FIA F2 Silverstone
Silverstone F2: Zhou scores feature race win ahead of Ticktum
Guanyu Zhou took victory in the FIA Formula 2 feature race at Silverstone, passing polesitter Oscar Piastri off the line before taking the win.
Megan White
Edited: Jul 19, 2021, 8:04 AM
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Zhou, who started second and led the drivers' standings for UNI-Virtuosi heading into the weekend, crossed the finish line almost four seconds ahead of Carlin’s Dan Ticktum, who finished second at his home race.
Piastri finished third for Prema Racing, with Richard Verschoor of MP Motorsport in fourth and Prema Racing’s Robert Shwartzman, who won the first sprint race of the weekend, in fifth.
Felipe Drugovich of UNI-Virtuosi finished in sixth, with Juri Vips (Hitech Grand Prix) in seventh.
Zhou got the better launch off the line, taking first from Piastri, while Ticktum passed Verschoor into third.
By lap six, Zhou had built up a 1.5 second lead, comfortably leading the pack after ten minutes.
Ticktum was first to pit on lap six, making an early tyre change to the softer compound ahead of Robert Shwartzman, Liam Lawson, Marcus Armstrong and David Beckmann.
Christian Lundgaard also pitted but lost his left-rear wheel as he pulled away before having to return to the garage, an incident for which he received a ten-second stop-and-go penalty.
Piastri and Ticktum tussled at Brooklands for 13th on lap eight, having both pitted, with the Carlin driver emerging ahead.
Verschoor was the first of the top eight to pit, taking a slow stop before emerging in 10th.
By lap 13, Ticktum and Piastri were battling it out in P7 and P8 as they both looked to clear the cars out in front who were all yet to pit.
Ticktum cleared Matteo Nannini on lap 15, but Piastri fell back slightly from the Brit and became stuck behind the Campos driver.
Vips, who had been leading the race, fell to 11th after pitting on lap 19.
Jehan Daruvala maintained his lead into the last six laps, having not pitted, with Zhou close behind him with one stop, before the former eventually pitted on lap 24.
Nissany ran wide and spun on lap 26, dropping down the standings to P16, having been battling for fifth.
Piastri faced pressure from Verschoor for third for the last two laps, with the pair tussling into lap 29, but the Prema driver held his position to take the third step on the podium behind winner Zhou and second-placed Ticktum.
Silverstone F2 - Feature race results:
Cla # Driver Team Gap 1 3 Guanyu Zhou
UNI-Virtuosi 2 5
Dan Ticktum
Carlin 3.800 3 2
Oscar Piastri
Prema Powerteam 19.300 4 11
Richard Verschoor
MP Motorsport 20.100 5 1
Robert Shwartzman
Prema Powerteam 24.700 6 4
Felipe Drugovich
UNI-Virtuosi 25.400 7 8
Jüri Vips
HitechGP 25.800 8 10
Theo Pourchaire
ART Grand Prix 26.600 9 12
Lirim Zendeli
MP Motorsport 27.400 10 6
Jehan Daruvala
Carlin 27.600 11 7
Liam Lawson
HitechGP 39.900 12 17
Marcus Armstrong
DAMS 40.500 13 24
Bent Viscaal
Trident 44.300 14 21
Ralph Boschung
Campos Racing 47.600 15 14
David Beckmann
Charouz Racing System 47.800 16 16
Roy Nissany
DAMS 49.400 17 22
Jack Aitken
HWA Racelab 51.900 18 20 Matteo Nannini
Campos Racing 52.300 19 25
Marino Sato
Trident 53.700 20 15
Guilherme Samaia
Charouz Racing System 1'02.600 21 9
Christian Lundgaard
ART Grand Prix 1'30.200 22 23
Alessio Deledda
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