The Spanish driver for Campos Racing scored points for the tenth consecutive race in a weekend where only the Saturday race took place, as the Sunday race was canceled due to delays from repairing the circuit barriers
Campos Racing and its drivers Nerea Martí, Chloe Chambers, and Carrie Schreiner competed this weekend in the penultimate event of the season at the Lusail International Circuit in what was a particularly challenging meeting. Despite this, Valencian Martí managed to extend her consecutive scoring streak in the F1 Academy once again. In fact, except for the first race in Jeddah, she has scored points in all the other races. American Chambers would have also scored points, but a post-race penalty removed her from the top ten. Meanwhile, German Carrie Schreiner also came close to the points positions.
After the free practice session on Friday morning, the qualifying session took place that same afternoon. In it, Martí was the best representative of Campos Racing, setting the seventh-fastest time with a lap of 1m56.048s. Schreiner, a driver for the Sauber Academy, was eleventh with a lap of 1m56.621s, which placed her just ahead of Chambers, who was twelfth with her time of 1m56.624s in the car sporting the Haas F1 colors.
In Saturday's race, when the lights went out, Chambers had a great start and immediately got into the fight for points alongside her teammate Martí. The two Campos Racing drivers provided some of the most exciting moments of the 14-lap race. However, a penalty for Chambers caused the American to drop out of the points. Thus, Martí ended up eighth while Chambers finished eleventh ahead of Schreiner.
Sunday's race, initially delayed due to repairs to the circuit barriers caused by another competition, was eventually canceled and did not take place.
With only the event at Yas Marina Circuit remaining, Martí is fourth in the overall standings with 105 points, two more than Chambers, who is fifth. Schreiner is currently in eleventh place. In the team standings, Campos Racing is in third place with 232 points.
The championship's season finale is set for this coming weekend in Abu Dhabi.
Fotos: Jorge Fernández
