Bortoleto clinches F2 title as Hadjar stalls and Duerksen wins finale · RaceFans

Gabriel Bortoleto was nearly assured of successful the 2024 System 2 championship inside seconds of the ultimate race beginning, as rival Isack Hadjar stalled and didn’t get away.

After 33 laps, second place for Bortoleto secured his second title in as a few years. As together with his System 3 success final 12 months, he clinched this crown as a rookie.

Joshua Duerksen gained the race forward of Bortoleto in second, with Richard Verschoor taking the ultimate podium spot in third after passing Victor Martins on the final lap. Hadjar completed a lap down in nineteenth place.

The 2 championship contenders had lined up collectively on the grid, Bortoleto in second and Hadjar in third. However when the lights went out, Hadjar stalled his Campos and was instantly swallowed up by the pack, dropping to the rear. Hadjar was pushed into the pit lane and was capable of rejoin the race after being fired up, however was now a lap down and all hopes of a title had been nearly eradicated.

After passing pole winner Victor Martins initially, Bortoleto led the early laps on his tremendous gentle tyres earlier than pitting for medium tyres. Joshua Duerksen and Martins managed to get forward of the champion-elect within the pit cycle, whereas dash race winner Pepe Marti assumed the lead, heading a gaggle of drivers on the exhausting tyres.

Marti was caught and handed by Richard Verschoor into flip six, taking up the lead of the race. Verschoor finally pitted with six laps remaining and rejoined sixth on contemporary super-softs, handing the true race result in Duerksen.

Bortoleto caught and handed Martins to take second place, however needed to try to make up the 2 seconds to Duerksen to problem for the lead. Duerksen missed flip seven after working off at flip six, to Bortoleto’s bemusement, however the AIX driver didn’t permit Bortoleto to get inside a second of him to take his second win of the 12 months and first characteristic race victory.

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Bortoleto completed 1.7 seconds behind the winner to clinch the championship. The McLaren junior driver will take his place on the System 1 grid subsequent 12 months at Sauber, becoming a member of others who gained the 2 main feeder collection titles consecutively: Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc, Mercedes’ George Russell and McLaren’s Oscar Piastri.

Verschoor accomplished the rostrum in third after passing Martins initially of the ultimate lap. The pole winner needed to accept fourth forward of Oliver Bearman, whose F2 profession ended with a fifth place end. His group mate Andrea Kimi Antonelli, who will accompany him into F1 subsequent 12 months, missed each this weekend’s F2 races resulting from sickness.

Marti completed sixth with Dino Beganovic in seventh forward of Amaury Cordeel, Oliver Goethe and Ritomo Miyata. Paul Aron, who began from the pit lane as punishment for Hitech’s alterations to his Drag Discount System, missed out on the ultimate level by lower than a tenth of a second.

The ultimate race of the season additionally confirmed Invicta as groups champions.

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