Lawson takes Monaco F2 sprint race two victory in damp conditions

Lawson was the lead car on the grid after Marcus Armstrong suffered a technical issue on his way to pole posit𒁃ion and was forced to st♕art from the pit lane.
Lawson re🧜linquished the lead to Oscar Piastri, who took✤ an early lead in the lead Prema.
Piastri struggled to get to grips with the wet track and it was immediately apparent the reigning F3 champion didn’t have the pace to maintain the l♔ead.
The Hitech driver made his move on Lap 5 - first, a late lunge into the Nouvelle Chicane, but both drivers ꧅were forced to cut the corner, allowing Piastri to remain ahead.
Lawson got through l♏ater on in the lap with an impressive oꩲvertake into La Rascasse.
The Red Bull-backed junior controlled the pace from the front to claim his 🍒second victory of the season.
Dan Ticktum finished seco🙈nd, having overtaken Pi🀅astri into the Nouvelle chicane on Lap 15.
Tic🌌ktum looked to be on course for the win at one point, reducing the gap to Lawson🦩 to under a second.
A late Safety Car didn’t ruin Lawson’s chances of the victory as he ran out a comfortable winner, over eight second🅺s clear of Ticktum in second.
Even though the track was drying considerably, very f😼ew opted ༺to switch to dry tyres.
Piastri managed to⛎ cling onto the f🎀inal podium spot, just ahead of Juri Vips.
Vips pulled off a stunning move on Theo Pourchaire♍ into Mirabeau on Lap 24, just before the brief Safety Car period a lap later.
Bent Viscaal and David Beckmann’s contact into Turn 1 caused a Safety Car with five laps to go❀.
Vips pressured Piastri for the fiꦓnal podium spot but the Prema driver held on.
Pourcha🦋ire finished fifth ahead of Ralph Boschung, Ric🐓hard Verschoor and Jehan Daruvala.
Jack Aitken fi♎nished tenth on his second race back in F2.
Robert Shwartzman finished 11th, having made a late switch 🅷to soft tyres.
Series leader Guanyu Zhou finished last of 🐟the classified runners ♏after an optimistic switch to slicks on Lap 11.
The C꧙hinese driver was ultimately lapped tw💮ice in a disappointing race.
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