Colombo dominates first F3 sprint race at Spa in wet conditions

Torrential rainfall led to a delayed start in Belgium, with the rac🏅e director opting for two formation laps before returning to the pits to wait for conditions to improve.
Once the rain stopped, the race got und🍬erway with three laps behind the Safety Car.
Colombo led the pack away 🐷on Lap 4 and didn’t look under any threat for༒ the victory once the race started.
The Italian built a three-second lead oveﷺr🧔 Hitech’s Jak Crawford after the first proper lap of racing.
Colombo dominated th💃e rest of the race to take his mai𓂃den victory over Crawford by 13.4s.
It’s redemption for Colombo after he tooꦛk the win on track in Hungary’s first sprint race, but was hit with a post-race penalty for falling too far behind the Safety Car.
Crawford’s P2 at Spa is his first podium in the seriไes, while Roman Stanek enjoyed a fine race to finish th𝕴ird.
Outside of the podium, there was a ch﷽aotic fight for fourth▨.
Frederik Vesti ultimately came out꧋ on top after overtakᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚing David Schumacher late on.
Caio Collet showed impressive speed in the wet conditions and was favourite to take fourth off Vesti until he picked up a five-second timeﷺ penalty for overtaking Schumacher and Vesti off the track.
Collet’s pen♑alty dropped him to ninth in the final classification, with Victor Martins, Johnathan Hoggard, Clement Novalak and Logan Sargeant finishing ahead.
Aleksandr Smolyar finished tenth ahead of Schumacher, whoꦫ struggled ♍for pace in the closing laps.
Jack Doohan secured the reverse grid🍎 pole for the second s෴print race this afternoon and will look to win Sunday’s feature race from pole after taking top spot in Friday’s qualifying session.
Prema duo Arthur Leclerc and Dennis Hauger failed to make any progress from their grid positions as🌺 they finished 13th and 14th.

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