On a still wet track and even before the start of this sprint race, two incidents occurred. Enzo Fittilpadi, during his out lap from the pits, crashed his Carlin into turn 7 following a major oversteer, and the Championship leader, Ralph Boschung, couldn’t start the race as he spun out at the same spot.<\/p>\n
At the start, poleman Dennis Hauger (MP Motorsport) launches well and is able to hold onto first place ahead of Jack Crawford (HitechGP).<\/p>\n
The good operation is for the Frenchman Victor Martins (Art GP), starting 7th and tenderly, who gains two positions<\/b>, and is now in 5th place at the start of the second lap. On the contrary, his teammate Th\u00e9o Pourchaire, who started on the fourth row, loses three positions and finds himself in 11th place<\/b>, behind Frederik Vesti (Prema), Isack Hadjar (Hitech GP), and Ayumu Iwasa (DAMS). The latter, who was 8th on the second lap, experiences a puncture and has to go back to the pits.<\/p>\nBattles on all levels<\/h2>\n
After one third of the race, apart from Iwasa isolated in last position, the other 19 drivers are within ten seconds of each other. At the same time, the race officials finally authorize the DRS, and Leclerc takes immediate advantage to pass Maini at turn 9<\/b>, before the Indian driver retaliates and regains his third place two turns later.<\/p>\n
A battle that allows the two men in the lead, Hauger and Crawford, to escape with a small cushion of 2.5 seconds ahead.<\/p>\n
At the halfway point, the risks of rain increase, and the teams prepare the rain tires in anticipation of showers in the last laps of the race.<\/p>\n
Three laps later, Maloney takes fifth place from Martins<\/b>, with a splendid outside attack through the fast left-right turns 9 and 10. The Frenchman tries to retaliate while defending against Bearman. Maneuvers that allow Hadjar and Vesti to catch up, to the point where both surpass the British driver.<\/p>\n T H R E E \u2194\ufe0f W I D E@zane_maloney<\/a> pulled off an audacious move for fifth, and left everyone behind to fight amongst themselves \u2694\ufe0f#AusGP<\/a> #F2<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/dKInckeHn6<\/a><\/p>\n\n