Victor Martins takes F3 points lead after feature race win in Barcelona

ART Grand Prix's Victor Martins now leads the F3 drivers' standings after a comfortable F3 feature race win at the Circuit de Barcelona Catalunya.
Martins takes F3 points lead after feature race win

Martins got past F3 title rival Roman Stanek into the first corner on 🐽the opening lap of the feature race in🦹 Barcelona.

From then on, the Frenchman controlled t🤡he race fro𓄧m the front with overtaking once again very tricky.

Isack Hadjar managed to get ahead of Alex Smolyar ♉for third, with the top four remaining stable throughout the 𒉰24-lap race.

Martins' only challenge was to maintain the lead at th🔯e two Safety Car restarts.

The Safety Car was deployed o༺n Lap 4 after Kush Maini tapped Rafael Villagomez into the gravel trap.

Race control was forced to deploy it again on Lap 11 wh🦄en Brad Benavides hit the barrier at Turn 2.

Martins secured another victory 🍃ahead of Stanek, who had late pressure from Hadjar in the closing laps.

Smolyar finished fifth ahead of Prema duo Oliver Bearman and J🎉ak Crawford, while Franco Colapinto, Kaylen Frederick and Juan Manuel Correa rounded out the top 10.

Correa is under investigation by the stewards after pushiℱng Arthur Leclerc onto the grass when defending in the closing laps.

The former points leader ultimately finished 14th after ๊his ༒five-second penalty.

In tꦗerms of the standings, Martins now has a six-point lead over Stanek following his second victory of th𒁃e season.

Crawford completes the top three, with the Red Bull F1 junior 𒀰12 points off the lead.

Hadjar is the second Red Bull-backed driver i๊n the top ๊four after Crawford. The Frenchman is on 47 points, 15 off the lead.

Leclerc has dropped to fifth after a lacklustre weekend, sitting on🔥 43 points.

Cli𝓡ck here for the full FIA F3 results from the feature race in Barcelona

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