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The first F1 Academy race of the season saw Nina Gateman on pole, and she made a

great start to lead. Chloe Chambers in the Red Bull back car made a good

getaway, but incidents were coming along, and we saw Shi Wei spin off very

on. There were several contacts.

Aurelia Nobles was one of three non -finishers, and Chloe Chong made

And Eva Felbermayer, who also had a bit of a tough time, there were a couple of

contacts on her car. But Alicia Palmowski.

survived it all to take the win just ahead of teammate Chloe Chambers.

The second race of the opening F1 Academy event in China is about to get

underway. Welcome to our coverage as some very talented and ambitious young

female racing drivers attempt to deliver strong results in front of a huge crowd

at the Shanghai International Circuit.

My name is Ben Edwards. Alongside me is racer and F1 Academy expert Alice

Powell. And we're looking forward to another 13 lap contest around this 16

track. Long back straight where slip streams can help potential overtakes and

corners where... Brake braking offers opportunities, but can also cause issues

if the timing of hitting the brakes goes wrong, as we did see, Alice, a few

times in race one.

We did.

Good morning. Hello, everybody, wherever you are in the world. And the first

action today on track has already happened. As some of you eagle -eyed may

already seen on the pictures, there's quite a bit of dust out on the circuit.

The formation lap will start behind the safety car. There is some oil around,

and we've seen the marshals on our pictures before we came on air, really

to clear up that oil. Kimi Antonelli is down there supporting his team, Prema

Racing, of course, but Dorian Parrott. who is also a Mercedes junior driver. So

great to see him on the grid. And Dorian starting P2 with her rival, Maia Verg.

She'll be looking forward to try making amends from a race yesterday. It was

slightly difficult for Dorian. I'm sure she would have been really frustrated

with the outcome.

Couldn't quite move forward as well as she would have liked.

Yeah, so that's Dorianne Pan starting in second place. Can she get back on the

podium? She just missed out with that fourth place finish yesterday.

So let's take a look at it all.

And this is the starting grid. Leah Block starting at the back. And Shi Wei,

Chinese girl, doing this one -off race as the wildcard entry.

Then on the next row, it's Rafaela Ferreira, who did a brilliant job in the

yesterday to finish in fifth from a long way back. Eva Anagnostia, the artist,

also did well. She got into eighth place.

Courtney Crone and Aurelien Nobles, they had a bit of a challenging time.

And also, Nicole Havreder, she had a tough time. Ella Lloyd getting some

penalties, but there's some problems. But she's got up to sixth place in the

end, actually. She did a great job.

Tina Hausman starting from ninth place, just ahead of Chloe Chong.

And then as we get into the top eight, it's Nina Gaidman, who was leading the

race for so long. She'll start eighth. Emma Felbermeyer alongside, having had a

few contacts in the race.

Joanne Chiconte, she starts sixth. Alicia Palmofsky, who won that first

she starts in fifth position.

Chloe Chambers, who was very strong, finishing a strong second, she starts

fourth. Alba Larson, 16 -year -old, starting from third position. And then

that front row, Dorian Pan and Maya Verg, they are two experienced F1

racers, and they will be racing hard to try and take the victory here. But let's

see how it all works out, Alice, because we've seen some good talent already.

Alba Larson, one of those in...

actually, because, OK, it didn't all quite work out. Did get a 10 -second

penalty like several drivers. Ended up finishing in seventh place, hitting

Felbermayr, but still pretty impressive what she's done so far.

Oh, no, there's been a great showing from some of these young drivers on the

grid. We've got some more experienced drivers, of course. Chloe Chambers, who

raced in F1 Academy last year, took one win. That was back in Barcelona.

She'll be looking forward to moving forward onto that podium play. She's

a driver. Even if she fell back slightly last year, would always move forward.

So they had very good pace Campos yesterday.

Nina Gaidman was hugely unlucky with a technical issue. She executed

Perfectly, didn't she, with the three safety car restarts. So she'll be hoping

that everything is sorted with her Prima machine and she'll be able to move

forward. But another nice turnout here in Shanghai as the crowd watch on,

waiting a slightly delayed start due to that oil, but will be underway very

soon. Yeah, absolutely.

As you say, let's just listen in, Chloe Chong. And there's still an extra

formation lap, is that right?

Correct, yes, there's an extra formation lap.

Right, so that's something that you can all learn. So they'll do an expert

formation lap. And you can see where they've put the dust down, where there's

been oil, and it all goes down all the way down the grid. So I think that's why

they're doing a rolling start, because those who would be starting there would

be very disadvantaged, wouldn't they? Yes, that is the reason, Ben, because

just that you can see from the road in motorsport, Charlotte Tilbury of Chloe

Chong.

they will be heavily impacted on that side of the grid. So it is only fair for

them all to have a fair shot having the start under safety car. And as you heard

there from the radio message from Chloe Chambers, an extra formation lap just to

try and move some of that dust. We were sat there watching, and even when the

safety car came out, it kicked up so much dust.

at that final corner. And whoever is going to be the leader coming round on

first push lap, effectively, that we have that's underway at higher speed,

they'll be hoping that dust is not going to be too slippy. But there's our

wildcard entry.

Shee Wei, who unfortunately didn't make it through the opening lap yesterday,

just having a spin down on the exit of turn seven. So she'll be hoping to...

to go slightly further in this race and gain that vital experience from this F1

Academy machinery.

Yeah, let's hope she can get a little further in this race and the only

racer that has raced in F1 Academy so far. Yeah, with the support of the fans,

of course, as well. Let's hope that Xi Wei has a better lap this time. So she's

starting down in 17th place. But I tell you what, people made some good gains up

the order yesterday.

Three drivers who started outside the top 14.

made points in the top eight places.

Now, this one was a difficult one for Joanne Chiquante. She didn't have a

particularly good time. She is starting in sixth place. She actually was third

on the reverse grid, finished in 14th last, basically.

But she had a couple of penalties. She had the stop -go penalty and had to do

again or get more of a penalty because she did it during the safety car period,

which, of course, you're not meant to do. So it didn't go well for Joanne

Chiquante. But let's see how she goes, starting from sixth.

And she is the youngest. of all, only two days younger than Alba Larson, who's

starting third. The Joanne Chacon say she is 16. Both of them were born in

December 2008.

It's a very young and up -and -coming talent on the grid, able to showcase

they're made of, but Maya Virg, she'll be hoping to almost continue her form

towards the end of last season. She was the final race winner back in Abu Dhabi

and got her first pole position on Saturday.

in this qualifying session she'll be calm as ever and you can see just on the

steering wheel there they are have got sort of the fia system on this f1

car and the three surface flag was out here's tina houseman uh try to work

together with nina okay it's your teammate it's not your enemy so we work

together and we have to jump some girls in front

Interesting. Yeah, try and work with your teammate.

So they are Prima teammates.

Tina Housman starts ninth. Nina Gaidman starts in eighth place. So you're

looking at Tina Housman there with the Aston Martin livery. Nina Gaidman

the Alpine car. There you see it. So you can see how close they are on the grid,

and they've been asked to work together.

Yes, I wonder if Tina gave a response back to that or not. Likewise, I'm sure

Nina was passed on the same message, but just trying to not get in an

unnecessary fight with each other. If one is slightly faster...

to maybe allow them to pass, to move forward. They clearly know that that

car has got good pace around here. Okay, Dorian struggled slightly yesterday in

the race, but was still on good form in qualifying.

And actually, Nina's pace, with the very little racing laps that we had, was

pretty strong during the race as well yesterday.

Absolutely right. It's interesting, actually, these Formula 4 cars, as they

they are junior single -seater category, of course, but they're...

a track where the speeds go up, and we've seen one of the fastest times. At

end of the straight, Rafaela Pereira had that at 248 kilometres an hour, which

is 154 miles per hour.

154 miles an hour in a Formula 4 car, pretty impressive. I mean, we have a

straight here, you do get a tow as well, but that is impressive.

For these young drivers, it is, like you said, with its type of machinery,

that's certainly shifting, and I'm sure none of these drivers are paying too

much attention to the speeds when they're racing wheel -to -wheel. wheel

that back straight but uh it's great for us to know that this is a good level of

machinery for for the young drivers and there's courtney courtney crone who

starting slightly further down the order than i'm sure she she would have liked

in 14th place she was a wild card at miami last year so she's had a little

of experience prior to coming into this weekend of how being on the world stage

on a formula one weekend how big that could be and the importance of it but of

course It's great for these girls to show what they can do, and I'm looking

forward to some exciting racing on this one as the formation lap is underway.

Absolutely, and it is an exciting track, of course, for Shanghai International.

That first section for turns one, two, and three, always a big challenge. They

did well with it yesterday.

They managed to all get through it pretty much without... There was a

of incident, but no major contact, so it all went well. We shall see how it goes

when we get into the race. So, let's...

Here from the top three on this grid in reverse order. And let's start off with

the 16 -year -old from Denmark, Alba Larsson.

I'm hoping that I can keep up with my end, just getting lots of points and,

yeah, hopefully finishing up there as well. And, yeah, just getting a lot of

experience. And I know it's my first race. So, yeah, at the same time, I'm

expecting too much. But the P3 is going to, yeah.

Help with the points.

I'm hoping to win and I will go for it.

As I said, we have one more set new, so I think we have put a good chance to

do a good race. So we're going to focus also on Sunday to get as much as

possible points and finish on top.

Hopefully have a good start.

The pace probably will be nice, hopefully.

But then...

We have a very long straight before T14, so I have to try and find a way to keep

people behind me at the beginning and then hopefully pull away.

Maybe. We'll try.

Well, Maya Verg, who starts from pole position, who's had one win last year.

the end of the year, she took the last victory of last year. But today, when

finished in third, she got a ninth podium.

Is she going to be able to take another victory today, do you think?

Well, she'll be hoping that that is going to be the case. But just to point

interesting what Dorian said in her interview, that she has one set of new

tires, which will be bolted on that Mercedes livery machinery.

I gather from reading the press release on F1 Academy's website from the quotes

from the drivers after qualifying, it sounds like Prema were the only ones

really to save a set of new tyres.

So really interested to see her pace.

The circuit does really take a lot out of the tires, particularly in that first

long sector. That turn one, the radius really tightens there up into turn two.

So that front left takes quite a beating. And we've seen, not just from

Academy, but also the F1 drivers really struggling through this long, long turn

one. Now into turn two here, riding on board with yesterday's race winner,

Alicia Palmowski.

Yeah, she did a great job yesterday.

I mean, she was a little bit fortunate that Gateman, Paul Gateman, had that

technical issue when she was leading the race quite comfortably. But then she

did a fantastic job of just being able to hold on and Alicia Palmosky taking

that first win for her. So she leads on 10 points, but remember, there are 25

points on offer for the victory in this race because this is not reverse grid,

so you get fewer points.

in the reverse grid race, but Alicia Palmoski currently leads on 10 points at

this stage, and we will see how it all goes. Chloe Chambers is currently second

on nine, and Maya Ver, because she got the pole position, you get two points

pole position. She's third on eight, so the top three are only separated by

three points. That will be very different after this race when they get

F1 point system of 25 from the start, from the win.

You'll see as well, get a point for fastest lap.

So the driver that is in the top ten during this race and top eight for the

first race.

So I'm expecting, if there's one extra formation, that we're on it now. I'm

hoping that that means that the safety car lights will go out shortly. So keep

an eye on our screen, Ben, to see that. No, it looks like they're possibly maybe

going around again as the MP Motorsport team watch on.

Of course, new driver moving across from MP is Meyerberg.

And she settled in quite nicely, it must be said.

Yeah, it's like really dusty, really slippery. So I think another formation

is the right choice.

She must have our country on in the car there. So it sounds like another

formation lap. It does look particularly slippery.

through there where they're going now, which is the final corner into turn 16.

The F4 cars are moving it ever so slightly, but not a great deal. But

hopefully we will get some action underway very soon.

You've raced plenty of times, Alice. When you're on a track where there's

oil going down and they've dusted over it, you've got to be pretty wary,

you? And the whole thing really often is to try and stay off that area

completely.

It is, but when it's on the apex, it's particularly tricky. So what a lot of

these drivers would have done, I don't know if we actually caught a glimpse of

Maiva going through that final corner.

She probably would have backed off slightly from the safety car. Of course,

can't drop too far back. More than five car lengths is not allowed.

But she would have just tried to feel the grip through that last corner

of course, she...

She is hoping that she will be the driver that's going to come through that

final corner in first place. But all the drivers would have done something

similar. It's just try and carry a bit more speed through that final corner

compared to anywhere else on this lap at the moment, just to get a feel of the

condition through there. And it sounds like that's exactly what Chloe Chambers

has been doing because she came on the radio, of course, and said it's

particularly slippery.

Nice and clean on this part of the circuit. You can see they're bleeding

way down into turn 11.

A couple of overtakes. I think Tina Housman made one.

down there during the start of the race yesterday. The lights are off on the

safety car, Ben. Right, so we will get a rolling start, and once they get around

to the start -finish line once again, coming, as you say, into this section

leads on to the longest straight, where we saw those high speeds and the tow. It

was interesting, I was just looking at the speeds they were doing yesterday,

Nina Gaidman, who, of course, was leading all the race until she had to

but she never got a tow, so the fastest she got down the straight was about five

miles an hour slower.

than many of the others because they were all getting tows from behind. So

sort of shows us that you get about five mile an hour gain when you get the tow

from the car ahead.

Yes, no DRS, no push to pass or anything like that. So you are just relying on a

decent exit and the tow from the car in front, as Maya Verg is still building

tyre temperature.

And the track temperature is around about five degrees cooler. Actually,

just gone up a little bit more. So around about four degrees cooler than it

yesterday. Air temperature is fairly similar.

But she'll coming down into turn 14, the heavy braking zone.

And I'm guessing she's going to leave it fairly late.

Well, let's see how this goes, because we are getting ready for the second race

to get underway. You can hear, as we're on board with Dorian Pan, that the

power's really picking up. And now it is Mayerberg who earned pole position and

is now taking the rolling start for this second race of the season.

Mayerberg has launched away, but she is already under pressure from her big

rival, Dorian Pan. And Dorian Pan in the Mercedes.

delivering, coming around the outside into turn one, around the outside of the

Ferrari. But is it enough? I'm not sure it is. Maya Merck trying to hold that

inside line. Oh, she had to correct.

A brilliant overtake from Dorian Padish. She's going to get it stopped for turn

three. She does, and Maya was a bit tentative through that.

Final corner under that oil. Of course, she's the first driver through there on

the safety car restart. I was expecting her maybe to leave it slightly later,

but she's going to be determined to duck into the back of that. So everyone

clean in the background.

Nina Gaidman's trying to get past Emma Felbermayer in front.

Oh, they've made contact.

Gaidman and Felbermayer, what a shame. They were eighth and seventh on the

starting grid, and they both have had a... difficult time this weekend when

should really have been on the pace all the time. Was it Houseman or was it...

Yeah, it was Tina Housford. She was told to make sure you work with your

teammate and the opposite has happened.

Oh, no, we've got more spins as well.

Aurelien Nobles off. Oh, dear, oh, dear. This is all getting a little bit

tricky. Nicole Havrida as well. And there's damage to the cars. And they're

going off there as well.

We've got the number 25 car, Joancy Conte. So, oh, this is really proving to

a difficult start.

It is. Of course, there's going to be a safety car after.

The stricken car that we have, I think that was down by the looks of it, maybe

at turn eight, I think it was.

But frustration for Maya Berg. She'll be kicking herself for losing that

position at the start, particularly when Dorianne's got those new tyres bolted

on. But that's heartbreak for Nobles who didn't finish yesterday.

Exactly. Second race in a row that she's been climbing out of the car.

Pretty, well, this is even earlier than the other race. She was going for a

little longer. And that is really disappointing for the 18 -year -old

in her second year of F1 Academy.

And unfortunately, it's all gone wrong. And also the disappointment for Joanne

Chiconte there on the left -hand side, number 25.

In the F1 Academy colours, so she is supported by F1 Academy with MP

and that is so disappointing for the youngest entry, 16 -year -old. She did

finish the first race, but only down at the back because she had penalties, so

tough weekend for her as well.

Definitely a big disappointment for those drivers. We've got a few replays

gathered together.

A lot of damage on some of those cars.

So big frustration for those that are out early on. Another DNF for Havrita

She got hit by Chloe Chong, didn't she, in the first race. So number two that

you're looking at there, the Canadian, she's out of this race as well. So it

seems to be a similar bunch, sadly, who had problems in the first race. Okay,

let's have a look at this, Al. Let's see what we can work out. So Dorian was

already... tucked nicely underneath the rear wing of Meyerberg and braved it

round the outside possibly with that extra grip from the new tyres that she's

got on her Prema racing machine she was able to hold it round the inside and

actually she pinched Meyerberg quite nicely forced her slightly on the kerb

you can see all the corrections and there was contact Ben the front wings of

Dorian Patton's car just touching the rear of Meyerberg and you can see tucked

up face full of dust

For Dorian, but she won't mind because she sailed through a great move around

the outside of my VIRG. Let's have a look at this from online, as you say.

she just moved in time. My goodness, she really went for that. She could almost

clip the front wing around the outside.

And this was beautifully done.

We've seen this before. Look at the correction she's having to do. And not

as much correction as VIRG had to, but she had to deal with it. She did. And

dealt with it so well. And a big sigh of relief coming from her. She took the

risk. And it paid off. But after yesterday, she knew she had to take the

Let's have a little look further on in the background. So you can see Tina

Housman's going down the inside.

Just a late move once again.

Yeah, she just took me out.

Yeah, so Nina Gaidman, who led so much of the first race, getting taken out by

Tina. Haussmann. Now, I'm just looking at Joanne Giaconte. I think she was so

unlucky here. She's got nowhere to go, and I think her rear... I don't know

I don't know.

Well, Haussmann saying...

And they are teammates, aren't they? They're both with Prema. Yeah, so watch

F1 Academy car, Liberty car here. We're going to be able to see it. So Joanne De

Conte was just unlucky.

We can't really see it from this onboard, but I think her rear is just

clipped. Tina Houseman spinning Aston Martin there.

Let's have a look. Is it going to be front wheel to rear wheel?

Possibly not. I think it's another incident probably. Yeah, it must be

incident. But the fact that the Prema drivers were spoken to on the grid, and

now they've ended up hitting each other. Ah, right. There we go.

Oh, dear.

So the contact being made there from Chloe Chong into the back of Joachim

and then the others trying to avoid her, but they couldn't. Yeah.

Oh, my God, I'm so unlucky.

Yes. Yes.

There's no words else to say back to that. She is. So that was all calls from

Chloe Chong going into the back of...

Joanne Giaconte and then sadly for Nicole Havrida and Oriola Noble had

nowhere to go at all so sadly early end for those two drivers they have or three

drivers should I say all made it back and I'm expecting there'll be some kind

penalty for Chloe Chong the stewards are quite quick with making their their

decisions

Yeah, she got a penalty, a 10 -second penalty in the earlier race, the race

when she hit Havreder that time.

And, well, yeah, it's just not going well at all, is it, for that little

They just couldn't get out of the way, I do feel for them. The cars are all

being moved out of the way so that we can get the racing restarted again with

Dorianne Pan currently leading with the...

Mercedes back to Prema team. The Prema team have lost two of their cars,

as we've seen. Well, not lost them, but certainly lost plenty of positions.

There's one of them there, the number 78 of Tina Hausman, who had that contact

with Nina Gaidman. There they are, Nina Gaidman, and right at the back now. So

it's a bit ironic, but for the Prema team, they've got a car leading, and

they've got two cars right down the back of the field.

One thing to also point out is Alba Larson. She's held on to the charging

Chambers in P3.

So she's had a decent restart. It was all going off at the front, the mid

that we missed that. So good start by her. She's also mentored, so I've been

told, by Kevin Magnusson. So I'm sure he's had plenty of experience around

track, so he would have passed on some wise words, I'm sure.

Also, keep an eye out for the Williams livery carpet further down the order,

down in 11th place. That's Leah Block, who started right down at the back of

grid. She started down in 18th place. She's got up... to 11th place.

You can see, as you can just see in the background, Joanne Siquant now talking

to her team, the disappointment, the tough one, of coming back into the pit

early in the race after that incident. But there's nothing she can do about it.

So, yeah, we're looking back at the race leader right now as we're still behind

the safety car. But as I mentioned, Leah Block has made a good amount of ground.

moving from 18th to 11th. She's just ahead of Eva Anagnostiadis, who started

down in 15th place, and Anagnostiadis managed to finish in 8th place in the

first race.

Can you give me an explanation of why Tina hit me?

Did she lock up, or...? I have no current information. We'll review it

race. OK, just to give you some info on that, she was pretty far behind me, so

it's pretty hard to hit me.

Copy. She's not happy, Nina Gabe, is she? No, and rightly so.

I believe Tina was defending from another car. Let's have a little look at

top of the screen.

Yes, so she was defending from Giaconte and just outbraked herself, plain and

simple there.

Had nowhere to go. She applied a bit more brake with a bit more steering

and that's what's caused the lock -up you can just see.

puffs of smoke come out and then nina was the innocent party being tagged and

spun around so real frustration as you could hear from the voice of nina

but safety car is is ending dorianne's gonna be feeling pretty confident i can

imagine maia verg knows she's got to try and get past dorianne as early as she

can particularly when dorianne's on those new sets of pirelli tires but the

safety car lights will go out now

And interesting to see where Dorianne's going to go with her safety car restart

this time.

Absolutely. And we'll keep an eye on some of those further down. Courtney

by the way, in ninth place. She's come up from 14th on the grid. So she's also

trying to make some progress. The American 24 -year -old who has raced all

of things over the years, but is doing F1 Academy full on this year. So here we

are then. Still a little way to go before we get the race actually

We'll decide where to go.

As you say, Dorianne Pan.

Will she keep them all together? At the moment, she is. As they come down the

straight, she's definitely not accelerating away hard yet. She's

pace quite slow.

Those at the back need to be a little cautious, but they're all very aware at

this point. And then we'll be seeing when she's going to go for it.

She's waiting. She's weaving, trying to distract the driver behind, but also

keeping up some tyre temperature, making sure that your revs are nice and

settled, and it's...

You're eager, not too early, so you crash into the back, but not too late

you don't get a good start.

expecting she's going to go in the middle of that hairpin where Maya Berg's

the most amount of lock -on. So it's a carbon copy. They've copied each other

effectively. She'll be the first one to test out this dust once again. Yeah, so

into the final corner and the race gets back underway again under green flag.

And Dorianne Pan, who qualified in second, has taken that lead off the

and stays in front on the restart as well. Maya Berg.

In second place, the two of them being chased by Alba Larson and Chloe Chambers

still getting nicely involved. Then Leah Block, as I mentioned, number 57 up on

the outside, trying to make the move on Rafaela Ferreira, but both of them

actually are making ground up as they come because Ferreira, she started down

16th place and they're now...

potentially scoring points they'll all score points down to 10th position for

error in that 10th place at the moment leah blocking 11th position and we'll

whether gateman is going to be able to make some ground she has already made a

little bit of ground ella lloyd number 20 there also trying to make a move to

get past and see whether she can gain any places on emma felber my you're on

board with ella yeah road and motorsport teammates as they Come through the fast

turn seven. You can see big corrections from both there. Alicia Palmowski as

well, fighting up the wheel. Our race winner yesterday, under pressure in

early stages of this race, from Emma Feldmeier, who's new to car racing. It's

her first year racing in cars, and she's in a sandwich of two fairly experienced

drivers, both racing in F4 -level machinery last year in the UK. And, of

both did a wild card.

So they know a little bit of what F1 Academy is about. So here's some moves

the background. I'm just looking at Nina Gaidman.

nicely down the inside of Tina Housman and actually got Shi Wei as well, who

slightly wide from the apex at turn one.

And Tina Housman actually played it rather carefully, cautiously. Maybe she

feeling a bit bad after what had happened in that earlier.

Yeah, and she has got a 10 -second penalty. Look, that's come up as well.

No surprise.

Now you've got a good battle up front, though. And Dorianne Pan did do some

-ups into this hairpin in race one. She did it nicely there, didn't make any

mistakes, but she's still under pressure. And the toe you get down that

straight sometimes help close the group together.

Yes, it does. But the pace from Dorian is not what I was necessarily expecting

early on in this race, especially with the new tyres bolted on. Larson with the

fastest lap. So great job by the 16 -year -old Dane, who's closely following

teammates of Mayberg in front. OK, their liveries are different, but both being

operated by MP.

So Dorian under pressure. but we know how good of a driver Dorian is. She can

soak up the pressure. Maia Berg taking a slightly wider line, allowing the car

to run out, possibly hoping to try and look after the tyres ever so slightly.

But these two drivers, so experienced from racing.

Both have achieved great results in other categories that they have raced

But Larson, she said in her interview, didn't she, before the race, that she's

going to hope she can stay with Maya and Dorianne. And so far, she's doing a

pretty good job of that. She is, although she is under a bit of pressure

Chloe Chambers in the Red Bull livery car there. And Chloe, of course, who set

the fastest lap in race one.

potentially has that performance. Behind her, Alicia Palmowski still running in

fifth place. And then Emma Felber -Meyers getting pretty close in in the

colouring. She's doing a good job. So we've got quite a group.

Here, Dorian Pan has pulled away just a little bit at a crucial part of the lap

because if you can just make your break a little bit up into turn 11, 12 and

going down the straight, then you've got that little gap you need as you get

into the slipstream area.

where Maya Verve will be able to close back up again.

Yeah, she's had a very good middle sector, actually, Dorianne. So

these new tyres taking slightly longer than what she'd like to come in, but

she's done a very, very good job.

Maybe she's also just looking after the tires because we've still still a decent

way to go. A late move there. Chloe Chambers having a look down the inside.

think she had to hit the inside curve to avoid contact there. That's going to

push her back slightly into her fellow Red Bull teammate and Alicia Palmolski.

gaped there.

Emma Felbermayer is doing a great job. She's caught up on the back of this

So all cars separated at the front at least by around about two, three

certainly three seconds between the top six.

Yeah, absolutely.

But Lloyd doing a good job too because she did qualify down in 11th place.

She's in.

position as we're watching Leah Block now trying to make the move once again,

see whether she can get past Courtney Crone. Courtney Crone just defending in

the half -backed machine, but also as you can see, under some serious pressure

from Nina Gateman. So let's see how this goes. Nina Gateman, number three, the

one behind thee.

Alpine livery. Is she going to go for the inside? No.

Okay. Just holding position at this stage.

Still got a few laps to go. It's finding the right moment. It is. It is. It's

not rushing it.

Mistakes can be made. Just have a look of a replay of Ferreira down the inside

of Courtney Crown. Just about got it stopped. So it's a nice move.

Leah Block, of course, didn't start qualifying. She had a big... crash big

incident in free practice here's this replay ben a late jink out from chloe

chambers and the right decision to maybe pinch the apex there uh to avoid any

contact Yeah, so it was good that she did go tight. And to be fair, Alba

gave a little bit of space. It wouldn't have been enough if Chloe Chambers

hadn't really gone for the curve. That was good by both of them. They just gave

each other just enough room before it all went wrong. So well done to them as

we're still in that battle. Further down the order, really, to try and get into

the points, particularly for Nina Gateman, who's outside of the points at

moment, whereas leading this particular little group of them at the moment.

Courtney Crone has that potential to take the final point, but she's got

pressure now. And Leah Block is the one behind her. Meanwhile, Tina Hausman is

also coming up from the back after that incident earlier.

And Leah Block, no, didn't quite manage it there. No, she was trying. I saw what

she was trying to do, trying to get the cut back there, but just wasn't able to

do so.

Hausman's got past Agad Nostiadi at the tail end of the field there. But Dorian

Pan is controlling the pace.

Out front, she set a pretty identical lap time between her and Maya Boog.

Leah Block, she's on the charge again. She's going to try and do what Doreen

at the start.

Brave it round the outside.

These are two ART teammates.

And nice move. So she's able to sweep past her teammate there, who's now going

to come quickly under pressure from the charging Alpine of Nina Gaidman. But a

nice move from the Williams driver.

Yeah, she had to correct it a bit, but it was good. She really went on the

attack late on the brakes. Had to do some oversteer correction as she went

through turns one and two.

dealt with it well as you say and she is now in the points and also gademan now

gets passed so nina gademan who had that incident earlier on got taken out by

her teammate she is gradually moving up the order chloe chambers you're looking

at once again this is a battle for third remember at this stage it's alba larson

who is still holding on to that third place with chloe chambers who finished

second in race one keeping the pressure on And then it's Alicia Palmoski who

took the win in race one. She's just watching this, trying to stay on the

She made a very sensible quote I saw after that race. She wasn't expecting

necessarily to come into this second race with a further down grip position

be quite so able to take a victory. She's doing a sensible job.

Now let's see if they come down the straight whether this is a chance for

Chambers. She's going to be under pressure.

Alba Larson, too tense with the gap coming on to the straight. He certainly

needed a bigger gap to have to breathe easy into turn 14.

She's having a check of her mirror. She's pulling over to defend. But she's

a bit of room for Chloe Chambers to go down the inside.

And Chambers has moved up in a third as long as she can hold it. But she breaks

late and runs wide. And Alba Larson got the braking perfectly and gets back into

that third place. Yeah, great driving from these two. Nice fair, nice and

Bit dusty on that inside.

Chloe was pinched to the inside there. Alba left plenty of space, but just the

dust from the previous race and overnight that's gathered on the inside

maybe just caught Chloe out ever so slightly. Wasn't able to get the car

stopped. And actually, this pair here have dropped the Palmarski and

ever so slightly, even saying that this battle has allowed them to pull that gap

down slightly.

Yeah, so it's still going to be a pressure this for third place, but up

There is no doubt that that gap that Dorianne Pan has opened up, she's doing

great job at this stage, up to 1 .4 seconds.

And Maya Berg, I just don't think she's quite got the pace to be able to go on

the attack. Mind you, you only need one little error at this stage, and suddenly

it can all change again. But we've seen Dorianne Pan, her experience, not only

in F1 and Academy, all sorts of other forms of racing. This was the move then.

yeah you can see the marbles and the dust on the inside there and a last

lock up from chloe chambers she was desperately trying to get the car

using the gears to slow it down but the brake as well there's a move further

back this can be tina houseman gaining a position on courtney crone coming down

into turn 14 let's have a little look Tina Housman on the outside.

Does she get the car stopped?

She has a check of the mirrors.

She's going to run slightly wide, so it doesn't look like, to me, position gain.

No, it doesn't quite work for her, unfortunately.

But still on the attack, still having a go at it. We're on lap nine out of 11.

Dorian Pan is the race leader at this stage. Mayerberg in second position.

is the fight for third place that we have seen going down to the end of the

straight. And last time it didn't quite work for Chloe Chambers. She's got the

toe again. She's gaining five or six miles an hour. But is she close enough?

I doubt it this time.

And she stays behind, gets a feel for the braking.

There's a good move up the inside.

Felbermayer battling away and getting past Palmoski. But Palmoski is now maybe

going to get it back again. But, oh, I think Felbermayer's got the inside line.

Yeah, she's made it work. Emma Felbermayer in the Sauberbachter.

Car run by Rodin. She's done well there in her first full F1 Academy season. But

look, she's under pressure. Do you think, oh, Chloe Chambers. Chloe

the inside into turn one. Yeah, but Lars is going to try and hold it around the

outside. I don't think she's going to have the grip to do so. You can see her

fighting up the wheel, but she was soaking up so much pressure and didn't

the situation so well going down into turn 14, but maybe misjudged it slightly

of how close Chloe was down into turn one.

But great job. Feldmayer as well has taken the position from Palmowski. So

moved forward. So great driving by Larson and Feldmayer to our two rookies

we've got running up in the top six.

But Chloe Chambers, she's set free now. She's 2 .4 seconds behind Meyerberg in

second place. But I know she'll get her head down. She's not got very long left

to go to do it, though.

Yeah, she did get faster in that first race, as we said. But we shall see

whether she can really close the gap. It's a bit of a big gap still for her to

do. She did a deep job, though. Had to work at it. And fair play to Alba

Larsson. Let's have another little look. Now, so this was the... Oh, there was a

bit of contact. Didn't know that Palmoski had actually made a little

the back of Emma Felbermayer.

And it was the front nose. That should be okay in terms of the risk for Emma

getting any kind of puncture there.

But here's the move from Chloe Chambers.

She thought, well, hang on.

It's opened up for me there. I'm going to send it down the inside. Never leave

gap for Chloe Chambers because she's likely to take it. And she did that. Oh,

finally.

Sigh of relief. She set herself free to charge down the next position.

And there's more battles raging further down. Ella Lloyd, you can see, in

seventh place. But behind her, there's a battle between Chloe Chong and Rafaela

Ferreira. Ferreira on the outside, Chloe Chong on the inside.

Oh, can they both get round safely?

Yes, they give each other space.

It's giving Leah Blott behind an opportunity to get even closer at this

And Rafaela Ferreira in the number 18 car, putting a lot of pressure under

Chong. Doi Chong does have a penalty, remember, so actually they're not

effectively racing for this position when the penalty comes out. It is for

eighth on track as it is at the moment, but Chong has been given a penalty, so

that will be an aspect when we get the full result.

Yeah, that gap's not closing as well, just looking at the timing tower. On the

left of our screen, Ben, Chloe Chambers not pulling down that gap, and it was

going to be a tough ask for her to chase down.

So she won't be able to, unless, of course, a mistake from Maya in front,

looks like the sectors at the moment is all in control, but this battle still

rages on for eighth place. As you said, Ben, a penalty already for Chloe

Chong.

will still drop behind these drivers that are behind her. But Leah Block has

joined the party. She'll be hoping to try and sneak past Ferreira. It's

contact between these two during free practice in the early stages of Friday,

which caused Leah to have big chassis damage, and she actually had to change

chassis, so she wasn't able to take part in qualifying.

But she'll be looking to try and make her way forward in the final stages of

this race.

Yeah, it's a very good point. Yeah, there was contact between the number 57

the number 18 cars in that session, which stopped qualifying completely for

Block. So now, and it was down this straight. It was just one of those

They were weaving around. Ferreira was weaving around to warm the tires up.

And as Leah Block was behind, she just moved over, and the weave came at the

wrong time. They made contact. So that's what took Leah Block out. Let's see how

it goes for the race.

Both of them are trying to pick up the tow. And here comes Rafaela Ferreira to

the outside as they head down towards the hairpin. Now, will Leah Block have a

little go as well? She's waiting to see what's going to happen ahead of us.

Meanwhile, across the line, taking the victory, Dorian Pan takes win in race

of F1 Academy 2025.

We're still watching to see what happens. Maverick finished in second.

Chambers in third place.

Alba Larsson in fourth position.

But is this going to change further back?

Chloe Chong, the penalty has been added to the list now. So although she managed

to fend them off, of course, with that penalty that she had, she is being

down the order. And we have seen that Albalassa finished in fourth place.

Emma Felbermayer in fifth place. The winner of race one, Palmosky, she's

finished in sixth place. But Dorianne Pan has done a great job up front from

that second place on the grid.

What a race. Thank you so much for the car.

It was brilliant.

Beautifully executed by Dorian Pan.

She got into the lead at that restart.

Mayerberg, I'm sure, will be bitterly disappointed.

It was a little bit tentative going into that final corner where all that dust

was. Clearly didn't have the confidence to go through there with a slightly

higher pace.

But still, good points. She had a good race yesterday on the podium. And

consistency is key.

And it's going to be the difference by the end.

Whoever's been consistently up there racking up those points by the end of

championship. And another solid drive as well from Chloe Chambers. Double podium

for her and Weyerberg this weekend.

Yeah, absolutely. And in many ways, these are the three that were expected

potential championship or series contenders, as it is, for this F1

And Chloe Chambers, as you say, did a very good job, very consistently quick,

had to work hard to get past Alba Larson. And Alba Larson is one we're

need to watch throughout the course of this year because she's in her first...

F1 Academy event.

She qualified so well in third place, and she raced well, very effectively. It

was hard work to get past her.

She did, and if she is disappointed, she shouldn't be. For someone so young, her

level of experience, she was fighting it up against the more experienced drivers

up there, so really showed what a promising talent she is and did a great

put herself up there in qualifying as well.

Thank you to the whole team for the weekend.

I'm really happy to finish like this.

It's good.

Yeah, well, it's very impressive what Dorian Pan has done in her second full

season of F1 Academy, the three victories last year. So it's her fourth

win now in F1 Academy. But she's a very experienced driver. She started racing

Clios in France after karting back in 2020. She has now raced at big events

like Le Mans, Daytona.

at the Spa 24 hours, but she is focusing very much on single -seaters at the

moment to try and take the title.

She battled with Abby Pulling a lot last year, but couldn't hold on to beat her,

but this is a real opportunity this season, isn't it? It is. She's going to

stand aloft. Her Mercedes machine, the pocket rocket, pops out, and she thumbs

up, and the number one signal for her, she'll be really, really pleased.

with how she performed during that race. You can see the Mercedes team down

there as well as Prema racing.

She'd actually been off the podium in the last three races, which is unlikely

for her. She did have a tough season in a couple of races last year, but all

smiles for the Iron Dame's back driver and Mercedes' back driver.

Yeah, and it was really well done. The move she made from the start.

And then just maintaining that pace throughout and not making any errors at

setting a fast lap. Really, really impressive. And, of course, she will now

the lead in the championship because she scored five points from race one from

fourth. She's taken the 25 points for victory in this race. Plus, she'll have

the points for fastest lap as well.

Very, very impressive, and it will go through, of course. We've got a full

-round series of F1 Academy, two races at each round, so 14 races,

and they'll be going to Jeddah next.

But fantastic tracks that they are getting used to as well. These are some

the top F1 circuits that they're learning, and that's all part and parcel

developing their skills, which is what F1 Academy is about.

100%, Ben. There's plenty of testing involved in the series as well. These

drivers were out on a three -day test a couple of weeks ago.

Shanghai, they're going to have a test at Jeddah before the race there as well.

So F1 Academy making sure, and Susie Wolfe and her team, that the drivers are

maximizing, getting as much track time as they possibly can. And there is a

rookie test, which is new for this year in September for all the aspiring young

female drivers that are looking forward to moving. up into F1 Academy, not just

to get to F1 Academy, but using it as a stepping stone to progress their career

further up the ladder to Formula One. We'll see them up on the podium shortly.

We saw some other good results, of course, as well.

Alicia Palmowski, who won race one, she finished in sixth place, so she scored

some useful points, but she'll be a little disappointed.

Having started fifth, she'll hope she might have got a little bit further.

And there are others that also did a good job. But let's go down and hear

Kiki Kung, who is now interviewing our race winner.

Dorian, congratulations on a win here in the race two of the Shanghai Grand

Prix.

I mean, that start was amazing. And from P2 and then leading the rest of the

way, how do you feel right now?

It's amazing. Amazing feeling again.

Really happy to win today. We scored good points.

And yeah, we did a really good start. I knew it was the most important part of

the race to try to be in front from the start.

And we did it from the outside T1. And I'm really happy for the team and for us

for the beginning of the season.

Yes, and that's definitely really important.

I mean, right here, Dorianne, we have the series runner -up from last season.

This year, you've got your eyes set on the championship, so points are

important. How do you feel going forward to the next race?

For sure, it's a really good start of the season, so it's positive for the

season ahead.

Obviously, aiming for the title this year, I only have this goal in mind. So

will keep working as much as possible with my team to achieve it at the end of

the year. Okay, and of course, everyone here at the Shanghai Grand Prix, they're

excited to see F1 Academy for the first time. Do you have a few words to our

fans that have been so excited to see you guys?

Yeah, it's amazing for all of us to race in China. Thank you all for the

support. It's amazing to have the support from you all.

I've been enjoying a lot with the fans from the beginning of the weekend. So I

really enjoy and I will keep a really good memory from Shanghai.

Congratulations again. Thank you. Thank you.

So an excellent job by Dorian Pan.

And we will see her up on the podium in a moment or two. But she's obviously

delighted with the way the start of the season has gone. We're just looking at

some of the highlights.

From that, she was very much in control of the car. And there's the finish.

Taking the chequer flag and enjoying that moment of being in front so early

the season.

Big, big points for her as she leaves the championship. It's very early days,

course, from Maia Berg. Five points is the gap. And Chloe Chambers down in

place, two points behind Maia.

as drivers head into the cool -down room. So let's listen in.

We're still waiting for Dorianne Pan to turn up, of course, having done the

interview. They get a chance to see some of the highlights.

That was the moon, yeah?

Yeah.

I tried to go in turn 14 and messed it up. Yeah, you saw.

Oh, you saw?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't think a lot happened in that room.

So they are having a little look, but it's a fairly quiet, not a big chat. It

was quite chatty last year with Abby in the...

In the cool -down room, she never stopped talking.

So, yeah, a quiet one, but you can see disappointment from Maya. She seemed a

little bit confused as to where the pace had gone.

Of course, Dorian was on the fresher tyres, so maybe that could have been it.

Joanne Giaconte, she's nice to see that she's there supporting the drivers.

Her teammate, of course, is on the podium.

As the celebrations are about to get underway, Ben. Yeah. So let's celebrate

top three coming up onto the podium.

And for the second time here, she's got the podium. She's finished in third

position. Chloe Chambers, the American.

So a good performance from her to move up to that position.

Finishing in second place, the driver that started from pole position.

From the Netherlands, Maya Verg with the Ferrari backing, getting plenty of

support. But the victory this time has gone to the Mercedes -supported Dorian

Pan, taking her fourth ever victory, the first win of 2025 for her, and now the

championship leader.

The French national anthem plays out for Dorianne Pan, having taken the victory,

and the trophies are now being handed out to our podium finishers. She has a

five -point advantage now in the points battle, but it is a very early stage, of

course. It is over at Maierberg, who has finished in second place, but it is

time to really celebrate.

And, of course, Mercedes will be very, very happy to see Dorianne Pan.

deliver that performance.

But Ferrari as well. We see Mayerberg on the podium once again. And Chloe

Chambers for Red Bull.

She drove very well. Had to work hard to get that third place, but did it

cleanly and smoothly.

Campos taking the early lead in the team's championship from MP Motorsport

then Prema Racing.

Celebrations underway.

You can tell by the emotions of her on the podium how disappointed she is. But

like you said, there's still plenty of racing left to go. But she will feel

maybe this is a missed opportunity, a missed chance to get the maximum points

from this race.

Yeah, I agree. I think Mayerberg is not as happy as she would have been.

if she had managed to stay in front. So losing that advantage from pole position

at the start of the race is certainly a bit of a tough one. But she will come

back. She will work hard at it, and we could be in for a great battle between

these three plus many others in the championship, and especially some of the

youngsters who are already developing, like Alba Larsson, who finished in

place, still learning, whereas these three have had a lot more experience in

Academy than some of the others so far. So let's have a look at the full result

then. And that race victory going to Dorianne Pan starting from second place.

Maya Berg finishing in second place. And Chloe Chambers taking third.

Behind them then Alba Lafton in fourth place. Emma Felber -Meyer in fifth.

Alicia Palmosky who won race one in sixth.

Ella Lloyd moved up well seventh.

Raffaella Ferreira, she moved up well too into eighth place. Leah Block from

back into ninth. And Nina Gaidman, final point scorer in tenth place, having had

an incident early in the race.

but she still managed to get a point out of it. It's been a tough weekend for

her, but at least she's got something. Out of the points, Chloe Chong with a

penalty. Courtney Crone, Avia Anagnostiadis, Sheet Wei did finish that

race, and Tina Hausman did finish, but we had three non -finishers once again,

which is always a shame, of course, in the early stages.

So there we go. It is the first two races have been completed here in China,

we've got a great season.

going ahead of us Jeddah is on the cards for the next race they'll get some

testing in there first but we will be enjoying that in a few weeks time thank

you for joining us thank you Alice been great to work with you we'll be back

with F1 Academy soon