Formula Sprint 2 has been somewhat of an enigma in 2025. The ingredients we’ve had have been dominant performances, excellent racing, and some very poor driving standards, all thrown into the mixing pot and producing a somewhat sour tasting stew.
The championship has been Sandeep Singh’s to lose for a while now, but he’s doing his best to make it competitive – he didn’t show for this round, leaving the door wide open for Junio Lopes to take full advantage. In race 1, he took pole position, got an excellent launch, and ran away from the field to take a dominant grand slam race win.
Behind him, Kert Rohtjaerv usurped the Priority 1 team mates, who had qualified 2nd and 5th, to take 2nd place.
There were plenty of incidents. The worst of which, was when newcomer Paparinopoulos hit the back of Kaspar Koorits, who started at the back and nearly made it to the points, coming towards turn 1, causing himself to spin across the track and hit Ben Constantine, who proceeded to do his best impression of a figure skater with multiple 360s. This was not Koorits’ fault, but more on the Estonian later.
Further back, despite having approximately 3 working days to see what happened, Kratochvil managed to pile in to the unfortunate Greek, taking him out of the racing and requiring Kratochvil to pit for a new front wing.
There was a fun little battle going on between the VMS and RNG cars. They were swapping positions, using the very fast nature of Monza, coupled with strong slipstream effects, to try to improve their positions. Having started a long way back, James Knox joined the battle as well, and drove an impressive race to gain 10 positions and finish 12th.
In the end though, it was the VMS cars that won out, de Vree ahead of Justin van der Smissen, who were both beaten out by Kap Clay’s Tuomaala.
Race 2
Race 1 had been an average race for 2025’s FS2. A few incidents, some good battles, some contact, and a good win for Lopes. Nothing special.
Race 2 was absolutely off the rails; in a bad way. It was like the Hunger Games, only without the obnoxious booming sound every time we lost another tribute. In 2015, there was a Formula 3 race held at Monza that was red-flagged for poor driving standards, and honestly that should have happened here.
First; the good. Magnus Okkenhaug and James Knox had a terrific battle for most of the race. Magnus started on the front row, with Juho Sopanen on pole position, with the HBS cars locking out the front row due to the reverse grid odds being ever in their favour. After a good getaway, James Knox moved up past Juho and into 2nd position, where he then swapped places with Okkenhaug multiple times.
In the end it was Okkenhaug who led going into the final lap, enabling Knox to get by into turn 1. However, a poor exit meant that Magnus could throw it down the outside into the second chicane; a little bit of wheel banging followed but by the time they got through the second Lesmo, he was back in front. Despite Okkenhaug’s best efforts to throw it away on the straight down towards Parabolica, as he weaved to break the tow, dropped a wheel on the grass and nearly ended it all, but managed to cling on to come out on top in a performance Katniss Everdeen would be proud of.
Behind them, Mark Szilagyi had a relatively quiet race after overtaking Johannes Leppitt and Sopanen to take 3rd place.
Those were the happy things.
Behind them, the untouchable race 1 Lopes disappeared, and whilst he tried to battle through the pack he encountered Kaspar Koorits. Some initial wheelbanging turned into full on war; Koorits tipped Lopes into a half spin coming into the second chicane, and then followed it with a full smash in the second Lesmo. Lopes swung out wide to push him onto the grass. Koorits countered with more significant contact into Ascari. It wouldn’t have looked out of place in a hand to hand combat scenario. It wouldn’t have looked out of place in a demolition derby. It definitely looked out of place in GPVWC.
Koorits wasn’t done. Rohtjaerv tried to overtake him, and Koorits deliberately turned into him on the straight down towards turn 1. I said it at the time that he deserves to be banned after that, and I stick by it now on reflection. It was shocking driving, and there is no place for it in GPVWC.
I said it in the discord; It’s been a bit up and down this season, but I don’t give up my Tuesday evenings to watch and talk about that level of performance.
We try to make the commentary fun. I want people to enjoy watching FS2 and in the commentary box, we don’t always take it super professionally. You should be able to have fun on track too, and within your own teams. You should enjoy competing and for some of you, you can see what it means to get a good result. I have a nice time when I’m watching you guys drive the wheels off the cars and competing fairly, and sportingly, to do the best you can.
What I watched was a bunch of kids smashing into each other. It wasn’t fun.
Take a long hard look at yourselves. Everyone, on the FS2 grid.
