driver Bortoleto didn’t put a wheel wrong over the course of the 23-lap race, holding off ART man Saucy to make it back-to-back feature race victories by 0.596 seconds.
Alpine junior Gabriele Mini led home a long train of battling cars to take the final podium spot for Hitech.
Bortoleto maintained the lead from Saucy and Mini at the start on a relatively calm opening lap of the race, but it wasn’t long before the safety car made its first appearance of the morning owing to two separate incidents.
driver picked up a puncture from contact with Luke Browning exiting Turn 3 and subsequently crashed at Turn 5.
Later round the lap, Mari Boya was involved in a scary incident at the fast Turn 9-10 complex as he launched off the rear wheel of Nikola Tsolov into the gravel and hit the barriers, although Boya was reportedly able to exit his MP car unaided.
, produced the second and final caution of the race just after half-distance.
Gabriel Bortoleto, Gregoire Saucy & Gabriele Mini Podium
Photo by: Formula Motorsport Ltd
Saucy continued to apply the pressure on Bortoleto but never got close enough to attempt an overtake, falling short of the win by half a second.
Mini was three seconds behind in third, leading home Fornaroli, sprint race winner Zak O’Sullivan (Prema) and Browning (Hitech), who faces a post-race investigation for his early contact with Colapinto.
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, second in the points heading to Melbourne, finished down in 22nd after picking up a front-right puncture and pitting for a replacement wheel.
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With Goethe failing to score all weekend, Bortoleto now leads the championship by 20 points from Saucy, with Beganovic third, 26 off the leader.
1 | Gabriel Bortoleto | Trident | ||
2 | Gregoire Saucy | ART Grand Prix | 0.596 | 0.596 |
3 | Gabriele Minì | Hitech Pulse-Eight | 3.032 | 2.436 |
4 | Leonardo Fornaroli | Trident | 3.216 | 0.184 |
5 | Zak O'Sullivan | Prema Powerteam | 3.564 | 0.348 |
6 | Luke Browning | Hitech Pulse-Eight | 4.191 | 0.627 |
7 | Paul Aron | Prema Powerteam | 4.393 | 0.202 |
8 | Dino Beganovic | Prema Powerteam | 8.557 | 4.164 |
9 | Pepe Martí | Campos Racing | 8.738 | 0.181 |
10 | Taylor Barnard | Jenzer Motorsport | 13.589 | 4.851 |
11 | Christian Mansell | Campos Racing | 14.356 | 0.767 |
12 | Jonny Edgar | MP Motorsport | 14.928 | 0.572 |
13 | Tommy Smith | Van Amersfoort Racing | 15.582 | 0.654 |
14 | Oliver Gray | Rodin Carlin | 18.766 | 3.184 |
15 | Hugh Barter | Campos Racing | 19.034 | 0.268 |
16 | Caio Collet | Van Amersfoort Racing | 19.426 | 0.392 |
17 | Hunter Yeany | Rodin Carlin | 19.645 | 0.219 |
18 | Sophia Flörsch | PHM Racing by Charouz | 23.606 | 3.961 |
19 | Rafael Villagomez | Van Amersfoort Racing | 28.676 | 5.070 |
20 | Alex Garcia | Jenzer Motorsport | 30.035 | 1.359 |
21 | Nikola Tsolov | ART Grand Prix | 30.064 | 0.029 |
22 | Oliver Goethe | Trident | 56.084 | 26.020 |
23 | Nikita Bedrin | Jenzer Motorsport | 1 Lap | 1 Lap |
Ido Cohen | Rodin Carlin | |||
Roberto Faria | PHM Racing by Charouz | |||
Piotr Wiśnicki | PHM Racing by Charouz | |||
Kaylen Frederick | ART Grand Prix | |||
Franco Colapinto | MP Motorsport | |||
Mari Boya | MP Motorsport | |||
Sebastian Montoya | Hitech Pulse-Eight | |||
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