Lawson to run RB in test

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Lawson to run RB in check

Laurent Mekies, RB staff principal, says that reserve driver Liam Lawson – who raced 5 occasions for the staff in 2023 – shall be working in one in all their automobiles in a check subsequent week.

“It’s a really privileged scenario to be in, as a result of not at all times do you may have really the subsequent man [Lawson] able to go,” Mekies stated.

“And in that case you actually know they’re able to go – they’ve raced 5 races with this staff final yr, he has been utterly embedded with us for the reason that starting of the season. He does all of the sim work, together with at-race assist. So it’s excellent to know that he’s kind of able to go. After all it’s irritating for racing drivers to not be within the automobile. He’s been driving the Crimson Bull a few weeks in the past, he’s going to drive our automobile subsequent week in testing. There usually are not so many alternatives, however we attempt to preserve him heat and joyful.”

McLaren signal 13-year-old karting prodigy

McLaren have introduced they’ve signed 13-year-old karting prodigy and reining world junior karting champions Dries Van Langendonck because the youngest member of their driver improvement programme.

Van Langendonck presently races within the OK-Junior class of the FIA’s European Karting Championship. McLaren’s F1 enterprise operations director Stephanie Carlin stated Van Langendonck has proven “large potential” in his karting profession.

“We’ll now be working carefully all through Dries’ improvement as he takes step one in our expertise pipeline and joins the McLaren household,” stated Carlin.

Hadjar and Antonelli reprimanded

Components 2 championship chief Isack Hadjar and Mercedes junior Andrea Kimi Antonelli each obtained a reprimand from the stewards after being thought-about to have ‘pushed in a way doubtlessly harmful to others’ in qualifying.

Each drivers had simply accomplished flying laps inside seconds of one another and had backed off on cooldown laps. Nevertheless, each Ritomo Miyata and Zane Maloney behind them have been trying consecutive push laps, which neither Hadjar nor Antonelli have been warned about.

Miyata approached Hadjar at pace on the exit of Raidillon and was compelled to maneuver off the racing line to go the Crimson Bull junior. Moments later, Maloney caught Antonelli in a lot the identical trend. Whereas the stewards decided that each groups failed to tell their drivers of the automobiles approaching, each had commented an offence regardless. Each Hadjar and Antonelli obtained their first reprimands of the season, however won’t lose any grid positions for immediately’s dash race.

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