2023 Florian Grand Prix

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2023 Florian Grand Prix

Race 2/16 in the 2023 Formula Micras World Championship
Race details
Host country Floria Floria
Circuit Dragonmoor International Circuit, Dragonmoor
Dates 19-21 May 2023
Race length 61 Laps
Podium
Gold medal icon.png First Etzeland Max Treuenfeld
Silver medal icon.png Second Vegno Michele Spettacolo
Bronze medal icon.png Third Senya George Hunt
Race statistics
Pole Position Etzeland Max Treuenfeld
Fastest Lap Benacian Union Samira Khan

The 2023 Florian Grand Prix, officially presented as the Formula Micras Florian Grand Prix 2023, is a Formula Micras World Championship race that was held on 21 May 2023 at the Dragonmoor International Circuit, a motor racing circuit in the city of Dragonmoor, Floria. It served as the second race of the 2023 Formula Micras World Championship.

Background

The drivers and teams were the same as the season entry list.

It is be the third round of the 2023 Formula Micras World Championship. The race therefore took place in the home country of the Titan-Vivace Motorsports and represented the home Grand Prix for the driver Trent Cooper, the reigning Drivers' World Champion.

The 2022 edition saw the triumph of Max Treuenfeld, with Samira Khan and Toshio Sōma on the podium.

Tyre Choices

The two tyre manufacturers (Bouncy Rings and Vitesse) brought for this Grand Prix three choices of compounds for the teams: Supersoft (red), Soft (yellow), Medium (white).

Practice Session

The practice session was held at the Grand Prix lasting an hour in length; it was scheduled on 19 May 2023, and started at 15:00 local time, having the following situation:

Pos. No. Driver Constructor Time Tyre Gap
1 42 Vegno Michele Spettacolo Sburo Deliziosa FM Team 1:36.946 M -
2 3 Mercury Ben Lloyd Sburo Deliziosa FM Team 1:36.996 SS +0.050
3 69 Calbion Maddox Islwyn Ddraig-Llywelyn Racing 1:37.156 SS +0.210

Qualifying

As clarified by the regulations, the qualifying session took place on 20 May 2023, with a 3-manche sessions: the 15 fastest drivers had access to Q2, then the 10 fastest acceded to Q3, where they fought for pole-position.

Pos. No. Driver Constructor Qualifying times Final
grid
Q1 Q2 Q3
1 56 Etzeland Max Treuenfeld EMW MondoZoom Racing 1:34.529 1:34.477 1:34.558 1st
2 42 Vegno Michele Spettacolo Sburo Deliziosa FM Team 1:35.710 1:35.217 1:34.695 2nd
3 44 Greater Sangun Toshio Sōma EMW MondoZoom Racing 1:35.633 1:34.967 1:34.910 3rd
4 13 Senya George Hunt Enigma Motorsports 1:35.212 1:35.110 1:35.243 4th
5 10 Tellia Ottone Qualchempresario Scuderia DaeZoom FM 1:34.878 1:35.669 1:35.297 5th
6 12 Benacian Union Samira Khan Typhon Group 1:35.751 1:34.930 1:35.402 6th
7 3 Mercury Ben Lloyd Sburo Deliziosa FM Team 1:34.697 1:35.588 1:35.482 7th
8 11 Benacian Union Albrecht Kransk Typhon Group 1:34.738 1:35.662 1:35.660 8th
9 88 Calbion Gareth Osian Ddraig-Llywelyn Racing 1:35.588 1:35.509 1:35.972 9th
10 77 Mataba Hairul Syazwan Bintang Motorsports 1:35.693 1:35.456 1:36:029 10th
11 41 Victoria Jordan Herbertson-Panner CräiteAuto Grand Prix 1:35.601 1:35.798 N/A 11th
12 1 Floria Trent Cooper Titan-Vivace Motorsports 1:35.838 1:35.843 N/A 12th
13 69 Calbion Maddox Islwyn Ddraig-Llywelyn Racing 1:35.566 1:35.891 N/A 13th
14 17 Lamantia Florian Schaffnaust Enigma Motorsports 1:35.160 1:36.117 N/A 14th
15 78 Krasnovlac Quxshuc Korespo Waxhai Sports 1:35.503 1:36.300 N/A 15th
16 33 Krasnovlac Ghastiv Boure-Janke'Shouivul Waxhai Sports 1:35.939 N/A N/A 16th
17 89 Tellia Francesco Giocatore Scuderia DaeZoom FM 1:35.982 N/A N/A 17th
18 2 Phinbella Fazrul Mat Hassan Galaxical Territories FM Team 1:36.004 N/A N/A 18th
19 16 Daau Hein Pho Bin Bintang Motorsports 1:36.090 N/A N/A 19th
20 50 Floria Jason Rhodes Titan-Vivace Motorsports 1:36.142 N/A N/A 20th
21 36 Craitland Vorgeņ Brólt CräiteAuto Grand Prix 1:36.170 N/A N/A 21th
22 40 Phinbella Hitoshi Jeromiah Yakuzaki Galaxical Territories FM Team 1:36.468 N/A N/A 22th

Race

Report

At the start, pole sitter Max Treuenfeld got off to a good start and kept the lead, while Michele Spettacolo from second place had a bad start and slipped to 5th position, overtaken by Toshio Sōma, George Hunt and the young Gareth Osian. The championship leader Trent Cooper, after a bad qualifying session on Saturday, is forced to start from 12th position and things go even worse when, during the third lap, in an attempt to overtake, he makes a mistake at the braking point, locks his wheels and ends up against Jordan Herbertson-Panner, causing him serious damage to the car, without however forcing him to retire. The stewards consider Cooper's mistake to be a serious one and punish him with a drive through, which forces him to restart in last position and a very difficult race. In the meantime, within a few laps, Michele Spettacolo manages to recover the positions lost at the start, showing how his car is at ease on this circuit, but, unfortunately for Sburo, Max Treuenfeld had exploited this mistake by the vegnese driver at the start to build a gap of 4.5 seconds.

The drivers who started on Supersoft tyres, the softest compound brought here to Floria, begin their pit-stops from lap 11, with Max Treuenfeld anticipating Spettacolo to avoid a possible undercut by the vegnese driver, who at that point opts to lengthen the stint as much as possible and have fresher tires at the end of the race; however, after his stop, he is forced to come back behind Giocatore and Islwyn who, having started on Medium and Soft tires still had to stop and failing to overtake them on the track, he loses a lot of time against Treuenfeld, who manages to build a large lead gap. In fact, the drivers who started on the harder tires manage to lengthen the first stint a lot and, thanks to a very constant pace on these tyres, clearly the best performing in the long term, they find themselves clearly at an advantage over those who started on SuperSoft, such as for example, Maddox Islwyn, Francesco Giocatore and Hein Pho Bin who, having started in the last positions, after the first stop are in the top 10 positions.

The second round of pit stops takes place, almost for everyone, around the 50th lap with Max Treuenfeld who always anticipates Michele Spettacolo by a couple of laps, but with such a large advantage that he can get back into first position even after the stop. Behind them George Hunt, who had already overtaken Sōma earlier, anticipates the stop and, thanks to an excellent strategy by the Enigma engineers, manages, after the stop at Spettacolo, to climb into second position. However, senyan's driver glory did not last long because Spettacolo, with fresher and more performing tyres, caught up with him and overtook him in just a few laps. Meanwhile, in the lower positions, Trent Cooper manages to make the only possible strategy work for his disastrous race: a single tire change with another set of medium tyres, which guarantees him an unexpected eighth position at the finish line after the penalty in the first stages of the race.

During the last laps, the wear of Treuenfeld's tires became so important that Spettacolo made up a lot of ground on the Etzeland driver, but stopped 6 seconds behind.

Treuenfeld triumphs with a masterful race both from a driving and strategic point of view; Michele Spettacolo finishes in second position, despite probably having the fastest car this weekend, and an excellent George Hunt closes the podium with his second third place of the season. Excellent performances also by Maddox Islwyn, Francesco Giocatore and Hein Pho Bin who, thanks to an excellent team strategy, manage to obtain precious points; last season's rivals Trent Cooper and Samira Khan, both in big trouble this weekend, have to settle for eighth and tenth positions respectively, with the benacian driver also taking the two points for the fastest lap of the race.

Result

Pos. No. Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Tyre History Points
1 56 Etzeland Max Treuenfeld EMW MondoZoom Racing 61 1:43:17.011 1st = SS–M–SS 272
2 42 Vegno Michele Spettacolo Sburo Deliziosa FM Team 61 +6.133 2nd = SS–M–SS 18
3 13 Senya George Hunt Enigma Motorsports 61 +10.517 4th 1 SS–M–S 15
4 44 Greater Sangun Toshio Sōma EMW MondoZoom Racing 61 +15.234 3rd 1 SS–M–M 12
5 69 Calbion Maddox Islwyn Ddraig-Llywelyn Racing 61 +22.375 13th 8 M–SS–SS 10
6 3 Mercury Ben Lloyd Sburo Deliziosa FM Team 61 +27.336 5th 1 SS–M–SS 8
7 89 Tellia Francesco Giocatore Scuderia DaeZoom FM 61 +34.544 17th 10 M–S–SS 6
8 1 Floria Trent Cooper Titan-Vivace Motorsports 61 +39.258 12th 4 M–M 4
9 16 Daau Hein Pho Bin Bintang Motorsports 61 +47.633 19th 10 M–S–S 2
10 12 Benacian Union Samira Khan Typhon Group 61 +51.036 6th 4 SS–M–SS 31
11 10 Tellia Ottone Qualchempresario Scuderia DaeZoom FM 61 +1:02.296 5th 5 SS–S–S–SS
12 50 Floria Jason Rhodes Titan-Vivace Motorsports 61 +1:07.397 20th 8 M–S
13 11 Benacian Union Albrecht Kransk Typhon Group 61 +1:15.888 8th 5 SS–M–S
14 41 Victoria Jordan Herbertson-Panner CräiteAuto Grand Prix 61 +1:16.380 11th 4 SS–M–S
15 88 Calbion Gareth Osian Ddraig-Llywelyn Racing 61 +1:25.022 9th 6 SS–M–SS
16 77 Mataba Hairul Syazwan Bintang Motorsports 61 +1:25.370 10th 6 SS–M–M
17 78 Krasnovlac Quxshuc Korespo Waxhai Sports 61 +1:34.032 15th 2 M–M–SS
18 36 Craitland Vorgeņ Brólt CräiteAuto Grand Prix 61 +1:34.503 21th 3 M–S–SS
19 2 Phinbella Fazrul Mat Hassan Galaxical Territories FM Team 61 +1:39.775 18th 1 M–SS–S
20 17 Lamantia Florian Schaffnaust Enigma Motorsports 61 +1:41.335 14th 6 M–M–SS
21 33 Krasnovlac Ghastiv Boure-Janke'Shouivul Waxhai Sports 61 +1:50.562 16th 5 M–S–SS
22 40 Phinbella Hitoshi Jeromiah Yakuzaki Galaxical Territories FM Team 60 +1 Lap 22th = M–SS–S

1 Fastest Lap scored (2 extra point)

2 Pole Position scored (2 extra points)


Championship standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings
Pos. Driver Points
1 Etzeland Max Treuenfeld 39
2 Floria Trent Cooper 33
3 Senya George Hunt 30
4 Benacian Union Samira Khan 21
5 Vegno Michele Spettacolo 20

Constructors' Championship standings
Pos. Constructor Points
1 Mondosphere EMW MondoZoom Racing 51
2 Floria Titan-Vivace Motorsports 34
3 Senya Enigma Motorsports 30
4 Vegno Sburo Deliziosa FM Team 28
5 Benacian Union Typhon Group 21