Joshua Durksen’s endurance was examined by debutants Christian Mansell and Gabriele Mini as he waited for the opportune second to finish passes en path to a dominant maiden F2 victory.
Ranging from fourth, Durksen took benefit of a poor begin from Jack Crawford (DAMS) to maneuver into the highest three locations, however was comfy sitting behind the brand new faces at Trident and Prema within the early phases.
However on lap eight, a DRS transfer into Flip 1 promoted him previous early chief and polesitter Mansell, and an equivalent transfer 5 laps in a while Mini accomplished the job.
Having pulled a niche of shut to 5 seconds, Durksen noticed his lead quashed when a crash for Ritomo Miyata (Rodin) brought on the protection automobile to be referred to as into motion.
However leaving the restart to the final potential second, the Paraguayan was capable of cruise to the chequered flag to turn out to be the fifteenth completely different race winner of an enthralling season.
Mansell had began from pole for the partially reversed grid dash race and made a robust begin, with Mini taking Crawford into Flip 1 after the American made a tardy launch.
Regardless of this, nevertheless, Mansell appeared to have pushed his tyres too quickly and progressively dropped to eighth by the chequered flag, and topic to a post-race investigation for a slipshod second of contact with Gabriel Bortoleto (Invicta).
However whereas the Australian fell again, Mini was capable of keep his place in direction of the entrance, dropping behind a recovering Crawford however holding again fellow Alpine junior Victor Martins (ART) by 0.02s as they approached the ending line side-by-side.
With Bortoleto ending in fifth and Isack Hadjar twelfth – having began in twentieth after being judged to have brought on a crimson flag in qualifying – the Frenchman’s championship lead has been slashed to simply 6.5 factors, and extends a scoreless streak to 3 races, equalling his document run this 12 months.
Luke Browning was the opposite debutant this weekend, changing Zak O’Sullivan at ART, and he completed eleventh, one place shy of a degree after battling with Andrea Kimi Antonelli (Prema) for a sustained interval.
