u/Witty_Error_1877

Abbi Pulling is one of the leading female prospects to watch out for in 2026.

In 2024 she dominated F1 Academy and gained herself a full series of the formula regional championship GB3 for 2025 paid for by F1 Academy.

In 2025 she showed consistency and gradual improvement across the year finishing 10th with a late podium.

As F1 Academy only pay for 1 season I expected her career to then be over but she has somehow found funding for another GB3 year in 2026 - this time with a year of experience of the car/tyres under her belt and set up knowledge for each track.

The opening round has happened and reports are of genuine front running pace mixed with poor luck.

She qualified 4th for the first race and 5th for the second race.

She was forced to retire from race 1 with a suspension failure.

She was in a genuine 3rd place in race 2 with 1 minute to go when another driver crashed into her and forced another DNF.

In race 3, the reverse grid, she finished 10th, promoted later to 8th.

While the final results did not reflect her full potential, Pulling left Silverstone with clear evidence of front-running pace. Across all three races, she had demonstrated the speed to fight consistently at the front, with misfortune denying her a likely podium finish.

https://www.racers-behindthehelmet.com/post/gb3-abbi-pulling-shows-front-running-pace-but-denied-podium-in-unfortunate-silverstone-opener?utm\_source=copilot.com

In terms of time.

Hear me out.

He has a final count of 42.

He is already up to 19 in the opening couple of minutes, after which we immediately see him shoot a 20th.

After quite a bit of battle time later we see him do the epic shield slide and take out more enemies.

After his quiver runs out he whips out the white knives and kills another.

We see him slice another as the order to retreat to the Hornburg is given.

Then when the next retreat order is given we see him shoot several more.

When the cavalry ride out we see him slice yet another.

He has killed the vast majority of his 42 Uruk Hai within very few minutes of screen time in a battle that he fought in for many hours.

The vast majority of the night, he wasn't killing any Uruk Hai.

Similar with Gimli who is chanting 17, 18, 19 before the wall even comes down and he only killed 1 more in total.

Edit: just pointing this out for a laugh, as usual there are a lot of very angry and anonymous people online 😅

Daughter of Mikka Hakkinen and McLaren Junior driver, Ella Hakkinen is racing F4 Central European Zone (F4 CEZ).

The opening round is complete and she has recorded 8th, 11th and 12th place finishes putting her 14th out of 41 after round 1.

Having completed 2 years in F1 Academy she has left circuit racing and returned to rallying.

She was leading her first rally back by 3 minutes until a mechanical fault on the car dropped her to 3rd.

So far, she has backed this up with another 3rd place in her 2nd rally.

A pretty strong return so far, It will be fun to see If she can reach an international level.

And maybe race Pikes Peak for real.

She has been testing ahead of the Le Mans 24 hours in her role as reserve driver.

When she and her team won 3 of the 6 LMP2 ELMS races last year it looked like the championship was on the cards but they somehow ended up finishing 3rd.

This year they have opened with 2 4th places.

Can they turn it around mid season and fight at the front again.

She has had such a good junior career so far, I want to see her get to Hypercar WEC.

“I’m going to have a different approach in the next race,” Hamilton declared to PlanetF1.com and other accredited media following the Miami GP.

For Hamilton, what he is experiencing in the Ferrari simulator versus the real-life SF-26, does not align.

“Ultimately, it’s always correlation,” he added.

“We go on it [the simulator], and then you get to the track, and the car feels different when you get to the track.”

Hamilton was asked to expand on what he meant by not preparing for a race weekend properly. That led him to double down on his dissatisfaction with the Ferrari sim.

So much so, that Hamilton says he will not use it at all before the Canadian Grand Prix, dropping a major clue in regards to this new approach which the seven-time world champion says is coming.

“What I mean by it is that I spend time on the simulator – you know I don’t like simulators in general – but I was at the simulator every week on the build-up to this race, and working on correlation constantly.

“You go on it, you prepare for the track, you drive it, and you get the car set up to a certain place, and then you come to the track, and that setup doesn’t work."

“And on the Sprint weekend, for example, you’ve only got practice one. You don’t really want to veer off from your setup too far, like with a big suspension change. And so you stay with it, and then you make a change going into qualifying, and you’ve only got six laps to get on top of it.

“So in an ideal world, I should have started where Charles was at the beginning of the weekend, and I think we would have just had a stronger weekend from there on.

“I’m not going to go on the simulator between now and the next race. I’ll still go and hold meetings at the factory and stuff, but just going to back away from it for a little bit and see.

“When we went to China, I had the best weekend, and without sim.”

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We have a section of Earth underneath a line of oak trees.

The annual leaf fall kills any sort of lawn so we are going for a nature friendly meadow vibe (we have squirrels, hedgehogs, bats, slow worms and huge numbers of birds, bugs, bees etc)

We have planted lots of different perennial bulbs that you can't see yet in the photo but are starting to come through and lots of wildflower seeds have been scattered.

(We have also planted a lot that you can see)

I want to include a spot with a lot of tulips together that look like tulip "bush" of sorts.

I've been advised to put tulip bulbs in egg boxes and plant the egg boxes. Does anyone have any experience/results of doing that?