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For the only European event of F1 Academy in 2025, qualifying is about to

at Zandvoort in the Netherlands. Welcome from me, Ben Edwards, as we prepare for

what is going to be a demanding session on the edge of the North Sea.

Zandvoort is always a challenging circuit and the weather can make life a

difficult too. We've got some dampness on the track at the moment.

It's a challenging track, as I say, with 2 .6 miles, 4 .2 kilometres, lots of

elevation change, 14 corners and banked corners at angles rarely seen. This

qualifying session will determine the grid for the main race of the weekend,

offering most points, while the top eight qualifiers will be reversed.

for the race later this afternoon.

Joining me as a winner at this circuit in the past, Alice Powell. And Alice,

this is a track where pushing the limits can often lead to contact with the

walls or getting stuck in the gravel.

Good morning, everyone. Yes, it certainly can.

We've seen plenty of that over the weekend across all support series here

including Formula 1 as well. And Chloe Chambers, she had a slight off yesterday

in pre -practice where we did see some mixed conditions. Some drivers did

venture out on the wet tyre.

These drivers only get two sets of wet tyres to use for the entire weekend.

There's no intermediates, there's no full wets. It's just one standard wet

So tricky conditions are going to be faced with these drivers, Ben.

So we've got the session just getting underway now, and we had a quick look at

Dorianne Pan, who leads the series at the moment, and she's in great form.

Whether she's going to be able to continue in that way, she is very, very

controlled. conditions are tricky like this as you can see they are all out on

their wet tires because of the rain that has been overnight but the sun is

coming up as you say and in some areas it will be drying out quite quickly so

whether they will be able to switch tires later in this session with half an

hour we shall find out well looking there ben from that shot that beautiful

at turn three we've had no action on circuit at all today and already there's

slight dry line now these pirelli wets that they have in f1 academy are pretty

soft which is why we didn't see many of the drivers take to the track on the wet

tyre yesterday, purely because it will just chew those wets up. Some did

out on the slick tyre, but riding on board with Ella Lloyd now, trying to

bit of space out there. It looks like the majority of the cars, all bar

Giaconte, Mayberg, and the three Campos racing cars have decided to stay in the

pits.

It's a slightly shorter session that we usually get in free practice, so a

standard 30 minutes in qualifying. Also great to see Nina Gaben back out, who of

course missed.

Free practice yesterday, just needed a few medical checks, but she's fit and

well to race today. And she turns 22 today, so happy birthday to Nina.

Indeed, yes, absolutely right. Looking at Esme Kosterman here, who is the

wildcard entry.

So the third Dutch driver, actually, to be competing this weekend. It's great

that we've got three Dutch women competing in F1 Academy here at

weekend. And I've been quite impressed with the paces she's been doing so far

the practice sessions, actually, because we haven't yet seen a wildcard entry.

this year take any points. But she's been looking pretty promising.

Yeah, exactly.

We haven't. And we did see last year, just in one of the drives, who was a

wildcard last year, Alicia Parmosky. She took points at Qatar. We also had Nina

Gaven here last year. She did a good job, Nina Gaven. Take points here. So

be good to see Yves Esme in the team viewer livery, which features the faces

over 200 women, which is inspired by the visibility drives change.

And we hear from Chloe Chong.

The bowl is completely dry, but the rest of the track is completely wet.

Understood.

Oh, Ticonte has gone off already.

Sorry, yeah, well...

That's Ava, yeah. Yeah, it's Anagnostiadis. Sorry, it's Anagnostiadis

off. Ava Anagnostiadis, the 18 -year -old Australian who, unfortunately, has

gone down at turn one, presumably locked up. Oh, that is so frustrating.

She's not going to be getting out of there, unfortunately. So there is a

on the... Yeah, you are unfortunately stuck, Ava. There is a puddle I just

see off of shot there that...

as you head down into Turn 1. So either she's driven through that on the slippy

part of the track, or potentially she has tried to come off the racing line

break off the rubber and just purely locked up. But she's gone in backwards,

we will catch a replay as we see the fantastic marshals go out to quickly

recover her car. So a little look in the middle of the shot there.

Oh, it's contact between the two teammates, actually. So that's Nicole

both racing for high -tech.

GP.

Oh, dear. That is a little bit unfortunate, isn't it? Oh, yeah. She

that just spun around. There was nothing she could do about that.

What happened?

Nicole just ran up and put me in the gravel.

Oh, that is hard because they'll have to recover that car. It can't get out of

the gravel. She won't be going back out, I wouldn't think, in this session. Once

you've caused that red flag and Nicole Havard will have...

For both races, a 10 -place grip penalty in each for overtaking under the red

flag yesterday. But as expected, that incident between...

Both Havrida and Agnostiadis as well will be under investigation for causing

collision. So not a great start to the session for high -tech.

No, it's not a great start.

And yeah, you almost wonder whether there might even be another penalty for

Nicole Havrida. I mean, that was just a little incident in a way, but she was

the one that made contact with her teammate.

And unfortunately, that means that Agnostiadis is definitely going to be

starting down at the back of the grid.

for the race, for both races. Remember, it's the top eight that will be reversed

on the grid for the first race of the weekend, which takes place this

The second race, which gets the most points on Sunday, that, of course, will

line up as they qualify today. But nobody's set any times yet, obviously,

because we're into a red flag period.

And this actually will give everybody a chance to just report back to their

teams, tell them what the grid levels are like and what they think they might

get to. Let's just have another look at this.

From a slightly different view.

So we'll see.

Ava does move slightly left into the path of

Havre. You can just see there. She's locked up, though, for Havre for quite a

long time.

I think, obviously, she didn't mean to do it at all, did Nicole Havre in the

American Express car.

So we should see what approach the stewards take on that. So keep up to

with that by following F1 Academy socials and on the website as well for

updates regarding that. But a short, very short session for Ava. But the

has stopped. It always does in qualifying, so we still have 27 minutes

seconds remaining.

Yeah, so I do feel for Ava, but let's hope that the day goes a little better

later on. So we've got Alicia Palmoski there, who did a very good job in the

first practice session yesterday.

Another one to keep an eye on because she's been performing well over the

of the season so far. FT1, she's done 138 .1. We're not going to be seeing

sort of lap times in these conditions, of course, now that they're on the wet

tyres. It was a wet qualifying last year, wasn't it? It was a wet qualifying

last year. And plenty of drivers on the grid did take part in that. For example,

Dorian Pan, she got the second fastest lap time. So she was told for the second

race, Abby Pulling took over. with a 146 .746.

We had Maya Berg. She qualified fourth in qualifying one result. Nina Gaben,

was a wildcard, did a great job. She was sixth. Chloe Chambers was seventh,

block eight. So, 20 of drivers have had experience of qualifying

here at Zandvoort. Well, Alicia Talmowski has been testing here around

Zandvoort circuit, and she really has enjoyed it. Let's hear from her.

Testing was really, really positive.

It's my first time at this track and I'm a huge fan.

It's a really old school circuit, really technical, very, very challenging. It's

very physically demanding on the drivers.

There's no margin for error as well. Walls, gravel, grass, everything going

is very, very close. So the margins between drivers are very small as well.

expecting a tough weekend ahead, but big fan of the track.

So Alicia Palmosky, her 10th year of racing, amazingly. She began in 2015

she was only eight, nine years old.

But she's been impressive in F1 Academy so far this year. And we'll just have to

see how it develops over the course of... The last time in Montreal, things

didn't go quite so well for her. That was one of the more disappointing

weekends. But otherwise, she's done very well.

She has. She certainly has. And it was an instant pack.

Three races we had at Montreal. We were really treated to three great races.

And Alicia... It wasn't a great race weekend overall.

Her pace was there, but just wasn't able to put it together. There was a few

incidents as well.

Nine points overall at Montreal in all three of those races. So she'll be

looking for a much better weekend. And she actually dropped out of the top

in the championship as well. So she dropped behind Ella Lloyd. So she sits

fifth. place at the moment 56 points adrift of uh of dorian pan is at the top

the times chloe chambers giving us a little update their track is drying

and it does here at zanvort leah block low she's got plenty of clean air she's

been out rallying recently back in at home in the u .s and took a podium

her her mom's full fiesta rally three car and uh Perfect conditions for her

then, really, for Leah Block. She set the pace early on in this session, part

the bandy body in the first sector so far. And it's actually fun for us to be

able to ride on board with her because it gives us a bit of a view of the

And we can start to see there are some slightly drying areas, but there are

quite damp patches, particularly under braking.

And you can see that she's playing with the lines a little bit, looking for a

slightly drier line. She's not using the normal...

dry line you would use she's looking for the grip she exactly she is but the

question is going to be for these drivers is when do you make the change

the slick tire you don't want to go too early but you don't want to go too late

we've got 24 minutes of the session remaining and with track temperatures

air temperature both exactly at 19 degrees it's going to be difficult to

generate that temperature in the slick tyre. It's harder to warm them up when

you've got a patchy, drying circuit like this. However, the sooner you can get

out on that slick tyre, it gives you more chance to when the track is much

towards the end of the session.

It's going to be interesting to see who makes the jump, who takes the gamble to

potentially go to the slick tyre to possibly have the best tyre come the end

the session. But Nobles has jumped Lear Block. They're a couple of seconds off

the pace of what was being set last year.

Ella Lloyd, I was just about to say, these are her ideal conditions. She

driving in the wet. Again, a driver with rally experience.

Just runs slightly wide as she heads through into Turn 11.

She's the part of anyone in the first two sectors at the moment.

Yeah, this could be a very good lap by Ella Lloyd. And she did extremely well

here in the British GP4 when they were racing here at Zandvoort a couple of

months ago. So she knows this track very well now and has had some good

experience being a podium finisher.

British F4 so let's just see she goes across the line so she's second fastest

Maya Verg actually sets the pace 148 .3 Lloyd does a 148 .7 it's all pretty

close and Tina Houseman now you're looking at her number 78 she's now

into second place

We've got a car off, I think.

Yeah, somebody ran wide at turn one, got back on again.

That's not surprising. It's still tricky conditions out there. And we are some

way away. We're about 10 seconds away from what they were doing in the drive.

Yeah, so it's a big change for the drivers.

Again, they're just going to have to see. You can see.

Listen. A lap ago, this was looking very different. You can see how quickly.

That sun is pretty strong. We've got a little bit of a breeze out there as

a strong breeze, actually, which is going to help the track drive even

But there is pretty much a dry line all the way around there through into Turn

9. She'll bleed over to the right -hand side. This is Turn 10 now. But you can

just see the car still snaking around. However, it can be a little bit

at times.

When you do have a wet tyre that meets a dry part of the circuit, obviously it

gets quite hot on the surface of the wet tyre. And then it's moving on the

blocks then, essentially.

You can see Maya was just desperately trying to find a bit of wet track there.

So someone's going to make the decision soon. I can feel it's going to happen

quite quickly. And already she's not setting personal bets in that middle

sector. So is this potentially then going to be the start of the crossover?

a bit of a snap of oversteer there.

It's impressive to watch, though, riding on board with Maia Verg, who, of

course, was the championship leader until Montreal was an absolutely

weekend for her. Let's just see. So she does a 1 .48 .053, a little bit quicker,

but we're still not quite down to the sort of dry weather that they'll need to

put the slicks on. But Maia Verg, we need to keep an eye on her. She's third

the championship now, having lost out in Canada.

There you see, going down is Chloe Chambers, who has had the... Pole

last three events, the main pole positions.

And she obviously ran a bit late into turn one. She's not the only one. Nina

Gaidman did it as well. Yeah, Nina just going wide. They have to take that

escape road that you can see all drivers there. You can't take the shortcut, not

that you want to, through the gravel. Susie Wolfe watches on. Keane Eye, of

course, across all the drivers.

Great support for all the girls that are out there racing. So Nina's on a lap

now, comes across the line.

She would, of course, have been off, so that first sector would have been quite

a bit off the pace. But just looking at the timing screens, there's no one

really, particularly in the top six, that are setting personal bets.

mean that these wet tyres are just not agreeing with the track surface at the

moment. It's still quite slippy at this part of the circuit.

Yeah. But then you head into the bowl where Chloe Chong said it was drying

quickly, and you can see that they have a dry line all the way across at the

top. Yeah, well, just on the exit, it's like dampness. But you're absolutely

right, because it's fascinating looking at where there are some drier areas and

wetter areas. Is anybody going to take the risk to put on some slicks before

end of this session? We have just under 20 minutes to go. in qualifying here for

F1 Academy.

And these young women who are trying to prove their abilities in slippery

conditions as well.

This is going to be fun to see how this goes. Now, we're on board with the

series leader, Dorianne Pan.

And she is setting fastest sectors, as you can see. Sector 1 and Sector 2.

got a bit of traffic up ahead.

Oh. Interesting.

People are going to start switching.

Here we go. So the ARTs, both ARTs of Aurier Nobles and Leah Block are in the

pit. Dorian Pan is the only person out on track that looks like they're going

string a lap together that's going to really boost her much further up the

order. This is looking like, if this last set is good, she's going to jump

to the top of times. Yeah, just over.

Two and a half tenths quicker.

Emma Felbermayer has improved.

Nina Gaidman is going to improve as well. Giaconte further down the field

improved. So everyone's going to be having a little look when eventually

and Block do come out of pit lane. They're going to be seeing how they're

to be getting on looking as well. Courtney Crone is now in the pits. Nina,

job from her up into third place.

It just shows you how the track is improving now because the lap times are

jumping up a little bit more and we're definitely under 10 seconds.

below what they should, well, around 10 seconds, Bill. But when they put the

slicks on, there is every chance. I think they're making the right decision

here. You've got to go for it because it is drying out quite nicely.

Let's have a look. Alba last, number 12, you're looking at there.

Yeah, she heads down, oh, down on a turn one. And there's our wild card entry as

well, Esme Kosterman, who has also gone deep. But that was partly because I

think the car went off in front of her. And Ella Lloyd, ooh, through the gravel.

Did she got it out of the gravel? Yes, she did.

My goodness, you've got to keep going when you're in the gravel, otherwise you

just get stuck. She dealt with that quite well. She put a few gravel stones

the road.

Yeah, so she's managed to get back on track. So nobody else.

Dorian plans on a cool lap.

Myberg's on a push lap. Laurie Chong's on a push lap.

I think the tyres are starting to get chewed up.

OK, do you think it's safe to gamble for slick?

I think it's still wet still.

It's an interesting one. I mean, you were saying earlier how the Pirelli wet

tyres are quite a soft wet tyre. And that's sort of what they're talking

And that's clearly what Chloe's talking about there. The tyres are not at their

best because they have a limited number of tyres to use over the weekend. And,

of course, the possibility of more rain for both races coming up over the

weekend. They have to look after them. They certainly do. So Alba Larson has

improved.

Lap time there. So we're seeing a few drivers go into it. So there's Courtney

Crone. She's bogged on the set of flicks. Now, some of the drivers are

to see whether they're deciding they're going to change to slicks. Dorian Pan's

one of those who's in the pits at the moment. Tina House and Maya Verg.

So Block is on slicks now.

Yeah.

And you just need to survive the first two, three laps when you go out on a

track like this. You can hear the wheelspin there.

Interesting to see if the likes of Pan and Maia Verg are going to take the

gamble or they're just going to bleed the pressures down.

Obviously, the pressures and the wets would have jumped quite high.

And whether they're going to maybe take the gamble or they're going to bleed the

wets down and come back out. They're all going to be keeping a very keen eye on

the lap times of the likes of Block, Nobles.

And, of course, we've seen Courtney Crone, who's going out there as well.

is quite snappy let's have a look that's emma felbermeyer and that is slick

tires being bolted on to her car there ben yeah this is going to be really

interesting to see how the slick tires do work and where you can find the grip.

And you may well need to use a slightly different line to make sure that you're

staying onto the drier part. But for somebody like Leah Block, as you say,

her rallying experience, it really is something she's going to have a go at.

She's got great car control, of course, from that rally experience.

But Dorianne Pan is also now going onto the slick tyres as well. See whether she

can continue her championship lead. She's got that lead of...

20 points over Chloe Chambers, and is in a very strong position at this stage.

There we are, looking at Leah. She'll start to pick up the pace a little bit

more on this next lap.

She will, and we just saw, flashing up at the top of the screen, Ella Lloyd

under investigation for not following...

The race direction instructions and the instructions we already spoke about were

you have to go straight on, but she was quite far around the corner when she got

that snap of oversteer, so we'll see how they deal with that. But the advantage

with Block being out so early on is she's just getting temperature into the

slick tyres.

She's going to get a good feel because, as I said, look, you can't do any

weaving there because if you do, it's so wet down that straight.

That's going to be so easy to give you a kick of overdoing. You can see fighting

the car all the way around.

So she'll still be bleeding up to temperatures. You're going to have to

navigate. There's that Esme in the team viewer car just in front.

Let's have a look from riding on board with Lea Bloch. It's a bit tricky when

you've got to deal with some traffic as well because you're trying to find that

dry line. And if the traffic's on the dry line, then you're in a bit of

particularly when you're on the slits. Let's watch.

Listen to her.

On the throttle there, more smooth. You've got to be a little more cautious

the throttle, haven't you? You have.

So this is definitely 100 % the right decision to go on these tyres. So let's

have a look. She's done a 40 .4 in the first sector.

And for reference, Dorian Pandit, a 37 .196.

So still three seconds off at the moment. But that's just going to

it's just going to get better.

14 minutes.

of this session left as we've got 20 of drivers coming out the pits now all

three crema cars are on their way out and uh nobles is coming out as well

is another driver that's that's coming out all will be uh as i said keeping an

eye on the the times with leo block and of course they've got no delta on their

steering wheel like they do in categories further up they've got no

pressure sensors on these cars either it's just all doing it through the seat

your pants bent and also through the feel that you get through the steering

wheel the middle sector okay in fact yeah as you say the the middle sector

very similar to what everyone else has been doing on the wex and as she goes

across the line OK, so she's done a 1 .52 .7, so that's a bit off. This is the

trickiest bit, yeah. And I was just thinking that because when I was looking

the view... Oh, well done. She's gone around the escape route. I wonder if she

was going to go too far in. But that is probably the most difficult part because

it is very wet down there. It's got the shade from the sun. It hasn't been able

to dry up. And that braking area, I think, is one of the most difficult

The rest of the track is beginning to dry up a bit more. Yes, it is.

Do remember, though, that we've got top eight reversed for the race later on

today. That's true, because she's eighth. Yeah, so she's actually in

course, you're not aiming to qualify eighth. You want to be as far up as

possible. You just see she just probably drifted back over to the original dry

line. What would it be if it was bone dry? And that puddle that is starting to

quite quickly disappear on track. She just snagged a front left on that. But

race won later. It will be at five past five.

Local time and that will be our reverse grid race top eight reversed

24 -year -old American Courtney Crone we're watching now, also on the slick

tyres as we start to see whether anybody is going to be putting the pace

together a little bit more on these laps. It is getting a bit quicker now on

slicks, but nobody as yet is improving hugely. There are some mid -sectors that

people are doing some personal bests, and actually 38th in that first sector.

That is now looking more promising. Ah, yeah, and you just spotted somebody's

got a fastest middle sector.

Yeah, so Leah Block has found a...

Heaps of time in that middle sector.

Nobles has gone faster in the last sector.

So this order, 100%, ladies and gents, is definitely going to be changing in

next five minutes or so because the track is coming to the drivers, the

temperature of the tyres, the slick tyres are coming to them as well.

Crone, not yet to set any personal best.

She'll cut the beam as she goes through sector two and she's fastest of anybody.

We do have a yellow flag in the first and second sector. It's funny, I was

thinking about that. We've got 11 and a half minutes to go, and the timing is

working well. Oh, that's good. It's gone clear. What the worry is, if somebody

crashes with five minutes to go, and then the session gets cancelled... I

no commentators curse. Yeah, well, let's see what happens, because that is the

thing. And it's good that most cars, I think, now are out on slick tyres. It's

going to be quite busy out on track.

Let's see what Courtney Cronin does, because she's done the fastest middle

sector now. How far does she bounce up the order? Yeah, up into third place.

148 .4.

We would expect them to be getting down into the mid -145s, I would think,

fairly quickly.

Still, the trickiest part of the track definitely looks like going into Turn 1,

where it's just under the shade from the pit buildings there. The sun's not

quite on it, so that's going to take the longest to dry.

Alicia Palm obviously down in 12th, but I don't think she's going to be down in

12th for very long. I'm expecting she's going to fire herself up to the top of

the times.

You can just see how quickly this final corner of Turn 14 now is drying with

that sun beaming down. The temperatures aren't rising, though. Air and track

temperature still the same.

Alicia, though, up to the top of the times issue. Nobles takes it for a

and then straight up to the top. Still a good chunk away from the times that

we've been seeing in the dry and pre -practice. And we've got a yellow flag

the first sector. I'm guessing that's someone that's just ran slightly wide. I

think so, because we've got a green flag. and Alois just moved up to fifth

almost the currently fastest.

Ah, now let's have a look. It looks like it's Tina Hausman who has run deep into

turn one yet. And offensively, that was a good move. Go to the escape road.

Don't go through the gravel.

Yes, you don't get the next lap.

Oh, and Rafaela Ferreira. Oh, my goodness. That was lucky. I don't think

damaged it. She just touched the edge, but I don't think she damaged it. And

Joanne Chiconte. Yeah, another lock -up down into turn one.

Understandable. Plenty of people doing that.

Well, there's a lot going on here, but we've got some faster factors coming up

again now. We're going to be seeing, I think, some more improvements. Oh,

Hausmann hits the wall.

She kept it going.

But, yeah, let's have another look at this.

Oh, we have a red flag.

It's not the first Aston Martin that we've seen.

into the barriers at turn three. Lance Stroll, of course, yesterday.

Aurelia Nobles is off in the gravel. Now that needs a recovery.

Now the times do stop. So we've got nine minutes, just over nine minutes still

to go.

And when they go back out after this red flag, there should be time. But it just

depends if anyone else goes off. At the moment, it is all looking good for Leah

Block. She did a very good job coming out on the... Oh, yes, Palmoski's time.

Has that been... Yeah, I'm sorry. We were just looking at the timing screen

we've got here in the commentary box. Alicia Palmoski's had her...

Her lap time taken away.

We're being told it's for track limits at turn three.

So she's maybe gone too high in turn three. So she's now back down into

14th place. It's Leah Block that heads the timing.

Is Aurelia Nobel going off?

No.

That's frustrating for her. So that's down at turn seven. The fast right

before you go into turn eight.

And there's no escape road really there, is there? Once you're into the gravel

there, there's no choice. And that is a great shame for Aurelia Noble. She's

shone a few times this year, but every now and then when it comes to the races,

it's been a bit tricky for her.

I do feel for her that is a tough one because she had qualified well in Miami

and of course then missed out on a second race in Miami. We had that

rain.

Montreal didn't go quite so well. You get ninth in the first race, but a non

-finish in the final race.

Well, let's find out. The red flag, of course, bringing all of the cars in.

Leopold is currently fastest from Emma Felbermayer, who you're looking at right

now, heading back into the pit.

Dorian Pound, the series leader, you've apparently heard. Maya Virg, who was

series leader earlier on in the season, she's fourth fastest. Ella Lloyd, who is

very competitive here at Zandvoort already, as we've seen this year. And

impressively, Esme Kosterman is up there in sixth place, the wildcard entry.

She's doing well so far, but as you said, I think we could see a lot more

changes once this gets going.

Exactly, and actually, Ella Lloyd had set the fastest.

First sector by the four tenths of a second before that red flag came out and

stopped the session. Chloe Chambers, she didn't really set a lap time, I don't

think, on the slick tyre.

Of course, now they're all parked in the shade.

They've all gone back and there's adjustment. What can I see there of rear

on the back of...

Chloe Chambers' car, but the pressure of the slick tyres is going to drop.

They've stopped in the pit lanes soaking wet. So they've stopped in a wet pit

lane. So the tyre pressures are going to drop.

And Alicia has dropped back down, of course, lap time being deleted.

And I think we're going to be catching a replay potentially of turn three. So

she's going through turn two.

Oh, yeah.

All four wheels were over the white line.

Yeah, so that's a kick of over. So she got on the way in. She probably did

actually, before we did, that that lap time was going to be taken away. But

she's got plenty of time left to do. Nine minutes of the session left when it

will be resumed. Masters are extremely efficient here. So no buzz is calm. Shaw

will be cleared pretty quickly.

Yeah, Nelisha Palmosky, currently fifth in the championship, winner of the very

first race of the year on the reverse grid that we had in China.

And she's had some top results, a couple of podiums as well.

Last time out of the play wasn't so great. Listen to Emma. Jack's going to

evolving at a rate of knots, so just need to keep pushing.

Airboat, settle.

Yeah, that's her engineer telling Emma that you've just got to go for it in the

final part.

Yeah, get a move on.

A polite way of saying get a move on. Look how damp it is still in the pit in

comparison to actually when you get out on the track.

It is, but the fans are loving it. Plenty of fans here early in the morning

coming in as soon as the gates opened and getting some good vantage points.

And that's always a sign that it's starting to warm up a little bit when

are being removed as well. But always a great atmosphere here at Zandvoort.

Always one big party. The music is often blaring in between sessions. Actually,

I think I can even hear it blaring now.

Right, we're about to get qualifying underway again with just over nine

to go. And this is going to be the battle for the top positions on the

Remember, once again, the top eight fastest in qualifying today will be

for the race this afternoon, but they will start in their qualifying order for

the main race tomorrow. When I say main race, they're both key races, but there

are more points.

for the main race on Sunday than for the race on Saturday. But the reverse grid

idea has really entertained us throughout the course of this season.

lots of overtaking in reverse grid races.

This is a track where overtaking's not easy, but I think, again, when we get

into the reverse grid race this afternoon, it could be very interesting

some drivers making their way through.

Yeah, it's certainly going to be interesting when it comes to race one

today, and I'm sure we'll see plenty.

overtaking, but it's fine where fortune favours the brave. Who's going to be the

bravest? Who's going to get that tyre temperature just in the window?

Who's going to be out there finding that grip? And also, who's going to be able

to find the best track space?

Of course, Leah Block was first out the pit lane, so she's got the best seat in

the house, as it be.

Just trying to get... And actually, there we go. There's a wing change

Now it's time.

Oh, it's Hammer time. That's a wing change for Ferreira because, of course,

spanned backward into turn three. So great job by the Campos team to get that

wing changed. She's going to be about a lap behind everybody else, though. Yeah,

I was just thinking it might be an advantage to get out before you're in

group because I think some of these quick drivers are going to get held up

because they've all gone out together.

You almost need to go out in a clear space in conditions like this. But, as

say, you've got to get out in time.

Dorian Pan's got herself actually in front of those two cars. Hopefully she's

now got a bit of clear space.

This is an important one. She's third fastest at the moment. She was quickest

one stage in this session. Leah Block currently fastest from Selbermaier.

Pan currently third. Maya Berg, who is one of the three Dutch drivers and with

MT team, which is a Dutch team as well. It's going to be interesting to see how

MT Motorsport get on in their home event with Maya Berg.

who is desperate to get some key points to try and challenge for the title again

against Dorianne Pound, but she is back down in third place with Chloe Chambers

in between.

Chambers hasn't done anything special yet in this session. She's down in 11th,

but again, I think you'll see her moving up that order.

Yeah, you certainly will.

Parmovsky, she's on an outlap, but she's already set the fastest middle sector.

Right. And she's on an outlap. Leah Block, though, is the first to cut the

sector one beam, and she is fearful of anyone, but that's quickly taken away.

So Dorian Pant, we can't keep up with our time screen. It keeps changing. So

this is going to change quite quickly, this order, Dorian Pant, as of anybody

the moment in that first sector. Let's ride on board with her. This is through

this interior section now of Zandvoort.

These longer corners where you've got to just control the throttle a little bit

more, but watch out for where the dry area is. Through Turn 10, very important

exit because you're now on to a long straight here.

You are. She's got a little bit of traffic in front of her, though, so she

with six minutes left of the session to go, there's plenty of time to improve.

The track is going to evolve, but she's got this traffic, so is she going to

have to look about potentially?

Having a cool down lap you don't want to let too much temperature out of the

tires Just so she's got some free space when the track is at it's absolute best

At the very end of the session, Ella Lloyd fastest in the middle sector.

Emma Felbermayer fastest of anybody in the first sector. But we do have a

flag in sector three.

Lots of changes up the top, though. Look at this. They keep trying. Dorian Parr

has gone fastest. Oh, it's gone clear again. So 42 .116. Ah, but Lloyd's gone

even quicker into the 41s now.

And what about Maya Virg? She does a 41, but it's a 41 .9.

I think we might get in the 30s before the end of this session. So 41 .6.

Ella Lloyd, that's very impressive. You're now riding with Chloe Chambers,

has taken more poles than anybody else so far this year.

Is she now going to be able to jump up the order, down in 13th place currently?

Ella Lloyd, the one to try and beat. But is she going to get quite up to that

level? Let's just see as she comes over. Yes, she does. A 1 .41 .5.

Watch out for Emma Feldmeier. She's just popped up into fourth place.

Palmoski is going to be one of the final ones across the line. A lock -up from

Emma Feldmeier. Fastest of anybody in that middle sector. Not a real strong

first sector, which has let her down a little bit. But at the moment, on a

charge, is Meyerberg, who really needs a strong weekend to keep her championship

hopes alive.

She had a real tough time in Montreal, not even competing in one of the races

with technical issues.

So we wait.

the Leah Block exit at turn 12.

Yep, absolutely.

Chambers. And she appears.

Chambers is Chloe Chambers, the pole sitter many times this year. Three poles

from qualifying.

And she is currently fastest from Ella Lloyd.

Ella Lloyd just a tense...

Just over a tenth of a second slower.

As you say, Maia Berg doing a good job at the moment. Are we going to see more

improvements on this lap then? Leah Block is likely to improve. Yes, she

1 .41 .45.

It's fractionally faster.

And a lot of this is going to be about timing, isn't it? Getting the last lap

the right time. Dorian Pan now retakes that top spot.

Are we all going to see some more improvements? What does Lloyd do? Yeah,

.197. So she goes quickest.

Let's watch out for Maia Berg. Oh, she's had a really slow middle set. She was

very strong in the first.

Emma Felbermayer, though, is looking very strong. And there we go, in the

and middle sector. So we'll keep an eye on her. She's got a nice, clean turn 13.

Then it's easy flat for these cars through the bank, through the bank to

14.

She's got a good carrot to chase, in a way.

She's got Chloe Chambers in front of her as well, who just popped to the top.

And Emma fell by half a second quicker than anybody else out there at the

moment. Really enjoying driving in these conditions, clearly.

The Austrian 18 -year -old who has really delivered extremely well. And

done a good job in quite a few events. She's had a win this year.

She's currently ninth in the championship.

And she has qualified quite well, although she's been frustrated. She's

on pole a couple of times because she was eighth fastest. But right now, she

been quicker than that. She's been third fastest. But could this be her first

pole position of the year? We'll find out. Another incident being looked at.

into collision, but you're riding on board with Dorian Pan, the points

trying to gain a bit more time, but also with the car in front. So this is this

traffic that I was talking about a couple of minutes ago, and she's caught

back of it. She's got past Nina Gaidman, and she's now stuck behind Courtney

Crone. She's going to get a really nice tow from behind her, but trying to go

down the inside at turn one.

is going to be a little bit tricky. She's probably going to give it a go.

has no choice to give it a go. She's gone fastest. That helped her get the

But as you say, going into that first corner. But Lloyd is the first into the

30s. On 1 .39 .9. Two minutes to go.

So she's going to get some more laps. What about Maya Ver?

What can she do?

On her home track for the home team, and she goes fastest, 1 .39 .6.

This is fabulous. This is a really fun qualifying session because it's so

unpredictable, and it's trying out more and more.

And importantly for her, you can see, there's only 1 minute 40, 39 seconds

remaining, and they are doing 1 .39. So Chloe Chambers will just...

possibly get another lap this could be emma felbemeyer's final lap so those

slightly further forward yeah again alicia palmoski this is going to this

going on to now her final lap so those slightly further up we're going to get

extra lap and

Maya Berg is on fire. She's done the fastest first sector of anybody.

Leah Block, she will get one more lap after this as well. So that's the thing.

If you've left it a little bit later to go out of pit lane or you've slowed down

to get a gap, you're going to then run a risk of not being able to get that

extra lap. So it's going to be tough stuff for the likes of Palmofsky.

really got it.

A job to do now with essentially one lap less than everybody else.

Emma Felbermayr, though, she's just gone three tenths of a second quicker than

anybody in the first sector.

Well, we'll keep an eye on that, yeah. Let's see what Leah Block can do,

her rally driving experience, of course, has been very impressive, and she does

go fastest once again.

But she will only get the one more lap, and it's a good time, in a way, to get

the one more lap for Leah Block.

Daughter of the late, great Ken Block.

We're rallying the experience born into her. And she is doing a great job. But

as you said, there are others. And Felber Meyer did that great first

Wasn't so brilliant in the second sector.

Let's just see what Meyer Berg does here.

Yeah, she goes quicker.

1 .38 .9.

And the time is ticking away. The checkered flag is about to come out on

these... Can they get over the line before it? It's going to be close. I

think they're going to get over the line. So that's going to be it for Ava

Larson and Chloe Chong. I think she just got through. And Chloe Chambers. So

that is it. But let's have a look where Emma Felbermeyer. Is it enough to jump

to the top of the time?

No. So no improvement. So something happened in sector two and sector three.

So this is Alicia.

Where is she going to jump up to?

She goes fastest.

Oh, great lap by Alicia Palmosky. She now has to sit and wait to see what

everybody else is doing on this lap. What are we looking at? Sector times.

Anybody else looking impressive?

Yes, Maya Verg. However, from the onboard that we saw from her, there was

traffic in front of her. Let's have a look how Leah blocks getting on.

Dorian Pan, she caught up that traffic. She's down in 11th.

Have a look at the first sector, and she's four tenths of a second off the

fastest first sector of Maya Virg. So it's not going to be, unless she has an

absolute mighty middle and last sector, it's not going to be pole position for

Dorian Pan. Let's have a look, though, as we watch Leah Block come across the

line. Is it enough to go up to pole position?

Let's see. No, it's not. She stays fourth. But Maya Virg, as you say, is on

target at the moment.

to take pole position.

And that would be a great return. And Dorian Pan, the series leader, way down,

being pushed down by others. She's down in 12th. Let's see where she comes from.

The houseman goes up to fifth.

Lloyd up to second. Ella Lloyd, who had lots of second places last time out in

Montreal. That's another great effort by Mayerberg. Yes, she has done it. By 0

.039 of a second, Mayerberg has taken pole position.

And I think that's it. No one else is going to improve.

Well done.

to the Dutch racer Maya Berg, the 21 -year -old from the Netherlands, with

team that is based in Holland as well. That is a major moment, particularly

she had such a tough time with a technical problem at the last race in

and especially with Dorian Pan. Now, Dorian Pan obviously having that

demanding time.

but she still managed to get back to fifth.

So with the reverse grid, of course, Dorian Pan will be ahead of Maia Berg.

when it comes to the main race tomorrow, that is a chance for Maia Berg to

really maybe gain some points back.

And what about Chloe Chambers? She's in fourth. She's the other major

championship contender. She and Dorian Pan will be very close together on the

grid. They certainly will, and it's going to be reverse grid pole.

That's going to be pole. Come on!

It's going to be reverse grid pole for Nina Gaidman.

Yeah, that's a bit like the very first race of the year, actually, in China.

had the reverse grid pole and she led nearly all the race and then had a

with the car.

She did. So she'd be hoping for a little bit more luck.

But a good job as well by Ella Lloyd, who will start in third place.

But Maya Berg, she says, don't write me off from the championship just yet. She

is 37 points behind Dorian Pan.

And that is one way to set off a good weekend with her championship rival of

Dorian Pan down in fifth place, Chloe Chambers in fourth.

Well, that was a fantastic qualifying session with the changing conditions and

everybody having to really go for it at the end. And it is Maya Berg who has

taken her second pole position of the season by setting the outright pace.

will see her on pole tomorrow.

Down in eighth for the reverse grid today. Alicia Palmoski in second.

Ella Lloyd in third. Two British drivers going very well. Chloe Chambers,

championship contender in fourth place. And the series leader, Dorian Pound,

fifth. Ahead of Leah Block, Tina Housman, seventh. Nina Gaidman, eighth.

she'll start from pole this afternoon. Esme Kosterman.

doing a really good job ahead of Emma Feldenmaier, then Raffaella Ferreira,

Chloe Chong, Courtney Crone, and the last long way down ahead of Nicole

Joanne Cicconte, Aurelia Nobles, and Eva Anagnostiardi.

So that is the lineup for the main race tomorrow, of course, but as I mentioned,

the reverse grid will see Nina Gaidman on pole position with Tina Hausman on

front row with her as we go into the first race later on this afternoon. So I

hope you can join us then.

From Ben Edwards and Alice Powell, we'll join you later.

Bye -bye for now.