Is this how Hamilton felt like in 2025? (Mittsvergiebanan 2026)

14.06.2026

The second round of Aquila Formula 1000, on home turf too. Unfortunately, just because you're on home turf, doesn't mean you're going to get the luck that I really did need for this race weekend due to the amount of faults and errors with the car and myself, so without further ado.

Lets bloody talk about it!

Test Thursday and Friday

The benefit of this weekend, especially for Aquila drivers is that we had half-day training in Thursday and all-day training on Friday, which many drivers have exploited to gain as much experience on this track as possible, for example, Mason Bjerring, but that's how Keda does it. Drive, pit, coach, repeat. It's like breaks don't exist for them at all. I didn't want to use the whole days that I had since my coach was not on track at the time, and I didn't want to waste tires and fuel doing test sessions with no improvements. Overall, it was an okay testing session.

Qualifications

This is when things started to go downhill. Unbeknownst to me, I was plagued with technical issues for this weekend too, so clearly, the Gellerasen unluck has followed me onto this track too. During the qualifications, I started to experience random drops in power, which made the car accelerate slower than it should. While these drops in power were happening, I felt like my body was sometimes being jerked forward, as if I was braking, when really, I didn't. I also started to slide a-lot in the exit of turn 2, which made me get a solid result of P5.

Race 1

Race 1 was unfortunately not my race, and neither will the following races either. I dropped down to P6 after an early position loss to William Eriksson, whom I managed to keep up with despite my technical difficulties. While following though, I was also defending against the notorious Max Stjernelund who actually started ahead of me in P4, before making an early mistake against Enzo Cohlin, William Eriksson and Me, which pushed Stjernelund down all the way to P7. Our fight was tough, but it was fun also, but unfortunately, I made the grave mistake of making my car understeer heavily into the final corner because I pushed too much speed into the corner, before going off to the grass and nearly getting overtaken by Stjernelund, but I refuse to let him fully overtake me, so I reovertook him into T1 and, well, I stayed ahead of him for the rest of the race

Final Position? P6

Race 2

This was a disaster of a race. Of course, I started P6 as per race 1 results, however, about 2 laps into the race, there was a technical fault that caused the circuit breaker for the ignition to pop out and forced me to retire on track. The race was red flagged before being cancelled because the track had some technical difficulties. Because I technically finished 75% of the race, and the results were rolled back a lap, I finished P6 again, so points were on the table.

However, before going into Race 3, we need to talk about the Teto in the room.

Into Race 3, me and my coach Elias Adestam, have discovered that compared to top driver, Even Hoff Knai, my car's external voltage (which comes from the alternator and battery) was actually 11.4 volts, while Even had a solid 12.7 about. This was actually a huge disadvantage on my side, and to add salt to the wound, my battery was running on 9 volts while Even had 12, which means my electrical power was comparable to the electrical power that the people of Georgia have, essentially meaning, I was cooked. The lack of electrical power could mean that the fuel pump could get weakened, or the injectors could shoot wrong, I don't know, but it is the main cause right now to why my car would randomly get these drops in power and have the ignition circuit breaker pop out again.

Well, lets talk about Race 3 now.

Race 3

Sigh... Do I really need to do this again?

Unfortunately, Race 3 was even worse than the 2nd race? How? Because I actually deliberately retired from the race. But let me explain. Throughout the whole race, I was experiencing the same drops in power, but they were becoming more obvious, and more prominent, as even in the slipstream of William Eriksson, despite him being somewhat slower than me, especially into the slow chicane, I could not even catch up with him in the slipstream, which means something felt even more wrong. To make matters worse, my dash was bugging out and my mind was a garbled mess thinking about what happens if it could get worse, I mean, Race 2 popped my ignition breaker out, so I thought that something else could break this race, and as a means to protect the car, I retired, because at the time, I didn't want to break the car so early in the season, and with Sturup coming in literally 2 weeks.

But please, do not take it as a way for me to justify myself, rather, this is just how I felt like in my current point of view.

Final position? DNF

Would I have gotten a better position if we had identified and fixed the problem earlier? 100% percent, and I would even go as far to say that I would've gotten my maiden podium in this race if it hadn't been for these technical faults, unfortunately, in the world of racing, this is common and I just have to accept it, even if it sucks like shi-

Driver of the Weekend

DOTW OVERALL: Albin Gustafsson! Well, he has done it. 2 wins in the junior category of Aquila Formula 1000, and I congratulate him for that. He has definitely shown over this year and last year that he can really drive this car and can most certainly push the car into the podium spots and even fight for the winning step. This was definitely deserved for Albin and I trust that he'll push harder to keep his wins consistent.

DOTW JUNIOR: Enzo Cohlin! If you have been following Aquila Formula 1000 and the live streams, then I do not need to justify my words. Enzo fought Skatteboe to get Race 3 podium, and he had to fight from the back of the grid, all the way to top 5 during the first race. There is nothing that anyone else can say that opposes his skill. He is a driver who most certainly deserves this podium and achievement and there is nothing that can be said to change my mind.
DOTW ROOKIE: Mason Bjerring! He truly shown his pace. Mason fought really well, and in race 3, he managed to get the fastest lap of the race, showing that given time, he could catch up to the Top 5, hell, probably make podium too. This rookie DOTW was credited due to how much time he spent on the practice sessions and how fast he has gotten over the previous few days. It is certainly impressive and I think he has himself and Keda to thank for that!