{"id":888734,"date":"2026-09-12T00:14:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T00:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/888734\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T00:14:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T00:14:23","slug":"several-drivers-given-permission-to-start-both-races-in-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/888734\/","title":{"rendered":"Several drivers given permission to start both races in Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"QEUcrG_body-lg-lg-paragraph-regular\">Following the conclusion of the FIA Formula 2 Qualifying session in Madrid, several drivers have lost their fastest laptimes and received permission to start both the Sprint and Feature Races in Madrid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QEUcrG_body-lg-lg-paragraph-regular\">Firstly, Nico Varrone has lost his fastest time from Qualifying. The Van Amersfoort Racing driver was determined by the Stewards to have been the sole cause of the second Red Flag, a breach of Article 33.5 of the FIA Formula 2 Sporting Regulations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QEUcrG_body-lg-lg-paragraph-regular\">With the deletion of his fastest time, was left without a time within 107%. In accordance with Article 34.2 of the FIA Formula 2 Sporting Regulations, the VAR driver has been given permission to start both races from the back of the grid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QEUcrG_body-lg-lg-paragraph-regular\">The Van Amersfoort driver is set to start the Sprint from 19th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QEUcrG_body-lg-lg-paragraph-regular\">Secondly, Kush Maini has lost his quickest time from the session after being the sole cause of the first Red Flag, breaching Article 33.5 of the FIA Formula 2 Sporting Regulations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QEUcrG_body-lg-lg-paragraph-regular\">As a result, the Indian driver was left without a laptime within 107%. In accordance with Article 34.2 of the FIA Formula 2 Sporting Regulations, the ART Grand Prix driver has been given permission to start both the Sprint and Feature Races from the back of the grid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QEUcrG_body-lg-lg-paragraph-regular\">The ART driver is set to start the Sprint from 20th on the grid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QEUcrG_body-lg-lg-paragraph-regular\">Thirdly, Sebasti\u00e0n Montoya has been given permission to start both races in Madrid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QEUcrG_body-lg-lg-paragraph-regular\">The PREMA Racing driver failed to set a time within 107%, however, as per Article 34.2 of the Sporting Regulations, has been permitted to start from the back of the grid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QEUcrG_body-lg-lg-paragraph-regular\">Montoya is set to start the Sprint Race in Madrid from P21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QEUcrG_body-lg-lg-paragraph-regular\">Finally, Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak has been given permission to start both races in Madrid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QEUcrG_body-lg-lg-paragraph-regular\">The ART driver did not take part in Qualifying and subsequently had no time within 107%. As per Article 34.2, the Thai driver has been permitted to start both races from the back of the grid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QEUcrG_body-lg-lg-paragraph-regular\">Inthraphuvasak is set to start from P22 on the Sprint Race grid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the conclusion of the FIA Formula 2 Qualifying session in Madrid, several drivers have lost their fastest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":888735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-888734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888734","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=888734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}