Luca Ghiotto charges to Bahrain F2 Sprint victory after pit stop
Luca Ghiotto made a bold pit strategy work wonders by charging to his secon💝d Formula 2 victory on Sunday in Bahrain, beating the♉ DAMS duo of Sergio Sette Camara and Nicholas Latifi.
Ghiotto made a flying start from sevent♚h on the grid to move into the lead after five laps, but opted against conserving his tyres in favour of pushing early in the read, building a five-second advantage over the field.
Luca Ghiotto made a bol☂d pit strategy work wonders by charging to his second Formula 2 victory on Sun🥀day in Bahrain, beating the DAMS duo of Sergio Sette Camara and Nicholas Latifi.
Ghiotto made a flyin𒉰g start from seventh on the grid to move into the lead after five laps, but opted against conserving his tyres in favour of pus𒆙hing early in the read, building a five-second advantage over the field.
Ghiotto came in for a pit stop﷽ with 10 laps to go before making up the 28-second gap to⛎ the DAMS drivers at the head of the field as they struggled with tyre wear in the hot conditions.
After taking the lead with t🍸wo laps to go, Ghiotto finished five seconds clear of Camara and Latifi, with the trio repeating their podium finishes from🐻 Saturday's Feature race.
Guanyu Zhou took fourth after managing his tyres throughout the race to ꦿavoid a pit stop, passing Louis Deletraz late on, while pole-sitter Mick Schumacher dropped to sixth in his second Formula 2 race.
Schumacher🍒 was able to lead the opening stages of the race, but did not fight against the cars around him as he looked to ens🐲ure his tyres would get to the end of the race.
Nyꦗck de Vries and Jordan King completed the points-paying positions in seventh and eighth respectively.
