Formula 2 is definitely 100 years behind F1 right now. Today’s despicable showing proved us that money going into formula is very little for what it could actually achieve. Since it is not a program that makes enough profit, and constantly loses money (big clubs loses like 2-3 million euro per year) that means we do not have the best of the best there.
We have whatever and whoever they can afford to. The tire going off, the constantly failing of putting on the tires. VIPs for example would have been the clear winner today if team didn't screw it up, dude definitely deserved it. Pit was horrible today in almost every team and sad to see.
The price difference between the two leagues is staggering which shows itself during the races as well. It is understandable that one or two teams may have problems, look at Red Bull in f1, they had a problem as well. However, seeing like multiple pit stop slowness, and then seeing multiple pitstop... stops
then you realized that at least 7-8 racers were impacted because of this, some retired, some had worse results then they deserved.
All in all I would say that F2 is still coming along, they do not make too much money because there are not that many teams that make any money, it is all a big loss for teams financially, hence why it is hard to keep the league going let alone make it a good one.
You can be a very cool racer, but you can leave the race because of problems with the engine or fuel pump and it is still unknown what this is a design flaw, a staff flaw or really elementary bad luck, which is very difficult to reproduce in another situation. I think Mercedes will still show its real strength during the season, after all, the experience of racing engineers has not gone away, but there have just been some changes in the design of the car.
