Collet took the lead of the sprint race on Lap 4, making the most of DRS down to Turn 1 to get a🅰head of Colapinto.

From then on, th🥀e Brazilian controlled the race from the front perfectly, managin𓆉g the various Safety Car periods throughout a chaotic F3 race.

The battle for the lead we♔nt down to the final lap with Collet leading Colapinto an🍌d Hitech's Isack Hadjar.

The Argentine seized the lead into Turn 1 but Collet was under threat from Hadjar, who placed h🐽is car on the outside of Collet.

Collet moved to the right under the 🅠braking zon𒆙e into Turn 1, causing the pair to collide.

Cಞollet dropped to the back of the field while Hadjar continued through the gravel trap, ulti💮mately recovering to finish in fifth.

Colapinto took the win by 2.6s to move up to third in the championship on 22 points, 11 be🉐hind Victor Martins, who benefitted from the last-lap chaoꦡs to finish second.

Martins managed to fend off Red Bull F1 junior Ja𓄧k Crawford to the line to secure second and retain his championship lead ahead of Arthur Leclerc, who failed to score at Imola.

Going into the feature race,🧜 Martins leads on 33 points ahead of Leclerc on 24 and then Colapinto on 22 poin♏ts.

♓Outside the podium was Roman Stanek in fourth, who picked up his first points 💝of the year, just ahead of Hadjar.

Zane Maloney, who will start the feature race from pole position, finish💝ed sixth ahe❀ad of Oliver Rasmussen.

Rasmussen fini💞shed an impressive seventh in the second Trident after replacing Jonny Edgar ahead of Imola.

Kaylen Frederick, Aleksandr Smolyar and Rafael Villagomez ✃rounded out🉐 the top 10.

Click here for the full FIA Formula 3 sprint race resul🌌ts at Imola