One Million Dollar Borefest – Weekend Round-Up #90

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The Indycar series had its first non-championship race in sixteen years with the $1 million challenge. A sign of pointless decadence? Or a future classic. We also had Formula 2, Formula 3, and V8 Supercars from Melbourne, NASCAR from COTA and another Felipe Massa masterclass in Brazil. Remember to subscribe.

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Hello and welcome to Frontrunner Motorsport This past weekend could of been called Aussie weekend because that was where most of he action was, I have already covered the Formula 1 in this video, so check that out. In this video we will be looking at Everything else that went on at the weekend.

This includes Formula 2 & 3 from Melbourne along with the V8 Supercars. The Indycar $1 Million dollar race from some private club for rich bastards. NASCAR from COTA and their first road race of the year and we also had Brazil Stock cars from Velo Città, Brazil.

So with all that action to get through make sure you subscribe to the channel, And let’s jump right into the video. Formula 2 was racing alongside Formula 1 for the third round of the year, the sprint race started with a right old mess.

Pepe Marti made one hell of a start and then collided with his teammate Isack Hadjar, Crashing and taking Gabriel Bortoleto out in the process. Shortly after we got back to racing Andrea Kimi Antonelli would spin and take Richard Verschoor and Paul Aron with him, And brought out another safety car.

We lost almost half this race to safety car but Isack Hadjar took his first win, which was then taken off him for the opening lap contact so suprisingly, Roman Stanek took his first Formula 2 win and his first points for the year.

The feature race was much better, no contact at the start this time. Except for race one winner Stanek, Getting turned around. Joshua Durksen got taken out by Franco Colapinto as PHM scoreless run in Formula 2 goes on

And on, shortly after that the soft shod runners all came into the pits and went onto the mediums. Dennis Hauger then crashed and brought out the safety car, ruining any chance the drivers who started on mediums had for winning the race as it was too early to pit for softs.

Big crash and it stopped any chance Hauger had of taking the championship lead, after a run of three podiums and he would of been leading the field of pitters at that point. The battle of the race was between Paul Aron, Zane Maloney and Andrea Kimi Antonelli, a

Battle for the best of the rest behind Isack Hadjar who turned his weekend around and took that first win. Ritomo Miyata was brilliant in this race and finished fifth, keeping Rodin at the top of the teams chart. Zane Maloney stil lleads the championship but Paul Aron did close the gap slightly.

Dennis Hauger is third and dreaming of what could of been. We also had Formula 3 racing at Melbourne and it has been a shocking start to the year for Dino Beganovic, once again he was back in the field and needed to desperately make progress.

We had a great battle, In the early stages between Laurens Van Hoepen and Martinius Stenshorne, who swapped the lead a couple of times. Christian Mansell was also involved in that fight be he got some damaged and dropped out of the points.

Arvid Lindblad was very impressive once again, getting up to second, he was definitely the pick of the Prema trio once again. Not many crashes in this race, but home boy Tommy Smith took out Tasanapol Inthrapuvasak and brought out a safety car with less than ten to go.

Didn’t stop Martinius Stenshorne from winning his first Formula 3 race ahead of Lindblad and Van Hoepen. Several cars went off at the start of the feature race, including Tasanapol Inthrapuvasak again, joining him on the sidelines this time were Sophia Floersch, Tommy Smith and Joseph Loake. Whilst Tim Tranmitz had a puncture.

This race was all about Dino Beganovic, for the first time he didn’t run into issues in 2024 and he pulled off a couple of mega overtakes and led comfortably, To finally take his first Formula 3 win.

Tyre’s played a big part in this race, Gabriele Mini pulled off a late move to get on the podium and Charlie Wurz had his best race in Formula 3 to date with a fifth place. Luke Browning leads the championship but he’s tied on points with Fornaroli, Mini and Beganovic are close behind.

Only Fornaroli, Mini and Oliver Goethe have scored points in all four races, shows how tough This championship is to be consistent in, still too early to call a champion and Formula 3 is now on a break until mid May.

Let’s get the last of the Melbourne races out the way now, V8 Supercars had four races supporting the Grand Prix. A weekend everyone wants to do well at, and still no Brodie Kostecki. The Triple 8 duo looked like the team to beat and once Will Brown passed Anton De Pasquale they led 1-2.

Not too many incidents at the start of race one, James Golding got turned round And Jaxon Evans re-arranged the back of his Camaro. An ok race, not too much happened and Broc Feeney won. Will Brown led race two but the best action was in the midfield,

With Tom Randle having an interesting couple of races. Broc Feeney moved past Cam Waters for second and the pair made contact, letting Winterbottom through. Will Brown wins race 2. There was some questionable driving from Cam Waters this weekend, and no moment was as

Questionable as taking himself and Matt Payne out of race 3, leaving the Triple 8 cars 1-2 again. Waters may have been angry, but he initiated contact and put his car where he shouldn’t, he was never going to get round the outside there, and Matt Payne was rightfully ahead.

After a long safety car period, not much racing was left but we got a good last lap fight between Will Brown and Chaz Mostert, Feeney won again and another Triple 8 1-2. The final race was led early by Matt Payne again and this time it was Chaz Mostert who

Pushed him off the track and Triple 8 soon found themselves near the front behind Nick Percat. So whilst Cam Hill got tipped off, Nick Percat won for the first time in four years and ended the Triple 8 domination, they only finished second and third.

There was some good racing but the Triple 8 pairs easy domination of the field says everything you need to know about V8 Supercars in 2024. So Indycar and the non-championship, one million dollar challenge from the privately owned Thermal Club. Non-Championship races really are a relic of the past.

It made sense in the sixties, When a long race calender consisted of 10 races and left space open to race in any number of races you wanted to. They’re rare now, with most race. series having around twenty races.

NASCAR always has a few but thats because NASCAR has to be on almost every weekend ever. For Indycar it has been sixteen years since they had a non-championship race in Australia. And now you can see why, this was terrible.

They had nine hours of practice and qualifying for two ten minute races and one twenty minute race broken in two. What was the point? Decadence, someone agreed to pay for it, so here it is. Heat one started with Grosjean getting turned round by Dixon and slamming into Veekay, Dixon got a penalty.

McLaughlin won. Alex Palou dominated the second, there was a good fight between the McLaren trio but only Alexander Rossi made it to the final, and oh the final. Twelve cars, no pit stops. No strategy, this was tedious as all hell.

Cars that made a slow start backed off a lot to save tyres for the second half, no one could change tyres at the break. But if you didn’t have a break no one would do anything because overtaking was near impossible.

Alex Palou won he race and half a million dollars, i’m sure he needed it for legal fees. NASCAR had their first road race of the year at the COTA track, Christopher Bell was once again running at the front and having a really good fight with William Byron that went into the second stage.

Hey NASCAR, your racing is more interesting on a track than it is an oval want to do anything with that? Maybe if you only had twelve road races and ten ovals a year your series would be bearable.

Maybe just run it like a normal race series as well and not like the NFL, only America likes the NFL, no one else gives a shit, we have real sports. Kyle Larson got spun by Bell after the pit stops, I’d say a fellow title contender, but that doesn’t really matter in NASCAR.

My boy Kamui Kobayashi was racing in America but got taken out by Ricky Stenhouse, screw you Stenhouse. William Byron was at the front for most of this race and took the lead from Ross Chastain with twenty to go. William Byron won a race with no big crashes or yellow flags, a perfectly

Entertaining NASCAR race. Sadly Shane Van Gisbergen and Kamui Kobayashi were pretty anonymous here but I still enjoyed this one, back to the ovals next weekend. Finally we have the Brazil Stock car from Velo Citta, Felipe Massa has really found

His groove again, it only took him fifteen years to win a race but he’s now a top driver once again. I don’t think a first Brazil Stock car title is out of the question, maybe he can win his

Court case and be crowned the 2008 Formula 1 champion, maybe he will keep on a-Massa-ing wealth. First race wasn’t especially interesting, a little bit damp but not damp enough to really change anything. Zezinho Muggiati crashed on the pit entrance for the sole highlight of the race.

Felipe Massa passed an ailing Allam Khodair for the lead with five minutes left and held of Ricardo Zonta for his third Stock car win in the last six races, not bad after not winning the previous seventy races. Unfortunately the second race didn’t happen due to heavy rain, so Felipe Massa is your

Championship leader as we head to Interlagos in a months time for round 2. So that was all the action from the past weekend, a bit of a meh weekend if I am honest, the best race was the Formula 1 which I never thought i’d say.

Other than that, Formula 2 feature race was alright. Hopefully next weekend will be better with racing from Tokyo and the first Formula E to come from Japan, Oulton Park and the start of both GB3 and British GT for 2024, and of course NASCAR from Richmond.

So leave your thoughts in the comments below, what was your race of the weekend? Remember to subscribe to the channel, thank you for watching and have a good one.