Martí, Chambers, and Schreiner all finished in the points in both races held on the streets of Singapore

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Campos Racing saw its three drivers in the all-female F1 Academy series reach the points positions in both races held at the Marina Bay Street Circuit in Singapore. Nerea Martí, Chloe Chambers, and Carrie Schreiner placed their cars in the top spots once again this weekend and return from the Asian country with a significant number of points towards the drivers' and teams' standings.

On Friday, during the free practice sessions, the first contact with the always challenging urban track was extremely positive overall for the team. The Spaniard Martí was second in the standings with a time of 2m04.339s, while Schreiner and Chambers also showed their good rapport with the circuit from the start. Schreiner, the Sauber Academy driver, was fifth, and the American Chambers, with her car sporting the Haas F1 colors, was seventh with times of 2m05.539s and 2m05.627s respectively.

Although the weather conditions changed somewhat for qualifying, for the first race, Chambers was set to mark the sixth fastest time with a lap of 2m04.250s, preceding her teammate Martí, who was seventh with a lap of 2m04.258s. Schreiner was to complete the top ten with her lap of 2m04.533s. For the second race, Martí was the best representative with a time of 2m04.435s, giving her fifth place. Schreiner moved up to seventh with a time of 2m04.604s, while Chambers set the ninth fastest time with a mark of 2m04.726s.

The first race, held on Saturday, was going to be very complicated due to a storm hours before which had left the track devoid of rubber, combined with high temperatures and humidity, making it a tough test. When the lights went out, Chambers gained a place and moved into fifth, while Martí and Schreiner were eighth and tenth in that order. Chambers pulled away from her pursuers and put maximum pressure on Lia Block to try and force an error from her compatriot, which ultimately did not happen, so she settled for fifth at the finish. In the final part, Martí and Schreiner moved up in the standings and secured seventh and eighth place under the checkered flag.

On Sunday, in the second race, Martí was ahead of Block and had the mission to overtake her without losing sight of the drivers chasing her. Schreiner completed the first lap in eighth place while Chambers was tenth, but she soon overtook Bianca Bustamante to return to ninth place. Precisely a spin by Bustamante was going to cause the safety car to come out, which entered the pit lane to restart the race on the fifth lap. Despite Martí, like Chambers the previous day, trying to force Block into a mistake, the Spanish driver eventually took fifth place in the standings. In a race with few overtakes, one of the highlights was when Chambers overtook her teammate Schreiner two laps before the end. The American overtook the German with an effective and clean fight between the two. Thus, they finished eighth and ninth.

After five of the seven rounds, Chambers occupies fourth place in the drivers' standings with 103 points, two more than Martí, who is fifth. Schreiner climbs to ninth place. In the team standings, Campos Racing is in third place with 228 points.

The championship now takes a long break until the next round, scheduled at the Losail International Circuit in Qatar on November 30 and December 1. Barely a week later, the final round of the campaign will be held on December 7 and 8.

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