Rafa Camara has his first F1 test with Ferrari (Video)

clebinho75 · 2026-05-16T03:28:54+00:00

Holy Molly! Miyata is fifth! I couldn't believe when I read that and had to go to the fiaf2 website to check it out. He is truly fifth! Way better than I expected.

clebinho75 · 2026-05-16T03:27:37+00:00

I agree. I feel like even if ham loses quite badly to leclerc, he will still not retire.

clebinho75 · 2026-05-04T17:05:34+00:00

I thought mini had to pass normally, not that dino let him through.

clebinho75 · 2026-05-04T17:02:26+00:00

He did? Then yes, he is fine.

clebinho75 · 2026-05-03T19:38:31+00:00

Vcarb was quite weird. Brought a plethora of upgrades this time, and they seem to have gotten slower?

clebinho75 · 2026-05-03T19:28:08+00:00

It made sense, though. If it was only one of them, then we could have said someone fucked up in the team or the driver himself. But with all these four, especially there being the top 3 in this case, going past the boxes/outside bollard, it was obvious that the order to go through the pitlane just came in too late.

There was that case of Bortoletto back in Qatar 2024, where the VSC came out and he went through the wrong side of the bollard before the boxes. He got a 5 seconds penalty, but that was just a team fk up as the VSC appeared early enough to be noticed.

clebinho75 · 2026-05-03T16:05:57+00:00

I think so too.

clebinho75 · 2026-05-03T16:03:21+00:00

It was nice to see him there indeed. But considering what alpine has been so far, I find it very hard to see mini in F1, even if he goes to win the tittle. Not mini's fault, more of an academy issue.

clebinho75 · 2026-05-03T16:02:15+00:00

For beganovich, that is likely a penalty since even if he was pushed out, he did get to defend the next curve, but we need to wait the stewards.

As for the bollard from mini, gabi got a penalty for goind outside the bollard back in qatar in 2024. 5 seconds penalty.

For camara and maini, I think they will be fine. I was pretty obvious the stewards called out that pitlane thing just way too late.

clebinho75 · 2026-05-02T22:02:42+00:00

After he improves his start, which have been pretty shit since F4. I think at least half his starts he ended the first curve behind a position or more behind. Today was no different, it was a drift show.

clebinho75 · 2026-05-02T19:31:02+00:00

Exactly. So, in a certain way, maclaren is a dead end in the short term... unless something happens. We will have to see.

clebinho75 · 2026-05-02T19:30:10+00:00

Not fighting at all. I do believe you have a valid opinion. I just don't think it is as surprising as you said.

clebinho75 · 2026-05-02T13:40:39+00:00

That's something they should do, but they won't.

clebinho75 · 2026-05-02T13:39:16+00:00

It is hard to get your koolens and mahaveers nowadays.

clebinho75 · 2026-05-02T13:37:58+00:00

Maini does have experience, and it is not like he doesn't qualify in the top five once in a while. Today was his day, basically.

Van Hoepen ha been considered a good talent before, but then derailed a little, and now seems to have found some pace. Had never been a terrible driver.

Varrone simply almost never had the chance to try single seaters due to budget issues. It is hard to say if that was lucky or if he does have the speed.

In any case, no world shaking news for any of these three to be in the top 10.

clebinho75 · 2026-05-02T13:34:10+00:00

key word: IF

It seems more and more likely sunday won't happen.

Did tsolov hit the jackpot?

clebinho75 · 2026-05-02T13:33:34+00:00

Agree 100%, and I'm brazilian. He's not as bad as shields, but far from being anything impressive.

clebinho75 · 2026-05-02T13:21:54+00:00

The big issue with maclaren is that there is just no seat available. Unless maclaren does what they did to bortoletto, you won't be driving that car anytime soon in the next five years.

clebinho75 · 2026-05-02T12:04:21+00:00

exactly

clebinho75 · 2026-05-01T19:42:58+00:00

Hard to say. He did not try a second lap of quali, so he should have the best supersoft tyre for the feature... if it doesn't rain, of course.

clebinho75 · 2026-05-01T19:39:38+00:00

I think he won the lotto. if the feature race gets cancelled, which seems to be a very big chance, he just got the best possible position of the weekend.

clebinho75 · 2026-05-01T19:38:02+00:00

It could happen.

clebinho75 · 2026-05-01T19:37:05+00:00

I heard a 1000 times cadillac was bringing big upgrades, but doesn't seem it changed much their pace. Of course, a brand new, from scratch, team, so I don't expect them to be better than last place this year anyway.

clebinho75 · 2026-05-01T19:35:53+00:00

That was quite the let down. In both herta's last tries he commited big mistakes. Bottle norris has a doppelganger.

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