Hampton Downs TRS: Ferrari junior Zhou wins incident-filled Race 2

Zhou passed poleman Antoni Ptak off the line and stayed well clear of the carnage that unfolded behind, with the race getting red-flagged on two occasions.

The first red flag came out for Giles driver Nicolas Dapero going off at Turn 3 on the second lap – and, just as quickly as the race restarted, it was stopped yet again.

That time, however, it was due to trouble for both runaway points leader Lando Norris and nearest rival Artem Markelov, who were battling in the latter half of the top 10.

Norris had to pit after going off and went two laps down, while Markelov retired on the spot.

The two stoppages and the preceding safety car laps burned up more than half of the race distance and, when Zhou got the action underway for a third time, he only had six laps left to run.

And the Ferrari protege maintained his advantage to claim his first win in the series – and his M2 team's seventh consecutive triumph.

Victory driver Brendon Leitch passed Pedro Piquet on the final restart for the runner-up spot and stayed within a second of Zhou in the last stint, but had to do with second place.

Piquet took third, with Jehan Daruvala securing fourth place, the Indian having dropped out of the top 10 at the start, only to muscle his way back to the front of the pack.

Ferdinand Habsburg took fifth, ahead of poleman Ptak and Kami Laliberte, with Bruno Baptista, Taylor Cockerton and Will Owen making up the top 10.

Pos.	Driver	Team	Time/Delay
1	Guan Yu Zhou	M2	17:26.210
2	Brendon Leitch	Victory	0.797
3	Pedro Piquet	M2	3.720
4	Jehan Daruvala	M2	5.260
5	Ferdinand Habsburg	Giles	5.712
6	Antoni Ptak	Giles	6.565
7	Kami Laliberte	M2	7.649
8	Bruno Baptista	Victory	8.851
9	Taylor Cockerton	ETEC	10.206
10	Will Owen	Giles	12.091
11	Theo Bean	ETEC	14.776
12	Devlin DeFrancesco	Giles	15.603
13	Rodrigo Baptista	ETEC	17.548
14	Timothe Buret	ETEC	18.802
15	James Munro	Giles	1 Lap
16	Lando Norris	M2	2 Laps
17	Julian Hanses	Victory	2 Laps
Ret	Artem Markelov	M2
Ret	Nicolas Dapero	Giles