Having grabbed her first victory of the season, Ferrari driver Maya Weug claimed that she is raring to ship a extra constant efficiency in qualifying which proved her weak spot in Jeddah.
Ferrari-backed Maya Weug scored her first win of the season within the second race in Jeddah. The Dutch driver crossed the road in second place, however was promoted to first as a result of pole-sitter and first previous the chequered flag, Purple Bull-backed Chloe Chambers was given a 5 second penalty for a collision between the 2 drivers within the early a part of the race.
Nonetheless, the American restricted the harm with an amazing last lap wherein she clinched the extra level for the race quickest lap, in addition to simply ending second by 65 thousandths of a second forward of Mercedes-backed Doriane Pin, who was categorised third.
The three ladies additionally head the championship standings after the opening two rounds: Weug strikes into the lead on 59 factors, with Pin second on 52 and Chambers third with 47.
Commenting on her race weekend in Saudi Arabia, Weug famous: “Final 12 months (the win) was within the final race, so it feels good to have it already on the second weekend of the season.
“The automobile was feeling nice all weekend, just a few small errors — effectively I wouldn’t say errors. It was only a bit messy in Quali, which price us beginning additional ahead.
“Yesterday was actually good from P6 to P2. At the moment, once more the tempo was very nice within the first couple of laps and managed to make up the place on Doriane in Flip 1. After that, caught as much as Chloe, overtook her, had a small contact right here and there after which needed to do the job once more.
“Having to overhaul once more left my tyres a bit extra destroyed than I might have preferred in the long run, however I knew Chloe had the five-seconds. Then I might simply keep calm, attempt to get the quickest lap. It didn’t fairly work out as a result of I used to be struggling within the final couple of laps, however actually good tempo and searching robust for Miami.”
Reflecting on the multi-lap battle with Chambers, Weug remarked: “The primary laps had been fairly insane. Final 12 months the races weren’t so thrilling round right here, however this 12 months they’ve been actually cool. I received the transfer into Flip 1, then I used to be defending into Flip 4 and washed out a little bit bit, I locked the entrance and bounced a bit off the kerb.
“Anyhow, I used to be nonetheless side-by-side into Flip 7. I used to be on the within for Flip 7 after which that turned the skin for Flip 8. There I simply had no area actually to remain on observe and received run off, which then allowed Doriane to get via.”
With Weug now sitting prime of the Drivers’ Standings for the primary time in her F1 Academy profession, the Dutch racer claims that she doesn’t want to alter a lot on her run plan, however she must be sure that she will extract every part from the automobile in qualifying.
“I don’t assume we now have to alter a lot, we simply need to maintain working. We have now two Free Apply classes if it’s like final 12 months, so we now have to verify we get a very good run plan in Free Apply, present our tempo in Quali and make some strikes like we’ve been doing this weekend in Race 1.”
