Hungary GP3: Alesi leads Trident 1-2-3-4, disaster for ART
Ferrari protege Giuliano Alesi took his second consecutive sprint race victory in GP3 at the Hungaroring as title rivals George Russell, Jack Aitken and Nirei Fukuzumi all failed to score points.
Winner Giuliano Alesi, Trident, with father, Jean Alesi
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Trident's four drivers all were on the first two rows of the grid in the order of Ryan Tveter, Kevin Jorg, Alesi and Dorian Boccolacci.
However, it was Alesi who left Turn 1 in the lead as Tveter ran wide and took Jorg, who tried to pass him on the outside line, with him.
The gap between the top two, Alesi and Tveter, remained around a second with the latter getting ever closer in the end with the use of DRS, but Alesi eventually escaped with the win with a lead of six tenths
It was a dramatic race for top GP3 team ART, as only one of its four drivers, Anthoine Hubert, scored points.
Fukuzumi was sent into a spin by Leonardo Pulcini on the opening lap at Turn 3, and Saturday winner Aitken was also forced to retire with a puncture later on.
The Anglo-Korean was seventh after the start but the mechanical retirement of Alessio Lorandi from fourth and an overtake on Hubert soon saw the Renaut junior fighting for fourth.
A brave outside move at Turn 4 on Boccolacci resulted in him running wide and giving up the place before slipstreaming past the Frenchman on the main straight, only to go off and drop back to seventh.
He found himself just ahead of Russell, who had climbed his way up to eighth from last on the grid.
Russell was soon all over Aitken as well, trying to go around the outside of his teammate, but Aitken lost control of his car, and both barely avoided going off-track at Turn 4.
Aitken then went off with a puncture a corner later and soon retired in the pits, with Russell also having to change his front wing.
Behind Alesi and Tveter, Jorg and Boccolacci completed the all-Trident top four, with Hubert collecting ART's only points in fifth.
Arden's Niko Kari and the Campos duo of Raoul Hyman and Marcos Siebert completed the top eight.
Apart from Aitken and Fukuzumi, Julien Falchero also retired with a right-rear puncture while Bruno Baptista and Steijn Schothorst both stopped on track, bringing out two short VSC stints.
Race 2 results
Cla | Driver | Team | Time/Gap | Interval |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Giuliano Alesi | Trident | 29'05.379 | |
2 | Ryan Tveter | Trident | 0.620 | 0.620 |
3 | Kevin Jörg | Trident | 2.418 | 1.798 |
4 | Dorian Boccolacci | Trident | 4.190 | 1.772 |
5 | Anthoine Hubert | ART Grand Prix | 6.955 | 2.765 |
6 | Niko Kari | Arden International | 8.903 | 1.948 |
7 | Raoul Hyman | Campos Racing | 9.858 | 0.955 |
8 | Marcos Siebert | Campos Racing | 11.642 | 1.784 |
9 | Arjun Maini | Jenzer Motorsport | 12.740 | 1.098 |
10 | Leonardo Pulcini | Arden International | 42.876 | 30.136 |
11 | Matthieu Vaxiviere | DAMS | 1'04.137 | 21.261 |
12 | George Russell | ART Grand Prix | 1'12.795 | 8.658 |
13 | Tatiana Calderon | DAMS | 1 lap | 1 lap |
Julien Falchero | Campos Racing | 4 laps | 3 laps | |
Jack Aitken | ART Grand Prix | 4 laps | 33.295 | |
Bruno Baptista | DAMS | 9 laps | 5 laps | |
Alessio Lorandi | Jenzer Motorsport | 10 laps | 1 lap | |
Steijn Schothorst | Arden International | 11 laps | 1 lap | |
Nirei Fukuzumi | ART Grand Prix | 16 laps | 5 laps |
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