Formula 3: Nikola Tsolov claims his second F3 victory in Spielberg

Nikola Tsolov took Spielberg Sprint Race victory in a three-way battle with Martinius Stenshorne and ART Grand Prix teammate Christian Mansell. The Bulgarian pulled off a late-race overtake simply earlier than the second of two Safety Cars and held off Hitech Pulse-Eight’s Stenshorne on a closing lap shootout for his second win of the yr.

Stenshorne began the F3 dash from pole place, however Christian Mansell managed to take over the lead because the pair the pair headed into Turn 1.

The Hitech driver tried a re-pass into Turn 3 however was left operating off the observe, giving Tsolov momentum to take second place into Turn 4, making it an ART one-two.

Ferrari junior Dino Beganovic span round at Turn 1, falling from inside the highest 10 right down to twenty fifth. Due to the stricken automobile of Kacper Sztuka, the security automobile was deployed.

Racing resumed on Lap 5, and Mansell was capable of retain the benefit in entrance. However, Tsolov was capable of get alongside teammate Mansell into Turn 4 and used his DRS to take the lead on Lap 7.

Browning moved himself into the points-paying positions on the expense of Tim Tramnitz, transferring down the within at Turn 3 on Lap 10 to safe tenth from the MP Motorsport driver.

Onto Lap 12 and Fornaroli put a courageous transfer on Bedrin to maneuver as much as 14th, passing the AIX Racing driver across the outdoors of Turn 6.

Having shadowed his teammate after being handed, Mansell re-took the lead of the race from Tsolov at Turn 3 on Lap 15, however the Bulgarian was instantly again on the assault to take first again at Turn 4.

Lap 16 was a busy one as Montoya appeared to make a transfer on Alex Dunne at Turn 1, however the MP driver resisted the stress to carry onto the place.

Up forward, Mansell received a transfer at Turn 4 to stay on Tsolov, capable of take the lead from his ART teammate and stay forward.

Gabriele Minì received courageous and rounded Oliver Goethe on the surface at Turn 6 to safe sixth place.

Contact with Trident’s Sami Meguetounif on the finish of the lap for Lindblad left the PREMA Racing rookie with a puncture and dropped him out of the factors combat.

Onto Lap 17 and the combat for the lead continued, with Tsolov getting again via on Mansell at Turn 4, a sluggish nook exit for the Australian allowed Stenshorne a run via Turn 5, placing the Norwegian as much as second.

The combat for the highest 5 locations continued simply behind the trio however after a heated battle Montoya made contact with Dunne and was left spinning at Turn 4. The Colombian driver was out of his automobile and OK, however the crash required one other Safety Car.

The Safety Car was withdrawn with one lap to go, establishing a closing lap dash to the end. Tsolov received the restart he wanted to place a long way between himself and Stenshorne, and the Bulgarian earned his second Sprint Race victory of the yr forward of the Hitech driver.

Mansell rounded out the rostrum in third to make sure two ARTs made the podium, whereas Dunne ended fourth forward of van Hoepen in P5.

Minì took sixth forward of Goethe, Tramnitz, Van Amersfoort Racing’s Noel León and Meguetounif, with the Frenchman rounding out the factors in P10.

Commenting on his victory, Tsolov famous: “Great result again, another win for me. It’s the Sprint Race so hopefully we can put the new
tyres on tomorrow and recover some places and get more points in the Feature Race.”

Leonardo Fornaroli leads Luke Browning as neither of the highest two drivers in the Championship added to their factors tallies in the Sprint, on 84 and 79 factors respectively. Gabriele Minì closes the hole in third place, now on 77 factors. Arvid Lindblad stays in the highest 5 locations, six factors behind his PREMA teammate in fourth whereas Oliver Goethe is fifth, now on 67 factors for Campos Racing.