Formula 3 Sprint Race Postponed

Image of Matias Zagazeta waiting in the pit lane for whenever the race was to start. Credit: Joe Portlock via Getty Images

The Saturday Formula 3 sprint race at Silverstone was postponed due to the strong wet weather conditions.

Formula 3 was set to go racing on Saturday morning at 09:20 local time for the sprint race, for round seven of 10 in 2024.

However, heavy rain had covered the Silverstone Circuit and it was a very wet circuit, with no sign of the conditions lightening up or the track drying.

Berd Maylander, the Safety Car driver, went out onto the circuit to try and pcreate somde dry lines on the circuit and to check whether it would be suitable for racing or not. 

The track conditions were deemed to be unsafe with the Safety Car having a bit of a skid on the lap it was out on the circuit. Race Control would move the race provisional race start time back a further 25 minutes, to 09:45 in an attempt for the track to try and dry and the rain to try and stop falling, so racing could get underway.

Sadly, this was not the case. After Berd Maylander would head onto the circuit to check it, Race Control would put a further message out saying the race would be postponed. This would mean that if possible, the event would have to be rescheduled for a different point in the weekend.

The Safety car coming to a stop on the pit straight with puddles all over the track. Credit: James Sutton via Getty Images

​It would be Noel Leon who would be supposed to start from pole position after the top 12 were reversed. Leon was supposed to pole for the second time in his Formula 3 career, after the Imola sprint race in May.

British driver Arvid Lindblad would have started second at his home event, for Prema.

The organisers would work hard to have the sprint race rescheduled. If failing to do so,the next action would be on Sunday morning for the feature race. Championship leader and home hero Luke Browning is set to start from pole position.

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Brandon Whiteside
​Writer - F1 Journal