{"id":66755,"date":"2025-08-14T16:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T16:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/66755\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T16:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T16:13:09","slug":"how-i-race-with-dino-beganovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/66755\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Race with Dino Beganovic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dino Beganovic<\/a> is the latest member on the grid to give us insight into how he goes about his racing in Formula 2.<\/p>\n

The Scuderia Ferrari Driver Academy (SFDA) and Hitech TGR<\/a> driver dives into what he\u2019s learned about his own style and how he\u2019s evolved since his formative years in racing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I\u2019m a driver that let\u2019s say is more on the thinking side of things. I\u2019m thinking about risk versus reward, not impulsive, calmer and more collected when I make up positions, I\u2019ve thought about it already. I would say that\u2019s my style in both qualifying and races, but it obviously affects the races more.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s evolved a lot for sure. I\u2019ve always had it in me to be thinking about things a lot. But one thing would get in the way and that\u2019s emotions. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you get emotional, you make impulsive decisions, and you\u2019ve not weighed up whether it\u2019s worth it or not. I think that is where I was a bit stuck in the beginning of my career, being emotional in my driving which isn\u2019t a positive thing.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving understood that, winning the year in Regional by being calm and collected and always getting the points, it was like a receipt for me \u2013 that is the way to work.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince then, working a lot on the mental aspect to keep emotions in check. It\u2019s easy to say but difficult to do.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI normally like to do the mental preparations on my own. I do my own thing with my mental trainer and then from SFDA, I\u2019m getting support both before and after a weekend on what we can improve. <\/p>\n

\u201cAlso, being in the F1 simulator, though it\u2019s more for the development of the car, it also gives me a lot of preparation for weekends along with experience. I\u2019m improving by being consistent in the sim, fast and giving good feedback.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are definitely things that are a benefit to have their support from not only any F1 team, but Ferrari. It\u2019s special to feel that support from them. I know how to use their support instead of letting any kind of pressure affect me.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think my style doesn\u2019t change now, because Ferrari like the way I work so I try to keep things the same. It seems like they are happy with me because they\u2019ve put me in the car this year for FP1s.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very happy about it and it means that I really feel very supported from their side. It gives me confidence when I get those kinds of calls to do it. But, at the end of the day, it\u2019s work for the team and I\u2019m very focused on doing the job they\u2019re asking of me. That\u2019s what\u2019s going to get me back into the car if the work I\u2019ve done has been done in a good way. You\u2019re always looking for the next step forward, but I\u2019m not stressed about it.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn Formula 2, you don\u2019t get much track time at all and a lot is done in terms of preparation for the event, both the team and yourself mentally. You need to be on it and if you\u2019re not, you\u2019re going to be a step back when you get onto the track in FP.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a lot of prep on the sim but having good communication with the engineer and aligning what you want to do for FP and then making that step forward for qualifying. Taking that opportunity to build your weekend in up FP to know your limits in quali is very important.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy approach to weekends has definitely changed. In the first few weekends of F3 \u2013 I was actually too conservative, so the hype about building up a weekend, I almost overdid it and did too much of a step back which left me having to make a bigger step in qualifying.<\/p>\n

\u201cI came into the sessions and was left facing a huge step in order to be quick. It\u2019s about finding that balance between not being too conservative but not going over the limit which will cost you track time, and that\u2019s even worse.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think my biggest strength is my calmness. I\u2019m able to be collected in situations like qualifying or in the races, whatever happens, I\u2019m able to reset. It\u2019s not always been my biggest strength, it goes up and down like your emotions do. But, being able to bring things back is a plus.<\/p>\n

\u201cBringing it back to a technical focus, I feel that I\u2019m a good qualifier. And that links back to being calm, not too emotional and able to focus when you need to put that lap together. I\u2019m normally able to deliver it and it\u2019s been a trend since karting. I hope to keep it going.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dino Beganovic is the latest member on the grid to give us insight into how he goes about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,372,6537,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-66755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}