{"id":1166,"date":"2022-04-26T12:24:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T11:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiaformula4.com\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2022-04-26T12:24:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T11:24:03","slug":"ollie-gray-looking-to-re-group-after-steady-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fiaformula4.com\/ollie-gray-looking-to-re-group-after-steady-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Ollie Gray looking to re-group after steady start"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Carlin&#8217;s Oliver Gray has vowed to bounce back with a race-winning car at Brands Hatch after a steady start to his ROKiT F4 British Championship certified by FIA title push at Donington Park last weekend (23-24 April).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.fiaformula4.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/63-AJ0_9049-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1167 lazyload\" width=\"1111\" height=\"741\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1111px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1111\/741;\" \/><figcaption>All photos: Jakob Ebrey Photography<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Williams Racing Academy Driver arrived at the 1.97-mile Leicestershire venue among this season&#8217;s title favourites, and demonstrated why after qualifying fourth in a highly-competitive session on Saturday morning, before blasting past Aiden Neate and team-mate Ugo Ugochukwu to finish second in the opener behind championship leader Alex Dunne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neate and Gray suffered a setback during the reverse grid contest on Sunday morning, contact at Redgate causing damage to the front wing and right-rear tyre respectively. Both were forced to pit, and from there retired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.fiaformula4.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Podium-R3-63-22-57-AJ0_0196-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1168 lazyload\" width=\"1111\" height=\"740\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1111px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1111\/740;\" \/><figcaption>Gray (L) on the podium in Round 3 with Alex Dunne (C) and Aiden Neate (R).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The 16-year-old rallied for the ITV4-televised finale to score his second podium of the weekend in third behind Neate and race-winner Dunne, who he now trails by 37 points at the championship summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c[I&#8217;m] pretty pleased,&#8221; reflected Gray. &#8220;Feel like we\u2019re lacking a bit of pace, to be honest. But we\u2019ll regroup, the team and come back at Brands hopefully with a strong pace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think I came in with the right approach this weekend, to be honest. I had high hopes, but I think we delivered a bit of a disappointing result [in Race 2] this morning. But as long as we made it count in the two main races, I think we scored good points, we\u2019re coming away with second in the championship, so yeah \u2013 happy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI mean, for sure I will definitely go into great detail, me and Carlin. And yeah, we\u2019ll look at every little detail and come back at Brands with a race-winning car.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brands Hatch&#8217;s Indy circuit hosts the next three rounds of the 2022 season on 13-15 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlin&#8217;s Oliver Gray has vowed to bounce back with a race-winning car at Brands Hatch after a steady start to his ROKiT F4 British Championship certified by FIA title push at Donington Park last weekend (23-24 April).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiaformula4.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiaformula4.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiaformula4.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiaformula4.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiaformula4.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fiaformula4.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiaformula4.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiaformula4.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiaformula4.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiaformula4.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}