Customise Consent Preferences

We use cookies to help you navigate efficiently and perform certain functions. You will find detailed information about all cookies under each consent category below.

The cookies that are categorized as "Necessary" are stored on your browser as they are essential for enabling the basic functionalities of the site. ... 

Always Active

Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.

No cookies to display.

Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.

No cookies to display.

Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

No cookies to display.

Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.

No cookies to display.

Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyze the effectiveness of the ad campaigns.

No cookies to display.

Home Formula 2 Sergio Sette Camara ?happy? to qualify third in F2 at Silverstone after issue

Sergio Sette Camara ?happy? to qualify third in F2 at Silverstone after issue

by Rachel Hillman

Photo: FIA Formula 2

Formula 2 title contender Sergio Sette Camara is “happy starting third” for the Silverstone feature race after his engine went into safety mode during one of his qualifying laps.

Although DAMS driver Sette Camara was beaten by Virtuosi Racing’s Guanyu Zhou and Luca Ghiotto, he crucially qualified ahead of?Nyck de Vries and Nicholas Latifi – the two drivers ahead of him in the standings.

Sette Camara said his chances of pole position were hindered by his engine briefly entering safety mode after hitting the limiter.

?I think we could have done a bit better,” he said. “I particularly struggled with hitting a limiter before one of the corners in my lap and then the engine just goes into safety mode and you can forget about your lap.

?That was a bit frustrating because even with that issue and pretty much giving up the lap, I was still not too far from my best lap, so it made me think that a lot was possible.

?But in the end I am happy starting third. I think that it’s a good starting point here if you’re in the top three, top five positions, because anyone can win.?

DAMS team-mate Latifi will start one place behind Sette Camara, while championship leader de Vries is back in seventh place in his ART Grand Prix car.

Sette Camara said the brand new surface laid at Silverstone prior to this weekend makes tyre management in the feature race ‘unexplored territory’ for the teams and drivers.

“I’m quite confident for the race, more because we’ve been doing good races recently,” he said.

“Of course, it’s a new track [surface]. From the data Pirelli sends us about the aggressiveness of the track, it looks quite different from everything else, so it’s a bit of unexplored territory for everyone. It will be interesting.”

Additional reporting by Peter Allen