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Both him and Pourchaire must be super disappointed. And considering we'll have so many rookies next year, it'll be mad difficult to find a seat in the next few years too

Cheers man, much appreciated!

And considering he'll have Ben Keating as his AM I think should have a solid shot at that WEC GT3 title next year

I won't tell you you're wrong because all of this is true - Cordeel's engine hasn't really been a topic all year but that doesn't mean it wasn't a bit too quick at times. But I guess I am not willing to write off an entire year of F2 and have tried to draw some conclusions despite the messy engine situation. But I agree, good chance they don't mean much thanks to information not available to us.

@RaceWeekReview They seriously desperately need an engine supplier that isn't Mechachrome, it's ridiculous at this point

This unfortunately is the single best phrase to sum up the year. So not worthy of this level of competition

He then deleted his comments 😊

The way I see it the two top series are specifically Hypercar / GTP in WEC and IMSA respectively. GTWC Europe is hands down the strongest GT3 grid in the world, even if of course WEC / IMSA / ELMS also have pretty strong lineups in their respective GT3 class. Special place for DTM as the only full pro, single driver per car format, if only the grid was big bigger. Overall WEC / IMSA / GTWC EU and ELMS are so closely matched (maybe throw in IGTC as well) that it really depends on what exactly you are driving imo. The FIA driver status determines what driver lineups you can have in your car. In WEC - unfortunately - it isn't an all-Pro lineup in the GT3s. Instead they have mandated a combo of Bronze/Silver/Gold or Plat. So a really quick silver can give you a huge advantage and thus these guys are in high demand with all the financial benefits that comes with. Once you get upgraded to gold you are just a young, new-ish Pro driver among many, many others. Much more difficult market to compete in as it were

Good to hear Masson has a nice bit of racing lined up, I watch a lot of sportscar racing but often do a terrible job of keeping up with the news haha Regarding Will Green, I have watched him smash the IAME Euro series, kid does look talented for sure but imo signing them before they ever even competed in juniors makes little sense to me. So probably only there this early because of his connections. This is really just me being against the concept of signing 11 year olds. But I could absolutely see him doing really well in OKJ so I do like the Baglin example.

Tbf if I happen to come across enough drivers who have ended up as famous DJs that will most definitely also be a video 😁

Cheers, appreciate it!

Cool move for the lead but not too surprised he was one of the quicker guys there. So this was not the best test of his abilities but if he ends up competing in Europe next year I'm pretty confident he'll be near the front.

Unfortunately I think the same old reason, no more budget and not important enough for an F1 team to come in an save his career. Damn shame. Interestingly his stint in the Brazilian Stockcars apparently isn't going particularly well either but I don't watch that series so I'm assuming that based on wikipedia.

Cheers - winter break is the best time to get creative 😁

Appreciate it! I'll do my best to keep 'em coming haha

Unfortunately it very much seems that way. A bit odd that he hasn't really been linked to any other opportunities publicly afaik. You'd think he is a pretty attractive target for FE / WEC

As both of them had 8 top 4 in qualifying, I wouldnt be so quick to qualify one of them as faster than the other

Gotta admire the optimism 😁

@RaceWeekReview hope is the last thing to die

The team: "He was the champion"... kkkk

I don't disagree that he is a loose cannon - his mentality is by far his biggest weakness no doubt - but tbh I struggle to see how Campos messing up basic procedures or engines failing is at all related to that

@RaceWeekReview real question, is that really what happened at that start?

Not at all, but there has been an entire season before that one start.

Haha I started this for the very same reason, glad you like it!

There might be something to that second paragraph for sure. It is a difficult case - he did better than expected but at the same time it should have probably been even better. Miyata was super disappointing no doubt but to still highlight the track situation, I think this is a pretty unique scenario, joining on that level of competition and racing against all the kids that grew up on these tracks. Can only really compare that to people transitioning to IndyCar I suppose. Nevertheless I agree that can't excuse everything - if it was just the tracks he would have been noticably better around the non-European tracks that his peers aren't too familiar with either I reckon. Between Australia, Qatar and Baku he had his opportunities.

I'll happily give people a pass for sucking during their Formula E debut - not everyone is Taylor Barnard 😁 Must be one of the worst series to come into as a rookie

@RaceWeekReview yeah it's definitely one of the tougher ones, difficult cars to get used to, especially how to make them work over a race distance, but yeah barnard is a good comparison, f2 didnt do justice to his talent but thankfully he can show it elsewhere

Great write-up as always, not much to add so I'll just jump in where I disagree - Campos over Invicta despite the mistakes made that probably cost Hadjar the title. And Cordeel as surprise of the year, I know what you mean, he was less terrible than usually. But still, nah 😁 No awards for finishing 17th in that car, not even this one haha

​@RaceWeekReview I knew you'd disagree with Cordeel! As I said, the surprise for me was that he didn't follow the pattern if his previous two seasons. I was being somewhat serious with picking him though, I genuinely found it tricky to think of a more 'derserving' driver for that category, at least in a positive sense. Maybe Dürksen, but that's tainted somewhat by the engine rumours, maybe Aron for his sheer consistency in the first half of the season. Or maybe Colapinto would've been a better shout now I've thought about it more, for essentially bursting on to the scene and getting himself an F1 drive. I really wasn't sure. But I did genuinely want to give Cordeel at least a little bit of credit, from being a meme throughout 2022 by getting banned twice he does seem to have genuinely improved and learnt from that over the last couple of years. Ok, he's not going to F1 and I find it hard to believe he'd end up in a top-line sportscar drive, but still. (Oh and it was 22 podium finishers this year, not 21. Still bonkers though!)

I was thinking about a more deserve candidate but wasn't sure if you were considering rookies! In that case either Colapinto or Bortoleto for me personally although I also understand the Dürksen nomination. As you know, I do share the need to shout out the lesser seen drivers in some ways haha

​@RaceWeekReview I was considering rookies, although I thought the rookie class coming into this year was quite strong, so the surprises would've been if they'd performed exceptionally well or exceptionally badly, which I felt was a bit tricky to get a feel for given the madness that went on and how much reliability and the like was a factor. I've watched F1 for basically two thirds of my life and been following other motorsports really closely for about a decade (Formula E was probably the first series other than F1 I religiously followed, and that was from its very first race! I had casually followed the BTCC (supported Gordon Shedden and Matt Neal, I think at random) and MotoGP (Casey Stoner and Dani Pedrosa) before that), so I like to think I have a decent handle on how I perceive drivers to have performed at least! But at the same time, I do still find it tricky sometimes to balance the result, the way the race went, my perception of the quality of the equipment etc. Thing is of course, we can only go on what we see and read, we don't have the actual data to hand, so I don't think we can ever truly be judge and jury on a driver's performance! It's still fun though.

In some ways it makes it more fun doesn't it? I know in other team sports numbers don't tell the full story either but motorsports really do require an exceptional amount of interpreting all the stats and numbers - almost ironic considering 'the stopwatch never lies' is both a popular phrase and of course true as well.

Agree 💯👏

Spa was especially heartbreaking but all the front runners were rather unlucky, I don't think he had it as bad as Bortoleto and Hadjar. Might be interesting to actually do the maths on that one, it has been one crazy season.

aron's luck? MORE luck like hadjar? aron was WAY luckeir than the others, he had bulletproof reliability up until spa, he lost WAY less points to luck than everyone else around him. msot of his poit losses were his own driver errors

Aron had the best car but lost points when he shouldn't have

@RdeCGaming Yeah because his Engine blew up or he got taken out by Marti

@milanwyd441 No only in Spain he made a mistake in Hungary Maloney decided to stop in the middle of a Corner

The most important bit here is the operational aspect - very much agree that both Hitech and especially Campos were far from great operationally. A decent chunk of what I keep calling 'bad luck' for Hadjar was really down to Campos messing up as well. I understand the connection to Oakes but it still blows my mind a bit that they spend time and money and Martins only to sign someone else last minute. Not that Aron is a bad signing in isolation though.

First of all thank you very much for the nice words and the support - people like you are exactly who I had hoped to reach with this channel 😁 Regarding Kimi vs Freddie, I hope I said I don't rate him quite as highly *yet*. You are correct, both have basically won everything possible in cars so far (well, up until Kimi's F2 run of course). But I find Kimi's karting career to be even more flawless in the latter years and I am waiting to make sure Freddie can do it in faster cars, although his GB3 debut was basically enough to convince me already. The karting argument is super nitpicky (I rate Euros a lot higher than World Championship for example) and realistically I am just a bit biased towards Kimi to be entirely honest. But of course there are huge expectations on Freddie for 2025 to keep that status if that makes sense. All of that said this might end up being a video after all if Freddie stays on that trajectory, comparing their careers head to head should be quite interesting!

@RaceWeekReview You said it in your "11 NEW CHAMPIONS In One Weekend?! | Race Week Review WK39" video at 12:46, and you didn't use the word "yet," but it doesn't really matter all too much since your reply perfectly answers all my questions. Also, what is your opinion on the Mercedes junior driver Kenzo Craigie? I saw that he won two world championship titles this year in the OKJ and in the IAME X30 Junior classes. What other drivers around his age are at his level or better than he is, and how do you rate him? I know it's hard to properly rate him since he's only 14 years old, but you must know much more than I do about these things. Cheers, mate!

Oh I might be mistaken. I think you might have meant that you wouldn't put Oleksandr Bondarev in the same category as Freddie Slater...

Haha I like the dedication, I may have had a weird day there then 😅 Craigie has so far most impressed me with an ability to show up in the really big races, as you said the double world title and how he got it was certainly impressive. Driver of the year in his class was Dries van Langendonck though and personally I also rated Niklas Schaufler and Christian Costoya a bit higher over the year. As you say though, doesn't mean too much yet anyway - basically just that I'd expect all of them to be above average in a good F4 series. The rest time will tell, none of the current crop look like Kimi or Freddie imo. DVL maybe getting there.

Ha, that sounds much more likely! Bondarev is certainly in contention for best karting graduate of the year but no Kimi / Freddie.

Solid take - at least I think his chances of ending up in F1 line up well with that assessment

based on his gaps to cordeel who's pretty bad i wouldnt say he ahd the best qualy pace, it really seems like hitech just had the best pace

@@milanwyd441 That's probably true - the stat came from the fact that taking the average quali pace across the year (with a couple of dropped scores) I had Aron on 100.224%, with Bortoleto 2nd (100.251%) and Hadjar 3rd (100.274%). But yes, I agree that a lot of that is probably down to Hitech. I also can't claim that this stat is accurate as it's just me plugging some numbers into a spreadsheet (...I do have a life, honestly!)

@@Chicane_Soup thats probably true, he was fastest when we just look at qualy times, my stats are not quite up to date because i did them around sumemr break but im pretty sure its still reasonably accurate. i used direct teammate comparisons and cordeel vs p1, in previous years cordeel was well over a second away from pole on average while this year its only about 7-8 tenths. arons gap to cordeel is also less than what doohan had or hughes had

No idea, but does it matter much at this point? Difficult to imagine him ever getting a shot if they don't even value him enough to be the reserve.

It's insane how much alpine have disrespected the talent of Martins.

Story of his career really

My take on Martins is, that he is a great qualifier, if not the best on the F2 grid. But he is lacking a bit of Consistency or Racecraft. I know that ART wasn't the best car this year and I also think he was unlucky many times, but his race pace isn't as good as his qualifying results. Last year is also some kind of proof of that, he was faster on one lap than Pourchaire, but in the race Pourchaire most of the time got the overhand.

@ Martins is exceptional on the brakes for overtaking but I understand your point

Not much to add here tbh, certainly all valid information. Only wondering a little bit what specific team you were thinking about for this year when writing this - MP was probably the biggest upset and I feel like Hauger wouldn't have stayed if he wasn't happy with the team. But then again it is a new chassis after all

@RaceWeekReview Aron/Hitech. Hadjar/Campos. Bortoleto/Invicta. Durksen/AIX. In my opinion all of them are examples of a good pairing between team/driver. Bortoleto's case is particularly interesting, at some point in the season he started to gather the team around him, meanwhile Kush performance dropped severely. About Hauger, I he failed to adapt to MP required driving style, in my opinion he should have stayed at Prema for his second season. Colapinto in the other side showed he's a fast learner.

​@@jadermiani Bortoleto said in a podcast that before he signed with Invicta, they had shown him Doohan's data and he realised their setup philosophy was suited for his driving style

I've got 0 inside knowledge but him getting the seat has also been the consistent rumour so I'd think that is still happening. Definitely wouldn't be too concerned with no announcements just yet

Wrote an F2 review script today and this is almost word for word what I wrote about Dino - please stop hacking my notes 😂 Jokes aside, couldn't agree more!

It was reoumerd untill they they find what went wrong in F3 this year (car issues) but he still showerd promsing things in F1 sim and his F2 weekends showed that he still goat it. But it wasn't confirmed untill after Qatar weekend if he would stay or not but after his performance their they exteended his Contact with Ferrari.

Valid point, my best guess is a bit of both. DAMS certainly looked rapid but he also got the better of Crawford quite comfortably

Bascially Prema didn't take hid feedback seriously this year for some reason idk why Dino was certainly not happy with that that's why decieded to leave them. While Dams did the oppsite so he immediately felt more comfortable in F2 car since it was setup how he wants it not like how teamates wants it. He also said that Dame and Hitech F2 cars feels very different but both of them suits his driving style well.

Finally someone committing to some predictions 😁 I'm with you in the constructors, even if Da Costa is there from race 1 this time it'll still be an uphill battle for Porsche I think