{"id":247919,"date":"2025-10-29T05:02:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T05:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/247919\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T05:02:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T05:02:14","slug":"f1-news-wrc-champion-kalle-rovanpera-tests-formula-2-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/247919\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 news: WRC champion Kalle Rovanpera tests Formula 2 car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/G4Wr5xCXEAA2ccP-copy.jpg\" alt=\"WRC champ gets first taste of \u2018physically tough\u2019 F2\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKalle Rovanpera tested an F2 car with Hitech GP at Jerez.<\/p>\n<p>Rovanpera, 25, joined Hitech GP at Spain\u2019s Jerez for his first test with the FIA Formula 2 Championship team.<\/p>\n<p>Rovanpera announced in recent weeks plans to make a shock switch to single-seater racing, and will join Japan\u2019s Super Formula.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the Finnish racing all-rounder got his hands on a Dallara F2 2024 formerly used in Formula 2 \u2013 albeit, out of race specification with older Pirelli tyres.<\/p>\n<p>Rovanpera is reportedly targeting Formula 2 in 2027 before a potential Formula 1 graduation in 2028.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHappy with the test days. Driving is physically quite tough as I knew,\u201d said Rovanpera.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a lot of G-forces which are hard to replicate and will take some time to get used to, so happy I managed to get this seat time and can\u2019t wait for more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a major milestone for Rovanpera ahead of his transition. However, it\u2019s not the first time he has tasted open-wheel machinery.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, he drove a Formula 1 car at the Red Bull Ring \u2013 getting behind the wheel of a Red Bull RB8. He also drove a Formula 4 car and Formula Renault 3.5 machine.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">First F2 test done!\ud83d\ude80<\/p>\n<p>Happy with the test days. Driving is physically quite tough as I knew. There are lot of G-forces which are hard to replicate and will take some time to get used to, so happy I managed to get this seat time and can\u2019t wait for more!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KR69?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#KR69<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ToyotaGAZOORacing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#ToyotaGAZOORacing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5M56YOuF9W\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/5M56YOuF9W<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kalle Rovanper\u00e4 (@KalleRovanpera) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KalleRovanpera\/status\/1983180866819072222?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 28, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kalle Rovanpera tested an F2 car with Hitech GP at Jerez. Rovanpera, 25, joined Hitech GP at Spain\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,147205,85],"class_list":["post-247919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-kalle-rovanpera","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}