Halfway into the 2024 season, Formula 2 will make a stop at Austria for Round 7 of the championship. Paul Aron leads the championship standings with just 9 points separating him from the Frenchman Isack Hadjar. In the Team Standings, it’s a solitary point that separates the top two. Campos Racing leads Hitech Pulse-Eight, with MP Motorsport and Invicta Racing close behind.
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Can Aron maintain his form?
Paul Aron is having a debut season even he wouldn’t have expected. The Estonian driver has scored a podium in every single round till now. Championship leader with 100 points, he is yet to step on the top step. Can he finally get on the top step in Austria?
Isack will look to take the top step back
Isack Hadjar had a rather quiet time out in Spain. The Campos driver scored a total of 13 points during the weekend.
Embed from Getty ImagesBefore this, Isack was on a brilliant run, scoring 73 points in the last 3 rounds before Spain. The first 2 rounds of the championship are what could hurt Hadjar potentially in his championship fight. He scored only 5 points in the first 2 rounds, which again came at the sprint race in Bahrain. He would love to go back to winning ways in the Red Bull Ring, being a Red Bull Junior.
“It’s not going really well,” said Hadjar assessing his season as a whole.
“We had a few good rounds, I think the first two rounds didn’t really favour us.
“For me, the Championship started in Melbourne and since then we have been competitive. I’m happy with that and I think we have a really good chance to take the lead soon,” said Hadjar.
DAMS looking to continue form
DAMS Lucas Oil had their best weekend of the season in Spain. The team won both the Sprint and Feature Race with both their drivers stepping on the top step. Correa even made it a double podium for the team in the Feature Race by coming in 3rd after making the best out of his alternative strategy. Spain was the first time the team won since Monaco last year. Before Spain the team had scored a total of 46 points, in Spain alone, they scored 46 points. They currently sit 6th in the standing with 92 points.
“Let’s be humble, no big expectations,”
said Yannick Hubert, team principal of Dams
“First, we have to understand what we need in Austria, we know that it’s a Mickey Mouse track, very narrow, very small, so it will be a different challenge, so nothing to compare with here. We just have to be very focused on the next event as a single event and do the job,” said Hubert.
Kush Maini would want to build on his Spain performance
Kush had a tough few rounds before Spain, scoring only 1 point. It was later found out that his car suffered from a broken chassis. The problem having been solved in Spain did give results, with the Invicta driver scoring a podium in the Sprint race. In the Feature Race, Kush opted for the alternative strategy, which is to start on Hards and then switch to Softs towards the end. This proved fruitful as he finished P6 having started P10 in the race. When he came out of the pits he was P15, he then put in a string of consistent fast laps to move up 9 places in almost as many laps to add 8 points to his tally.
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