{"id":489630,"date":"2026-06-12T17:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T17:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/489630\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T17:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T17:43:09","slug":"f2-rafael-camara-takes-second-consecutive-pole-in-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/489630\/","title":{"rendered":"F2: Rafael Camara takes second consecutive pole in Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Rafael C\u00e2mara went back-to-back in FIA Formula 2 Qualifying, earning his second pole position of the season and topping the order in Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">The Scuderia Ferrari Driver Academy talent set a time of 1m 24.810s on his first attempt to leave the rest chasing a time they could not beat, with team mate Joshua Duerksen getting closest just over a tenth behind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Alexander Dunne rebounded from a tricky start to the session to wind up third. The Rodin Motorsport and Alpine Academy junior driver had his initial effort deleted for exceeding track limits but managed to go third on his last lap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Fellow Alpine junior and F2 championship leader Gabriele Min\u00ec was another driver to improve late on in the Barcelona session, winding up fourth for MP Motorsport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Rounding out the top five was Rafael Villag\u00f3mez for Van Amersfoort Racing as he achieved his best Qualifying result of the season so far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">The session was impacted by a late red flag after Hitech\u2019s Ritomo Miyata spun at the final corner and wound up stuck in the gravel trap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Nikola Tsolov finished up sixth for Campos Racing, ahead of the second VAR of Nico Varrone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Fresh from his F1 FP1 outing with Cadillac, Colton Herta recorded his best Qualifying result of the season in P8, with Kush Maini and Noel Leon completing the top 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">For a full report of the FIA Formula 2 Qualifying session in Barcelona, visit the official championship website <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" data-f1rd-a7s-click=\"rich_text_atom_click\" data-f1rd-a7s-context=\"eyJhY3Rpb25UeXBlIjoiaGVyZV9saW5rX2NsaWNrZWQiLCJjbGlja1RleHQiOnRydWUsInBhdGgiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5maWFmb3JtdWxhMi5jb20vTGF0ZXN0LzhZakVQYXUwdXJ2SkpiU2VwbkZTVS9xdWFsaWZ5aW5nLWNhbWFyYS1nb2VzLWJhY2stdG8tYmFjay1hbmQtbGVhZHMtaW52aWN0YS0xLTItaW4tYmFyY2Vsb25hIiwicGF0aFR5cGUiOiJleHRlcm5hbCJ9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fiaformula2.com\/Latest\/8YjEPau0urvJJbSepnFSU\/qualifying-camara-goes-back-to-back-and-leads-invicta-1-2-in-barcelona\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rafael C\u00e2mara went back-to-back in FIA Formula 2 Qualifying, earning his second pole position of the season and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-489630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}