The Prema driver ♛secured pole position on Friday after inheriting top spot from Caio Collet after the Brazilian had his ꦫpole time deleted for exceeding track limits at Turn 12.

Starting from 12th, Hauger was up to seventh by the end of tꦡhe ope💫ning lap.

As he picked his way through the ༒next couple of cars, the lead battle was between ❀Matteo Nannini, Logan Sargeant and Clement Novalak.

The three DRS zones meant the lead exchanged consistently through the first 20 lap𝔉s of the race. 

Nannini got ahead of Sargeant on the opening lap and re🐭mained in the lead, somehow, ahead of the aforementioned duo up into Lap 19.

As Sargeant’s pace dwindled 💛in the closing laps, the battle for the win was between Nannini, Noval🐟ak and Hauger.

On Lap 21, as Nannini tried to go around the outside of Turn 4, Novalak didn’t leave him sufficient room resulting 𝕴in the pair touching and both ending up in the gravel trap.

Novalak was forced to retire, while Nannini dropped down t🌄o eig🐼hth. 

Their collision promoted Olli Caldwell into second to make it a Prem🔴a 1-2 ahead of Sargeant. 

The battle for fourth went down to the wire as Victor Martins came out𝔍 on top ahead of 16-year-old Jak Crawford, who scored his🐻 best result of the season with fifth. 

Caio﷽ Collet finished just behind in Crawford in sixth ahead of Jack Doohan.

Ayumu Iwasa and Aleksandr Smolyar rounded out the top ten with the latter running ahead of Crawford in the early phase of the race before struggling for pace as his tyres 🐻degraded. 

Enzo Fittipaldi and Jonny Edgar completed the top 12 and thus will share🍰 the front row in this afternoon’s second sp🐼rint race at the Red Bull Ring.

Mercedes F1 junior Frederik Vesti endured a lonely afternoon as he narrowly missed out on the top 12 with 13th in the final💛 classification.

Alon✱g with Novala🍒k, Arthur Leclerc and Ido Cohen failed to take the chequered flag.

Leclerc went off by himself at Turn 5, while Cohen retired on the openin⛄g lap having started f༒rom the pit lane.