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Webber: F2 champions ‘wasting their time’ if they don’t make F1

Oscar Piastri won the FIA Formula 2 Championship in his first season Mark Webber says the Formula 1 feeder series ladder is flawed if its Formula 2 and Formula 3 champions don’t make it to the pinnacle of motor racing. The comments come as newly crowned FIA Formula 2 Championship winner Oscar Piastri gets set to sit on the sidelines in 2022. Although the 20-year-old will not race next year, he’ll still have outings in Formula 1 cars with Alpine as its reserve and test driver. In the five years that it has been known as Formula 2 (formerly GP2 Series), three of its five championships – Charles Leclerc, George Russell, and Mick Schumacher – have graduated to Formula 1. Nyck De Vries,...
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