I don't know about Markelov. He's clearly mastered the tyres, but in terms of his outright pace, I get the feeling that people may be judging him based off of his rookie season. Drivers can and do improve, although Formula 2 being as it is, it is quite hard to gauge the actual pace of many of the drivers unless they boss the field like Vandoorne and Leclerc, or are constant flops.
Those Carlin boys look quite racy though!
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