F3 Zandvoort: Maloney wins feature race, Martins retakes points lead

The Trident polesitter repeated his stellar drive at Spa to take back-to-back wins, having also taken a podium at the Hungaroring. 

Despite Martins taking the lead off the line, Maloney recaptured the front spot at the halfway mark before enduring two safety car restarts to take victory.  

Martins, finishing second for ART, now leads the standings by five points from Isack Hadjar heading into the final round at Monza. 

Franco Colapinto rounded off the podium for Van Amersfoort Racing at its home race, his fourth visit to the rostrum of the year. 

Martins immediately took the lead into Turn 1, with Maloney wide across the grass at the exit but holding second into Turn 2. 

A poor start from Ollie Bearman further back saw him drop from 14th to 18th, putting him into a fight with Prema teammate Arthur Leclerc, who started 20th.  

The safety car was first deployed on lap three, with Brad Benavides (Carlin) rear-ending Jenzer’s William Alatalo into Turn 2 after locking up, sending both into the gravel and ending their races. 

Racing resumed five laps later, with Martins leading the field away as Jak Crawford locked up, falling from third down to ninth and allowing Colapinto into the podium places. 

MP Motorsport driver Caio Collet and Sebastian Montoya, taking part in his debut F3 weekend for Campos, then passed Jonny Edgar (Trident) into seventh and eighth respectively. 

Up front, Maloney retook the lead out of Turn 1 on lap 12 in a replica of the move Martins used to lead initially. 

Crawford was shown the grass again the following lap under pressure from Carlin’s Zak O’Sullivan, but managed to hold onto ninth, before clawing his way up to seventh by lap 14 with DRS. 

Racing was once again neutralised on lap 19, with David Vidales beaching his Campos Racing car in the gravel at Turn 2. 

With just five laps remaining, the green flag was waved again, with Colapinto closing in on Martins as Maloney held the lead. 

Further back, Bearman had made it up to 11th, passing two drivers in as many corners before an aggressive move up the inside of O’Sullivan to take 10th.  

The safety car was again deployed just three laps from the end of the race after Rafael Villagomez (VAR) came off at Turn 1 and became lodged, while Gregoire Saucy (ART) retired after suffering damage to his front-right steering arm. 

Maloney led the pack as the safety car ended with two laps remaining, and managed to hold on to cross the line despite Martins looking close on the restart. 

Roman Stanek took fourth for Trident, with title contender Hadjar in fifth for Hitech. Collet lost sixth to Crawford on the final lap after locking up at Turn 1, with Montoya in eighth. 

Edgar and Bearman rounded off the top 10, though the Prema driver faces an investigation for his move on O’Sullivan. 

F3 Zandvoort - Feature race results:

Cla	#	Driver	Team	Time
1	3	Zane Maloney	Trident
2	7	Victor Martins	ART Grand Prix	1.0
3	29	Franco Colapinto	Van Amersfoort Racing	1.4
4	2	Roman Staněk	Trident	2.1
5	18	Isack Hadjar	HitechGP	2.7
6	5	Jak Crawford	Prema Powerteam	2.9
7	10	Caio Collet	MP Motorsport	4.3
8	21	Sebastian Montoya	Campos Racing	5.2
9	1	Jonny Edgar	Trident	5.5
10	6	Oliver Bearman	Prema Powerteam	8.4
11	11	Alexander Smolyar	MP Motorsport	9.3
12	26	Zak O'Sullivan	Carlin	10.1
13	12	Kush Maini	MP Motorsport	10.8
14	4	Arthur Leclerc	Prema Powerteam	11.2
15	17	Kaylen Frederick	HitechGP	12.2
16	22	Josep Maria Martí	Campos Racing	12.9
17	15	David Schumacher	Charouz Racing System	13.6
18	9	Juan Manuel Correa	ART Grand Prix	14.2
19	23	Ido Cohen	Jenzer Motorsport	14.7
20	28	Enzo Trulli	Carlin	15.4
21	16	Francesco Pizzi	Charouz Racing System	15.6
22	31	Reece Ushijima	Van Amersfoort Racing	16.0
23	24	Federico Malvestiti	Jenzer Motorsport	16.4
24	19	Nazim Azman	HitechGP	17.0
25	14	László Tóth	Charouz Racing System	17.5
26	8	Gregoire Saucy	ART Grand Prix	4 laps
27	30	Rafael Villagomez	Van Amersfoort Racing	5 laps
28	20	David Vidales	Campos Racing	10 laps
29	27	Brad Benavides	Carlin	23 laps
30	25	William Alatalo	Jenzer Motorsport	23 laps
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