Colombo dominates first F3 sprint race at Spa in wet conditions

Lorenzo Colombo has stormed to his maiden Formula 3 victory after dominating the first sprint race of the weekend at Spa-Francorchamps./ﷺ/ltxcn.top/f3/results/985880/1/fia-formula-3-2021-belgium-fu…
Colombo dominates first F3 sprint race at Spa in wet conditions

Torrential rainfall led to a delayed start in Bel🔴gium, witꦡh the race director opting for two formation laps before returning to the pits to wait for conditions to improve.

Once the rain stopped, the race got underway with three laps behind the Saf🦂ety𓄧 Car.

Colombo led the pack away on 💃Lap 4 and didn’t look under any threat for the🦂 victory once the race started.

The Italian buౠilt a three-second lead over Hitech’s Jak Crawford after❀ the first proper lap of racing.

Colombo dominated the rest of the race to take his maid🐽en victory over Crawford by 13.4s. 

It’s redemption forꦆ 𒆙Colombo after he took the win on track in Hungary’s first sprint race, but was hit with a post-race penalty for falling too far behind the Safety Car. 

Crawford’s P2 at Spa is his first podium in the series, 🅠while Roman Stanek ꧑enjoyed a fine race to finish third. 

Outside of the podium, there was a chaotic fight♏ for fourth.&nbs𝐆p;

Frederik Vesti ultimately came o🔯ut on top af𝄹ter overtaking David Schumacher late on.

Caio Collet showed impressive spee🦹d in the wet conditions and was favourite to take fourth off Vesti until he picked up a five-second time penalty for overtaking Schumacher and Vesti off the track. 

Collet’s🎀 penalty dropped him to ninth in the final classification, with Victor Martins, Johnathan Hoggard, Clement Novalak and Logan Sargeant finish𒀰ing ahead.

Aleksandr Smolyar finished tenth 🐷ahead of Schumacher, w💮ho struggled for pace in the closing laps.

Jack Doohan secured the reverse grid pole for the se𝐆cond sprint race this afternoon and will look to win Sunday’s feature race from pole after taking top spot in Friday’s qualifying session.

Prema duo Arthur Leclerc and Dennis Hauger failed to make any progress from the💜ir grid positions as they finished 13th and 14th.

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