{"id":142784,"date":"2025-09-14T07:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T07:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/142784\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T07:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T07:03:10","slug":"f2-grid-full-of-drivers-like-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/142784\/","title":{"rendered":"F2 grid full of &#8216;drivers like me&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t&#8220;I\u2019m convinced that it\u2019s because of the increased budgets&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>14 September 2025 &#8211; 07:35<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/935bfc091d6f43c19e474632eaa3e3.jpg\" alt=\"F2 grid full of \u2019drivers like me\u2019 - Inoue\" class=\"w-full h-auto mb-12\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-5\">Former Formula 1 backmarker Taki Inoue has taken aim at the current level of talent in Formula 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-5\">Responding on social media to footage of the chaotic Monza F2 race last weekend, the Japanese ex-driver &#8211; who often jokes about his own modest career &#8211; compared today\u2019s grid to himself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-5\">&#8220;Formula 2 has been overcrowded with drivers like Taki Inoue in recent years,&#8221; the 62-year-old wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-5\">&#8220;I\u2019m convinced that it\u2019s because of the increased budgets &#8211; teams are now giving preference to drivers with financial backing rather than real talent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-5\">His jab lands amid a fiercely competitive F2 season &#8211; and a championship battle led by Richard Verschoor, Leonardo Fornaroli, and Jak Crawford, each vying on merit for the title<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-5\">Frontrunners Leonardo Fornaroli, Luke Browning, Richard Verschoor and Jak Crawford are fighting for the 2025 title with three rounds to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I\u2019m convinced that it\u2019s because of the increased budgets&#8221; 14 September 2025 &#8211; 07:35 Former Formula 1 backmarker&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-142784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}