GP2 Series

I mean, absolutely quick.

He was Charles Leclerc quick in GP2.

But, you know, that's one thing, GP2.

But at the level that he's now at, I don't think he's progressed very much.

Aaron.

And it's kind of how it's worked out.

Johnny, yeah, you know.

I don't know I don't really want to talk about that too much because it's quite a personal thing Johnny's a very close friend of mine and I do know exactly what happened and why he didn't get that position so but it would be inappropriate for me to talk about it on the live stream I'm afraid and all I can do is leave it at that but I think Johnny would have done a very good job and I don't think he would have run it the way his dad or Claire ran it I think he would have used a lot of his mates from GP2 specifically the iSport guys with whom Johnny had a close link they would have been brought into the management as well would have been good racers on the ground and there would have been some good engineers there as well I think it would have been a very very good team but for whatever reason never happened which is a great shame and it's a great shame today I think that Johnny isn't used by Williams they've got lots of other people with no association with Williams at all when it comes to history really but Johnny's out there the world's most knowledgeable person on Williams history chassis numbers results everything and he could be a perfect you know roving chairman of Williams going around the world as an ambassador for the company but As far as I know, they have no interest in talking to him at all, which gives you some insight into the way the current Williams team think and operate.

And Liam Lawson, he's going country in Austin, Texas with a show for the people.

And Fernando says, we're back to GP2, GP2, GP2 engine.

Ah, And this week's Nasser Hamid Corner, the interviews are two Formula One World Champions.

We have Lando Norris at the tip of the beginning.

I remember you from your days in Formula 1.

Marco, in Formula 1, there's a lot of talk, a lot of hope.

Would you recommend for him or any young aspiring American driver to do a season of two in GP2 or Formula 3 before getting into the piranha pool that is Formula 1?

Well, you know, I think...

I don't know if Red Bull will release him.

But anyway, move on to GP3, baby sister of GP2.

Race one was Rural Britannia.

Podium was occupied by drivers on Her Majesty's service.

Both of them need a lot of new motivation to move up in the ranks.

And I'm very surprised that Haas did not take Alexander Rossi under their wing.

He was second in GP2 last year and is the only American to win in GP2.

What you make of Rossi being, uh, overlooked by Haas?

Well, m- maybe not the exact same temperatures as what we'd expect for Sunday's race, though.

I did my GP2 feature races in, I did two in Singapore, and they were in the middle of the afternoon heat.

And let me tell you, it was a sweaty affair.

See, they're an hour race still, so they're obviously not as quick a car, but twice the length of a, of a sprint race.

So Kimi Antonelli then, after that, what we think we can pretty confidently say was just a blip in Baku, bouncing back in, uh, in Sepang.

But he has got that, uh, Max Verstappen now, who could well challenge going forward for that top step of the podium.

But I mean, Joly, when you, when you won, was it Formula 2, or was it G- was it called GP2 then?

GP2.

And we move on to some championships at this stage of the season.

We'll start with Hafez Oz, our favorite GP2.

Unlike last year when Stoffel Vandon was the runaway champion, this season we have five drivers separated by 14 points.

Leading the pack with 113 points each are Russian Sergei Srotkin and Frenchman Pierre Gasly.

Sirotkin is the kid whose Pepito signed a deal to invest a few billion rubles in sour a few years ago, but I guess his cash-laden ferry became the Edmund Fitzgerald of Lake Geneva.

Pierre Gasly is a 20-year-old Francais who could be the next mini-professor.

This is his second GP2 season courtesy of Red Bull.

If he wins the championship, then I am sure the guillotine will fall on Daniel Kvyat.

I'm going to give you one more and it's not F1.

The 2006 GP2 race in Turkey.

Yeah.

Okay.

Probably YouTube.

You have plenty of highlights on YouTube, I imagine.

Yeah, but try to find the 2006 GP2 race in Turkey.

It was brilliant, by the way.