However, Vidales' win is in doubt with an incident with Crawford under investigatio🅰n after the Spaniard allegedly ran the American off the track when the pair battled for the lead into ﷽Turn 1 on Lap 12.

Crawford attempted to go a🌊round the outside of Vidales into the first corner but was forced to cut the corner, bouncing over the sausage kerb at Turn 1.

The Prema driver was unable to mount a charge in the subsequent laps, dropping to over 1.5s be⭕hind before closing up again to 1.2s by Lap 20.

The incident will go to the stewards' room to determine whether♍ Vidales didn't leave adequate space for Crawford.

The likeliest penalty - should th🃏e stewards feel one is necessary - is a five-second penalty for Vi𒈔dales, which would drop him to second as Caio Collet finished 6.4s off the lead in third.

Collet got past Juan Manuel Co☂rrea to secure the podium ahead of Arthur Lecler🦋c, who left it late to charge from seventh up to fourth.

Correa ultimately dropped to fifth - a strong result after missing the last round, with Aleksandr Smolyar, Kaylen Frederick and Roman Stanek - who will start Sꦛunday's feature race from pole position - rounded o🍸ut the top eight.

R🤡eece Ushijima was a strong ninth ahead of Red Bull F1 junior Isack Hadjar in the Hitech Grand Prix.

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