Felipe Drugovich dominates F2 Jeddah feature race to take championship lead

Felipe Drugovich has taken the lead of the Formula 2 drivers' standings after dominating the feature race in Saudi Arabia.
Drugovich dominates F2 Jeddah feature race to take championship lead

Starting from pole position, Drugovich maintained his lead into Turn 1 ahead of Richard Verschoor and Marcus Armstrong, who overtook Ralp🅠h Boschung.

The Brazilian con🅠trolled the race from the front with 🦩the top seven starting on the softs. 

Prema's Dennis Hauger was the highest medium tyr🦹e running, circulating in eighth after the opening lap.

It was a fairly uneveꦰntful race compared to the Saturday sprint with Drugovich and Verschoor pulling clear of the rest of the field.

Despite a late charge froಌm Verschoor, Drugovich kept a 2.3s gap to take the victory and move into the lead of the standings.

Verschoor finished well clear of the second Prema of Jehan Daruvala, who recovered from outꦛside the top 10 to finish on the podium.

The Indian racer's car was found to have a technica🐲l issue in qualifying which Prema fixed hencꦡe his return to form in the subsequent races.

Jake Hughes finished fourth ahead of Armstrong, while H♛auger was sixth on the alternate strategy.

It could have been better for the reigning F3 champion had he not 🌳locked up out of the pit lane💛.

Ayumu Iwasa l🍸ed DAMS teammate Roy Nissany in seventh and eighth.

Jack Doohan and Juri Vips rounded out the top 10.

It was another poor race for Theo Pourchai𝄹re as he reꦚtired due to another mechanical issue. 

Similarly, Liam Lawson failed to make the cheque✨red flag after a wheel wasn't fitted properly to his car at his pit stop.

Click here for the full FIA Formula 2 feature race results fr🌃om Saudi Arabia 

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