Theo Pourchaire wins Imola F2 feature race under Safety Car
The race started in dramatic fashion with Juri Vips and Ayumu Iwasa making sluggish starts from the front row of the grid, allowing Roy Nissany to take the l🃏ead into Turn 1.
The experienced Israeli maintained the lead on the open💞ing lap as the Safety Car was deployed due t🐷o Dennis Hauger and Jack Doohan's collision at the start.
Hauger was sent into the pit wall on the start-finish straight as things got messy off the🦋 line due to Vips and Iwasa's poor starts.
The Safety Car soon made a second appea🍃rance when Vips' unforced error left him the barrier🐽s.
Th𒁏e Safety Car came at the perfect time as the soft runners could complete their mandatory pit stop, putting them in the prime position to win.
This put Nissany in the net lead of the race but he soon 🦋found the barriers, losing c𒅌ontrol of his car at the final corner.
This handed Pourchaire the lead of the race, which he controlled from the front to take his second feature ra🃏ce victory of the year.
Further b💟ehind, a mistake from Williams F1 junior Logan Sargeant left the door open for Ralph Boschung to mo♍ve up to second, who was quickly overtaken by Enzo Fittipaldi in the closing laps.
Fittipaldi secured s🐼econd ahead of Boschung as the race ended behind⛎ the Safety Car after Liam Lawson's shunt.
Clement Novalak finished fourth ahea🎐d of Vesti, while Frederik Vesti 🌺scored his first points of the year in sixth.
Sargeant recovered to seventh after his ♚mistake ahead of David Beckmann and Jehan Daruvala.
Felipe Drugovich rounded out the points at Imola.
Pourchaire takes points lead ahead of Drugovich
Pourchaire now leads the points st🤡andings ahead of Drugovich after his latest feature race victory.
Just two⛦ points separate the pair after the opening three rounds of the season.
Prema's Daruvala ಌcompletes the top three on 36 points, 16 points off Pourchaire.
Liam Lawson (35 points), Richard Verschoor (32 points), Boschung (32 points), Marcus Armstrong 💫(30💛 points) and Vips (30 points) complete the top eight.
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