improve? She did, fractionally, but it wasn't enough, and

Chloe Chambers has improved.

She's the first driver to live into the 204s. It's a bit too much.

Inside curve there at two for Ella Lloyd.

Chambers, 204 .9.

Parmovski, two and a half tenths back now. And another moment there for Ella

Lloyd. Yeah, I think this is probably the lap that you need to take a call

Ella, let those Pirelli tyres have a bit of a rest and a bit of a reset for

yourself. She's got Chloe Chambers in front of her on a cool -down lap.

So you might see quite a few drivers doing a push.

and then a cool, and then a push again, just to let the temperature drop in

those tyres. And again, it also helps you to have a bit of a reset. I think

may be still having a push, but she's quite a bit off her best in the first

sector, so I'm surprised she's not aborted the lap already.

Talk us through that process, Carrie, of doing a push lap, a cool lap, and a

push lap as well.

It's just to settle yourself down, settle the tyres down.

Yeah, when the tires overheat you are not able to improve your lap time so you

need to cool down laps and then the tires are able to recover and then you

try again.

So it helps you so much during sessions like this.

It really does, and it's helped Alicia Palmowski. She's done that process,

Alice, and she's looking good up to the final. She is faster than anyone in the

first sector, very decent, nearly matching Chloe Chambers' middle sector

well. So if she keeps it all together in the final sector, I would expect her to

jump to the top of the times.

Outlaps for Maya Virk at the moment, so we'll keep an eye on her, Dorian Pan as

well, as you can see, and the rest of the Prima cars.

So we'll wait for Malmowski to come across the line.

She's going to jump to the top of the times and go even faster.

Let's find out. Up to the line she goes. She just misses out by six hundredths

of a second.

Alicia Malmowski, it's a great head -to -head between the two Campos Racing

teammates. This is Ella Lloyd.

That's the moment she took.

Too much kerb through the first corner.

She's turned in a little bit too early, and then that's bounced her over on the

kerb, and then she's forced to almost take a bit too much kerb on the right

-hand side for turn two, and then you can see how much the car's bouncing as

can ride on board again. Is this slightly further on the lap? And you

as soon as you ride the bottom of the car over those kerbs, that's going to

you in the air. Did she actually do a cool -down lap in the end? I think she

did. So she elected to have a cool -down lap in the end.

And that was where she caught a bit of traffic. And we saw her just making her

way around. Now we are seeing more sector times come in.

Alicia Palmofsky, purple through the first sector. Oh, well, that's a big

moment for Ella Lloyd. And we saw that one in real time as well. That's what it

looked like in slow -mo.

But the sector times are flying in. Maya Virg, Chloe Chong, Ella Lloyd all

going quicker.

But significantly quicker is Alicia Palmofsky.

Let's see first over the line, Maya Verg, because she's done a personal best

sector one, a personal best sector two. A reminder, you need to be in the top

eight to be within that reverse grid for race one.

Maia Verg is within that. She's fifth, but she'll want to be P1. Up to the line

she goes now.

Maia Verg, can she add to that pole position she got at the first round?

Third place for the time being.

That first sector from Alicia is hugely impressive. She's at least two and a

half tenths quicker than anybody else out on track. A personal best in the mid

sector, but this final sector just seems to be a little bit of her weakness,

whether she's not got the car quite dialed in.

for this final sector. All the tyre life has run out by the time she gets there.

But, wow, jumps up.

Into P1, just over a tenth of a second, but again, she's not in the 39, so

Larson actually is fastest of anybody in that final sector. She's done a 39, and

Chloe Chambers, as I said, has done a 39 .6.

So Chloe Chambers, compared to Alicia, is three tenths quicker than her in that

final sector. Let's wait for Dorian Pan, Chris. This looks good from Dorian Pan

as well. She is P11. This will be a big jump, and she jumps all the way to pole

position. Dorian Pan, 204 .816.

Where did that... come from?

Dorian Pan had been struggling all session, and now she's just jumped all

way to the top of the times.

There's less than a tenth of a second between the top three, but I feel, well,

feel we're going to see a response here, and is it going to come first from Maya

Vergara? She's done such a good first sector. She's nearly matched Alicia

Palmofsky's first sector. Let's see what she does in the middle. She's been

pretty strong. Chloe Chambers has just set another...

best in the first sector because she keeps it on track just about so that's

going to affect her that's the entry of sector three so she's gone fastest of

anyone in the mid sector

but I would expect that's going to lose her time. She'll be late to thrall on.

That carries you all the way down through to turn 27, but time's running

We've got another battle going on for P8 as well, which is being led by

Houseman. Gaidman has just brought herself into contention for that.

Don't count out Larson for pole position either. She is fighting away for this.

Virk, now we saw that mistake.

Will that affect her chances of taking provisional pole position?

Yes. Yes, it will.

She goes to P4.

She'll have to go again.

Chloe Chambers is traveling very, very quickly, but so is Alba Larson.

Can she pull a great result out here? She's currently in P5, the Tommy

back driver.

Let's see if this car can make its way.

all the way to the top of the times.

Up to the line she goes. Guess where it is? It's, of course, P3 for Alba Larson

and the fastest last sector. But Chloe Chambers has a toe down the start

straight on Ella Lloyd. Where will these two end up? Ella Lloyd, seventh. Thank

you very much, says Chloe Chambers. She's going to go to provisional pole

position, 204 .320.

Right place, right time.

That's a nice cheeky toe. She managed to grab one from Ella Lloyd. with us.

Dorian Pan, just not quite enough, missing a couple of tenths in that final

sector. Could that be that toe that made all the difference down in that last

sector? But times are tumbling. This order, certainly from that mid -pack, is

definitely going to change.

We've got Adagnostiadis down in 16th, the Tag Heuer back driver, racing with

high -tech, new to the championship this year.

She's going to come out the final corner again, making big improvements. She'll

hope to boost her chances of moving closer up towards the top ten.

Carrie, I want to get your thoughts there.

How did it feel when you just managed to get in the right place at the right

time like that for Chloe Chambers? Just managed to get a really good toe down

the start -finish straight there.

To have the perfect toe, it's like, yeah, it's so...

Yeah, something special because normally you are too close and then your lap is

ruined anyway because of the dirty air. But if you get it at the right time,

then you gain so much at the straight. So, yeah, you can see it at her lap

Yeah, it's amazing for her. Good lap.

And even on a track like this, it just shows how, I guess, placing... Oh, big

moment there for Palmowski. And she's going to go over the curve and will

this lap now. Alicia Palmowski.

We've got a great head -to -head going on here for pole position. We can see

just how much the gaps have extended.

Chloe Chambers, look how much that has changed things, though. Chloe Chambers,

it was once carried just a few hundredths. Now she's got a gap of eight

of a second. So the difference made there was huge, wasn't it, with that

Yeah, it was so close for the last couple of minutes, and suddenly the gap

Yeah, quite big. So, yeah, you can see what a difference it makes.

And, yeah, for Alicia, it's difficult to gain that time now.

On board we are with Alicia Palmofsky into Turn 1. This will probably be her

final chance, Alice, to take part. It will. Any driver that crosses the line

now... This is going to be their final lap. So you can see she made that

mistake. She backed out slightly going into the final sector. This is going to

be a replay of it.

That rear has looked loose on her car the entire time. And actually, I winced

my chair when I saw her fly and not abandon and fly over that kerb.

Luckily for her, at least nothing visibly is looking damaged.

But we're going on these final laps. I noticed that Maia Berg had a really,

really slow, cool lap. So she's just gone through the first sector, but it's

a personal best. It's nearly matching at least her best.

Alba Larsson, she's currently in fourth place. She's just gone through the first

sector, but it's a couple of tenths off what she was doing earlier on in the

session.

No major improvements so far. through the first sector but we've still got

battle for eighth place Nina Gaidman nice so she's just shy of an eighth

she is doing a superb job out there just now needs to find two tenths of a

second we're yet to see any improvements through the first sector but you can

make a lot up through this second sector and the third one as well watch out

Dorian Pan she's sent a decent it's not a personal best but it's still a good

first sector let's have a look from Maya Berg that's a not personal best but a

good first a good middle she's going to get a bit of a toe as well from the car

in front of her let's see how this final sector is going to do Maya Berg up to

the line is p6 for now p3 and as you said Alice got a good run through the

sector that's enough to put her on the second row can anyone get a run like we

saw Chloe Chambers did down that start finish straight we jump on board now

Ella Lloyd to the final. Go on.

So she's currently as we've already said in that P8 position. Each driver will

want to improve but if you qualify P8 and there's nothing more you could have

done at least you know you're on pole for race one which takes place tomorrow

afternoon.

She's hitting all the gears correctly. She's got Joanne Giaconte just behind

where she's going to boost Ella up. Personal best in the middle sector.

Ella Lloyd up to the line, P8 for now. She goes to P7 and we've got Joanne

Chaconty, 11th. Nicole Havrida is coming to the line next.

Dorian Pan is there. She stays P2. There is Rafaela Ferreira to the line, 13th.

Here is Havrida now, 15th. So no major changes at the top. No changes

in the top eight.

And that will be pole position for Chloe Chambers.

who comes across the line to take her first F1 Academy pole position. Well

done to Chloe Chambers, 2 .04 .320.

She put in all the hard work and then was rewarded with that toe down the star

finish straight, and that gave her a significant gap over the likes of Maya

and Alicia Palmofsky. For the first time, she will lead us away from the

of the fifth.

You are on pole. You are on pole for the Sunday.

It's confirmed.

For real.

Yes. Yes.

Yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes. That's what I like to hear.

You kind of scared me a little bit saying a P8 at first. I was like, what?

But I was reading the board drum.

I was trying to scare you.

Nice job, boy. Nice job.

That was amazing.

Yeah, thank you, guys.

The car was so good. It was so fast.

Real solid job for Cloud. I mean, sure, real.

Flashes of brilliant pace from her last year and getting her first pole position

in F1 Academy.

And it'll be Emma Felbermayer. It'll be actually an all -roader motorsport front

row. Emma Felbermayer starting on pole position for our race one tomorrow

alongside Ella Lloyd. Nina Gaben wasn't quite able to improve to jump up into

the top eight, but you must be really happy, Carrie, for Emma. What sort of

advice, if you can share with us, of course, could you be giving to Emma when

she's on the grid tomorrow?

Yeah, I'm really happy for Emma. It's her first pole position now. I think

time she was second, so she has some experience in the front row now.

So it's just important to stay calm. She knows what to do.

And yeah, finish the race.

Emma Felbermayer, let's see what she can do from that front row. It's going to

be a great experience for her. As you mentioned, she's now got that

That will help her a huge amount coming into this event to try and progress

forward and try and get some more points on the board.

Exactly.

Just drive a solid race. Do no mistakes.

Find your speed.

Try to finish at least on the podium or even better win.

Exactly. Great, great advice.

And great job by Nina. She snuck herself into the top ten there right at the

very end.

She'll be hoping that she'll be starting to feel a little bit better tomorrow.

Have a hot bath, which of course is never going to be nice in these warm

conditions. Just to ease the back up.

And I was just watching Mayerberg's body language.

if you can say there's body language in the race car. I think she looks pretty

disappointed with that. She looked really strong in testing, topping a

the sessions.

Of course, I think she was looking to really challenge Chloe Chambers until,

course, she had that lock -up, which really hampered her final sector.

So it's going to be an exciting race tomorrow, but it's just going to be as

exciting when we have that top three lining up there. Top four, five, you can

carry on going down or challenging for the win on Sunday.

It certainly is. And, Carrie, we've really enjoyed having your insight.

Of course, you announced recently you're going to be racing in GT Masters this

year in an Audi.

You're going to start next month at Lausitzring. How excited are you for

before you leave us in common for the weekend?

I'm super excited because, as I already mentioned in the first session, I think

I've learned a lot. during the last two years in F1 Academy, so I'm a better

driver now, and I really want to show this this year, so I'm looking forward

my first race there.

We wish you all the best as well. I know that F1 Academy has given you a lot of

great experience, and thank you very much for joining us up here in

as well. We hope to have you back at some point.

Thank you.

Now as ambassador as well for Sauber, a brand ambassador, so thanks very much to

Carrie. Great session on track as well. Alice, Chloe Chambers, Donny and Pan,

Mayerberg, Alicia Palmowski, the Francie Rose. It was a great head -to -head out

there in front, a great four -way battle. Alba Larsson played a part there

well. Alba Larsson, solid, solid job. And you could say our real rookie, of

course, because Alicia took part in the Qatar weekend.

So another solid job for her as they'll go back.

to their engineers.

They'll get data. The poll data also gets shared with all teams.

So Chloe Chambers' data will be shared throughout the paddock for all the

drivers to see.

It certainly will.

And I'm sure they'll see it.

A very good run down that straight, but she put the hard work in all the way

around the lap, and that is why she has been rewarded with her first F1 Academy

pole position.

Congratulations, Chloe Chambers.

204 .320.

That is a brilliant result for her and the Campos team, who haven't been on

since 2023.

That's just their second pole position in F1 Academy.

Dorian Pan in second, Maya Vergen third, Alicia Palmofsky fourth.

And we had Alva Larsson, Tina Hausmann, Ella Lloyd, Emma Felbermayer will be on

pole position for race one tomorrow.

And then behind that was Gaidman. Well done to her, one of the standout drivers

of the session.

Chong Chikonte -Nobel Ferreira. Happy birthday to her.

Krohn, Havrida, Adegnostiades, Al Youssef in her first session.

Leah Block crashed at the final corner, clipping the inside left wheel, sending

her into the barriers. Like round one, she'll go from the back in both races.

And that can... qualifying do join us for the reverse grid race one which will

be live tomorrow at 3 .20 local time we'll see you then