Red Bull junior Zane Maloney swapped the circuits for asphalt stages at last weekend's Rally Barbados. TommyHoward followed his progress. ⬇️
It’s not often you see a current Formula 2 driver on a rally entry list, but that was the case at last weekend’s Rally Barbados. Motorsport.com followed Red Bull junior Zane Maloney’s progress as he aims to boost his Formula 1 quest by swapping the circuit for asphalt stagesOver the years several Formula 1 drivers have tried their hand at rallying, think Kimi Raikkonen and Robert Kubica, who both enjoyed spells in the World Rally Championship in the last decade.
“I’m very fortunate to be here rallying in Barbados. My sponsors are amazing and they have allowed me to do this and any opportunity there is to jump in a car I will be there. I love racing. Racing is my passion, rallying is difficult and it is a different genre of motorsport, so it will be tough.” “For me coming from circuit racing and how I have grown up in motorsport, to go onto stages I don’t know and push to the limit creates new skills, and then I can jump in the F2 car and be bit more on it than I was,” he says."This is what happened last year. I had an amazing run to the end of the season and that was partly because of Rally Barbados. It helps you to learn new skills and how to be fast in any car and I’m always up for learning more things.
“Rallying is new for him but his speed is very good,” Pons, who still competes in rallies in Spain and Portugal alongside his coaching commitments, tells Motorsport.com. “With the pacenotes I struggle to listen to them while driving,” he says."I really try to memorise the roads to make it more like a circuit, It is tough but that is what we have to do. What I see in the WRC, I can’t imagine doing that, they really have big balls. If you compare the highlight reels in F1 and F2 and you compare them to WRC, it is a whole different ball game. You see the cars sideways and then 20 feet in the air, it is crazy.
While the disappointment of not being able to challenge for a victory on home soil was visible, Maloney is hoping the flashes of speed witnessed and the boost from the vociferous home crowd will once again provide the fuel to kickstart his F2 season in a carbon copy of 2022
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