Felipe Drugovich dominates F2 sprint race to take points lead in Barcelona

MP Motorsport's Felipe Drugovich dominated the F2 sprint race in Barcelona to take the lead in the points standings.
Drugovich dominates F2 sprint race to take points lead in Barcelona

🎃Starting from fourth on the grid, Drugovich made a storming start and claimed the lead into Turn 1.

The Brazilian made the most of the vacant grid position left by Trident's Calanཧ Williams, who stalled on the start and was forced to start from the pit lane.

From then on, Drugovich conꦺtrolled the race from the front, nailing the Safety Car restart following Juri Vips' mistake.

It means that Drugovich has move🦄d into the lead of the drivers' standings on 61 points🌱, five ahead of Theo Pourchaire, who finished fifth.

Ayumu Iwasa finished a sup♔erb second in the DAMS,🍎 finishing just 2.1s behind at the chequered flag.

Willi♔ams F1 junior Logan Sargeant finished third - his first podium in the series - in what was a strong drive for the American driver.

Jehan Daruvala finished fourth ahead of ꦿTheo Pourchaire, while Jack Doohan, Frederik Vesti and Enzo Fittipaldi rounded out the points-paying positions in the sprint race.

Liam Lawson and Marcus Armstrong 🌱battled hard to ninth and tenth respec𝓀tively.

It wasꦜ mostly an uneventful race with Barcelona once again proving tricky to overtake at.

Going into the feature race, Drugovich has a five-point lead over Pourchaire, while Daruvala is in third, 20 po🍸ints off the lead.

Liam Lawson completes the top four on 35 points ahead of Verschoo𓂃r (32 points) and Ralph Boschung (32 points) who has been forced to sit out of this round due t🅷o neck pain.

Click here for the fu🥃ll 🐈FIA F2 results from the sprint race in Barcelona

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