France F3: Doohan beats Hauger to claim first series win

The Australian, son of MotoGP great Mick Doohan, started in fourth and passed championship leader Hauger on lap 14.

There was less than a second between the pair in the charge to the finish, but Red Bull Junior Doohan emerged victorious, finishing 1.5s in front to take his second podium in the series.

MP Motorsport’s Caio Collet finished third to take his second podium of the year, beating teammate and Alpine Academy driver Victor Martins to third, despite the latter having started there.

Trident’s Clement Novalak finished fifth, with polesitter Frederik Vesti (ART Grand Prix) ending up in sixth.

Hitech Grand Prix’s Ayuma Iwasa finished in seventh, with ART Grand Prix’s Alexander Smolyar, who won Saturday’s first sprint race, rounding off the points finishes.

Hauger took the lead off the line from Vesti amid a lot of spray, with rain having fallen on Sunday morning.

Novalak took third on the second lap, but eventually finished fifth at his home race.

A Virtual Safety Car was called on the third lap after Prema Racing’s Olli Caldwell went off the track, ending his race.

Charouz Racing System’s Logan Sargeant and Campos Racing’s Pierre-Louis Chovet also failed to finish the race.

Both David Schumacher (Trident) and Rafael Villagomez (HWA Racelab) went off by lap 5, but both recovered to see the chequered flag.

By lap 6, Novalak and Vesti were tussling for second, leaving MP Motorsport’s Victor Martins to take third back and Doohan to take fourth from Novalak.

The following lap, Doohan continued his charge, taking third from Martins, before taking second from Vesti on lap 10, taking advantage of the Mercedes junior’s oversteer.

Doohan continued his pressure on Hauger in a tussle for the lead on lap 14, eventually taking the top spot at turn 4.

Charouz Racing System’s Rashad de Gerus took the fastest lap on lap 17 as the only driver who pitted for slicks.

Prema Racing’s Arthur Leclerc made another incredible charge through the field, finishing 13th having started in last place.

France F3 - Race 3 results:

Cla	#	Driver	Team	Gap
1	4	Jack Doohan	Trident
2	1	Dennis Hauger	Prema Powerteam	1.551
3	18	Caio Collet	MP Motorsport	5.051
4	17	Victor Martins	MP Motorsport	7.237
5	5	Clement Novalak	Trident	14.245
6	7	Frederik Vesti	ART Grand Prix	17.942
7	11	Ayumu Iwasa	HitechGP	23.074
8	8	Alexander Smolyar	ART Grand Prix	24.883
9	9	Juan Manuel Correa	ART Grand Prix	25.549
10	10	Jak Crawford	HitechGP	28.620
11	30	Enzo Fittipaldi	Charouz Racing System	34.198
12	26	Calan Williams	Jenzer Motorsport	36.018
13	2	Arthur Leclerc	Prema Powerteam	39.013
14	25	Jonny Edgar	Carlin	41.826
15	12	Roman Staněk	HitechGP	42.379
16	19	Tijmen van	MP Motorsport	44.394
17	24	Kaylen Frederick	Carlin	45.339
18	27	Johnathan Hoggard	Jenzer Motorsport	45.882
19	21	Lorenzo Colombo	Campos Racing	47.672
20	14	Matteo Nannini	HWA AG	48.519
21	31	Reshad de	Charouz Racing System	48.859
22	15	Oliver Rasmussen	HWA AG	53.917
23	16	Rafael Villagómez	HWA AG	54.660
24	23	Ido Cohen	Carlin	56.688
25	22	Amaury Cordeel	Campos Racing	1'02.091
26	28	Filip Ugran	Jenzer Motorsport	1'08.247
27	6	David Schumacher	Trident	1'08.525
28	20	Pierre-Louis Chovet	Campos Racing	2 Laps
	29	Logan Sargeant	Charouz Racing System
	3	Olli Caldwell	Prema Powerteam
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