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FIA F3 Spielberg
Austria F3: Hauger wins after Novalak, Nannini collide
Dennis Hauger took victory in a chaotic FIA Formula 3 sprint race, moving up 11 places to take the chequered flag in a Prema 1-2 at the Red Bull Ring.
Megan White
Edited: Jul 4, 2021, 9:25 PM
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The championship leader started 12th but fought through the field to take the chequered flag, avoiding a collision on track ahead of him in a race which saw four different leaders throughout.
Teammate Olli Caldwell finished second, with polesitter Logan Sargeant (Charouz Racing System) in third.
Matteo Nannini (HWA Racelab) and the Trident of Clement Novalak had been tussling for first position, but collided on lap 19, taking the frontrunners out of contention, while Sargeant managed to avoid the incident to take the podium.
Ido Cohen of Carlin stalled on the grid before the formation lap and was pushed back to the pitlane by marshalls, continuing his bad luck after encountering issues in qualifying on Friday.
Nannini took the lead into Turn 1, with Caldwell up to third before he was overtaken by Novalak.
Martins was down to fifth off the line, with Prema’s Arthur Leclerc also losing places after a poor start, while Vesti also struggled off the line.
By the second lap, Cohen’s bad luck had continued, with his car stopping at the side of the track, prompting yellow flags before a virtual safety car.
As that ended on lap 4, Nannini had extended his lead, while Hauger had made up five places to move from 12th for seventh.
On the fifth lap, the first with DRS, Sargeant closed the gap to Nannini, while further back, David Schumacher (Trident) and Calan Williams (Jenzer Motorsport) made contact, pushing the former off the road and handing the latter a five-second penalty.
Martins made an uncharacteristic mistake on lap 6, going wide onto the gravel and losing a place to Hauger.
Sargeant finally recaptured the lead on lap 9, going deep on the brakes to pass Nannini, before the pair swapped positions again the following lap, with Novalak taking second from Sargeant and pushing him into third.
Hauger passed Doohan into fifth on lap 11, while Novalak took the lead, forcing Nannini wide.
Elsewhere in the pack, Leclerc went off into the gravel, having been running in seventh, and attempted to continue but returned to the pitlane and was out of the car, ending his race.
The frontrunners continued to trade places, with Nannini and Sargeant swapping the top spot between them several times in just a few laps, amid which Sargeant was shown the black and white flags for exceeding track limits.
Hauger moved up to third ahead of Sargeant on lap 18, before Caldwell also passed the American driver, pushing him down into fifth.
Novalak took the lead on lap 19, but just two laps later was involved in a collision with Nannini, taking the two frontrunners out of the running and across the gravel.
The incident handed Hauger the lead, with Caldwell into second and Sargeant in third.
MP Motorsport’s Victor Martins finished fourth, with Jak Crawford (Hitech Grand Prix) in fifth and Martins’ teammate Caio Collet in sixth.
Hitech Grand Prix’s Ayuma Iwasa charged through the field, making up nine places to finish tenth.
The reverse grid means Carlin’s Jonny Edgar will start on pole, with Enzo Fittipaldi (Charouz Racing System) in second and Alexander Smolyar (ART Grand Prix) in third.
Red Bull Ring F3 - Race 1 results:
Cla # Driver Team Gap 1 1 Dennis Hauger
Prema Powerteam 2 3
Olli Caldwell
Prema Powerteam 0.400 3 29
Logan Sargeant
Charouz Racing System 3.000 4 17
Victor Martins
MP Motorsport 4.000 5 10 Jak Crawford
HitechGP 4.700 6 18 Caio Collet
MP Motorsport 5.200 7 4
Jack Doohan
Trident 6.500 8 14
Matteo Nannini
HWA AG 7.200 9 11 Ayumu Iwasa
HitechGP 7.500 10 8
Alexander Smolyar
ART Grand Prix 8.000 11 30
Enzo Fittipaldi
Charouz Racing System 8.600 12 25
Jonny Edgar
Carlin 9.100 13 7
Frederik Vesti
ART Grand Prix 9.200 14 24
Kaylen Frederick
Carlin 10.300 15 9
Juan Manuel Correa
ART Grand Prix 10.600 16 12
Roman Staněk
HitechGP 11.000 17 6
David Schumacher
Trident 11.600 18 19 Tijmen van
MP Motorsport 12.100 19 26
Calan Williams
Jenzer Motorsport 14.900 20 27
Johnathan Hoggard
Jenzer Motorsport 20.100 21 22 Amaury Cordeel
Campos Racing 20.600 22 20 László Tóth
Campos Racing 21.400 23 31 Reshad de
Charouz Racing System 21.800 24 16 Rafael Villagómez
HWA AG 22.300 25 28 Filip Ugran
Jenzer Motorsport 28.500 26 21
Lorenzo Colombo
Campos Racing 1'06.700 27 15 Oliver Rasmussen
HWA AG 1'12.800 5
Clement Novalak
Trident 2 Arthur Leclerc
Prema Powerteam 23 Ido Cohen
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