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Just two rounds remain in the F1 Academy Series.

And first up is the challenge of the streets of Singapore.

This one of the most challenging qualifying sessions our drivers will

season on a weekend where we could be crowning our third champion. More on

in just a bit. First, let's take a look at the challenge that lies ahead. 19

turns around the Singapore streets and then that will set the grid for the two.

14 lap races we have coming up. There is a twist if you're new to F1 Academy.

We will reverse the top eight on the grid for the race tomorrow.

A lower scoring points race. We should add 10 points go to your winner for

And then when they line up on Grand Prix Sunday as they qualify, it'll be full

25 points for the winner. And that is what Dorian Pan, our championship

is chasing. She has a 20 point points advantage over Maya. If she can double

that over Maia Verg and leave this round with a 40 -point advantage over the

rest of the field, she will be crowned the champion. But Maia Verg beats Dodi

Ampan in both races here last year and will be looking to eat into that 20

-point advantage and take this fight too.

the streets of Las Vegas, and the final round.

Two points immediately up the grabs in this 30 -minute qualifying session, and

here to call you through the action, myself, Chris McCarthy, and someone who

knows about these streets, he's been out there before, it's Gary Pappen.

Hi, Chris. Yeah, thanks a lot. Yeah, as you said, a massive challenge for these

drivers out there.

As you can see, they've turned the lights on. They've turned the sky off

turned the lights on. We were looking at the footage through the day, and it was

gradually getting darker, and suddenly it just seemed to have gone to not

complete darkness, but certainly necessity to have the lights on the

it. It makes a big difference to your references and everything that you've

in the session that was three hours. ago in Daylight.

Well, new face for this weekend. We always have a wildcard entry down at

tech. And this weekend, it is young Lisa Billard, the French driver who competed

in the rookie test.

She has a big supporter in Esteban Ocon.

She competed in that test with second fastest overall.

And off the back of that, she is going to be competing this weekend and was P6

in practice late. We also have Megan Bruce racing this weekend, jumping in

Eva Anagnostiadis, who has suffered a fractured left foot.

Well, we are just making our way round on a little bit of a warm -up lap. So

whilst we do, let's hear what Dorian Pan has to say about warm conditions and

training for the heat.

We have been doing a bit of heat training, not too much because I have a

in weight, but no, no, I mean, I've just arrived on Tuesday, so a

bit of time here before the race weekend to adapt to the temperature and to the

heat, and then it's the body, how I adapt quickly.

In the car, it will be very hot. The important is to keep hydrated during the

weekend and to have good energy, eating well, and then the rest will be fine.

It's not too long session.

It's maximum 40 minutes, so it's going to be okay.

Donnie and Pan very relaxed around the paddock this weekend, and we saw that.

when she went fastest in practice.

Everyone's going to be talking to her about the championship. Can she go and

take it this weekend? Can she hold on to that advantage?

But it doesn't seem to be getting to her at all. She's incredibly relaxed around

the pad. Yeah, she is. She's experienced now, and she knows how to win in this

championship. She hasn't been on pole position this year, so it'll be

interesting to see if she can repeat the form that she had this morning in the

practice session.

But she's very relaxed. As she says, you know, they do have to prepare for the

heat here. It's kind of, you know, high 20s, low 30s. But it's the humidity,

really, which is a difficult thing.

We've seen some rain early on in the week.

There hasn't been any rain in any of the sessions today, which is good because

that does make it a whole lot harder to get these cars around this circuit.

But, yeah, their race is, like I say, they're on track for a maximum sort of

minutes. the two hours that the F1 drivers are expecting to be out there.

is hard and on a street circuit because you're trying to brush walls and the

bumps and all of the different surface changes. You're working a lot harder in

the car.

than on a normal race circuit.

Absolutely. We talked a bit about it in practice earlier. You want to build into

the session. That's certainly the case you want to do here.

Someone who will want to do that is Megan Bruce, because if you weren't with

for practice earlier, you wouldn't have heard her interview where she told us

that on Monday she got the call that she was going to have this opportunity, and

then Tuesday she found herself here flying over to Singapore to...

to race in F1 Academy. What a story that'll be, Phil, one day. And this is

the start of her story in this series. Wish her the best of luck this weekend.

And no doubt she will have a great weekend in what is just the start of her

journey. Now, the most successful driver in qualifying this season is Chloe

Chambers. Could do with a big weekend in terms of her championship fight. She's

34 back. You get 39 points maximum over... a weekend in terms of points

so she really needs a big one to stay realistically in championship

Okay, first flying lap starting, Gary, and we follow Lisa Billard, the French

driver, on her first flying lap.

Yeah, they'll just be getting the tyres up to temperature now, so obviously with

the temperature dropping slightly at track, it'll take a little bit longer to

get the tyres up to temperature. We saw them doing quite long runs in practice

this morning, just looking at, I think we're looking at race pace and then

out for a... So it'll be interesting to see how many laps consecutive they can

do on these tyres in qualifying to just chip away at the lap time. The lap times

at the moment, 2 minutes 10, still quite away from the times that we saw this

morning. Yeah, 2 .03s we saw this morning, so we'll expect this to come

But this gives us a view of the challenge they face around the streets

Singapore.

Yeah, as you can say, you're just getting closer and closer to the walls

lap you do, trying to gain thousandths of a second as you get closer. The other

difficulty is that although you get closer to the walls, you're using more

opening up the corner.

There is actually, you know, the dust and dirt collects next to the walls. So

you do get too close, you can pick up some dirt on the tyres and then struggle

at the next corner as we hear a bit of a lock up there.

Like I say, on the bumps and on the curbs and on the surface changes here,

it's... this is a real challenge as we see a message there that was alicia

palmofsky she's hit the wall oh she's out alicia palmofsky out the session we

have our first victim in this session the red bull racing driver who was one

the quickest drivers in practice earlier she was third fastest half a tenth away

from the time of dottie and pan

Looking like she could have challenged for her first pole position in F1

Academy. But at this rate, she's going to be going from the very back of the

field. That yellow flag could turn red any second now. Lisa Billard is going to

come through the final two corners. Will she be able to sneak this lap in? Yes,

she will. And she will go to the top of the times. Nicole Havard is second. It's

whether Alicia Palmofsky is stationary or whether she's been able to get going.

No.

about when this session is going to come to a stop because that suspension is

broken.

Yeah, that left wheel is looking definitely not at the right angle. And

a red flag eventually.

I think they were maybe waiting to see if the mechanics or the marshals would

able to push that out of the way. But obviously with other cars on track, you

know, it's not safe for them to enter the track to push the car. So, yeah, a

flag. And the qualifying time has stopped, so they won't be running out of

The qualifying session will be the same length as it was at the start. So 22

minutes and 57 seconds.

remaining so they'll all filter back to the pits now and um yeah get ready to go

again that is a disaster for alicia palmowski it looks like she's hit the

coming out of turn five uh it's uh around this marina bay street circuit

that's an incident we've seen several times ella lloyd sneaked across the line

just

before the red flag came out, I believe.

And that leaves her in provisional pole position at the place she made her debut

last year.

In terms of the wild cards we've ever had, she put in the fastest, the best

performance last year with her fourth place. Now she's here full -time racing

for McLaren and doing a superb job fourth in the championship.

And currently, she leads the way. We are under red flag because of Palmowski.

I think we're about to find out what happened.

I think we can have a guess at what happened, but let's see it.

Yeah, here she is. Just got a bit wide in the middle of turn five, taking a bit

too much speed in.

Oh, I hit the wall.

I've got damage.

I'm so sorry.

hit the wall the difficulty is when you go through a practice session at circuit

that is kind of green and it's a bit dusty you get quicker and quicker as the

session goes on and then when you get to the next session with the cold tires

and everything else you have to have that bit of a reef there and sometimes

you're inclined just to try and take the same amount of speed into corners as

you were at the end of the practice session with with the size of the

temperature where and she's obviously just slightly misjudged uh the amount of

grip she's got into into turn five got wide in the middle of the corner and um

yeah unfortunately brush the wall um that kind of wrong angle some of the

we've seen them touching the wall and the angle is is is okay and the

deals with it but uh certainly that's not the case and i just had a real shame

because after the practice session there was three of them within a tenth of a

second and we said that you know it was very much looking like one of them would

be would be the person on pole yeah she's a rookie as well and the rookies

not been here before uh with the exception of ella lloyd uh because she

wildcard here last year but alicia palmofsky alba larson emma fell

Joanne Chaconty, Nicole Averdure, Courtney Crone, Megan Bruce, Rafaela

Drivers like this have not been here before. We should say Rafaela Ferreira

not set any laps in practice earlier because she had a technical issue.

So any good performance from her would be incredibly impressive.

And Megan Bruce, her session came to...

A bit of an early end after she had to have some issues resolved as well. But

Ella Lloyd quickest. A shame for Alicia Palmofsky, but her first time at the

circuit, just trying to get a good lap on the board and finding herself out the

session. She's going to most likely now be going right from the back of the grid

in both races as well. And that's going to be a very uphill battle from her for

the rest of the weekend.

Yeah, as you say, we said earlier that, you know, there's no DRS in these cars.

So the race is, you know, you've just got to pure get in that slipstream and

have better pace to be able to overtake. So it's, yeah, it's going to be a hard

task to really score really good points in both races. But you never know. The

weather may interfere with that. So, yeah, let's just see how it goes. But,

yeah, definitely a shame that she'll be definitely starting for the back of the

grid. Yeah, well, another driver.

experiencing this for the first time, Rafaela Ferreira in her first season of

Academy in that same campus racing team as Alicia Palmofsky, backed by Racing

Bulls. And we caught up with her coming into the weekend about her first season

in F1 Academy.

So I think for me, this season is passing really quickly.

It still feels I am in the first round in China, you know.

And suddenly we are just in Singapore. It's just missing one round. So it's

passing really quick. But I think I learned a lot during this season. A lot

the team. It's my first year racing abroad.

And I think it was a really nice experience. And I'm excited to race here

Singapore and then in Las Vegas and finish.

I think we start in a good point. But now we can be a little better from the

beginning of the season. And I think this is the...

the goal for these last two rounds.

Rafaela Ferreira.

It's going to be a difficult task for her, but let's see what she can do.

put in some good performances throughout this season. She mentioned that first

round and that made a great entrance into the series with two points

They've been a little bit few and far between since then, but she did return

the points last time out at Zandvoort.

The rookies will be looking to just try and end the season strong now to try and

retain their place on the grid for next season.

As always in the feeder series, Gary, see this swapping around of drivers.

If you're new to F1 Academy.

The 10 current teams on the F1 grid are all backing a driver, as you'll see, by

their liveries.

And then we have major partners of the championship, like American Express, for

example, who then back other drivers.

But after drivers have done two seasons, which will be the case for Maia Verg at

the end of this year, they will have to move on. Our champion will receive funds

to go and race.

in a season next year so we saw Marta García race in Freca last year and

currently Abby Pulling is racing in GB3 where she picked up a podium recently at

Brandtaps and that is the reward that you go and receive that fully funded

season to go and compete at the next level after F4 into a

regional championship and that is what they're fighting for it's either to keep

your place on the grid or move on in You'll know from having gone through

part of your career yourself that F4 is such a key stage for a driver's career,

isn't it? It is, yeah. All the junior formulas are so important. And winning

this level really can put you on your way to bigger things. Through my career,

had to keep winning to keep the funding, to keep the support going. And that's

very much the position these drivers are in. They need to keep doing well, keep

winning to prove to potential.

sponsors to potential partners that they're worth supporting going forward

there's a lot of pressure on their shoulders yeah i mean we saw ella lloyd

she some fans will know this she's probably been used to racing on tracks

been racing in british f4

Different tracks, like Brandt Hatch, tracks based in the UK.

But this is a great experience in F1 Academy, where they get to tour around

international circuits, street circuits, be in front of major crowds with lots

of eyes on them as they come into the paddocks. They're signing autographs.

gain a huge following on social media.

That, for a driver at this level, is going to be an incredible experience and

platform to gain that sponsorship wherever they finish.

It is, exactly. And I think that for me, the biggest thing that I had the

experience when I was racing in Formula 3 is that you do your regional

championships and you're racing weekend after weekend with the same people. But

when you go and support a Formula 1 race, suddenly the eyes of Formula 1 are

you. And I've been in the F1 paddock as a reserve driver and they all sit in the

theme hospitalities.

watching the races that are going on. So their eyes are on you. So, yeah, it's a

great opportunity for these drivers to show the people right at the top of the

business what they can do. And I'm sure when you're in that situation as well,

you can see you've had your race and then you watch the F1 race, the

the determination must raise even more as a driver when you're in that paddock.

Yeah, exactly. It's great to be around the atmosphere around an F1 race. As you

said before, with all the fans that are there, with everything that's going on,

the buzz of it, it gives you a real thrill and like, you know, I want to be

here. This is what I want to do. And I'll know from a fan's point of view in

particular that when the support series come out, you stop what you're doing,

you run to your chair for green light and you get ready to watch the action.

that's been the case for F1 Academy.

This season, you'll remember when they came into that grandstand section of

Canada. There were cheers all the time, every lap, and Zambor. People were

coming from all over Europe to get their only chance to watch them in action.

Well, we are seeing Aurelia Nobles on screen, currently going through her warm

-up lap, and we caught up with her coming in to the weekend.

I saw the weather and it's going to rain every night, so I think the track will

change every day.

And it's a street circuit, so not a lot of grip.

FP2 quality, there will be a lot of difference with the F1 driving.

So we will need to adapt very quickly and, yeah, we'll see.

We have very short sessions and not a lot of laps, so it's going to be very

hard, very difficult.

But, yeah, I'll try to give all the info to my engineer and my mechanic so they

can adapt the car fast and do my work on track.

Interesting to hear from Aurelia Nobles.

One of the first things as a driver, just to check what the weather's going

do throughout the weekend.

That will change things because as F1 Academy, there are other support series

here this weekend, but often you are there to...

be out on track before F1, of course, and you don't know what you're going to

face when you turn up to the track.

Yeah, exactly. And as you said, it's not just the weather and the rain possibly

changing how the track feels.

You've got the F1 cars going around on different tyres. You've got some other

support series on different tyres. So every time you go on track, the track

could be different to what it was like before. So it's a kind of learning

experience. And because it's a street circuit, when you start the weekend, it

has been a street. It hasn't been a race circuit that's had testing other races

the previous weekend.

So it is a constantly evolving kind of environment.

So it's, yeah, that's an extra challenge and one of the, you know, kind of

unique challenges of any street circuit.

Riding on board with Dolly and Pan, this is a great view. It's going to take us

now through this second sector.

This is where it gets very, very challenging, this second sector. Yeah,

So turn 10 here, just pull it to the left, and then as we go to the narrow

section just over the bridge after this right -hand corner.

Just catching the kerb there over the bridge. And then the left -hander turned

13 before the long back straight, which in a race situation is a great

overtaking place for her now. Just trying to get on throttle as early as

to try and build the speed down the straight and then try and find a braking

point down here. A little bit bumpy as she brakes.

The car moving around under braking, but she's got two purple sectors so far, so

looking good at the moment.

It really is. Maya Verg is through the fur sector with a 37.

eight championship wise we are keeping an eye on those two and Chloe Chambers

course they are only 34 points apart Dottie and Pan well a pole position with

her would be a real statement to start the weekend and she hasn't been on pole

all season but Lisa Billard has gone to provisional pole Nina Gaidman and now a

winner of course has gone to third but to the top there goes Dottie and Pan 203

.8 clear of the race Now let's jump on board with Maya Verg, who could be being

slightly hampered here by Rafaela Ferreira through the final two corners.

grab a toe out of the final corner and across the line, but would have been a

little bit delayed there from Rafaela Ferreira, who's playing catch -up in

qualifying session.

Yeah, exactly. I think sometimes on a nice long straight, getting a car that

close is great because of the toe you get and extra speed in the straight

But certainly, yeah, the pace... Aysa Ferreira at the moment, just as she's

still getting up to speed, definitely would have held her up there. So, yeah,

certainly some time to be found currently sitting in P4.

Alba Larson's had her time deleted, so shoots down to 17th, and that came at

turn four.

So out of the exit of the first section there.

That was on turn two, sorry. So she's gone wide at the first corner. Yeah,

exactly.

just run wide. One of the few places on this circuit where you can kind of run

wide and get away with it and get on. Most other places, you're either in a

or having to do a U -turn to get back on the track.

Yeah. As we watch Megan Bruce, not her first time in an F1 Academy car. She was

in the rookie test just a couple of weeks ago, but first time on a racing

weekend. She raced in the GB4 Championship this season.

So has been competitive racing in that and proved her talent in that rookie

test. Let's jump on board, though, with the person who has been the most

successful in a qualifying sense this season, Chloe Chambers for Red Bull

Yeah, great first sector, purple first sector and a personal best second

She's just over a tenth and a half up on during our puns time at the moment. So

let's see this final sector. She's only got four corners left. See if she can

find a breaking point down towards turn 16.

just trying to get onto the kerb. She's made the apex and all she's got now is

the two fast corners at the end of the lap, turn 18 and 19.

As long as she finds the apex of 18, she'll be hard on the power, flat

the next two corners and this looks like a really good lap.

That looks good from Chloe Chambers. Is it good enough for pole position? Yes.

That's going to be a 2 .03 .761 for Chambers. Dorian Pan is in the pit lane

her half -time break.

Lisa Billard is up to third. The wild -card entry, what a performance that

be. Aurelia Nobels wants to get into the top eight, really, to be in terms of a

reverse grid, and she goes to P6, so she's gone even better. At this stage,

reverse grid pole for tomorrow would be Nina Gaven. It's Lloyd fourth, Vergen

fifth. Speaking of Ella Lloyd, has she...

clipped the wall.

Oh, well, that was where Alicia Kramovski went off.

Very much the same thing, yeah, but she just didn't quite go in as hard.

She has, oh, no, just got away with that. Wow. Very, very close, but very

exactly the same mistake, just not quite as fast, so got away with that one.

Wow. That is as close as you can get.

Now, Lisa Billard.

Her first weekend, she is driving so, so well right now.

This is absolutely superb stuff from the young French driver.

Second quickest overall at that rookie test.

And she's absolutely flying.

The best performance we've ever seen in terms of a qualifying sense from a

wildcard is peak four.

Currently, she's peak three. She's looking like she's been racing with us

season long.

Yeah, she looks really comfortable out there. I think we expect certainly Maya

Vague to find some lap time down in P5 at the moment. This morning, she was

fast. And I think that unless there's any surprises, I think there's going to

a bit of a battle between kind of Maya Vague.

Chloe Chambers and Dorian Pound, really. But I'll wait to see. Wait to be

corrected, hopefully.

Yeah, well, with Alicia Pomosky out of the session, there is an opportunity now

in the top eight for someone, isn't there? Because that would have been a

in the top eight.

Someone can now fill that.

Joanne Ticonti goes to 15th place.

as she heads over the line. Megan Bruce is doing very well in 12th after today

given how late she was called up for this.

She is being very competitive so far in the session.

Back at Leo Block who did very well here last year for Williams.

Yeah, nice replay. I said earlier, I don't like replays of cars going slow

curbs because it looks horrible the way it's shaking the cars around. But it

just shows how well the cars and how well the tyres are built and the

that they go under as the cars go at the speed they do over the curbs. And

Dorianne Pan out on track, which looks like on a new set of tyres. You can just

see the sticker marks on the tyres. So this is her going out, getting ready for

the second part of her qualifying.

Yeah, you can see by the graphic on the left, a lot of people are in pit lane

for a tyre swap, essentially.

So this is your kind of half -time break in the session. People come in to swap

tyres. The people have swapped tyres and are now on warm -up laps.

So with that, let's hear from our championship leader, Donny and Pan, on

she has to say about this Marina Bay street circuit.

I like this track. It's very technical, very long as well. So to put everything

together is definitely a challenge. But I like this track. I like street track.

So I'm definitely fully ready and I hope to do better than last year also.

I mean, it was two podiums last year, so she can't do much better.

Do you like the track, guys?

Yeah, it's a good circuit. I think, as Dorian said, it's a long circuit for a

street circuit. If you look at the traditional ones, you've got Monaco,

the most traditional and historic street circuit, but nowadays we've seen some

other. You've seen Baku, you've now seen Miami, Vegas.

Here, they're long street circuits now. They go a long way, and over a two

-minute lap for these drivers here.

There's a lot of corners, as you said, to get right, to be able to nail that

qualifying lap.

There really is. And for young drivers as well, you've worked with drivers

coming through. Do you think this is a good track to test out drivers coming

through the ranks as well? Drivers like Dorian, like Chloe Chambers here,

fighting to try and get through into categories like Formula 3 and Formula 2?

Yeah, exactly. I think you can gain a lot by just going to a race circuit and

doing hundreds and hundreds of laps and just being better when you turn up. for

the race weekend, but you go to a circuit like Singapore, a street

where you can't test. All you can do is go on a simulator and do laps on a

simulator, but you can't actually do any more mileage. So it's a lot more of a

kind of level playing field when you turn up at a circuit like this.

It really is.

Ella Lloyd is back out on the circuit.

You've got some people in, some people back out again, as we are doing tyre

pressures down at Framer.

In the red T -shirts there.

They know what they're doing at this level.

High tech. Next along, they've got Megan Bruce in the Takoya livery in the

number nine car. This is the Gatorade back car of Lisa Billard, who's been

arguably the star of the show so far this weekend. I know we're only at

qualifying, but P6 in practice. Currently P3 in qualifying.

Nothing to lose as a wildcard, and she seems to be taking that approach so far.

You're saying nothing to lose? I hope I've not cursed that.

I think having a bit of a moment in a wall is something to lose. But yeah, I

your point. Her expectations and the expectations of her coming into this

competitive championship are high.

It'd be okay to just get out there and see what you can do. And as you say, so

far, she's shown some really, really good, really strong pace.

And Lloyd comes in.

It was, I think it was Kirk.

Chloe Chambers sneaking around the outside there to start another warm -up

In the background, that is Emma Felbermeyer coming in.

So, top eights reversed if you are joining us late in the session. Chloe

Chambers is leading the way. Dorian Pan second, Lisa Billard third, Ella Lloyd

fourth, Mayerberg fifth, Aurelia Nobels, Chloe Chong in the Charlotte Tilbury

car, P6, and Nina Gaidman would revert to pole for tomorrow. Tomorrow's lower

point scoring race.

She would have a chance to add to that very emotional win last time out on her

birthday.

And then they would start as they qualify for Grand Prix Sunday.

Chloe Chambers taking yet another pole position and taking the two points that

come with it.

Championship -wise, this is looking very good for Dottie and Pan with Meyerberg

in P5.

Maya Verg really needs to improve that position, doesn't she? She needs to be

the front two rows.

Yeah, she does, and they're all kind of filing out now. I was quite surprised

that Ella Lloyd came in quite late to maybe change tyres to get out again

you know, just under nine minutes left. It's a two -minute lap, so by the time

you get a warm -up lap, you're only going to get, you know, kind of three.

Fast laps, so really pushing it towards the end. But as the track rubbers in and

the grip increases as the session goes on, we are going to see your best

opportunity of a really fast lap time is going to be right at the end of this

session. Yeah, that might be her thought process to be last over the line.

Also about trying to get some space as well. We've seen Maya Virg suffer with

that on her first run.

Will that be something she can improve on in this second round?

As we have a look with Dolly and Pan.

And this looks like we're going for it. So let's jump on board with her through

the first sector. Yeah, a little bit of a slide there through turn five. I think

that was heading up towards the flat out turn six, the longest straight on the

circuit. A heartbreaking four turn seven. And she's just under two tenths

on the quickest time by Chloe Chambers at the moment. So clearly not quite got

the tyres up to the temperature they need to be just yet. And she's

traffic here in Emma Felbermaier ahead.

Just looks like they're on different laps, but a bit of understeer there for

Dorian Pan as she hits the straight now, makes her way down to T10, clears the

traffic, and Dorian Pan still just getting through this section of corners,

fighting with the steering wheel there. See how much input she's having to put

into the car as we come into the next braking zone.

and just about gets the car into the apex in time.

Yeah, it's a really busy section of the circuit, that, from turn 10 all the way

up to turn 13. You're always turning in one direction or the other.

As she hits the brake now, and she's lost another two tenths, so as you say,

think just the tyres still coming up to temperature, so we could probably see

any improvements on the next lap. There's a few green sectors out there,

first sector, some people, so I think the tyres are just starting to get to

where they need to be for some of the drivers.

Yeah, none that jump. off the screen so to speak but no purples all greens just

now but let's watch Dodi and Pan first because right now as I say that Gary's

just pointed out Maya Virg has gone purple and there she is purple now on

bottom right so Dodi and Pan currently second will this be enough to go first

but

Crucially, she went faster through the last sector, so her next lap could be

one to watch. But this looks good for Maya Vergen. It needs to be in terms of

her championship.

It does. She's, as you said, got some traffic on that first run. She's

P5, but she was only a fraction behind Chloe Chambers' time at the second

So let's see how she comes across the finish line, if this is going to put

her... On provisional probability, it doesn't. So second place for Maia Verg

the moment.

Fractions of a second, 14 ,000th of a second behind Chloe Chambers, who

is on a lap, but two yellow sectors.

So, again, I think tyres still coming up to temperature for Chloe there.

Yeah, and let's see what Chloe Chambers does. She can only extend her advantage.

She doesn't. So we've got the top three split by less than one and a half

tenths. Maia Verg has gone ahead.

of Dolly and Pan who she's trying to chase in the championship.

In terms of the championship, we've essentially just reversed the top three.

It's championship leader Pan in third, Maya Vergis second, and third in the

championship, Chambers is first. So we've almost got, from a neutral

perspective, the perfect scenario.

But Dorian Pan would completely disagree with what I just said. And she has been

very relaxed this weekend in terms of that. But she's pushing very hard, isn't

she? And someone else having a lock -up coming down towards turn 13 as we...

head up to 14 now yeah Dorian pushing very hard there as she comes across the

second split she's got a personal best and less than a tenth off of the pole

position time of Chloe Chambers so she's Just been able to find some grip. Ella

Lloyd there, three tenths off at the second split. Too personal best for her.

she looks to improve on this lap. But let's see how Dorian is at the last part

of the circuit. Now finding the breaking point for turn 16.

Remember, she did a purple sector here on this sector on the last lap. So if

can keep up that pace, she could really challenge for the pole position.

Yeah, this is looking good for Dorian Pan.

Looks tidy through the last corner. Will it be enough through the final sector

to go fastest?

No. She is not quicker.

Emma Felbermayer in the background is for Sauber. She goes to P5. What about

Chambers? She goes fastest through the second sector.

Ella Lloyd has gone fourth. Right. We're waiting to see Maya Verg. She's going

to cross the line in about five seconds. And it looks like we may see her

improve. Maya Verg looking very quick. And she's gone fastest. There we go. 203

.453. Chloe Chambers.

next to cross the line. So Maya Virg is your new provisional pole sitter.

Chloe Chambers will be next. Here she comes in that Red Bull Ford livery out

the final corner now.

So how long will Maya Virg stay on pole for? Well, at least another two minutes

because Chloe Chambers has gone second. So we stay as we are in terms of the top

three. We've just reversed Maya Virg and Chloe Chambers. Maya Virg is your new

provisional pole sitter and she needed that in terms of the championship. And

was an incredible lap. She found nearly four tenths on pounding on that lap,

which was incredible. Chloe Chambers put in an equally good lap, but still

nearly two tenths behind Maya Verg.

Really impressive lap. It's going to be very hard to beat that lap time because

it was really sensational.

Right, Lloyd is fourth, Bilal fifth, then Felbermayer, Larsson, Nobels in the

top eight.

Make that seventh now. She's gone from eighth to seventh in the background.

is Bruce.

And then heading down the straight is Leah Block, and she's now gone to

That would put her on pole position for tomorrow, so a good time for Block. That

knocks Salva Larsson out of the top eight. But looking at the sectors, it's

Lloyd who is improving on this lap. The refs seem to be... having a breather

before one final assault. So let's ride on board with the McLaren Junior.

Yeah, Ella Lloyd coming down here towards T16. She hasn't had a good

sector there. It looks like she's still pushing for this lap.

If she crosses the line in time, she might have time for two more laps.

It's going to be close. It could be just one more lap, so this could be her last

attempt. Oh, no.

Oh, wow.

Ella Lloyd, good save in the end, but that's going to hamper not only that

but the next one as well, and that could be session over for Ella Lloyd. She

might get one more lap, but I think that will be that, and sadly, she has

disrupted any progress for... Elbermeyer on this lap as well so that will

be something that Emma Felbermeyer will not be happy with but Lloyd gave it

absolutely everything let's have a look at that one again yeah she turned into

turn 18 just carried a bit too much speed got on the curb between the two

corners which got her out on the onto the dirty stuff out there and yeah

good car control there because that could have could have gone horribly

that point so yeah well done for keeping that out of the wall We've seen some

big ones there before, haven't we?

Drivers going into the barriers right, left. Good save. Okay, let's focus back

on this fight for pole position because it includes all three of our

championship leaders.

Dorian Pan leading that title fight has now improved through the first sector.

The Mercedes Junior making her way now.

She's got traffic ahead.

But as you mentioned, traffic ahead.

Yeah, she's got Ella Lloyd ahead of her.

As we saw, them two got involved at turn one. And Dorianne Pan, she's going to

get held up here, I think.

I don't know how much she's been compromised. We'll see when she crosses

second sector line. But this is far from ideal for Dorianne Pan here. I think

she's backing off. Now let's have a look. She's going to the outside.

But that is surely...

going to ruin any chances. Yes, she's seven tenths down. So Dorian Pan, that's

her lap gone.

So it's over to Maya Verg and Chloe Chambers. Chloe Chambers, this could

the door for her to take yet another pole position.

And Dorian Pan will now have to race to the line to try and get another lap in.

Will she make it is the question.

She's got 12 seconds.

She might just make it, but she's going to have to be forced to push again here.

Yeah, I think she'll make it, but it's going to be very close.

If she does... Does she make it?

I don't think so, no.

I think she might have just got across the line, actually. Ella Lloyd has been

shown as taking the flag, so Dorian Pan will get one more lap in, and she's

going to have to go again.

Okay, so, Maya Virg.

This will be her final lap, her final chance to improve through the final

she comes.

Will she improve on this lap? No. So Chloe Chambers, an opportunity has now

presented to her to try and steal pole position at the final corner.

These are the two that have shared pole position this year. Between them, Chloe

Chambers out of the final corner now can't improve.

Donnie and Pan did make it through the...

through the line before the flag came out and has done a 37 .6 through the

sector, which is a competitive time.

So she has now an opportunity herself to take back pole position. But this is

it. It's all or nothing on this final lap, Gary. Yeah, it is. This is it. It's

certainly far from ideal because her tyres would have been in a lot better

position on that previous lap. But as you can see, she's still pushing her

through this really busy section as we go over the bridge.

braking for turn 13, trying to get on the power.

Let's see how much traction she's got.

She's now making her way down towards... We'll look at the timing screens to see

when she crosses. It's a green middle sector, so she's got a personal best

middle sector. Oh, she's just lost the rear of the car a bit there into turn

but she's still pushing hard.

This is looking good for Dorian Pan.

She was just slightly down. She was two tenths down on the fastest.

first sector, but she's made up time to the second sector. It's going to be all

on this final sector.

It is. I think she'll struggle to beat Maya Virg, but she could grab second

place here, I think, if she has a good last sector.

Yep, she could put it on the front row, and I think she would take that given

the circumstances. Out the final corner, she comes wobbly feet for Doddy and

Pan. Yes, front row and only four hundredths of a second back, and that's

big result for Doddy and Pan.

Prima Racing Team.

They don't look that happy, but I tell you what, on review, they will take

And it's going to be pole position for Maya Verg.

What a result for her.

In qualifying, she has had an absolutely brilliant season. It's going to be back

-to -back pole positions for the MP Motorsport driver as she looks to chase

Dorian Pan in the championship, who's just qualified alongside her on the

row. Dorian, four hundredths away from her first pole position of the season,

but will once again line up on the front row ahead, will be on the front row

alongside her title rival.

That's going to be one hell of a race down to the first corner. It is.

It is. I said that Maya's lap was incredible, the gap she had at the time,

Dorian's was just as good as we saw.

Bit of a moment for Megan Bruce there as she came down towards, I think it was

turn seven maybe.

But yeah, Dorian's lap right at the end, you know, with definitely not the best

conditioned tyres, to be that close to pole position was an incredible effort.

So yeah, I'm sure this sets up really well for the two races of the weekend.

It was. Incredible effort. Lisa Villard becomes the first wildcard driver of the

season to qualify inside the top eight as well. A mention for her. That's a...

a superb effort, isn't it? She's going to be in the top eight for both races.

She'll be on the second row for tomorrow as well.

This is Maya Verg coming across the line.

That was the most scary 20 seconds of my life. Thank you, guys.

That's back -to -back pole positions for her this season.

And that's exactly what she needed to do. Out -qualified Dorian Pan.

And she will have the advantage going down to the first corner.

I've got to say, though, credit to Dorian Pan. She had one final lap.

She couldn't make any mistakes on that last lap. And that's a great effort for

herself.

Yeah, like I say, incredible to get that close with having to do kind of a

double push, having to abort that lap, having to push that hard to get to the

line to make sure you can get another lap. And she only got it by fractions of

second. And then to go and deliver a lap like that that was almost pole position

was fantastic.

So I think that, yeah, these two certainly look like they're, you know.

They're championship contenders for a reason because they definitely delivered

in qualifying today.

Maya will take two points for pole position. Those will be crucial for her

terms of this fight. That's what they were fighting for as well.

So the frustration for Prema would have also been surrounding that because those

two points for pole could be crucial come the end of the season. And Maya has

now taken that on three occasions.

So a well done to her.

And that just reduces the gap from 20 to 18. And those two points will be

awarded when she lines up on pole at Grand Prix Sunday.

And they'll be together as well for the race tomorrow as well on the fourth row

of the grid. So that's going to be one to keep an eye on.

Not only the front row, but you want to keep an eye on the fourth row. On the

front row, it's going to be Leah Block chasing her first win. And Aurelia

Nobel's in a similar scenario.

Yeah, exactly. It's a great opportunity for them to get a win. But as you say,

with Maia and Dorian next to each other on the grid, trying to score points

tomorrow is going to be as important as Sunday.

It really is.

Here is your result.

Maia Verg takes her third pole position.

Just beating Doddy and Pan by four hundredths of a second. Chloe Chambers,

third. Your three championship leaders right up there.

Ella Lloyd, fourth. Well done. Lisa Billard becomes the first wildcard of

season to be in the top eight. Emma Felbermeyer, P6.

Aurelia Nobel, seventh. Leah Block will be on pole position for the race

tomorrow for Williams.

They come off the back of a great Grand Prix and now they've got a driver on

pole. Well done, Leah Block. Abel Arsene, ninth. Chloe Chong, tenth.

Nina Gaidman, eleventh.

Geraint Chaconty, twelfth. Tina Hamilton, Alston 13th, and Rafaela

done, Megan Bruce.

Great entrance into the series, and Crone Havrida.

And Alicia Pomofsky is going to be going from the back of the field. She's one

of the quickest in practice.

That's going to be fun to watch, isn't it?

Well, that's been practice.

Ben Edwards will be here alongside Gary Paffett to call you through the rest of

the weekend.

Join them both for Race 1 tomorrow from 3 o 'clock local time here in Singapore.

For now, it is goodbye.