The first race of the weekend in Saudi Arabia was littered with in🐻cidents with two Safety Car periods and a controversial moment for reverse grid pole-sitter Dennis Hauger.

Hauger retained the lead after the first Safety Car which was caused by Amaury Corde💃el's shunt on Lap 2.

A sec🦋ond Safety Car waꦫs deployed after Jack Doohan and Logan Sargeant collided at the restart in close proximity to the pit lane.

Shortly afterwards, race control ordered the drivers to go down to the pit lane which Hauಞgerꦿ did.

However, just before Hauger entered the pit lane, race control decided to close it meaning Hauger wasn't allowed to do so and incurred a 10-second stop-go penalty - as Lewis Hamilton did at the 2020 Italian Grand Prix in F1🔥.

With Hauger out of the way, once the racing resumed Calan♕ Williams led the way ahead of Hughes.

Hughes m💯ade the most of his soft tyres to get past Williams at the Safety Car restart into the opening sequence of ﷺcorners.

Wi🐼lliams struggled for pace and soon dropped behind Lawson, who had a 1.2s gap to m✅ake up on Hughes.

With Hug💫hes' soft tyres fading, Lawson caught up and overtook inඣto Turn 1 on Lap 18.

Hughes continued to struggle, falling into the clutches of Juri V✃🧔ips on the run to the start-finish line on the final lap.

Vips overtook just before the s♔tart-finish line t🎐o secure second ahead of Hughes.

Felipe Drugovich got p൩ast Williams for fourth, while Richard Ver👍schoor, Ayumu Iwasa and Ralph Boschung completed the top eight.

Click here for the full FIA Formula 2 race results from the Saudi Arabi▨a sprint race