2023 Florian Grand Prix

2023 Florian Grand Prix

Race 2/16 in the 2023 Formula Micras World Championship
Race details
Host country	Floria
Circuit	Dragonmoor International Circuit, Dragonmoor
Dates	19-21 May 2023
Race length	61 Laps
Podium
First	Max Treuenfeld
Second	Michele Spettacolo
Third	George Hunt
Race statistics
Pole Position	Max Treuenfeld
Fastest Lap	Samira Khan
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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	Michele Spettacolo	Sburo Deliziosa FM Team	1:36.946	M	-
2	3	Ben Lloyd	Sburo Deliziosa FM Team	1:36.996	SS	+0.050
3	69	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	Max Treuenfeld	EMW MondoZoom Racing	1:34.529	1:34.477	1:34.558	1st
2	42	Michele Spettacolo	Sburo Deliziosa FM Team	1:35.710	1:35.217	1:34.695	2nd
3	44	Toshio Sōma	EMW MondoZoom Racing	1:35.633	1:34.967	1:34.910	3rd
4	13	George Hunt	Enigma Motorsports	1:35.212	1:35.110	1:35.243	4th
5	10	Ottone Qualchempresario	Scuderia DaeZoom FM	1:34.878	1:35.669	1:35.297	5th
6	12	Samira Khan	Typhon Group	1:35.751	1:34.930	1:35.402	6th
7	3	Ben Lloyd	Sburo Deliziosa FM Team	1:34.697	1:35.588	1:35.482	7th
8	11	Albrecht Kransk	Typhon Group	1:34.738	1:35.662	1:35.660	8th
9	88	Gareth Osian	Ddraig-Llywelyn Racing	1:35.588	1:35.509	1:35.972	9th
10	77	Hairul Syazwan	Bintang Motorsports	1:35.693	1:35.456	1:36:029	10th
11	41	Jordan Herbertson-Panner	CräiteAuto Grand Prix	1:35.601	1:35.798	N/A	11th
12	1	Trent Cooper	Titan-Vivace Motorsports	1:35.838	1:35.843	N/A	12th
13	69	Maddox Islwyn	Ddraig-Llywelyn Racing	1:35.566	1:35.891	N/A	13th
14	17	Florian Schaffnaust	Enigma Motorsports	1:35.160	1:36.117	N/A	14th
15	78	Quxshuc Korespo	Waxhai Sports	1:35.503	1:36.300	N/A	15th
16	33	Ghastiv Boure-Janke'Shouivul	Waxhai Sports	1:35.939	N/A	N/A	16th
17	89	Francesco Giocatore	Scuderia DaeZoom FM	1:35.982	N/A	N/A	17th
18	2	Fazrul Mat Hassan	Galaxical Territories FM Team	1:36.004	N/A	N/A	18th
19	16	Hein Pho Bin	Bintang Motorsports	1:36.090	N/A	N/A	19th
20	50	Jason Rhodes	Titan-Vivace Motorsports	1:36.142	N/A	N/A	20th
21	36	Vorgeņ Brólt	CräiteAuto Grand Prix	1:36.170	N/A	N/A	21th
22	40	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	Max Treuenfeld	EMW MondoZoom Racing	61	1:43:17.011	1st =	SS–M–SS	272
2	42	Michele Spettacolo	Sburo Deliziosa FM Team	61	+6.133	2nd =	SS–M–SS	18
3	13	George Hunt	Enigma Motorsports	61	+10.517	4th ▲1	SS–M–S	15
4	44	Toshio Sōma	EMW MondoZoom Racing	61	+15.234	3rd ▼1	SS–M–M	12
5	69	Maddox Islwyn	Ddraig-Llywelyn Racing	61	+22.375	13th ▲8	M–SS–SS	10
6	3	Ben Lloyd	Sburo Deliziosa FM Team	61	+27.336	5th ▲1	SS–M–SS	8
7	89	Francesco Giocatore	Scuderia DaeZoom FM	61	+34.544	17th ▲10	M–S–SS	6
8	1	Trent Cooper	Titan-Vivace Motorsports	61	+39.258	12th ▲4	M–M	4
9	16	Hein Pho Bin	Bintang Motorsports	61	+47.633	19th ▲10	M–S–S	2
10	12	Samira Khan	Typhon Group	61	+51.036	6th ▼4	SS–M–SS	31
11	10	Ottone Qualchempresario	Scuderia DaeZoom FM	61	+1:02.296	5th ▼5	SS–S–S–SS
12	50	Jason Rhodes	Titan-Vivace Motorsports	61	+1:07.397	20th ▲8	M–S
13	11	Albrecht Kransk	Typhon Group	61	+1:15.888	8th ▼5	SS–M–S
14	41	Jordan Herbertson-Panner	CräiteAuto Grand Prix	61	+1:16.380	11th ▼4	SS–M–S
15	88	Gareth Osian	Ddraig-Llywelyn Racing	61	+1:25.022	9th ▼6	SS–M–SS
16	77	Hairul Syazwan	Bintang Motorsports	61	+1:25.370	10th ▼6	SS–M–M
17	78	Quxshuc Korespo	Waxhai Sports	61	+1:34.032	15th ▼2	M–M–SS
18	36	Vorgeņ Brólt	CräiteAuto Grand Prix	61	+1:34.503	21th ▲3	M–S–SS
19	2	Fazrul Mat Hassan	Galaxical Territories FM Team	61	+1:39.775	18th ▼1	M–SS–S
20	17	Florian Schaffnaust	Enigma Motorsports	61	+1:41.335	14th ▼6	M–M–SS
21	33	Ghastiv Boure-Janke'Shouivul	Waxhai Sports	61	+1:50.562	16th ▼5	M–S–SS
22	40	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	Max Treuenfeld	39
2	Trent Cooper	33
3	George Hunt	30
4	Samira Khan	21
5	Michele Spettacolo	20

Constructors' Championship standings

Pos.	Constructor	Points
1	EMW MondoZoom Racing	51
2	Titan-Vivace Motorsports	34
3	Enigma Motorsports	30
4	Sburo Deliziosa FM Team	28
5	Typhon Group	21