Zane Maloney focused on ‘winning races’ as F2 resumes this weekend

Zane Maloney soaks in the moment on the podium at the Bahrain GP

Drive fast

“The main way to achieve the level of consistency required is to just drive the car as fast as I can,” Maloney added. “The more you complicate it, the harder it gets. The more you simplify it while looking at all the details the more you perform well.

“My job is just to drive as fast as I can in every single session. It’s very easy to come to a race

weekend, be a bit off in practice, and then that’s the race weekend ruined in terms of finding that time again, that pace into qualifying.

“So, the most important thing in F2 is to be on top of everything in practice as a team, as a driver, and that sets you into a good qualifying.”

Maloney started the season with a double win in the sprint and features races in the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix in March, and he was third in the feature race in the Australian Grand Prix in the same month.

He said he entered the season without great expectations, but there was still room for improvement after every race.

“We have been doing a very good job so far, but there are still many times this season, even in Bahrain, where a certain lap in qualifying – when I qualified in P3 (position three), that lap wasn’t good from my side, and I knew that and tried to improve on that for the next time,” he said. “It’s a very stacked grid. There are lots of great drivers on the F2 grid this year and it’s tough. It’s going to be tough moving on for the rest of the year as well, and I’m just trying to improve every day really.”

F2 is the second tier to the F1 world championship organised by the FIA, motor sport’s world governing body, and held on select circuits on the F1 Grand Prix schedule. (CMC/Nation News)