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FIA F3 Spa-Francorchamps
Spa F3: Doohan wins feature race to thrust into title contention
Jack Doohan took his second consecutive victory in FIA Formula 3 at Spa, with his huge points haul reigniting the title fight.
Megan White
Edited: Aug 29, 2021, 3:57 PM
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The Trident driver, who qualified in pole, emerged victorious from a fierce battle with Victor Martins (MP Motorsport), who took second place for his fourth podium of the year.
Martins passed the leader at one point, but was forced to give back the position amid fears he may have had all four wheels off the track.
ART Grand Prix’s Alexander Smolyar took third, while Martins’ teammate Collet took fourth.
Clement Novalak (Trident) took fifth, with ART’s Frederik Vesti, who is third in the drivers standings, in sixth.
Championship leader Dennis Hauger made up six places to finish eighth, having had a tough weekend in Belgium.
Doohan leaves the weekend with 44 points, having taken four for qualifying on pole, 15 for his sprint race win on Saturday and 25 for the feature race victory, while Martins took the two points for the fastest lap.
The 14-lap race saw two formation laps behind the safety car before a rolling start, as rainfall continued to generate spray on track.
Hauger set off on his charge through the field on lap two, having made up several places to challenge Crawford for 11th, although the wet track forced him to hang back.
On lap two, Matteo Nannini was forced to pit after contact with teammate Rafael Villagomez – the former suffered a puncture, but was back into the race in P28, while the latter retired from the race.
Hauger passed Crawford into 11th around the outside of Les Combes on lap three, while the top two almost dipped it into the gravel, having pulled a three second gap between second-placed Martins and Smolyar in third.
With ten laps to go, Schumacher passed Hoggard into eighth, with Hauger taking advantage of the move to pass the Brit at Les Combes.
Martins made a dramatic move to pass Doohan into Pouhon, taking the lead, but gave the place back amid concerns he had moved all four wheels over the track limit while overtaking.
Trident’s Clement Novalak managed to make it past Logan Sargeant (Charouz Racing System) on lap seven, moving into P5.
By lap eight, Hauger had moved up from P14 to P9, continuing to apply pressure to Schumacher.
Hoggard ran off the road while tussling with Leclerc for tenth, with the Prema driver having made up three places to get into the points.
At the front of the field, Doohan and Martins continued to battle for the lead, having created over six seconds behind them to Smolyar.
Hauger finally took eighth on lap 10, sweeping around the outside of Schumacher, while two laps later, Vesti passed Sargeant on the Kimmel Straight to take sixth.
Despite Martins’ best efforts, Doohan clung onto the lead, crossing the finish line to take his second victory of the weekend.
Spa F3 - Race results:
Cla # Driver Team Gap 1 4 Jack Doohan
Trident 2 17
Victor Martins
MP Motorsport 2.000 3 8
Alexander Smolyar
ART Grand Prix 12.200 4 18 Caio Collet
MP Motorsport 13.300 5 5
Clement Novalak
Trident 14.300 6 7
Frederik Vesti
ART Grand Prix 15.900 7 29
Logan Sargeant
Charouz Racing System 17.700 8 1
Dennis Hauger
Prema Powerteam 18.300 9 6
David Schumacher
Trident 20.900 10 2 Arthur Leclerc
Prema Powerteam 22.900 11 3
Olli Caldwell
Prema Powerteam 30.200 12 10 Jak Crawford
HitechGP 35.400 13 11 Ayumu Iwasa
HitechGP 37.400 14 21
Lorenzo Colombo
Campos Racing 38.000 15 12
Roman Staněk
HitechGP 43.600 16 27
Johnathan Hoggard
Jenzer Motorsport 45.600 17 15 Oliver Rasmussen
HWA AG 50.000 18 26
Calan Williams
Jenzer Motorsport 52.900 19 19 Tijmen van
MP Motorsport 54.100 20 25
Jonny Edgar
Carlin 54.400 21 23 Ido Cohen
Carlin 55.000 22 9
Juan Manuel Correa
ART Grand Prix 55.600 23 20 László Tóth
Campos Racing 1'01.300 24 31 Zdenek Chovanec
Charouz Racing System 1'03.300 25 28 Filip Ugran
Jenzer Motorsport 1'18.600 26 14
Matteo Nannini
HWA AG 2'13.900 22 Amaury Cordeel
Campos Racing 30 Hunter Yeany
Charouz Racing System 16 Rafael Villagómez
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