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On a track located in the east of Canada, connected to the city of

the Notre Dame Island, qualifying for the F1 Academy Series is about to kick

off. Welcome from me, Ben Edwards, as we look forward to a 30 -minute session

which will establish who takes the outright pace of this 2 .7 -mile, 4 .4

-kilometre, 14 -turn circuit, where late braking and rapid change of direction

are key to delivering fast times, but it is so easy to run wide or make contact

with... barriers with little space to avoid.

18 young women racers will be battling for the honour of fastest time.

Alongside me is experienced racer Alice Powell.

We saw the title leader, Maya Virg, struggle to do any laps in pre -practice

earlier today.

Do we think she's going to be able to compete as normal in this qualifying

session? Well, let's hope so. They're all lined up in pit lane waiting for

session to go green, which is about 30 seconds' time. There is Maya, engine

running. So it turns out she had an electrical...

issue they were struggling to really find out what the problem was so they

pretty much changed everything ben they've replaced her engine loom plenty

sensors lots of other cables as well in a hope that that's going to to solve the

problem but of course she's missed out on that crucial running none of these

drivers have been to this circuit before we go green at the end of the pit lane

myberg At the right end, out straight away.

Looks like Alba Larsson stalled, so wasn't able to go out with her

So she's missed out on that vital, vital running of learning this track.

done it in a simulator but there's nothing quite like bumming feet time

the feel of the circuit through your body so everyone out on new tires as you

can see the field bleeding out now possibly actually looking at that maybe

the road in all campus cars are there with new tires so we'll keep an eye on

that but yes it's important for maya to try and settle in as quickly as possible

because of course She is our championship leader currently, all but

from Dorian Pan.

Yeah, just the one point we saw Dorian Pan taking her way out. You're on board

right now with Nicole Havrida, who is the one Canadian in this series.

So an opportunity on home turf in a way, although it's some way away from where

she is. She's more from Vancouver side of Canada, but it's good for Nicole

Havrida to see what she can do. She was putting in some laps earlier, but was

14th fastest, the fastest in...

free practice was Alicia Palmosky.

She and Chloe Chambers, both with the Campos team, backed by Red Bull, and

were swatting the fastest times throughout. We can see them just down

the back of the field here, actually. You can just see them going through

now. And so it's going to be very, very interesting to see how they get on,

because they were very happy with the way the car was reacting, and they felt

that a lot of the simulation work that they'd done had been very, very

effective. But qualifying, of course, always important.

And a little bit earlier on, we caught up with one of those thinking about

previous qualifying efforts going into this session as well. Let's hear from

Emma Felbermayer.

The qualifying sessions so far were quite consistent.

Qualifying P7, P8 and P8, which made me start from P2, P1 and P1,

which was a really cool experience.

But now I really want to focus on qualifying higher.

Top five finishes, hopefully, and even going higher.

But overall, the season was a little tough, especially round two and round

three, not scoring points.

But the first round was okay with 10 points, so yeah.

So let's just quickly explain that, Alice, because she was talking about

qualifying sort of seventh, eighth and ending up on pole. That's because for

normally the first race of the weekend, this is a different weekend. We've got

three races this weekend. Normally there would be two. And normally if you've

only got two races, the first race is a reverse top eight, isn't it? So if

you're fastest in qualifying, you'll actually start that first race in eighth

place. This weekend is slightly different.

because the first race of the weekend will actually be based on how they

qualified in Miami and then didn't get to race at all due to the rain.

Exactly that, Ben. So we're going to be treated through three fantastic, I'm

sure, races this weekend from F1 Academy.

Emma Felbermeyer will be starting that race, as we said, in P8 for tomorrow,

Miami cancelled postponed race.

that they'll be taking on. But Dorian Pan is back in already and putting on

another set of new tyres. So I'm guessing what she has done, has gone

scrubbed a set for one of the races over the course of this weekend and then

putting on another fresh set.

But if any of you have been watching the Formula 1 practice sessions that we've

had today, we've had two in between F1 Academy's free practice and qualifying,

it's tricky out there. Lots of those drivers particularly struggling into

section of circuit that Maia Verg has just gone through, that entry into Turn

13. There's not a lot of grip out there for these drivers. And remember, F1

Academy, no tyre warmers, so they really have to generate the tyre temperature

themselves. You can really see.

Maia Verg almost like she's got no grip whatsoever taking her first proper lap.

around this montreal circuit absolutely so we're riding on board it gives us a

good opportunity up through turns three and four now this is the chicane where

charles leclerc had an accident earlier on today in ferrari uh she thankfully

getting through there okay but this is the first time we've seen her up at full

pace because when she tried to go out in free practice the car was just running

very slow they had those electric problems you were talking about it does

as though having changed all those electrical parts and the motor that the

is working At least it's going at a decent pace, but she's now having to get

feel for the car on this track. This late braking, you've got to get the

balance really good. You've got to use those rear brakes as much as you can,

you don't want to throw the car out as you go into the corner.

Exactly. All the other drivers have had an opportunity to sense out their

braking points, trying to work out where they might need to be, played around

with the brake. I see a little bit of rear locking for Maya Virg. She goes

turn 10, get the car rotated then.

long run down this straight no DRS in these F1 Academy cars also so she'll hug

the right hand side take the shortest line possible and then try and bleed her

way out as hitting every gear change perfectly before picking out your

point jumping out on the brakes as you can see tentatively into 13 then 14 past

the wall of champions giving out enough space on that right hand side and come

across to

do her first full proper lap, first person to go across the flag.

across the line, so she'll jump up into P1, but that's quickly snatched away

from Liam Long.

So the fastest time we saw in pre -practice was 1 .38 .898, so they're a

bit off that just yet, but obviously they're building up, getting into this

again. That was Alicia Tomoski, as I said earlier. She did the 1 .38 .898.

Chambers was very close, 0 .074 of a second behind her. Alba Larson was third

fastest. Chloe Chong was going well this time. She was fourth fastest.

was quite impressive and in fact alba laughed and chloe chong and ella lloyd

a bunch they were within a tenth of each other third fourth and fifth in free

practice now of course we're into qualifying where it really does matter

will make a very distinctive grid, particularly for the final race of the

weekend. The in -between race will be the top eight reverse.

But that is, yeah, a good... Oh, but that lock -up from Alba Larsson. Oh,

into the first sequence. But thankfully, she's done a good lap before she locked

up. She was really pushing the entry going into turn 13. On board with Leah

Block now. We've got a yellow flag somewhere in sector two.

As you can hear, the...

Rear tyre scrabbling for grip as she applies the throttle on the exit of turn

10. Purple in the middle sector just briefly. That's now snatched away by

Palmowski. Green flag is out in that middle sector.

And a nice distance here, Lear Block is, to Meyerberg. She'll be benefiting

slightly from a nice toe down this back straight.

Flicking it in, does she get it to the apex? Rear kicks out slightly and then

and close to the wall on the exit. This will be a certain improvement for her.

Yes, it will. Let's just see where it goes. Yep.

Actually, my vert goes fifth. She goes fastest, as you say. So, well done, Leah

Block. Doing a good job there.

Leah Block, in the first race in Miami, the one race they did get to do,

finished fifth over the line, but she had a five -second penalty, and that

dropped her down to tenth place.

Oh, and we've got a spin for Nicole Havrida.

The Canadian having a spin, but thankfully, no damage done by the look

looks like everyone else has managed to avoid her.

Yeah, so this is just, I think, jostling for position. And she got out and you

actually saw from the first replay how dusty it was on the outside there.

And we've seen that in Formula 1 earlier on today. Porsche Super Cup as well,

being offline, kicking up a lot of dust.

Ella Lloyd now fires it through in a tricky sixth into seventh.

She'll feed her way up out into eight and nine.

Currently sitting second in the standings. Not a bad first sector, just

tenth off Alicia Palmowski, who's fastest of anybody in that sector. You

just see they're constantly fighting.

Their car here on these Pirelli slick tyres, four sets of slicks the drivers

have available for this weekend. All of them would have had to have gone out on

a new set for free practice.

So some will opt to maybe potentially run two sets in qualifying.

Others may be saving some for the races.

Interesting this for Ella Lloyd, isn't it? Because last week she was racing at

Fruxton in the F4 British Championship. She did a good job. She had a best

finish of seventh in one of those races.

And now she's at a very different track, learning a different circuit here at

Montreal. But great experience for Ella Lloyd. And she is rapid. She did make an

error in Miami at the start of the race. She does get a little oversteer

sometimes. She's got a lot of car control.

Let's just see what this lap is like. Is this one going to actually put her

ahead of Palmoski? Or is it not quite enough yet?

Over the line, no. It's not an improvement. She stays second for now.

skiing and rallying background, so she's used to slipping and sliding, but not

always the fastest way around, or certainly isn't the fastest way around

single -seater, particularly an F1 Academy car, as Ferreira jumps up into

we wait for Alba Larsson. For us, if anyone in the first sector, Alicia

Palmosky's on a very good lap as well, actually has the legs on everybody in

that middle sector.

So expecting, here's Alba Larsson coming out the final corner, turn 14, down the

straight. We'll wait to see where she pops up. And in the background as well,

some point, we shall see Alicia Palmoski. That's very impressive. Alba

going quickest so far.

The youngster, she's only 16 years old, but she's been showing great pace all

weekend so far. And we've only had the one big free practice. Alicia Palmoski,

who was fastest a moment ago, is second now. Had a bit of a slide, but dealt

with it.

She did.

That was the start of the next lap, wasn't it? It is. And actually, I have

say, shout out so far. I know we're only 10 minutes into the session, but Maya

Virg is sitting there in P5.

Her nearest title challenger, Dorian Pan, has not set a lap time at the

They're obviously waiting for the track to develop. Track evolution is so high

here. And into the pits goes Maya Virg.

I'm guessing to potentially swap over to a new set of tyres and squealing

through that final corner, we heard Leah Block.

And then in the background there, Aurelia Nobles is currently seventh.

promote herself slightly further up the order she does into P6?

Absolutely right. So, yeah, it's a good point, as you said. Dorian Pan just

waiting to come back out because the track does get quicker and quicker. We

noticed that from Formula One free practice as well, that drivers that went

on a set of tires quite later on definitely went quicker because the

cleaning up all the time. And it does sometimes take an advantage to run late.

But, of course, you don't want to run too late.

Sometimes. Oh, that's interesting. Yeah, Palmoski's had a time deleted for track

limits at turn 13.

So, you know, going over the kerbs, that is 13 .14. That's the last section

coming on to the start -finish straight here. So that has made a bit of a blow

to Palmoski. She's going to have to work again when she comes back out again.

Albert Larson, hugely impressive. She's been doing some racing in British F4

alongside separate teams, but alongside the same championship as Ella Lloyd.

Chloe Chong's also done a little bit of racing. She was at the Snetterton round

in British F4.

Purple middle sector for Leah Block. Gets the car nicely rotated.

All about getting that exit.

down this extremely long straight for these F1 Academy cars.

Let's check out her middle sector.

Not the best.

A few tenths shy of Alicia Palmosky, but more importantly, a strong first

sector. Let's watch her into the final part here then. Get the braking done

late. Get it turned.

Oh, she's actually coming in. Okay, fair enough. So she wasn't going to complete

the lap, even though she'd done a really good first sector. You'd think that

maybe the middle sector just wasn't enough to keep it going, and they've

to bring her in.

and maybe put some fresh tyres on. But she's still doing a good job at the

moment. Lea Bloch is third fastest, with Alva Larsson ahead of Ella Lloyd in

second place at the moment. Lea Bloch is third, Rafaela Ferreira in fourth

place, Aurelia Nobles in fifth, and Maya Verg with that title lead of just one

point over Dorian Pan.

But Dorian Pan is now going out on circuit, so we'll get an idea of how

going to be improving as well.

So it looks like they're opting for just one set of tyres of the Premier teams.

So Gaidman, Pan and Houseman all going out.

Risk with this is you're going to then have people coming out of the pit lane.

And we've seen in Formula 1 already today, it's traffic central.

Even though there's less cars on track here in F1 Academy, you can see Dorian

fighting the car.

She struggled, didn't she? Which is a surprise for Dorian Pan. She was eighth

pre -practice.

So clearly struggling at the moment in her prema machinery.

She clips quite heavily the inside kerb there in two turns.

Three, bleeds it round, heavy on the brakes, into six using pretty much most

the road available. And you can hear, you don't hear it very often, those

squealing. And then we saw Lance Stroll make contact with that one in pre

-practice too. Dorian Pound just about managing to avoid contact.

Yeah, that's right. But you've got to watch these kerbs, haven't you? Because

you need to use the kerbs a bit. But if you hit them too hard, it really bounces

the car and can throw you into the barrier. So it's part of the exercise of

getting this right. around this Montreal circuit is just making the right use on

the kerbs and getting this late braking done. Let's just see how deep she is

into the hairpin. That's actually a pretty good line running out on exit,

she does seem to be just a little bit off the pace so far. She's got to find a

bit more.

to move further up the order. This will bring her up, I think, into the top ten,

but I don't think it's going to quite put her up right at the very top level

just yet.

No, it won't. She's got a little bit of traffic in front of her. Is that Maya

Vogue, her nearest championship rival?

Has she slowed down? She's slowed down, checking at the mirrors. She's got her

teammate, Tina Housman, just behind them is Alba Larson, who's still

circulating, who's fastest again of anybody in that first sector.

Albers obviously cut the chicane there. I was waiting for it to come through.

So that lap won't count. Tina Housman puts her first lap time on the ball.

goes up to P12.

Yeah, 12th place. I would think that Dina Hausmann is capable of a little bit

more than that. She was 11th fastest in free practice earlier.

She's qualified as high as sixth already this year. So let's see how that goes.

Rafaela Ferreira doing a good job. She's on another out lap, already fourth

fastest, supported by Racing Bulls. And she is part of that Campos team, which

is really doing well in this series at the moment, leading the team

championship. And they're very happy, as we heard from Alicia Palmer. Mosky

after free practice, very happy with the way the car has been feeling, the way

they've set it up for this particular track and very pleased. In fact, that is

Alicia Palmosky behind in the background, both teammates.

And we will see teammates side by side on the front row because Alicia Palmosky

and Chloe Chambers will be on the front row for the first race this weekend.

The circuit, which is based, as we mentioned earlier, on the grid they had

Miami, but unfortunately the race got cancelled due to rain. So they will

racing side by side into the first corner, Alicia Palmosky and Chloe

Now, Walt's trying to do that again by making sure they qualify well for the

other races this weekend.

Certainly will. Some wildlife watching Nina Gaben come out of turn 10 through

11, jumping on the brakes into 13. You can hear the rear locking slightly, and

she just asked for it to turn in. That's a shame for her. It was a fairly decent

first and middle sector, but unfortunately for her now, that lap

as Dorian, personal best in all first and second sector. We'll wait to see if

she improves any further.

She certainly will.

Up into P3. Solid lap from her so far. That's more like it, isn't it? She's had

plenty of pole positions in F1 Academy last year, but actually none this year

yet. So we'll see how this goes. This is only the fourth opportunity to grab a

pole position this year.

But she had five pole positions last year. So we'll just see whether she can

it. Chloe Chambers has been very impressive with her pole position. She's

couple, hasn't she, this year?

She has.

She's down in 14th place at the moment. Not really set. I'm pretty sure she

actually got a lap time deleted. Yes, she did. Earlier on in the session, she

was slightly higher up. But Alba Larsson has done nine laps solidly and been

pretty much at the top of the time. So that tells me not only is track

evolution, as we've already mentioned, pretty big, but these Pirelli tyres are

surviving.

A hack around this Montreal circuit.

The temperatures are similar to what we saw in free practice.

They're only free practice session.

So the times are going to continue to tumble. Abel Arsene's still in the pits,

but Chloe Chambers had closed that gap down, jumps up into P2, half a second as

we're back on board with Dorian Pan.

Yeah, so let's just see whether Dorian Pan is going to be able to close up a

little bit more. Currently down in fourth position. So 1 .39, 5 .52 is the

that she's trying to aim for. Top speed for these Formula 4 cars around this

circuit, around 145 miles an hour before going on to the brakes. Now, hit the

kerbs too hard, but that was pretty good.

Using the full, nearly the full width. Nina Gaidman's just done a good job.

She's gone third fastest.

Does this improve Dorianne Pan as she goes over the line? Yes, she goes second

fastest by a tiny margin from Alva Larsson. Look at that, 0 .016 of a

this is more as we would have expected. As expected, Dorianne Pan with all her

experience going second fastest. Let's just see what's happened to Chloe

Chambers here.

Oh, she's going to get held up by... Oh, my God, dude. I almost just

crashed into Matilda.

Oh, Matilda Pats, who is the wildcard entry. So it's the first time she's been

in F1 Academy.

Using all the kerbs there from...

Chloe Chambers, but looking down, Ben, his personal bests are flying left,

and centre. Alicia Parmosky set the best out of everybody in that middle sector.

Here's Chloe Chambers coming down into the final section of corner. So this

order is certainly going to change how by much our current...

Pole sitter is just jumped out of the pit.

As I say that, Alicia Pomosky jumps to the top of the times, 139 .260.

Yeah, so let's see. Coe Chambers goes quicker again. So this is what we saw in

pre -practice. The two of them swatting fastest times.

They are teammates and both very happy with the way the car feels at the

We are watching Nina Gaidman, who did a good job just now. She's fifth fastest

currently. And Nina Gaidman, who was very unlucky in the opening race in

earlier this year when she'd actually qualified eighth, but because of the

reverse top eight grid, she was on pole position for the first race, led nearly

all of it, but then had a non -finish just towards the end of the race, which

was disappointing.

So her best qualifying this year has actually been eighth amongst everybody

else, and she's doing a better job so far, fifth fastest so far, but Dorianne

Pan improves again. She goes third.

So she had a whole colour board there of a personal best, the best overall, and

then not a personal best. She lost a couple of tenths in that final sector,

which certainly cost her a position.

Alicia Pomarski once again setting the world on fire. And then Chloe Chambers

even more so. Alicia has got a fairly decent track position, going to get a

toe from her teammate in front. Leah Block is at the head of that field. So

order is certainly going to change.

Looking down, though, someone that's not...

Thank you very

much.

beats that they did in free practice, and yes, we're faster now. So that is

fastest time of the day. Palmoski did a 38 .898 earlier today, 38 .749, but it's

Chloe Chamberlain. No, not quite going to beat her this time. Her third sector

was not her best, but they are still pushing each other, and the gap between

them is so tiny, and you're looking at the sector, so sector one, sector two,

and then sector three was where Chambers missed out a little bit, and Alicia

Palmoski is holding top spot. At the moment, Ella Lloyd having a bit of a

too. She certainly was. Maybe a little bit too much curve. You can see the

bounce there.

And nice showing up her car control right for our camera crew down there on

exit. But not the fastest way around.

But she set a decent first and middle sector. Dorian Pan again having a look.

Is she going to improve? She crosses the line. She improves her lap time.

Doesn't quite improve her position. A small lock -up. Can she keep it tidy?

Just about, and you can see the amount of lock they've got on to get the car

rotated and get on the throttle on the exit of turn two. Ella Lloyd improves,

though, up to P5.

Yeah, that's good stuff.

Rafael Ferreira, let's see how she gets on with this as well.

Meanwhile, Maya Verg is in the pits, as we can see in the background there.

They're still doing some work on that card, trying to get her ready to come

There's only just over eight minutes of this session to go.

Is Maya Verg, the championship, the series leader, down in 11th? Is she

be able to improve on that?

I mean, it doesn't look like from her body language that Susie Wolfe down

talking to...

MP Motorsports F1 Academy team manager, Welter. And you can see the

disappointment. So unlucky for her. Totally out of her control.

Ferreira, though, meanwhile, back on track, improves to P5. Chloe Chambers

up to P1. By, again, a tiny margin, 0 .053 over teammate Alicia Palmoski. So

Chambers, Palmoski, one and two. Dorianne Pan in third place. But there

looking at Dorianne Pan, backed by Mercedes.

And this is...

Really significant for her to be up that far on the grid with her big rival,

Maya Berg, having a real struggle down in 12th place. Mind you, Chloe Chambers,

third in the championship at the moment, a little bit behind, but not too far.

Oh, that was a little lock -up, but she got away with it. But this is very good

for Dorianne Pan. Let's just see fastest middle sector. This could indeed put

her onto the front row. Is it going to do that? Let's have a look. No, not

quite. In the end, she stays in. in third place. Third sector wasn't so

Comparing to the two Campos cars, she's just struggling in that final sector we

saw. You mentioned, Ben, having a lock -up into the final corner. Ella Lloyd

again improves up to P4.

Chloe Chambers, though, wow!

A mighty first and middle sector.

And you can see, look how she goes slightly deeper than some of the other

onboards we've seen. Gets the car rotated and gets on that throttle to get

exit. She may benefit ever so... slightly from uh the car in front which

could potentially be lear block yes it is but a nice distance away for her but

again plenty of people improving my verg is back out on track she's got six

minutes to try and improve if and that is a big if this issue with her car is

sorted Let's see what Chloe Chambers does, because Palmowski has done a good

lap. Chloe Chambers, yes, that was a mega lap. A 38 .125, my goodness.

Seven tenths faster than they did in free practice earlier today, and she's

five tenths faster than her teammate. That was a really superb lap. And

remember, she's on target for getting her third pole position out of four

so far this year, yet she's not had a win so far this year. She did have a win

last year, but Chloe Chambers will have to see how that goes.

Head down, let's rocket. Head down, let's rocket.

Palmowski being encouraged. She's second fastest, but there's a bit more time to

be found. Dorianne Pan in third place. You're looking at Dorianne, who's about

to come over the line, having done a good middle sector. But the last sector

not always good for her, but she does go second. So she goes ahead of Palmowski.

Palmowski definitely needs to find a bit more. And now with Ella Lloyd. Let's

see how she does. So not a personal best in that first sector, but a decent

middle. Let's see if she improves in the final. She does. Goes up still seven

tenths of a second off close. Chambers, who is not improving on this lap, but

she's the only driver that's consistently in the 26 seconds in that

sector. Everybody else is in the 27 seconds, as I should say that. Dorian

pretty much nearly matches her, so don't dismiss Dorian Pan or anybody else,

particularly Alicia Palmofsky as well, who's on a pretty decent lap.

Maya Verg, as you say, is out at the moment. I'm just going to try and keep

eye out to see whether...

She does complete the lap. Yes, she's completed the lap.

She's onto a lap now. So we'll see what kind of pace. Oh, a bit of a lock -up

from Alicia Palmoski.

Just trying to navigate the traffic. Look at the flat spot.

Yeah, that's going to affect her. So actually, she was on a good lap.

And then that last sector was absolutely hampered. That's down into turn 10.

She's just trying to get better track position from her teammates.

I mean, you've raced many times, Alice. When you've locked up a front tyre like

that and really flat spots, you get quite a shake through the car, and it

affect the braking then going forward, doesn't it? It does, and it will always

find that spot. That's, again, the frustrating thing. It'll always find

flat spot.

Hopefully, not too many of the drivers will be struggling with that because

we've seen quite a few lock -ups. Dorian Pan really...

hanging the rear of that car out, getting as close as she could to the

champions there.

Doesn't improve this time round, but there's still, and again, you can just

that flat spot beginning to become worse and worse for Dorian on that front left

tire. Alicia, sorry, Chloe Chambers, let's hear from her.

I'm just going to get a bit of a gap to Leah in front, so I hopefully get a tie

with her.

Yeah, well, that's good. She's telling the radio. That is Leah Block up ahead.

So she's trying to get a little bit of a tow down this section.

We'll see whether this works for her.

She's not doing anything particularly rapid, is she?

I mean, it's not a personal best. She's a few tenths off her best in the first

sector, but she has done a personal best in that middle sector.

Right. Not as fast as Dorian Pan. And we've just seen a team viewer box there

the MP Motorsport team still struggling to work out what is going on with Maya's

car. She has improved, though. Yeah, but only by a tiny bit. Yeah, she's rapidly

running out of time. Alicia Pomofsky improves still.

Not quite what she'll want, though, sticking in P3.

And that's a big lock -up from Leah Block. And this is going to,

hamper Chloe Chambers throughout the lap, potentially.

Yeah, but that gap between Dorianne Pan and Alicia Palmowski, it was three

thousandths of a second.

So Palmowski so nearly got herself back on the front row, but just missed out.

Here's the wildcard entry. Mathilde Paz, the 17 -year -old German racer. And

she's doing a decent job, actually. 14 fastest.

Bear in mind, this is the first time she's competed in F1 Academy.

And quite often we see the wildcard entries.

right down at the back of the qualifying, but she's doing a decent

she's ahead of Maia Verg, and Maia Verg's not having a very good time, but

pretty impressive. Oh, dear, that didn't work for Rafaela Ferreira, but she got

away with it, I think. Yeah, that's a bumpy braking zone going into Turn 1,

you can just see from that first replay we saw, hitting the bumps, having that

lock -up, and then flying, taking to this skate road, flying across Turn 2.

Courtney Crone in the Haas F1 team.

car having a lock up into the final chicane but does she pretty much make it

look like she she did, but Joanne De Conte now has jumped up into the top

Mayerberg scrambling on the brakes, goes through 13, then 14, gets close to the

wall of champions on the exit. This is going to improve her time, but she's

still got a lot of time to find if she wants to challenge for that top eight.

Let's see. It's only one place she gains. She goes 14. She goes ahead of

wildcard entry, but that's nothing like what we normally see from Mayerberg.

She's normally so rapid, and she's got that one point in the series lead.

Palmoski. They're still in third place, missing out on that front row by such a

tiny fraction.

Let's have another look at Courtney Crone. Oh, she had a big lock -up,

she? But managed to get out of it and didn't do any damage to the car. But

quite a long way down. She's down in 16th position currently. So it's not

coming together for Courtney Crone as she would like. The 24 -year -old

American. Best qualifying she's done so far this year is 11th.

She's down in 16th position.

Chloe Chong, she was going really well earlier in free practice, but it's not

working so well for her at the moment. She's down in 12th. Yeah, as you say

that, though, she's set a good first sector and not a bad middle sector.

Maya Virg, though, has not set a personal best, and she won't get another

So I wonder if she's still struggling with that car issue. She must be,

because we saw her up there in the top five. So bad luck for her.

Alicia Parmosky, though.

doing a pretty decent job. She's closing that gap to Chloe Chambers. The

checkered flag's about to come out, but people who are on quick laps could still

change the order. Remember, this is the overall qualifying order that will

determine race three grid, but race two this weekend will be the top eight

reversed. If you're eighth...

which is what Rafaela Ferreira is right now, you will start from the pole

position for race two this weekend. So that could be very beneficial, but we

could see some changes on this lap. We could. It's a very good first. A middle

sector from Alicia Palmowski. Is it going to be enough to steal the top

Not quite from her teammate. Jumps up into P2, though.

Snatches P2 away from Dorian Pan, who's still on a lap, but it's not good

enough. It's not a great...

first sector from her so i think for now at least this is our top two positions

yeah very impressive it looks like chloe chambers is on target for her third

pole position this year but will she get her first win it's going to be her 21st

birthday tomorrow chloe chambers as well so whether that has an effect but it'll

actually ironically she will be starting from pole in tomorrow's first race the

second race she won't because that will be the top eight reversed and then the

race on sunday Then she will, if this stays as it is, she then will start from

pole position again on Sunday. We'll have to wait and see. Let's just watch

see if there are any more improvements. Ellen Lloyd, who's been doing a very

good job. She's fourth fastest.

Doesn't look like she's going to improve on this lap.

So it looks as though she's going to be on the second row for the final race of

this weekend. But it keeps her in a very good spot, actually, for the reverse

grid race because she's in that same sort of position and she gets a better

start this time.

now has seen the checkered flag. So that is it. We now know Chloe Chambers has

taken pole position for the main points race this weekend. It is her third pole

position in F1 Academy so far this year. But she's looking for her first win in

the 2025 season.

And she's got two big chances for that.

You nailed it, Squally. You nailed it, Squally.

Got them all.

Come on.

Very tired for the go -kart.

Maybe we'll have some more, some extras, some spares for the rest of the year.

Good job. Good job, Chloe. What a mega quality.

Thank you guys very much.

That's good to hear. She's a very good qualifier, but she's got to convert that

into a race win now.

And we've seen how feisty Dorian Pan can be at the start. Not from last year,

but also from this year as well.

For them, they'll be relieved that Mayerberg's down in 15th place, still

struggling with those car issues. But a great job by Chloe Chambers. Three

tenths of a second clear from her nearest rival and teammate, Alicia

So really, really solid job by the American.

It's interesting. We're going to have the same front row for race one and race

three in Montreal this weekend.

But race two, of course, just to remind you, top eight reverse.

So it will be Chloe Chong you're looking at now, eighth fastest in this. So she

will start from pole on the reverse grid.

The Charlotte Tilbury -backed machine starting on pole for the first time in

Academy. Thorian Pan half a second off.

There's a little bit of work to do still for her and her Prema team, but still.

She can be fairly pleased with that, knowing, as we've already mentioned, her

closest rival in the championship, only one point behind Maverick, is down much

further down the order and clearly still struggling with car problems.

Yeah, well, for Chloe Chong, it's going to be a good opportunity. But mind you,

it doesn't always work.

Emma Felbermayer, we were talking about before she was on pole on the reverse

grid in Miami, in fact, but ended up finishing in 15th place. So didn't score

any points at all. But she led early on.

But we shall see how that goes. The reverse grid race, always very

to see how it works because you've got the quicker people further back and

they've got to fight their way forward.

But it's been a really interesting qualifying.

And it is Chloe Chambers who has set the outright pace once again for the third

time this season. Chloe Chambers, top qualifier.

Second, teammate Alicia Palmosky. And in third place, Dorianne Pan, who is just

one point behind in the series lead. That's another very good start. Ellen

in fourth place, ahead of Tina Hausman, Emma Felbermayer, Nina Gaidman, and

Chloe Chong. And it will be Chloe Chong who will have that pole in the reverse

grid race. Leah Block, nine.

Rafaela Ferreira, down in 10th in the end. She had been a bit further up the

order earlier on. Joanne Ciccante has done a decent job in 11th. Albert

all the way down in 12th. I don't quite understand that because she was going so

well earlier.

Aurelia Nobles, down in 15th, had a Courtney Crone, Eva Anagnostiadis, and

Nicole Havrida in 18th.

Well, there we go. That sets up for two of the races. But of course, the first

race tomorrow will actually be the lineup from the first in Miami. So we

have to see how that goes.

Yeah, 9 .15 local time. You can check that race out.

Yeah, so we will look forward to that. I do hope you can join us for the first

of three races of F1 Academy in Canada.

was the fastest one.