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

Hauger🌠 retained the lead after the first Safety Car which was ca🐭used by Amaury Cordeel's shunt on Lap 2.

A second Safety Car was deployed after Jack Doohan and Loga꧙n 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 Haug🍬er did.

However, just before Hauger entered the pit lane, race control decided to close it meaning Hauger wa🌸sn'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 th🐲e way, 𝕴once the racing resumed Calan Williams led the way ahead of Hughes.

Hughes made the most of his soft tyres to get past Williams at the Safety Car restart into ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚthe opening sequence of corners.

Williams struggled for pace and soon dropped behind ꧋Lawson, who had a 1.2s gap to make up 🌳on Hughes.

With Hughes' soft tyres fading, Lawson caught up an🐲d overtook into ✨Turn 1 on Lap 18.

Hugꦿhes continued to struggle, falling into the clutches of Juri Vips on the run to the start-finish line on theꦓ final lap.

Vips overtook just before the start-finish line to secure second🍰 ahead of Hughes.

Felipe Drugovich got past Williams for fourth, wꩵhile Richard Verschoor꧂, Ayumu Iwasa and Ralph Boschung completed the top eight.

Click here for the full FIA Formula 2 race results from the Saudi Arabia spr🙈int race