Barcelona F3: Daruvala beats Vips in Race 2

Daruvala, second on the grid after finishing seventh in Saturday's feature race, had a better launch than polesitter Niko Kari and took the lead off the line.

The safety car then came out because of a four-car collision at Turn 1 involving Jake Hughes, Artem Petrov, Raoul Hyman and Ye Yifei.

After a lengthy recovery period, the field had a drama-free restart as Daruvala quickly built a two-second lead over Trident driver Kari.

But the safety car was out again when Alex Peroni ran wide at Turn 1 and, after quickly rejoining the track, moved back to the left to pass the bollard on the correct side.

However, Peroni ended up sending Simo Laaksonen in the wall as a result, for which the Australian received a stop-and-go penalty.

Daruvala made a strong second restart and quickly pulled away from Kari and, with no more safety car periods, the Indian scored his maiden victory in the newly-formed series by 2.1s.

Kari was initially also safe from ART driver Max Fewtrell, but the Briton lost positions during the race with Prema's Marcus Armstrong and then Hitech's Juri Vips occupying third.

Vips then closed the gap on Kari and stole second on the penultimate lap.

Kari also came under pressure from Robert Shwartzman but held on to take the final spot on the podium with the Russian still completing a strong recovery from eighth to fourth.

Armstrong brought a third Prema car into the top five, closely followed by Saturday's on-the-road race winner Christian Lundgaard, who led his ART teammates David Beckmann and Fewtrell.

Honda protege Yuki Tsunoda (Jenzer) and Carlin's Felipe Drugovich completed the top 10.

Leonardo Pulcini (Hitech) had a disastrous race, receiving two penalties for unsafely rejoining the track and then forcing Devlin DeFrancesco off the track.

Fabio Scherer retired after a spin at Turn 1, caused by an incident with Keyvan Andres Soori.

Race results:

Cla	#	Driver	Team	Laps	Time
1	27	Jehan Daruvala	Prema Powerteam	22
2	21	Jüri Vips	HitechGP	22	2.1
3	19	Niko Kari	Trident	22	3.7
4	28	Robert Shwartzman	Prema Powerteam	22	4.2
5	26	Marcus Armstrong	Prema Powerteam	22	5.2
6	3	Christian Lundgaard	ART Grand Prix	22	5.7
7	1	David Beckmann	ART Grand Prix	22	9.4
8	2	Max Fewtrell	ART Grand Prix	22	13.9
9	14	Yuki Tsunoda	Jenzer Motorsport	22	15.8
10	30	Felipe Drugovich	Carlin	22	16.5
11	7	Lirim Zendeli	Charouz Racing System	22	17.1
12	25	Sebastian Fernandez	Campos Racing	22	17.7
13	10	Bent Viscaal	HWA AG	22	18.1
14	31	Logan Sargeant	Carlin	22	18.9
15	29	Teppei Natori	Carlin	22	20.6
16	18	Pedro Piquet	Trident	22	21.1
17	4	Liam Lawson	MP Motorsport	22	22.5
18	12	Keyvan Andres	HWA AG	22	24.4
19	6	Richard Verschoor	MP Motorsport	22	24.8
20	17	Devlin DeFrancesco	Trident	22	25.3
21	20	Leonardo Pulcini	HitechGP	22	31.4
22	16	Andreas Estner	Jenzer Motorsport	22	33.8
23	24	Alessio Deledda	Campos Racing	22	38.7
24	23	Alex Peroni	Campos Racing	22	47.5
	5	Simo Laaksonen	MP Motorsport	8	14 laps
	8	Fabio Scherer	Charouz Racing System	8	14 laps
	11	Jake Hughes	HWA AG		22 laps
	15	Artem Petrov	Jenzer Motorsport		22 laps
	9	Raoul Hyman	Charouz Racing System		22 laps
	22	Ye Yifei	HitechGP		22 laps
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