Jake Hughes passed Logan Sargeant to claim his first FIA Formula 3 victory in over a year at the🥂 opening race in Barcelona.

The HWA Racelab driver joined polesitter Sarge🎉ant on the front-row of the grid and shadowed the Prema driver throughout the early stages, before making a move for🐻 the lead on Lap 7.

Hughes got a strong run along the main start-finish straight at the Circuit ꦆde Barcelona-Catalunya and swept around the outside of Sargeant at Turn 1 with the help of DRS to grab first🍬 place.

The 26-year-old Briton wasted no time pulling clear of Sargeant and the chas🍌🔥ing pack and went on to seal his first victory of the 2020 season, marking his first triumph in the series since last year’s Red Bull Ring round.

Hughes dedicated HWA Racelab’s maiden win of the campa✅ign to his former GP3 teammate Anthoine Hubert, who was killed in an accident ⛄during an FIA Formula 2 race at Spa-Francorchamps nearly a year ago.

After a few half-attempts, 🍷Hitech’s Liam Lawson 🌃pulled off a near identical move to the one Hughes managed on Sargeant to snatch second place at Turn 1 with three laps to go.

Sarg𝓡eant completed the podium in third place to further extend his championship lead over Prema teammate an✅d nearest rival Oscar Piastri.

Clement Novalak claimed a strong fourth for Carlin, ahead of F3♈ frontrunn♊er David Beckmann and Piastri, who was left to rue a costly error when he ran wide at the final corner at a Safety Car restart and conceded two positions to fall to sixth.

The Australian surrendered his early championship advantage during a difficult Silverstone round last time out and has now fallen 12 poin🌟ts behind Sargeant in the drivers’ standings.

ART Grand Prix driver Theo Pourchaire was♌ seventh, ahead of Alex Peroni’s Campos and MP Motorsport’s Richard Verschoor, while Matteo Nannini scored his first point of the season for Jenzer.

In rounding out the top-10, the Italian has also claimed reverse grid pole position for the second FIA F3ౠ race at Barcelona♋ on Sunday.

FULL FIA FORMULA 3 RACE 1 RESULTS FROM THE CIRCUIT DE BARCELONA-C🀅ATALUNYA.