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F1 Academy qualifying in Singapore saw wildcard entry Lisa Villard preparing

an excellent session, which sees her near the front, but it was a

time for Alicia Palmoski. She smacked the barrier early on, damaging her left

rear suspension, and the regular frontrunner will be starting at the

the red flag was cleared, everyone was pushing very hard. We saw a lock -up

Megan Bruce sideways for Leah Block and a save from Ella Lloyd, but it was title

leader Dorian Pan who was second fastest and main rival Maya Verg who took pole

position.

The penultimate weekend of racing in F1 Academy 2025 takes place at Marina Bay

in Singapore. Welcome to our coverage with me, Ben Edwards, as we wait to see

whether a new champion could be crowned this weekend or will it go all the way

to Las Vegas? We will find out. Dorianne Pan leads by 20 points in the series

and she'll start the main race on this challenging street circuit.

Today, on the front row, she's for the main race. But today, of course, they're

on the top eight reverse. So she'll be coming from seventh on the grid. Her big

rival, Maya Verg, will be starting from eighth on the grid. Well, alongside me

is Gary Paffitt, a double German touring car champion, a very successful junior

single -seater champion in his early career. Gary, you took titles both in

karting and in junior single -seater racing.

The fact that this sort of junior single -seater series for young women to show

what they can do and try and prove they've got the ability to go forward in

motor racing, you proved that with your career developing from a very good

start. Yeah, absolutely. And thanks for giving me the chance to be here.

This junior career is so important for them to prove what they can do. It's so

cutthroat. The person that goes and wins this championship, that's all they

remember, who won the championship.

And the springboard that gives you to go on and further your development into

different championships is huge. So, yeah, the pressure on these young ladies

today and going into Las Vegas is huge.

So we've got a little delay, as we can see.

We've got a delay because they're doing a little bit of track work at the

moment. So the drivers are actually not in the cars yet, even though they would

have been due to get going. And in fact, we've just been told the formation lap

is slightly later again. It's now gone to quarter past three local time in

Singapore, rather than the race starting at three. So we've got a little bit of

a delay, a chance for us to just catch up on some of the stories, some of the

news that's been going on. And it is lovely to see F1 Academy at Singapore is

back here.

of course, and you can see it's entertaining, an opportunity for the

really get involved in this. It's early in the day in terms of the racing, of

course. The Formula One cars will be coming out a little bit later on.

Lisa Billard there, you're looking at, that's one we will mention. She was 16

only three weeks ago.

She's a wildcard entry, and she did an absolutely superb job in qualifying

yesterday, and we'll go into that in a little bit more detail soon. But, yeah,

really, really interesting to see how this all goes. and particularly with the

battle for the championship that's going on. As I mentioned, Dorian Pound with

that 20 -point advantage over Maierberg, but Maierberg out -qualified her

fractionally. It was very, very close. The time difference is remarkable.

So let's have a little bit of a look at how the grid will go for the first race

of the weekend at Singapore.

At the back, Alicia Palmowski, who had that off, and Nicole Havrida. They're

both starting together on the back row. Let's see where Palmowski can go. go.

Courtney Crone starts 16th. Megan Bruce in 15th. Well, she's not a wildcard.

She's replacing Ava Adelaide Nostiades this weekend.

Rafaela Ferreira starts 14th. And Tina Hausman starting in 13th position.

Joanne Chiconte in 12th. And Nina Gaetman, who's done well in the past and

win recently, 11th. Chloe Chong, regularly 10th on the grid. She's 10th

time. Alba Larson, just outside the top eight, reverse in 9th position. And

there's the reverse. So Maia Verga was fasted yesterday. today. She has to

eighth. Dorianne Pan, the championship leader, starts seventh. She was second

fastest. Third fastest, Chloe Chamberson. She starts sixth on this

race. Ella Lloyd starts fifth. A British driver who's been doing very well this

season. There is Lisa Billard, who has qualified brilliantly on her wildcard

entry. Emma Felbermayer, third on the grid. And then the front row sees

Nobels and Leah Block. And both of them for the...

Art team, the ART team, and they're going to be alongside each other. So

got a very interesting chat going on down on the grid as well. And, yeah,

Val, who used to be at Mercedes, of course, and chatting away to

the managing director, Susie Wolfe, the Academy chief.

is keeping an eye on what the plans are here. I don't know what they're actually

discussing right now.

Who knows? It could be anything, couldn't it, with them two? But Susie's

an incredible job with the F1 Academy just to try and push this championship.

And the circuits and the venues that these drivers get to race at is

in this championship.

Yeah, it is. What a wonderful venue this is in Singapore.

It is very much a street circuit.

It's not easy.

challenging circuit, they're tight and twisty in a lot of areas, but with this

reverse grid, Gary, what do you think with top eight reverse?

it makes it more likely we're going to see some overtaking, because overtaking

is tricky, but it's not impossible here at Singapore.

No, it isn't. So there's some long straights. For a street circuit, as you

it's quite a long circuit. We've got 19 corners.

It's nearly five kilometres. It's a long street circuit. So there are some long

straights where there's good chances for overtaking.

With these cars, there's no DRF like Formula 1, so it's not easy to overtake.

But if you get in the slipstream and you've got a better pace, and especially

for the two championship rows, you know. Pan and Veg, both starting on the

fourth row, will certainly be looking to make progress forward in this race. And

that could really make a difference in the championship battle if they're able

to really make good progress.

Yeah, well, there is Dorianne Pan. We're taking a look at her now. So the series

leader. And if she can get a 40 -point advantage at the end of today, then she

will be champion, effectively.

She's done a fantastic job. 21 -year -old French racer. And she has had three

wins. She's had six podiums. And from seventh on the grid, which is where she

starts today, she's had a couple of fourth places, actually, funnily enough.

finished fourth from starting in seventh. So that's been a good move on

reverse grid.

Ella Lloyd, she's also been impressive.

She is in her first full season, unlike some of those like Dorian Pan and Maya

Berg who are in their second season. And you only get to do two seasons in F1

Academy when you get the opportunity to do this.

The second year is the key one. And there it is, key for Maya Berg. She had

really tough time at one of the events. year when technical problems just sort

of put her out from scoring when she had been at one point championship leader

that dropped her back down and so she is now trying to get back to where dorian

pan is i think it's quite fun that they're going to be side by side both

races so on this one they're going to be side by side on row four and tomorrow

they'll be side by side on row one Yeah, exactly. And I think we saw yesterday

in qualifying that the pair of them are incredibly fast and they're up for this

fight. You know, you look at the times from yesterday's qualifying, like I say,

they both beat the lap record in qualifying yesterday. And Dorianne

having to abort her push lap and, you know, being able to do that lap time and

nearly take pole position on the second lap of the tyres was incredible. So

they're both really, really confident and pushing really hard.

Aurelia Nobels is starting second on the grid with this reverse grid, and I hope

she has a good one because she's had a few DNFs, not always her fault this

We've got a chance to have a catch -up with her. We spoke to her just a little

bit earlier over the weekend about the process of heat training here in

Singapore.

So I train with a lot of jackets on at the gym. I did a lot of cardio.

Well, because of last year, I already knew how to deal with it.

But yeah, just jackets and the gym.

Aurelia Nobel's talking about that. And the Brazilian, she's had a bit of an up

-and -down season. I'm really pleased to see her starting on the front row this

time. She had a best finish of sixth, starting from third on a reverse grid

earlier on this season in Miami.

That was the event where we didn't get a second race that weekend because of the

terrible rain. We've certainly got a good dry weather here today.

As I mentioned, track temperature has come up, up to 52 degrees.

Humidity, 53.

So it's not huge. Huge, but it's still going to be pretty hot out there, isn't

it? Yeah, as you can see, the heat haze coming off the circuit. Yesterday in

free practice, it was quite overcast, so it definitely wasn't anywhere near as

hot. So obviously qualifying was later in the day when it was dark and under

lights, so very different conditions.

But, you know, the free practice session yesterday morning was when they would

try to have done their race run in similar conditions.

But like I say, it's a lot hotter today. You know, the temperature's gone up.

The air temperature's up to 32 degrees.

So they'll definitely be feeling it in the car. And as you say, they've all

doing some aspect of heat training to prepare for this weekend because it

does take a lot out of you. Yeah, I agree. Chloe Chong, you're just looking

we saw Alba Larsson a moment ago. They're both on the fifth row, so Alba

starting ninth. Chloe Chong starting in tenth place.

And the best from tenth that she's done so far is actually to finish tenth in

one of the races. She's twelfth overall.

She's another who's... had three DNFs this year. Let's hope that she doesn't

too many of those. Nina Gaidman, we've just heard that the start of the race is

being delayed a little further, by the way.

Nina Gaidman, she started down in 11th, which is a little bit disappointing. She

won the reverse grid race at Zandvoort last time out. A month ago, we had the

event at Zandvoort, and she won it on her birthday. It really was wonderful to

see that.

And Nina Gaidman, who is...

dutch and so she was on home event and she won the race um lovely to see didn't

qualify quite so well it makes such a difference if you get into the top eight

if you're in eighth place and the reverse grid suddenly puts you on pole

course if you miss out on the top eight when you're ninth tenth eleventh those

are the ones we've just been looking at a bit further down you've got some work

to do but the one who's got loads of work to do gary right down bottom right

there is alicia palmowski who is very talented 19 year old british racer she's

going to have a lot of work to do from the back there.

We'll have to see what she can do. She can't take she's turning 12 but yeah

Palmoski from the back.

Yeah it's going to be a real challenge. Like we say you can overtake Grant here

but it is still a street circuit so it is still still very challenging and

although she's obviously very quick in free practice she was third so she was

really looking very strong but in qualifying quite early just seemed to

bit too much speed into turn five and caught the wall on the outside and yeah

that was very early in qualifying so she didn't really get a competitive lap in

so um yeah she'll be looking to probably capitalize on on any mistakes by people

ahead you know if there's a safety car try and close up um and just make as

progress as she can because clearly she's uh she's very quick absolutely

bruce is a new name this weekend uh in for avagnostiadis who cannot race

this weekend unfortunately um megan bruce started out in catram academy back

2023 we caught up with her earlier this weekend to talk about expectations.

My expectations this weekend is just to keep progressing and improving.

I've never been to a street track before, so it's all going to be a very

experience, but I'm really looking forward to it, and if we can just keep

improving each session with the limited time we had before, then it should be

good and hopefully aim for some points.

Yeah, being around F1 and F1 Academy is quite different to what I've done before

in GB4.

But it's all good learning and hopefully good prep to prove my seat for next

year.

It's been an amazing week for her, getting told on Monday that she would

chance to do this event.

Poor Eva Agnostiad is not able to compete because she's got a damaged

So it's amazing that she's got this opportunity.

Megan Bruce is 15th on the grid for this one. I think they had a slight

technical problem in qualifying because she was in the pits for a bit longer

than would have been ideal.

Yeah, we didn't get exactly the answer to what that was. But as you say, she

didn't get as many laps as she would have liked. in qualifying, which was a

shame. And to be honest, if she'd found a bit more lap time, she could have been

close to that top 10 actually in qualifying. She wasn't that far away. So

compared to a lot of the drivers that have done all of the championships so

I think she did a fantastic job. And as she said there, it was her first time on

a street circuit. And the challenge that comes with racing on street circuits is

huge compared to when you're normally racing on race circuits. You don't have

the margin of the extra kerbs and grass and gravel if you make a mistake.

You push a bit harder and make a mistake.

You're into a concrete wall or an arm barrier and that's kind of the end of

session. So, yeah, for a first time on a street circuit. And as you said, to be

here in front of all the F1 teams, you know, they're here in the paddock

watching all the sessions that goes on. So the extra added pressure of that is,

yeah, it can't be underestimated.

When you were racing in your younger years, you were doing what was called

Formula Vauxhall Junior.

I mean, in many ways, it was a very similar...

level to what we look at with gp4 formula four cars yeah and you were

those in the uk you won the winter series you won one of the series

championships and then you won the whole championship so so learning at the

single seeders but Did you get onto street tracks very often? Because in the

there are not so many street tracks. So when did you start getting into them?

Yeah, no, I didn't at all, actually. When I was very young, it was always the

race circuits, the British race circuits, and we didn't have any street

at all.

And even when I went into racing in Formula 3, I didn't do any of the...

Kind of one -off races in a street circuit.

We've just got a shot of the guys still working on the Armco barrier. It looks

like they're welding part of the barrier there. I think there was an incident in

the Porsche race earlier on, or the qualifying session earlier on, which has

damaged that barrier.

So, yeah, the start has now been delayed.

It's confirmed now it will start at 13 .20. So we are just under 10 minutes

from the start formation lap.

But, yeah, going back to that, no, I didn't have any street.

circuit experience until I ended up racing in DTM, actually. So, no, I

get to do that at this very young age. Do you think it is an advantage for

to be out on different types of these major circuits, you know, Formula One

circuits, but not just...

someone like Zandvoort last time out, but on some of these challenging street

circuits. Is that a way to learn as you develop your career?

I think it has two things. I think it gives the drivers a great opportunity to

learn because no doubt through their career at some point they're going to be

a street circuit.

I think on the other way, it gives the teams and prospective employees down the

line an idea of if they can race on street circuits because it's quite a

different atmosphere, quite a different way of approaching a circuit.

approaching racing and and that's what we see in a lot of different

championships that there are a lot more street circuits coming you look at f1

now how many street circuits there are on the f1 circuit and um yeah you need

be able to do that and need to be able to adapt to how it is you know the grip

level is so different in different corners and you've got to be careful of

the white lines the changes in track the bumps that you get and having that

experience at a young age is going to put you in a great position absolutely

you're looking at maya verg right now who will be starting on poll tomorrow

starts from for this reverse grid the 21 year old from the Netherlands who had

such a superb race

double in Zandvoort last time out and taking the victory in the main race from

that pole position.

She has done a great job, but as I said, she had that technical problem earlier

on in the season when they were in Canada, and that really has hurt her

little bit, but she has not given up. She's still got the chance to put Dorian

Pan under pressure for the title in this second and last year, her and Dorian

Pan fighting to try and become champion, to follow up from Abby Pulling, who won

it. last year in 2024, and from Marta Garcia, who won it in 2023.

And it really is a major event, a major championship to win, because you then

get supported to go up to another level of motorsport. So we will see what

happens. There is Alicia Palmowski, as I mentioned, who will be starting right

down at the back. And yet she's got a lot of talent.

She's had that victory already this year. But now she's going to have to

hard in both races, because remember, the grid for the second... The only

will be the top eight. Everybody else will be in the same positions.

So that's going to be an interesting one.

So there's been an interesting session just recently.

They've done some testing for rookies for next year, actually. And that has

a great opportunity.

Let's hear what Rafaela Ferreira had to say about the rookie testing.

I think testing Navarra was really good for us.

We are really quick there.

We could use that day to try new things for the car, to try new setups.

So I think this is going to be really useful here in Singapore while we test

during Navarra. And I'm really excited too.

Yeah, it was really strange to see somebody testing my car. I was just

car on the track and I was not in my car. This was super strange. But I think

it's really good what F1 Academy is doing with rookie tests.

because we just arrived here with no test, we didn't know the car and now

have the chance to know how it works and how the team works here and it's really

nice.

Yeah, so you're talking about Navarra, where the regulars were able to do some

testing there, but then the rookies, who are being judged really for next year

as to whether they're going to be coming in. And we've got two of the rookies in

this race, who were both in the top four in both sessions, which was impressive.

So Lisa Billard, who I mentioned, the French girl, a 16 -year -old, she is

impressive, what she's done in qualifying.

And she's been competing, I believe, in karting since she was around seven years

old. Megan Bruce as well. She was also in that top four in both sessions in

Navarra. So they've both got opportunities to see what they can

the racing situation.

You're looking at Leah Block here who will be starting from pole position

effectively in this reverse grid race. So she was eighth fastest yesterday but

she starts from pole and she's looking for her first win because she took her

first podium last time out in Zandvoort. So there is a chance here. Yeah, she's

got a great chance starting from pole on a street circuit.

Leah Block is someone that's come from off -road and rallycross and a different

discipline, so she's doing a fantastic job to get to the grips with these

Formula cars on the street circuit.

Absolutely. So we will see how that all develops. So we've got it starting to

clear now. Everybody into their cars as we are beginning to build up to the

start of this 14 -lap race. And we will see how it goes.

Interestingly, Leah Block and her teammate for the ART team, Aurelia

that front row, they've not scored brilliantly this year. It's a top team.

There are five teams involved in running these F1 Academy cars.

But they've only got... scored some 28 points, so they're a long way down the

list. It's the Prema team, which could actually be on for winning the team's

championship this weekend.

We shall see if that does actually happen.

Dorianne Pan, who is also leading the drivers' series, she drives for the

team. And they've done a lot of great work so far this year. But, yeah, for

team, we're both on the front row for this reverse grid race. Yes, you don't

score as many in the reverse grid race. You get ten points for the race victory,

eight points for second, moving down to eighth place. You score a point.

More points when you get into the main race tomorrow.

But all points matter, don't they, Gary? Yeah, they do, exactly. It could come

down to one or two points at the end of the championship.

So every point that you can score will matter.

And if you look at the lap time from yesterday, there was only... The...

As we see a shot of the stickers on there, but the repair is done and the

vehicles are out of the way. So the safety guard there going past that area.

it looks like we are going to be good to go. And the formation that will start

at 15,

20 local time. So that's just in three minutes time.

But, yeah, going back to the race ahead.

Yeah, the top three from yesterday. So Berg, Pan and Chambers were the only

to break the two minutes for barrier. And they were significantly quicker than

them. than the other cars. They were exceptionally qualifying.

So if they can have that pace in the race, they certainly are going to be

looking to go forward. So I think we're going to be seeing some good racing and

some good overtaking, hopefully, for them three.

I was astonished at how close the times were.

Well, you're going around such a long lap, and you're doing two minutes, and

they're separated by just hundredths of a second. I find that absolutely

amazing. Yeah, it is incredible. Obviously, the cars are all identical

drivers, but as you say, when you've got nearly five... kilometer lap with 19

corners on a street circuit as well to be separated by yeah i think it was 400

of a second in the end um is is incredible it really is incredible well

see how it all works once they actually all get underway and of course the start

of the race is always an absolutely crucial moment trying to get down into

one and leah block there on the outside she's got that opportunity she's got

that slight advantage is she going to be able to move up in the points as well

She's currently ninth in the points. There is Lisa Billard, who I mentioned,

who's the wildcard entry. We've only had one wildcard entry score points. That

was Esme Gosterman last time in Zandvoort, where she finished seventh.

I think there's a chance that Lisa Billard could well be scoring better,

just in this race, but in the main race tomorrow, because, yes, she'll be fifth

on the grid, one place further back. But in some ways, she's in the ideal place,

because she's...

Not too far down the field.

She's in a position where she can just sort of see how it operates around her

today and tomorrow and learn from it all as well.

Yeah, exactly. She's got a great position today to score some points from

she is.

And she's there because she was quick. She was quick all day yesterday in the

free practice session and then in qualifying as well. So I think she's got

great chance of scoring some points. And I think for her today will just be a

case of just getting through the whole race and just getting the experience.

again, tomorrow she can go. and score some good points in the feature race.

She won the Women's French F4 Championship this year.

It's a series for everybody, so French F4, but they have the women's section as

well, a female trophy title.

She won the female trophy in various races, but she ended up winning the

title in the French F4 just a couple of weeks ago, in fact. So she's done very,

very well.

Definitely one that we need to keep an eye on who could well be in F1 Academy

next year, I would think, judging by the sort of pace we've seen from her

already. So we are getting ready for the formation lap in just a moment. And

this will be a very important lap for them to just get a feel for the track.

Gary, as you know, on a street circuit like this at Singapore, it'll be

different every time you go out and you've got to get a feel for it as

as you can. But when you're on a formation lap.

That can be challenging, can't it? It can be, yeah. And as you say, yesterday

free practice, the temperatures were a bit cooler.

The last time they drove these cars was yesterday evening in the kind of night

qualifying session.

So the track is going to be very different now. As you say, the track

temperature has come up to 52 degrees. So this lap is all about, one, cleaning

the tyres because they've gone round to the grid on these tyres and they've got

some pick -up on them. So cleaning the tyres and getting them up to temperature

so you can get off the line as quick as you can. As we go on board with...

Dorian Pan in Turn 1. Here, which is quite a good Turn 1 here off the line

because there's a bit of room on the right -hand side, so cars can run wide

through Turn 1 and 2 and keep out of trouble.

When you get down to Turn 4 into Turn 5, then, yeah, it gets a bit tighter at

that point.

Well, we're getting them underway, and we will be starting the race very soon.

Let's hear from the top three on this reverse grid today, starting with Emma

Felbermayer starting in third.

I'm feeling confident.

As I said, it wasn't everything I had time -wise.

So I think we can go further and overtake.

So for the first session ever here, I've never driven hair so far.

I'm quite satisfied.

I started qualifying, starting P2 tomorrow and P7 on Sunday.

I am really excited.

I think we're in a good position to fight for a podium and good points, so

give it my best.

It's a pole, and a pole is a pole, so we're going to do our best tomorrow.

I track that historically there's not much passing going on, so I feel pretty

good if I can get away the line and just keep it in that first position.

So there we go, our top three. And interestingly, of those three that we

from, Emma Felbermayer, who starts in third place.

in the Calbert livery there. You can see number five.

She has taken a victory on a reverse grid in Montreal from third on the grid.

So can she do it again? The two in front of her, Lea Bloch on the pole position,

you're riding with Lea right now, has not taken a victory yet, nor has Aurelia

Nobels, but Emma Felbermayer has from third. But it's very unpredictable with

this reverse grid and with the full race distance coming up, the 14 laps,

they're going to have... to try and keep it together. So they're getting a bit

of a feel now. Tyres will be warming up.

They're trying to work out where the grip is, where it isn't. It's actually

looking nice and clean. The way they prepared this truck is good. It is,

mean, they do a great job of kind of sweeping the circuits.

Overnight, you get some dust fall. There's some trees around the circuit,

get all that cleared out the way. There's been a session already today

Porsches, so some of the circuit's been cleaned by that.

And, yeah, the circuit's looking in great condition, and the driver's just

weaving there to try and... warm the tires the rear tires are pretty easy to

warm up you can just spin the wheels and just get temperature in them tires the

front tires are more difficult because you're not really loading them at high

speed it's all low speed weaving and it doesn't really build any temperature so

for these drivers going down into turn one the biggest problem is just trying

not to lock the front wheels you see that a lot just locking a front wheel

turn one so that's going to be the thing to watch out for for these drivers not

to push too hard down into turn one Absolutely.

Well, let's see how this is going to go.

Susie Wolfe keeping a close eye on it all, of course.

And Dorianne Pan, who is the championship leader, who could wrap up

this weekend if it all goes to plan. But it would need some issues for some of

her rivals, but particularly for Maya Verg in the Ferrari colors.

Ferrari backed Maya Verg, who is going to be ahead of her on the grid tomorrow,

but one behind her on the grid on this reverse grid. Right. We are getting all

set then. for the first race for F1 Academy at Singapore in 2025.

Two races over the course of the weekend.

The first one, the reverse grid for the top eight in qualifying.

Green flag from the back. We're all set to go racing.

Let's see how this is going to go.

Light town, F1 Academy underway, and both front rows getting off reasonably

well. Lea Bloch from top position, but actually is a better start from Aurelia

Nobles, who's going to go down the inside.

Nobles trying to take that lead off, but Lea Bloch goes very wide. We've got a

whole bunch of them. Emma Lloyd going off there as well, and trying to take

advantage of this. Emma Felbermayer from third.

Well, she didn't run wide, I don't think, but look at the battles. There

Maya Virg's already making progress in the Ferrari colours. She's doing really

well. Yeah, Maverick already up to, I think, his fifth place there from eighth

on the grid. So an incredible start, and obviously made a couple of places on

Dorian Pan. But as you said, the front row, both of them going very wide into

turn one. I think that they'll probably get away with that on the first lap, but

it was wider than I've seen people there before.

So Maverick trying to come down the inside.

Ella Lloyd is right behind her, and then it's Dorian Pan.

So remember, Maverick versus Dorian Pan. It's the battle in the... Oh, and that

did look like Nicole Havrida making a mistake, whether she actually... made

contact in the background i don't know we've got a yellow flag yeah i think she

did make contact with the barrier just yeah she has there so she's in the

sidewall there and i expect that might be a safety car but we'll wait to see if

she can get out of that but i would have thought there'd be damage to the car

but as you said maya vergs had a great first couple of corners getting herself

up into fifth place already oh that is a shame let's listen And the Nobles are

just saying that she needs to get back to position.

Well, we'll have a look at the replay in just a moment. But let's just work out

what's going on. Lisa Billard has lost out quite a lot of places, by the way.

The rookie, the wildcard entry, she's dropped down to eighth place.

And Megan Bruce is down towards the back.

I'm not quite sure what happened there on that last bit of the lap. But the

safety car is out. So everybody is just going nice and calmly.

And they will have to get this.

car out of the way to get the race underway so Nicole Havrida it's a little

disappointing that she's she's uh that's another non -finish I think this is

going to end up being her fourth non -finish of the year sadly yeah it was uh

unfortunate we need to go back and look at the replay but it looks like she just

uh missed uh misjudged the braking point the grip level into that corner and uh

just just ran wide and was uh it wasn't a big impact but obviously enough to do

enough damage to the car um as we uh look at the standings um that we've got

as you say the incident determine aria nobel saying that she was ahead um they

both took to the runoff a similar amount so i think that there's um you know if

she'd stayed on track and leah had gone off track i think she would have had um

certainly something to say but uh since they both went off track i think that

she might not get that place back but i will wait to see yeah that's a very good

point it was and usually on that as you say lap one first corner it is very much

recognized as a racing incident to a large extent so

We are going to have a little bit of a look at the start again because it was a

challenging time.

Vierblok just did not get off the line particularly well, did she, from pole

position. So that's the view from the back, but it was up front that it was

going a little bit challenging. So on the left, Vierblok, there's no doubt,

Aurelia Noble's on the right.

Any way that can get better, and then side by side. Yeah, I think they're

exactly side by side into here. They both pushed wanting to be the first.

Aurelia Noble's definitely slightly ahead.

But yeah, they've both taken a long way off the track. The same with Ella Lloyd

there as well, further back that's blotted into, I think she's into P6 at

moment. As you're on board with Lisa Billard now, let's see what she does

because she lost a few places on the first lap heading down into turn one.

Yep, she's made the corner. Chloe Chambers has gone off track on the

around her and we see Ella Lloyd coming in.

And Maia Virg on the inside. So she's just lost a few places by, I think,

not aggressive enough, probably, in the first couple of corners. Yeah, a little

bit cautious. But to be fair, this is her first race start in F1 Academy.

Yes, she's been racing in F4 in France. Now, this was Maia Virg, who, as you

say, did a great job here. There's her big rival, Dorianne Pan, on the right.

And that worked perfectly for her.

Yeah, exactly. She just got in front of, on the inside of Dorianne Pan.

And Lisa Billard there, going through turn two, Maia Virg managed to get down

the inside.

And as you see, a few...

from Leah so yeah she didn't quite get off the line as well as the cars around

her but very much side by side going down into turn one and they both went

deep into turn one I mean used all of the runoff nearly up to the tire wall

there so what the heck happened at C1 she just went straight and I had to go

straight

They're both complaining at each other. They both went straight and they both

wanted to battle and break late. That's exactly what you were saying earlier

about breaking late.

But unfortunately, Nicole Havrida lost it. Let's listen in.

Oh, she's apologising. Yeah, understandable.

I think, going back to Leah Block's point, I think she's exactly right

she... couldn't have made the first corner even if she tried because because

yeah the nobles went deep anyway so if Leah had tried to make the corner they

would have made contact anyway so she was avoiding contact so as I say I think

she'll I think she'll get away with that one because yeah she she was just

following what the car on the inside of her did

OK, well, the safety car is ending. It's pulling away from them now, and it's up

to Leah Block to decide when to go for it, when to restart.

And she's under pressure, as we know, from Aurelia Nobles. They are teammates.

They know each other very well.

So we shall see how this goes. They both race for the ART team, and we will see

whether they can keep it clean. Aurelia Nobles in second place in the Puma

-backed machine. Up again.

The Williams -supported Leah Block up ahead of her. But watch out also, as I

mentioned, for Emma Felbermayer in the Thalberbach road -in -run machine.

The green one, number five. She did a good start. Now she's a bit closer than

she would have been otherwise. And they're all close as we get ready for

restart. And they are going for it now. So even before they get down to the

final couple of corners, understandably, they have gone for it. Leah Block. And

actually, she's done a really good job. She's floored it. And look at the gap

she's already managed to make. Yeah, she's got a really good gap. She just

on the power there quite early through 16 .17 and has managed to pull a couple

of car lengths. As we see, Chloe Chambers just going on the outside

challenging for third place. She's gone off the track and she has to go around

this ballard as we see an incident further back. Lisa Billard, that was a

fixture that was contact.

And as you say, Chloe Chambers, they've got the yellow flag in sector one, but

Chloe Chambers suddenly making a lot of progress. And Maya Verg has really...

struggled on that particular position, but still in the battle here, of course.

Yeah, so Chloe Chambers went wide in turn one there.

But you have to go around the bollard to be able to come back on the track. And

then she did that and then made the move on Felbermayr into turn five. As Chloe

Chambers locks up, is she going to make the corner?

Wow, really close there. She's run wide. She's lost the place, and Mayerberger

has moved up another place, which puts three cards now between her and Dorian

Pan.

I understand why Chloe James is going this hard for it, because she had a

disappointing time with a technical issue getting off the grid last time,

she needs points. But you're on board with Dorian Pan, who's being sensible.

Dorian Pan.

She's now trying to get past Emma Felbermaier. Oh, careful.

But Dorianne Pan just needs to keep scoring some points. She won't be too

worried if Maia Verg's up ahead, physically in a reverse grid race,

points difference won't be huge. Main thing is to keep going. Just be in

And Dorianne Pan currently in seventh place. So, Leah Block is our race

There you are. Under pressure still from Aurelia Nobels. But behind them, Maia

Verg, who was fastest in qualifying. She's under pressure from Chloe

And Chambers is... really putting the pressure on as much as possible so far.

Nina Gaidman, reasonably well up the list. Let's have another look at this.

Yeah, this is the restart. This was Chloe Chambers going down the outside of

Felbemeyer here, just going wide off the track and Maya Verga on the inside

trying to make up a place there. But we'll see Chloe Chambers come back on

track on the outside and actually getting back past.

Yeah, as we see. And further back, we can see Billard there just making

and getting...

bun around into turn one on that restart. So a real shame for Lisa

Oh, that is a shame.

You know, this is her first event and it's just part and parcel. Oh, and

Ferreira's going very stopped now.

Rafaela Ferreira. She had a problem with the car yesterday. Oh, she's got it

going again. So whether she's had a little off and then got going, I'm not

but at least that means we're not back into safety car, thankfully.

Yeah, exactly. We'll keep running. And what I want to point out as well, we

Alicia Palmowski now up to P10 from P18 on the grid. So as we said, she's going

to be wanting to make progress and has made really good moves through the field

and is now sitting in P10. So a couple more places and she could be scoring

points today. Yeah, you're absolutely right. That really is very, very handy

indeed. And a safety car early on when you've made some progress, it always is

quite useful.

back on board with Dorianne Pan, who is running in seventh place, trying to get

past Emma Felbermeyer. Now, where can she find the space? Because around this

track, it is so tight and twisty. There are only a few...

areas where you can really go for it where you need a bit of a toe and then

that leg braking yeah you need the areas where there's a long straight where you

can get a toe and then a bit of a braking area at the end where you're

stopping the car so here we're heading up to turn 10 there's nowhere here but

soon she'll be looking to try and get close to her out of turn 14 so she can

a run down to 16 so through this section here over the bridge into turn 13 now

she wants to be really close out of here to try and get a run down towards Turn

14. She's really close, but lost a little bit of traction out of that

But let's see if she can make a move on the way down to Turn 14. I don't think

she's going to be close enough this time around.

No, you're right. I don't think she'd be sensible enough to dive up the inside

at this point. She didn't have quite the straight line speed that she would have

liked. Remember, these cars are all identical.

They're a slightly different set -up by the teams. They're always looking to try

and give the drivers exactly what they want in terms of feel. Maya Berg still

third place. holding off Chloe Chambers. That is another good battle that's

enjoyable to keep an eye on and they need to not take each other off because

Vergh and Chambers are the main challengers for the title up against

you're looking at right now. Number 28, the Mercedes -backed championship leader

at this stage. You're now on board with Chloe Chambers and Chloe set fast this

lap briefly and then Maya Vergh and now Palmosky. So you said Palmosky has come

all the way from the back up into 10th place and she's now... set fastest lap

she's now closing on chloe chong there is still a chance for her to score as

say a few points here yeah exactly as we see chloe chamber i think chloe

chambers is going to be as you've seen a quite aggressive early in the race you

know she's third in the championship has the the you know the out of the three

that are really fighting for the championship the one that needs to try

score as many points as she can and that's why she's pushing so hard to try

get past uh maya verg already um as we see maya just coming out of the

slipstream there, looking on the inside of Nobles. It wasn't really a look for a

pass, but it was a kind of a, I'm here, waiting. As we see, Alicia Palmosky

trying to make a move there on Chong, just sending her up there. It's a

tight section around here, as you say, so it's going to be difficult, and I

think she's going to need to wait until they get out of that turn 13.

Fair enough. Yeah, it makes sense. Let's have a look and just see.

Incident involving Felbermayer. Full start before signal. That's interesting.

So Felbermayer, who did go well initially, she's currently in sixth

well be getting a little penalty.

Palmoski, though, having come from the very back of the grid, having...

Bashed into the barrier earlier on in qualifying.

But now, this is the corner you were mentioning. Very important to get a good

exit here. Yeah, so through turn 13, she had a good entry.

Let's see if she managed to get on the power quickly enough to try and get in

the slipstream of the car in front and get a run down. She's looking towards

inside, but she's not quite close enough. So she's going to have to wait

for the car in front to make a mistake or just to get a run on one of these

longer straights. Yeah, that was close. She nearly had a go, but it's probably

sensible not to quite go for it.

So we will see. Chloe Chambers fastest at the moment on the speed trap at 130

miles an hour. Oh, a little bit of a lock -up from Chloe Chong.

And that is going to give Palmoski another opportunity.

But let's see, because now there is another chance going into the final two

-handers onto the start -finish straight.

And then getting a bit of a toe here as well, you might be able to overtake into

turn one. Yeah, she's got a bit of a toe into turn one. There is a bit of

runoff, so you can afford to dive down the inside. As she's looking now, she's

gone for the move. A great move there on the inside.

And, yeah, really good. Moves her up to P9 now. So just one position away from

the point scoring places. So let's see if she can close that gap. She's got a

couple of seconds gap in front of her now.

And let's see if she can close up onto Gaidman in the next couple of laps.

This is lap six of 14 that we have.

Absolutely. So Alicia Palmosky, the 19 -year -old from Manchester in the UK,

she's made good progress up into ninth place.

Alba Larsson has just gained a place as well.

Aurelia Nobles, though, coming under more pressure from Mayer Berg right now.

Mayer Berg with the Ferrari backing, who is second in the championship, needs to

get as many points as she possibly can, particularly as your main rival, Dorian

Pan, is a little further down the order.

In seventh. So can Meyerberg find a way through? You're watching from second

place. Aurelia Nobels now.

to see where Meyerberg is looking for an advantage, looking to see where your

car, sometimes you're just trying to get a feel for where's my car better and

where's it worse. Yeah, we saw Aria Nobles really have a bit of a slide

and Meyerberg closed up on the back of her into that turn 13, and she's now in

the slipstream.

Let's see if she's able to get close enough to make a move down to turn 14.

comes out of the slipstream, and no, not quite close enough, and I think she's

not thinking the risk is worth it, but she gets a great run.

out of turn 14. She's now on the outside of 15, which will be the inside of turn

16 coming up. So that is going to be P2.

for Maya Virg now, taking second place from Nobles.

Yeah, Maya Virg has got through. She's in the second, and Chloe Chambers,

they're battling away with Ella Lloyd. Oh, Lloyd trying to go around the

outside. That's brave. Oh, they're touching wheels, and she's got to come

into the last two left -handers, and Chloe Chambers just holds the position

the moment, but this is a big, big battle, and it's close behind as well.

Felbermayer's not far behind.

Dorian Pan, series leader, right there as well.

Ella Lloyd having a little look down the inside. Felba Meyer following her as

well. But Maya Verg, as you said, very much up in the second place. Dorianne

will be maybe a little aware of that she could be losing some vital points here

to Maya Verg. She's still trying to find her way through, but it's not quite

working for her just yet.

No, exactly.

She'll be able to see Maya Verg up ahead taking that second place and thinking

there's a couple more points that are going to go her way.

The battle between Ella Lloyd and Chloe Chambers came out of nowhere, really. We

didn't see it coming. I mean, Chloe Chambers was very close to Maya Vogue,

suddenly going into turn 16 was side by side with Ella Lloyd. And they had a

couple of a bit of a, you know, rubbing wheels for a couple of corners.

And yeah,

as we go to a replay here of Lisa Billard, which there's some smoke coming

of a bit of flames under the engine cover there. So, yeah, we'll wait to see

there's what happens there. But yeah, really a real shame for Lisa Billard.

As you see the contact there between Ella Lloyd and Chloe Chambers. Yeah,

-to -wheel racing. And as I say, a battle that kind of came out of nowhere.

Palmoski. Palmoski has come to a halt. She looks like there's been a contact.

The rear wing's damaged. The right rear tyre punctured.

And, oh, that's obviously been a bash.

And, oh, Lisa Billard has stopped. Now, I think that's a separate thing, but

it's the smoke and the fire we saw. So, Lisa Billard, this is her first ever F1

Academy race. It's really been up and down.

Great qualifying, but the race itself has not gone well for her. So we've got

the safety car back out. We're on lap seven out of 14.

And let's have a look back at what's happened here to Alicia Palmowski. She

just on another fastest lap of the race. So really pushing very hard and caught

the bunch in front.

Oh, very strange one there because it looks as she got on the brakes there,

which I think it was possibly for turn 10.

The car just went left. So whether she locked a wheel, I think she just got it.

Yeah,

as you said, turn nine. I think that there might have been something because

seemed to turn right very quickly into the wall.

So it didn't give her much of a chance to do anything about it. So, yeah, we'll

wait to get confirmation of what exactly happened there and maybe we'll see some

more replays.

A real shame because she'd really closed up to the bunch in front after setting

the fastest lap.

We have just seen that Ella Lloyd has got a five -second time penalty for

gaining an advantage. So that would affect where Ella Lloyd, she's currently

fifth place. Now, of course, behind...

get behind safety car you'll be very close so five seconds means you will

quite a lot of places but by the time they get back to racing again the gaps

will open up so we can't really predict where ella lloyd yeah end up finishing

this race no exactly it's punishing when there's a safety car because everyone

closes up and at the moment she'd probably end up in about p11 p12 or

further back but once we get racing then gaps will spread out as we see uh the

car of alicia palmolski there a lot of damage to the right hand side of the car

the right front the right rear the rear wing as you said as well so um a real

shame for her because she'd made really good progress in this race absolutely

and she had set class this lap for 204 397 before that happened so but it was

odd one as you said it was a slightly odd um accident and i just I kind of

to have another little look at it because the way the car flicks right,

got a little bit of lock on, hits the brake, and it just hits it over, doesn't

it? Yeah, exactly. She definitely got on the white line there and whether there

wasn't much grip out there, but she got to a point where the car just didn't

seem to want to turn and went into the wall. So whether she'd made contact with

the wall earlier on and there was some damage and something broke at that

I'm not sure, but it was a little bit strange.

was pushing really hard and really unfortunate. As you see, Lisa Billard

with the smoke.

So we've seen her, as we see a replay of the car, pulling over and, yeah, the

smoke coming out of the car. So real shame for Lisa Billard because of the

incredible qualifying she had. But she will be starting near the front of the

grid tomorrow again. So, yeah, she's got another chance.

Yeah, that is a shame. I wonder how much work they're going to have to do on the

car. These Formula 4 cars, the Tatius machines, the F4 FT421s, they've got a 1

.4 -litre turbo four -cylinder engine, six -speed gearbox, paddle shift.

Jamie Chadwick keeping an eye on all of this, very much involved, of course, in

people moving up. She's done a fantastic job in racing herself.

W Series, which she dominated, did race here at Singapore, and it's great that

F1 Academy now... and it's second year here at Singapore as well.

But, yeah, these Formula 4 cars certainly have a few issues there.

We have been given a five -second time penalty for leaving the track and

an advantage in C1.

We literally flew off and stayed in the same place when it was called.

That's a joke.

Yeah, she's not happy about that.

But I think, you know, like we say, there's room there to go off the track.

I think the one thing that the stewards will look at is, you know, did you gain

an advantage by going off the track? And if you did, did you give that advantage

back? And I think we saw her gain a position when she came back on the track

there. So, again, she'll be looking at that later, wondering if she thinks it's

fair enough. But the stewards, you know, they look at each incident because...

Going off the track is just part of it. And at turn one, especially here, there

is runoff. But you need to make sure that you don't gain any positions or

any time by doing that. And if you do, you need to give that back, which

obviously she didn't.

Let's have a look at that start again with a five second. Yeah, so there she's

on the outside of Meyerberg and Chloe Chambers. And she's gone off the track

there. And yeah, it comes back on.

Yeah, as we're on board with Dorian Pan here with Ella Lloyd in front of us.

And Ella Lloyd just looks to try to get out of trouble.

Yeah, there's a lot of cars there. Turns right because it's squeezing and comes

back on track.

And certainly does seem to come back on track a bit further up than she went off

the track. So I think that's what the stewards would have looked at is, you

know, did she gain an advantage? And they clearly feel that she did.

Yeah, I mean, she probably would have only had to give one other place back.

she'd given Dorianne Pan that place back, I think that would have been okay

going off because she didn't gain too many ultimately. But I do understand it.

It's tough in the car as well to know exactly where you, when there's a pack

cars, exactly where you've gone off track and where you come back on. So

really difficult for the driver in the car to actually know, you know, if

they're in the right place or not. So, yeah, that's the challenge. And

really unlucky for her to get a penalty there. I agree. And when you're in race

mode, you're... in race mode you've got to go for it so maya verg you're on

board with currently now second so with the safety car heading off this is a

real opportunity for maya verg to try and go for a victory in the reverse grid

race having started eighth but leah block who started from pole has held it

together so far this is going to be fascinating once this gets underway now

remember it's leah Who will decide who will go when? She will suddenly floor

And Maya Verg, she's pretty used to this. She knows what it's like. And I

she could stay with it. But let's just keep an eye on it. Third place behind

them, we've got Aurelia Nobles. And then Chloe Chambers, who's been putting in

some very brave running so far. And then Ella Lloyd with that penalty that will

be added at the end of the race. Right, it's Lear now. She goes for it. You can

just see her floor it as she went through the left. That was clever.

That was a good place to go. and Maia Verg wasn't able to sort of gain from

but she hasn't lost too much. But actually, Leah's very impressive through

last corner there. Yeah, she's had another good restart there.

When you're deciding, you're able to get on the power. As we see Chloe Chambers,

we said that Chloe Chambers wouldn't be aggressive, and she is. She's gone for

that move into third, and Aurelia Nobles has gone around the outside off the

track. And as we see Dorian Pan just making a move there on Velvermeyer. So

Dorian Pan has got past Velvermeyer, made a place up.

as Chloe Chambers now is in P3 with Ella Lloyd in P4.

Absolutely. So Felbermaier just losing out, but Dorian Pan has gained from the

restart. But Lea Bloch's done a great job, again, easing away from Maia Berg

initially. Chloe Chambers in that third place. And then Ella Lloyd right behind.

And, of course, Ella Lloyd, she knows she's got a penalty. She'll want to try

and gain some place. It's impossible.

But Aurelia Nobles, who started on the front round, now down to the back. Oh!

And going wide, his last elbow. last time there was a bit of a battle for her

with Joanne Chiconte and she ended up going rather wide but still there and

actually still in the battle and she's now under pressure from Megan Bruce so

Megan Bruce who is in her first race in F1 Academy and it went a little bit

wrong on the opening lap for her. She's now trying to get some of those places

back. She has a little dive up the inside.

That was a brave move. Yeah, a bit risky. You don't see a lot of overtaking

Turn 10 around here and that was a brave move but it didn't pay off in the end

but she's still there. She looks to be really enjoying her first race on the

street circuit.

Yeah, she's doing well in the race itself, even though the first lap didn't

quite go to plan. She had to kind of get out of the way of some of the other

cars, I think, as well.

And Dorianne Pan now, number 28, Mercedes -Benz -backed championship

is now putting Aurelia Nobels under some serious pressure here, as you can see.

And this is for fifth place. So it helps Dorianne Pan just reduce the gap

difference between her and Mayerberg. You're on board with Dorianne Pan now.

And, yeah, we've just seen that, you know.

Gina Halsman may have got some sort of a yellow flag.

Oh, and Rafael Ferreira stopped again.

Yeah, she stopped earlier in the race as well, and we saw she's getting going

again now. She's had a horrible weekend.

The problem is in free practice with the car, that she didn't get any laps in

free practice, so it's been a real struggle. This battle for Dorian Pan is

actually for fourth place with Ella Lloyd's penalty, so if she can get this

position, that'll put her fourth, only two positions behind Maya Berg.

And she looks like she's just taken, we need to see it on the screen, but just

taken fifth place.

And Nobel's going... Oh, no, no, it's all right. Sorry. It's just... That was

just an issue on the...

She's back there, but she's still around.

Nobles did go wide, as we know, but she is still in that group. And as you can

just see her there, Aurelia Nobles, she's still running in sixth place. And

fact, she's going back alongside Dorianne Pan.

So that's interesting. Dorianne Pan, who made that move, but now can she hold

on? Emma Felbermeyer's right there with it. But, well, that's a brave, brave

move. And Nobles, I think, has just about done it, although still trying to

with the next...

twisty section yeah exactly so Dorian Pan actually ran wide in turn five and

lost a lot of momentum for that next straight where Nobles managed to get

alongside as we see a replay here I think of turn one yeah this is from

Pan looking ahead at Chloe Chambers making that move on Nobles into turn one

the restart and I think

Yeah, this is Dorian going past Felbermayr as well.

That's where you see the difference between the ones that are racing at the

front. On the restart, they take them opportunities, as we see the battle

with Chikonte and Larsson just going wide over the kerb. But, yeah.

It actually didn't affect too much in terms of decision.

And then Aurelia Novel's at turn one, she went wide again there and came

back on, but didn't gain an advantage. So I think that's all okay. Yeah,

exactly. So she fell in behind Dorianne Pan and actually managed to get a run,

like I say, out of 14 to overtake Dorianne again.

Dorian Pan's problem now is that she's stuck behind Nobles, and they need to

watch that gap to Ella Lloyd, because if Ella Lloyd manages to get a five

-second gap, then she won't get that position from that penalty. So there's

positions riding on Dorian Pan managing to get past Nobles.

So three laps to go. You're on board with Chloe Chambers, currently in third

position, chasing after Maya Berg. But Leah Block is doing a great job out in

front at the moment, the 19 -year -old American who is looking for her first

win. The daughter of the late, great Ken Block.

And she has done well last time out in finishing second place in the reverse

race at Zandvoort. And that moves her up in the points because she's really

struggled a bit this year to score consistently.

She's had a couple of other reasonable results. She's had a fourth place in

Montreal, which was replaced with a Miami race that they didn't get to do.

can she hold on here and take her first win in F1 Academy?

She's still going to be under pressure, though.

In second place, we've got a yellow flag in sector three.

So that's somebody who's managed to have a problem again. But right now, it is

still the block who is going. We gather it's Rafaela Ferreira who is again

stopping and again going. It's a very strange technical problem there.

Yeah, exactly. You'd prefer her to come in the pits right now and actually get

it into rather than keep going. So let's see if she does that.

continue this race so we hear that she had a black and orange flag so she'll

have to come into the pit um and finish the race in there so as we don't get any

disruptions for this battle but as you say leah block's doing an incredible job

she's okay she's under pressure because she has maya verg behind her but she's

keeping the gap at a good level maya verg's not close enough to actually make

move and make a pass as we look further back and dorian pan still not past

Aurelia Noble. She's still there in sixth place.

Yeah, that's right. So, Fulmar in seventh, Nina Gaidman in eighth place.

look up for Leah Block.

Did she get away with that? Yes, she did.

But she's not made many mistakes, but that was a little bit of an error, I'd

wonder. Yeah, she's definitely pushing. She's definitely pushing to the limit

and wants to hold on to this. Just trying to maintain the gap as we see

Ferreira getting out of the car now in the pillar.

It's been a torrid weekend for... her not getting any laps in practice with

technical problem and now something in the race is uh yeah certainly for her

really really disappointing after she said about the testing they'd had and

optimism they had coming into this weekend well let's see how this goes

leah block just uh holding on at this stage by under half a second so maya

in second place chloe chambers in third position So it's Williams -backed

Leoblot up against Ferrari -backed Mayer -Werg. And then Red Bull forward.

...supported Chloe Chambers in third, and all three are still very, very

They're all looking to be on the podium here, but in which particular order?

They've opened up that gap to Ella Lloyd, but as you say, Lloyd with a five

-second penalty. Now that we're out of safety car, she is managing to get away

from some of those behind her. Certainly, Nobles will be ahead of her.

Dorian Pan at the moment would still be ahead of her. Yeah, exactly. Dorian Pan

is only, I think, three seconds behind Ella Lloyd, so she would get that

position. Ella Lloyd looking to...

going to finish in about P7, P8, so still would be scoring points, but yeah,

just needs to keep pushing for the last few laps just to try and get as big a

gap as she can. As we see the front three still pushing really hard. I think

Chloe Chambers, if anything, looks the closer in that group, but any mistake by

any of them could open up an opportunity.

And as we know, as you get into the latter stages of the race, the tyres are

getting a little bit more worn out, so sometimes the grip level is not quite

what you're expecting.

But so far, these three are doing a great job fitting off those barriers.

It's so easy to just touch the barrier and then suddenly do a little bit of

damage to the car on a street circuit like this. But so far, so good.

Yeah, the track temperature is really high. It's just under 48 degrees now.

them two safety car periods would have helped bring the tyre temperatures down.

So I don't think they'll be struggling too much. They've only been going a

couple of laps since the last safety car. So I think the tyres would still be

at the moment. And Chloe Chamber's now looking really close. to Maya Berg

out of the last corner. And into the last lap we go. And actually, Leah Block

did a really good job in the latter part of that lap. She's very good in that

final part of the lap, which is where she always does the great restarts.

not sometimes the tighter section. She loses out a little bit. That final

section is very good. And she should have the confidence now. Leah Block is

much on target for her first win. Maya Berg is having to be quite defensive

because Chloe Chambers is so determined.

She is probably going to miss out. this weekend on any chance of winning the

title anymore because of the problems she had last time out at Zandvoort.

She needs whatever points she can get, and that's why she's going to be

attacking as hard as possible.

But I think Maia Verg is going to be able to defend this. We'll see. Yeah,

see if any of them make a mistake. As we saw come up to the screen, Dorianne Pan

just setting a new fastest lap banner and beating the lap record from her from

last year. So she's got a lot of pace in the car, but just not able to stay in

front of Aurelia Nobles when she did.

which is going to cost her a few points in the championship fight.

Yeah, just a few. I mean, she's still going to have the advantage. And, of

course, it will be even more significant when we get into the second race this

weekend, when then you're on to the normal scoring system, as in Formula

25 points for the win, 18 points per second. Mind you, of course, Mayerberg

going to be starting that race in pole position.

So there's been, oh, Alba Larsson just getting a bit sideways there.

But she managed to keep it under control.

Didn't actually go off or hit the barrier, so that has kept things going.

And Megan Bruce having a lock -up. Did she end up losing the play? Yes, she

I think.

Easily done. But Megan's still learning, of course, so much at her first F1

Academy race.

But Leah Block is our race leader. And we're getting into the latter part of

lap. Still a little way to go. Still easy to make a mistake.

But she's doing a great job here. Leah Block now coming up to the last two left

-handers that will lead.

towards the line and Leah Block who started on position in the reverse grid.

Leah Block takes victory in the first race of the weekend for F1 Academy at

Singapore. Second place goes to Maya Verg.

Third to Chloe Chambers with the penalty added to Ella Lloyd. It means that

Aurelia Nobles finishes in fourth and Dorian Pan does score useful points in

fifth. Emma Felbermayer in sixth place. Ella Lloyd still does score points in

this reverse grid race in seventh. And Nina Gaidman gets the final point.

in eighth position.

But Leah Block, what a great job she has done here from that pole position.

She qualified eighth fastest, but today she has really shown some good pace

throughout the race, and particularly on the restarts, she has done it superbly

well. And having had the podium last time out in Zandvoort, now she's had a

in Singapore.

Yeah, what an incredible race. And I think her lap times in the race were

actually faster than she did in qualifying yesterday.

So she's really improved her performance.

It got learning, the circuit, lap by lap. And, yeah, an incredible,

drive from her. Just seemed to be under control, apart from a few lockups here

and there. She was under control for the whole race.

Yeah.

And he was lit.

It was Leah's birthday this week coming into this event.

She turned 19 this week. And so another celebration of birthday time. Really,

really impressive.

Maya Verg now finishing in second place. And she's always finished second here

in the past. Well, I say always, but she did two races here in Singapore last

year and she finished second in both of them. And now she's finished second from

starting in eighth place, which that is impressive to come that far up the

order. And, of course, it has brought the points just that little bit closer

together between her and Dorianne Pan.

So we will see as it goes into the second race this weekend. She's on 115

opposed to 130, so 17 -point gap.

Really good job. Sorry,

I just didn't know the race.

We are on the podium, and that's what is the most important.

It is. That is the most important.

Yes, she's feeling a bit cross with herself for not being able to take the

But nonetheless, I think she did a very, very good job, especially having

started down on the fourth row of the group.

Yeah, she did a great job. Like we said, they've been looking to move forward.

And obviously, she's been able to make a lot more progress than her championship

rival, Dorian Pan, has.

You know, both Maya Verg and Chloe Chambers had a really strong race, both

really aggressive. Chloe Chambers, probably the most aggressive in that

trying to overtake.

And it's paid off by... by condition on the podium.

That's another W.

Well done, well done.

What a crazy race at the beginning there.

Oh, I mean, can't be too upset about that.

Good points.

Thank you, guys.

Yeah, and it's a better day for Chloe Chambers than last time she was out and

the car didn't get off the line.

So that's good news for her. She made some useful points there. I still think

looking... the way the points are going it could well be by the end of this

weekend she won't be able anymore to attack for the championship lead but

done to Leah Block this is her second season so she is going to be finishing

Academy at the end of this year. But it's lovely that she has been able to

a victory. And yes, it's the reverse grid victory. You don't get as many

but I still think she did a really good job because often we've seen the pole

sitter on a reverse grid being beaten and dropping quite a lot of places once

get to the end. But she held on extremely well, dealt with the safety

superbly and was under pressure from two of the fastest drivers. There's no

doubt about it. Yes, as you said, Dorian Pan had said. fastest lap. But Maya

Verg and Chloe Chambers have been two of the fastest all year long.

Yeah, exactly. And I think that, you know, she qualified eighth, but I think

was probably out of position a little bit on that because her pace in the race

was really strong.

And both the restarts were really good.

And obviously at turn one, she had to fight for the lead through turn one and

two. But once she did that, she controlled the race and never looked

someone was going to be able to overtake her. So thoroughly deserves that. win

and i think that uh you know tomorrow starting ph she's going to be looking to

try and to try and move forward from there but um i'm really excited about

tomorrow's race with the three championship contenders because they all

really uh aggressive and up for the fight And well done for the ART team

they have had a really tough year this year. They've not scored many points.

it's lovely that they've managed to take the 10 points for the victory in this

reverse grid race. And, of course, for Williams as well. James Fowles has been

keeping an eye on it. They back at Lear Block. And James will be very happy to

have seen the Williams livery coming across the line first. So we'll see if

Williams can also deliver when it comes to Formula 1. But that was great.

from them for a Ferrari, for Mayer Berg, second place.

She was a little frustrated she couldn't go even quicker and try and take the

win, but she has scored some very useful points. She's just closed that gap very

slightly to Dorian Pan. Mind you, Dorian Pan, she's so consistent. She just

makes sure she's always there, getting the points, and she'll go for

opportunities when she has them. And she finished in fifth place from starting

in seventh. Let's just have a look at some of the highlights. of Leah Block.

Yeah, so Leah Block here just as she comes across to win the race with Maya

right behind her and Chloe Chambers again coming across in third place. So a

really controlled race as we said from her. Two restarts to deal with as well

and executed them perfectly.

So yeah, fantastic result for Leah Block to take her first win in F1 Academy and

on the streets of Singapore a really special place to be able to do it as

Yeah, it is a special place.

right.

Such great history here. It means a lot. And it's lovely that the fans have had

a chance to watch some good racing there.

And it was a long event because they had that delayed start.

They had a couple of safety, several safety car periods during the race. So

was quite a long process for them to get through.

But they have dealt with it extremely well. Yes, we had a few non -finishers,

sadly. We lost Alisa Palmowski with some damage to her car. Raffaella Ferreira

had a... technical problem Lisa Billard that was a shame because the wild card

entry who did such a great job in qualifying she had a tough race and

Havrida as well we saw her crash out earlier on in the race so those are the

ones that did not make it to the end but of course there is going to be a second

race this weekend when there will be a chance to try and do it all over again

we've got the top three podium finishers hopefully coming together and having a

chat let's have a little listen in

I got pushed out, and she went with me. She didn't even stay on the track. Who?

Ariella.

Thank you very much for that.

Man, I was like, oh, I didn't know that was going to happen. It was so tricky

and all the episodes.

yeah all of the breakings i was like oh no like half the race i was just like

moving biased around and stuff and i was like what's happening

On the restart.

Your second restart was good. I was not expecting it. I know. I went and then I

was like, wait.

Apologies for any naughty words, but I can quite understand there that they

looking at Alicia Palmosky hitting the wall and thought, oh my goodness, that's

a nasty one. And it was such a shame that we saw her go out of this race

on because she...

She was already in a position virtually to score points today. Yeah, she had a

great race. She was really fast, setting fast for collapse and made good

progress. I think she was in P9 at the time and closed the gap to the points

scorers in front. So I think definitely was on the way to score points. So a

real shame, but it shows good for tomorrow. You know, you've got obviously

main race tomorrow starting from the back of the grid as we see Chloe

coming out there to collect her third place trophy.

Yeah, fantastic. Well done to Chloe Chambers. who has been a frontrunner all

this year. That's her sixth podium of the season, and moved up well for Maya

Verde. Having started down in eighth place, that is her seventh podium of the

season, and the battle for the championship is still going on, but it

Dorian Pan who's the advantage.

But Leah Block, only her second podium, but it's her first win in F1 Academy by

taking that pole position in the reverse grid race and then holding on for out.

Great job done by her.

Leo Bloch is the 18th ever driver to take victory in F1 Academy since the

first began a couple of years ago.

And congratulations because that was well deserved.

An excellent effort starting from pole, good start, getting away with the

troubles at the first corner and then dealing with the safety car period and

still accelerating.

Maia Verg in second place and Chloe Chambers in an excellent third position.

Two Americans and one Dutch racer up on the podium for this one. But we're going

to have another race later this weekend, of course.

And that is going to be another fascinating one around this demanding

circuit. When we go back to the goal grid, it will be Maya Verg there you're

looking at who will be starting on pole position.

On the front row, it'll be Dorian Pan, her championship contender, who will be

alongside her. And remember, Leah...

who took the victory today. She'll be starting in eighth place, the place that

Maya started today. I wonder where Leah will be able to get to. Having shown

good amount of confidence today, she'll have to do some overtaking in the main

race to get another top result.

But many congratulations to her for taking the win today.

all the emotion, all the fun of F1 Academy at Singapore here.

And we can now just take a little look back at the results of this

first race of the weekend. And Leah Block taking that victory from pole

position. Second place to Maya Verg and Chloe Chambers in third position.

Fourth place going to Aurelia Nobles, who started on the front row. Dorian

championship leader in fifth, ahead of Emma Felbermayer. Ella Lloyd with that

five -second penalty in seventh. Nina Gaidman, the final scorer in eighth.

Chloe Chong finished in ninth position.

And Tina Hausman down in tenth. Missing out on the points in this one, but

perhaps a better chance.

in the main race tomorrow.

And then outside the top ten, we had Joanne Cicconte, Megan Bruce in her

race, Courtney Crone, Alba Larson, and a few non -finishers, including, of

course, Alicia Palmosky and Lisa Billard. That's a great shame.

So an entertaining first race of the weekend for F1 Academy at Singapore.

And we've still got plenty more to look forward to when Maya Verg and Dorian Pan

will be battling into the first corner from the front row tomorrow in a battle

for the championship. Thanks for joining us. Hope you'll be back with us then.

Goodbye for now.