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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

Winner Giuliano Alesi, Trident, with father, Jean Alesi

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Winner Giuliano Alesi, Trident, with father, Jean Alesi
Winner Giuliano Alesi, Trident
Giuliano Alesi, Trident
Giuliano Alesi, Trident
Giuliano Alesi, Trident

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

ClaDriverTeamTime/GapInterval
1 france Giuliano Alesi  italy Trident 29'05.379  
2 united_states Ryan Tveter  italy Trident 0.620 0.620
3 switzerland Kevin Jörg  italy Trident 2.418 1.798
4 france Dorian Boccolacci  italy Trident 4.190 1.772
5 france Anthoine Hubert  france ART Grand Prix 6.955 2.765
6 finland Niko Kari  united_kingdom Arden International 8.903 1.948
7 south_africa Raoul Hyman  spain Campos Racing 9.858 0.955
8 argentina Marcos Siebert  spain Campos Racing 11.642 1.784
9 india Arjun Maini  switzerland Jenzer Motorsport 12.740 1.098
10 italy Leonardo Pulcini  united_kingdom Arden International 42.876 30.136
11 france Matthieu Vaxiviere  france DAMS 1'04.137 21.261
12 united_kingdom George Russell  france ART Grand Prix 1'12.795 8.658
13 colombia Tatiana Calderon  france DAMS 1 lap 1 lap
  france Julien Falchero  spain Campos Racing 4 laps 3 laps
  united_kingdom Jack Aitken  france ART Grand Prix 4 laps 33.295
  brazil Bruno Baptista  france DAMS 9 laps 5 laps
  italy Alessio Lorandi  switzerland Jenzer Motorsport 10 laps 1 lap
  netherlands Steijn Schothorst  united_kingdom Arden International 11 laps 1 lap
  japan Nirei Fukuzumi  france ART Grand Prix 16 laps 5 laps

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