Oliver Bearman took his first win of the Formula 2 season, in the Sprint race in Austria. To do so, he prevailed in a battle against Josep María Martí.
Kush Maini (Invicta Racing) started from pole position, but Bearman (Prema) took the lead early on, while the Indian was also overtaken by Martí (Campos) on lap two. By lap three, the leader’s advantage was more than two seconds.
However, the Spaniard was able to close the distance and, at the start of the ninth lap, found himself in the DRS zone. Maini remained in third place, holding off Taylor Barnard (AIX Racing) until the latter began to lose contact and was overtaken by Paul Aron (Hitech Pulse-Eight).
The situation did not change much, but Maini finally lost contact with the top two completely, on lap 20, and a lap later he was passed by Aron and Gabriel Bortoleto (Invicta Racing). Bearman and Martí isolated themselves definitively in the top two positions.
The fight came down to the two of them, but Bearman ultimately took over, widened his margin again and won by 1.751s ahead of Martí. Aron was third, resisting pressure from Bortoleto, while Dennis Hauger (MP Motorsport) completed the top five. Jak Crawford (DAMS Lucas Oil) was sixth, while Maini did not get beyond seventh place.
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