Pourchaire flies to dominant F2 win
TDT | Manama
The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com
Theo Pourchaire powered to a dominant victory yesterday in the season-opening Feature Race of the 2023 FIA Formula 2 Championship, held in support of the Formula 1 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix at Bahrain International Circuit (BIC) in Sakhir.
Starting from pole, the ART Grand Prix ace held on to his lead masterfully, giving up first place briefly for his mandatory pit stop but regaining the advantage in just two laps after heading back out onto the track.
From there, Pourchaire ran his own race and built a massive gap of nearly 20 seconds from the rest of the field, en route to taking the chequered flag after 32 laps.
The Alfa Romeo reserve driver won in one hour one minute 10.926 seconds.
He was a clear 19.666 seconds ahead of runner-up and F2 Sprint Race winner Ralph Boschung of Campos Racing.
Zane Maloney of Rodin Carlin completed the podium placers 31.587s behind. Kush Maini of Campos Racing was classified fourth, Richard Verschoor of Van Amersfoort Racing fifth, and Arthur Leclerc of DAMS sixth.
The top 10 was rounded out by Isack Hadjar of Hitech PulseEight, Ayumu Iwasa of DAMS, Enzo Fittipaldi of Rodin Carlin and Van Amersfoort Racing’s Juan Manuel Correa—all of whom claimed all-important points.
The F2 field will be back on track later this month for the 2023 season’s second round in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
This year’s campaign features 14 rounds in all, culminating with the season finale in Abu Dhabi in November.
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