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LAWSON WINS SPRINT RACE

An action packed F3 sprint race saw Red Bull junior Liam Lawson take his first victory ahead of Richard Verschoor, Clement Novalak and David Beckmann.

It was Beckmann who made a storming start, jumping from P4 up to P2, as Alex Smolyar fell down the order to P5 from the front row of the grid.

Lap 2 saw a four way fight for the points positions between yesterday’s podium finishers and Bent Viscaal. The PREMA of Logan Sargeant came off worse, having battled with team mate Piastri, he was then tapped in the rear by Viscaal, resulting in the American limping back to the pits with a puncture.

A change for the lead took place on lap 4 with David Beckmann diving past Clement Novalak, late on the brakes at turn 4, Novalak tried to take the lead back a lap later at turn 3, but went wide, allowing Lawson to pass with a run on him into turn 4.

Lawson in turn then took the lead from Beckmann on lap 7 with a brilliant move at turn 4, whilst a lap later Cameron Das became the first retirement of the morning following contact and a run through the gravel at the same corner.

It was role reversal on lap 10 with Novalak diving past on full send to take P2 from Beckmann, who was starting to lose pace, a lap later Richard Verschoor tried his luck but was forced on to the gravel on the exit of turn 4.

Alex Peroni suddenly slowed and stopped on track, catching out the unlucky Theo Pourchaire behind him, costing the Frenchman his front wing and bringing out the Virtual Safety Car.

Racing restarted on lap 12, and Verschoor moved past Beckmann to take P3, and the Dutchman took P2 from Novalak on Lap 16. The Safety Car came out on Lap 19 due to Roman Stanek hitting a polystyrene board and spreading the debris all over the track.

Pourchaire had a close call with a marshal behind the Safety Car, not getting the memo to head through the pit lane. Racing restarted again on Lap 23, Lawson getting the perfect getaway to fend off Verschoor to the line, whilst Fittipaldi and Fewtrell got past Viscaal for the final points positions.

Jake Hughes and Sebastian Fernandez both shone despite finishing outside the points, Hughes gaining 16 places, and Fernandez 17 places. 

RACE RESULT:

LAWSON VERSCHOOR NOVALAK BECKMANN ZENDELI VESTI SMOLYAR PIASTRI FITTIPALDI FEWTRELL

VISCAAL HUGHES FERNANDEZ DUNNER SCHUMACHER FLOERSCH WILLIAMS NANNINI POURCHAIRE CALDWELL DELEDDA MALVESTITI HAUGER STANEK AHMED FRAGA SARGEANT + 1 LAP

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The Formula 2 championship resumed with another cracking weekend of racing at a very sunny Silverstone. Robert Shwartzman picked up his second victory in as many rounds by winning the first Sprint Race. Richard Verschoor picked up his first victory in F2 in the second Sprint Race and Guanyu Zhou dominated the Feature Race from start to finish to round out the weekend. A super Shwartzman leaped…