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Sep 18, 2026
Chris McCarthyGUEST
Still recovering from the weekend a little bit.
Chris McCarthyGUEST
But it's great to be back and talking about F3 and F2.
Sean KennedyHOST
Yeah, we're absolutely delighted to have you back on.
Sean KennedyHOST
This felt like a perfect opportunity.
Chris McCarthyGUEST
Yeah, we had our first ever American Formula 3 champion and that's, you know, I couldn't really find any others, let's just say that.
Chris McCarthyGUEST
So he put the flag on the top for the first time.
Chris McCarthyGUEST
and who knows you know I mean almost I feel that Hugo might have felt he had a point to prove this season he was with McLaren for quite a while and that seemed like a really good partnership he went through a couple of rough seasons in terms of I don't think he was really with the right team in the right championships and with that he struggled and his ability was being questioned and that i think was proven when he was dropped by mclaren however he became champion and i think another american f1 team will be quite glad that he did leave mclaren or was was was dropped by them because Now, all of a sudden, we've got an American driver not doing very well in F2 and an American F3 champion.
Chris McCarthyGUEST
So, yeah, I think things happen for a reason sometimes, right? I think it's all sort of lining up quite well for Ugo.
Andrew FergusonHOST
know what the crazy thing is, is that the racetrack, when you look at it, it's designed to just completely destroy cars.
Andrew FergusonHOST
And in the, in the, um, the F2 and the F3, there was cars crashing everywhere and red flags everywhere.
Andrew FergusonHOST
And the first thing I thought was, when you've got the most elite drivers in the competition and Lance Stroll, there's a fair chance that they're going to be very cautious and not make all those mistakes.
Andrew FergusonHOST
And then we're going to end up with a race that is a procession.
Samir ChaudryHOST
Lando's weird in this list because he was a YouTuber and streamer before he was famous.
Samir ChaudryHOST
So I actually found Lando when he was in F2 from his Lando logs.
Samir ChaudryHOST
which were his original vlogs that he would post when he was still an F2 driver.
Samir ChaudryHOST
So Lando is probably the most internet native celebrity on this list because he's been creating content before anybody knew who he was.
SidPANELIST
And I think you could tell he is a natural in front of the camera.
Nicholas LatifiGUEST
wasn't an official test, but at that championship, at that level, the way teams organize test days is, let's say there's 10 teams in the championship, all 10 teams will pay to book a track together and all the drivers go.
Nicholas LatifiGUEST
So it wasn't like F2 and F3 where you have the official test days, but it was basically an official test.
Nicholas LatifiGUEST
And I remember
Nicholas LatifiGUEST
I missed one of them because I had a karting race that I wanted to go to, which is crazy to think about.
Nicholas LatifiGUEST
And I'm pretty sure in like the national level championships, that's still how it is.
Nicholas LatifiGUEST
I think the one unique thing I did to try and supplement track time was when I, I did the feeders in Formula 3 and then I did Formula Renault 3.5 before going to GP2, which was then
FabHOST
F2.
Nicholas LatifiGUEST
Formula Renault 3.5. You guys remember that series?
GarrettHOST
i mean it doesn't look like ferrucci ever really made it past the foit level kind of an indie i won't say wizard because he's never won it but well and that was always his best race which you felt like kept him in this yeah
speaker_0HOST
i was doing a little research um because clearly he doesn't have a ride now but I didn't realize until earlier today when I did some Googling that uh he he got fired from an F2 team because he purposefully did you actually not know that well I probably did but I had forgotten I mean well five years wasn't really seven years ago
GarrettHOST
That wasn't the main reason.
GarrettHOST
Okay, well, we're doing this now, so let's do it.
GarrettHOST
There's a reason why Ferrucci is the least liked driver in the series, and it's because of his time in F2 where he had a teammate, I believe, of Indian nationality, and he made it very clear that he didn't like it.
GarrettHOST
uh his teammate Ferrucci that is and said uh racist things about him so
speaker_0HOST
didn't know that but I I do know that he perfect purposefully put someone uh off the track uh that's why he got fired from F2 and he came into IndyCar now that you say that as kind of the everyone's like oh he's spicy you know yeah um But I guess the clear question here is, can Larry Foyt bring this legacy team into some kind of upper echelon or victory? Can Larry Foyt bring a driver who is going to bring A.J.
speaker_0HOST
Foyt Racing into their you know, salad days of, you know, back in the, you know, when AJ was hot and can they do it? Can they do it with Dennis Hauger? Can they win some races? Can they get some points? Can they be up in the standings? That is the question for, uh, and I'm a Foyt racing fan because of the history because of my contacts at Indy who are also Foyt fans can they bring a driver that will get them into the running
Kevin CameronHOST
Well, uh, Honda decided to tiptoe into bigger motorcycles, larger displacement, and in the period '65, '66, they were playing with, uh, torsion bar valve springs rather than the helical type, which has so long been, uh, traditional.
Kevin CameronHOST
[sniffs] And in fact, I think I remember seeing a photo of a Honda Formula Two car engine in which the fastenings for the torsion bars are visible on the sides of the head.
Kevin CameronHOST
Interesting stuff.
Kevin CameronHOST
You-- It, it might be like a, um, a, a mild head cold.
Nelson ValkenburgGUEST
The big question for me, though, is, is because I didn't read the press release that closely as I was in the car, um, is it 12% annually or is it what they see in sprint races compared to regular races? Um, because if it is smeared over a year, then it's probably more significant if you just take the sprint events by themselves.
Nelson ValkenburgGUEST
But, uh, that being said, from a commentator standpoint, how often do we miss the first 20 minutes of FP3 because no one go- ventures out? Uh, we've, uh, said on air, either do more sprints or just take chunks of practice away and give it to the F2 and F3 kids.
Nelson ValkenburgGUEST
Uh, because if no one ventures out, there's no point, and that's not television.
Nelson ValkenburgGUEST
That's not a product that you can sell, no cars on, on track or only doing a, a, a scrub lap.
22 MINS LATER
Edd StrawHOST
Yeah, I'm sure there'll be quite a bit of discussion about that, and it's important 'cause on the one hand, I, I do like the idea of, say, Fernando Alonso will always complain about everyone gets lots of practice and he'd rather go in, and he's a driver who would excel in those sorts of scenarios, but he's in his mid-40s.
Edd StrawHOST
He's been in Formula 1, [laughs] it makes no difference, since the start of the century.
Edd StrawHOST
If you're someone who's stepping in from F2, say, into what's a pretty brutal environment, you know, the limited opportunities can make life a little bit, uh, a little bit harder, so it, it is important to, to consider that, um, uh, somewhat.
Josh SuttillGUEST
Yeah, I also like the, the testing could be a good way for F1 to keep interest in between weekends, which I think is always something it's struggled with in recent years, 'cause you get this great interest built around the race weekends.
Tom NardoneHOST
Now, I just don't think he would qualify.
Tom NardoneHOST
He had 23 starts in F2, which a lot of people think is somewhere between IndyNext and IndyCar.
Tom NardoneHOST
But he had 23 starts in F2, but he had zero victories.
Tom NardoneHOST
In fact, his best finish in the F2 championship was 19th.
Tom NardoneHOST
I think today that a driver like Santino Ferrucci would be sent right to Indy next.
Tom NardoneHOST
In fact, Dennis Hauger had much more success in F2.
Tom NardoneHOST
He had five victories, and he was sent to Indy next.
Tom NardoneHOST
Another driver that might struggle to qualify for IndyCar right now, if it had been back in the day, is Conor Daly.
Megan PappasHOST
yeah
Anthony CapaldiHOST
but in terms of the actual racing i don't know what they've expected the cars are a lot slower especially because this these new cars are actually meant to yo-yo like that's a whole thing that's why everyone's getting really irritated and no one could do anything And I think the hype obviously got quite big because of all the red flags from the F2, like when they were practicing on it.
Anthony CapaldiHOST
So you're like, oh my God, this is going to be absolutely insane.
Anthony CapaldiHOST
But then you've got guys who have been driving five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10 plus years.
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Megan PappasHOST
I don't know if that's true.
Megan PappasHOST
Legit or not.
Megan PappasHOST
Also, just while we're talking on that scenario, Nikolai Solov had a terrible weekend in F2 and he raced his teammate and then crashed out.
Megan PappasHOST
Yeah, I don't know.
PeterHOST
Anyway, let's start with a little bit of some of the other news.
PeterHOST
So we will talk about the F2 race later, but we learned today that there's going to be a bonus race in Baku.
EmmaHOST
Yay! That's
PeterHOST
fun.
EmmaHOST
Yeah.
EmmaHOST
There's some hope.
EmmaHOST
I mean, F2 cars are easier to overtake with.
PeterHOST
Yeah, yeah.
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