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FIA F3 Spa-Francorchamps
Spa F3: Colombo dominates rain-delayed sprint race
Lorenzo Colombo took his first ever FIA Formula 3 win in a soaked sprint race at Spa, leading by over 13 seconds ahead of the Hitech duo.
Megan White
Edited: Aug 28, 2021, 12:11 PM
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The start of the race was delayed by an hour amid heavy rain and a drenched circuit, with an attempted start aborted as the poor weather resumed after a brief respite.
The safety car eventually came in at the end of lap three, leaving the drivers to race, albeit with incredibly poor visibility.
The Campos Racing rookie, whose best finish was previously seventh, gained redemption after his win at the Hungaroring was taken away from him for a safety car distance violation.
Jak Crawford (Hitech Grand Prix) finished in second, with teammate Roman Stanek finishing in third to take his second podium in three races.
Frederik Vesti came in fourth for ART Grand Prix, having started in sixth, with Victor Martins (MP Motorsport) in fifth.
As racing got underway, Collet and Martins made contact while battling Logan Sargeant (Charouz Racing System), with ART’s Alexander Smolyar also dropping back, although both MP Motorsport cars emerged unscathed.
On lap five, Collet moved round the outside of Clement Novalak (Trident) to move up into seventh, with Martins also managing to make progress.
Ido Cohen retired after pitting with a mechanical issue, having had no visible damage to his Carlin-run car.
With ten laps to go, Colombo had cleared a significant gap between himself and Crawford of four seconds, up to 5.2s by lap seven.
The yellow flag was waved after HWA Racelab’s Rafael Villagomez ended up in the wall coming out of Les Combes, close to where Ferrari Formula 1 driver Charles Leclerc had his FP2-ending crash on Friday.
The track began to dry out by lap eight, with Collet attempting to pass Frederik Vesti but almost being caught out by the ART driver’s braking point.
Colombo had built up an incredible eight-second lead by lap 11, increasing it to 10s by lap 12, by using his visibility advantage to take a storming win.
Collet moved up to fourth after a tense battle with Jenzer’s Johnathan Hoggard, Schumacher, and Vesti, taking positions on the run-off and somehow keeping the car in the right direction.
But he was handed a five-second time penalty for gaining an advantage while off the track, dropping him down the positions.
The battle left Vesti in fifth, with Martins in sixth, Hoggard in seventh and Schumacher back in ninth.
Vesti managed to pass Collet the following corner, with teammates Novalak and Schumacher tussling for eighth.
Feature race polesitter Jack Doohan will also start front of the grid for this afternoon’s reverse grid race, with Schumacher in second and Smolyar in third.
Collet will start fourth, with Sargeant in fifth and Novalak in sixth.
Race results*:*
Cla # Driver Team Gap 1 21 Lorenzo Colombo
Campos Racing 2 10 Jak Crawford
HitechGP 13.400 3 12
Roman Staněk
HitechGP 15.400 4 7
Frederik Vesti
ART Grand Prix 19.000 5 17
Victor Martins
MP Motorsport 21.100 6 27
Johnathan Hoggard
Jenzer Motorsport 23.600 7 5
Clement Novalak
Trident 24.400 8 29
Logan Sargeant
Charouz Racing System 24.500 9 18 Caio Collet
MP Motorsport 25.200 10 8
Alexander Smolyar
ART Grand Prix 25.400 11 6
David Schumacher
Trident 25.900 12 4
Jack Doohan
Trident 26.900 13 2 Arthur Leclerc
Prema Powerteam 28.300 14 1
Dennis Hauger
Prema Powerteam 30.000 15 11 Ayumu Iwasa
HitechGP 31.400 16 3
Olli Caldwell
Prema Powerteam 44.300 17 22 Amaury Cordeel
Campos Racing 46.400 18 30 Hunter Yeany
Charouz Racing System 50.700 19 14
Matteo Nannini
HWA AG 53.400 20 15 Oliver Rasmussen
HWA AG 57.000 21 25
Jonny Edgar
Carlin 57.600 22 9
Juan Manuel Correa
ART Grand Prix 58.400 23 19 Tijmen van
MP Motorsport 59.100 24 26
Calan Williams
Jenzer Motorsport 1'00.600 25 20 László Tóth
Campos Racing 1'04.800 26 31 Zdenek Chovanec
Charouz Racing System 1'08.400 27 16 Rafael Villagómez
HWA AG 2'12.600 28 Filip Ugran
Jenzer Motorsport 23 Ido Cohen
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