2022 Round 3 post-Sprint Race press conference

FIA Formula 2: Well done to you. Jehan, You were very quick in this race and applied a lot of pressure on Marcus, but how close did you get to pulling a pass on him?

Jehan Daruvala: To be honest, I was always just close enough but never quite there. I was waiting for him to make a mistake. Which he didn’t the whole race. I was applying as much pressure as I could, especially a few laps after the Safety Car I was pushing a lot, trying to stay in DRS and trying to force an error because it was quite hard to follow him, especially in the last two corners. I used a lot of my rear tires early on in the race. Kind of took a breather and tried to come back at the end. But yeah, like one or two laps before the end, I lost my tires again, so it was difficult. I think we had a lot of pace, but we just couldn’t use it because it was hard to follow him in the middle sector.

FIA Formula 2: Jehan it has been a very consistent start to the year for you. How much are you thinking about the Championship at this stage in this season?

Daruvala: To be honest, it’s a really, really long championship. I’m not really thinking about it too much. All through the race I wanted to win the whole time, I wasn’t thinking about finishing second and scoring good points. Obviously, it’s good, but you know when I was in the car I was pushing as hard as I could to try and overtake Marcus.