Starting from third on the grid, Martins overtook Roman Stanek into Turn 💫1 on Lap 5 at the 🅘Safety Car restart. 

The꧒ race was put on hold early on after a number of cars were forced to retire from the race.

Caio Collet picked up suspensio🥂n damage after running ove🤪r the kerbs at Turn 6/7, while Zane Maloney and Francesco Pizzi were out on the opening lap. 

Once the race got back underway, pole-sitte♋r Franco Colapinto led Martins and Alexander Smolyar.

As the race progressed, Col💞apinto's lack of experience became apparent as he struggledᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ with his rear tyres. 

On Lap 15, Martins completed a switchback move out of Turn 3 to take the l♔ead of the race. 

The ART Grand Prix driver controlled the race from🌜 the front, eventually winning by 1.5s ahead of Leclerc in the Prema.

Leclerc comple♉ted a similar move on🐼 Colapinto on Lap 18, completing a sensational recovery from outside of the top 10.

If the Monegasque improves his qualifying pace for future races then no doubt he will be a 🐼serious threat in the title race. 

Gregoire Saucy completed the podium in the s🃏econd ART car after Colapinto picked up a five-second penalty for exceeding track limits on multiple occasions, dropping him to fifth in the final classification.

Juan Manuel Correa made it three ARTs in the top four with a strong drive to P4, ge💝tting ahead of Colapin🅠to thanks to his penalty.

Oliver Bearman finished sixth in 🐈the sec♎ond Prema as he led an intense midfield fight.

Jak Crawford, David Vidales, William Alatalo and Kaylen Fr🍌ederick rounded out the top 10.

Sprin🐷t race winner Isack Hadjar finished 25th after cont𒈔act with Smolyar handed him an unfortunate puncture.

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