Piastri had to bide his time behind a stubborn Jehan Daruvala b⛦efore taking the leaౠd into Turn 1 with a handful of laps to go.

The victory looked sealed for the Alpine junior when Da🍌ruvala locked up after the second Safety Car restart.

Daruvala took to the Turn 1 run-off and mai🐻ntained the lead by doing so, resulting in a five-second time penalty.

A third Safety C💧ar meant it was bad news for Daruvala - with the pack backed up, the I🐻ndian driver dropped from second to classify 14th.

Christian Lundgaard was hit with a penalty as well after he overtook Bent Viscaal off the track in 🌺the first sequence of the corners.

T🌞he aforementioned pena🦋lties put Viscaal on the podium ahead of Prema’s Robert Shwartzman, who is Piastri’s nearest rival in the championship. 

Piastriജ a෴nd Shwartzman will start on the front row on the grid for tomorrow’s feature race, with 47 points between the pair in the championship standings.

Outside of the podium, Dan Ticktum finished fourth despite dropping to eighth at the midw꧙ay point of the race.

Ticktum got back ahead of F2 rookie Jack Doohan with a spectacular lunge into Turn 27 -𝓀 the final corner.

Doohan finished fifth ahead of Theo Pourchaire, who♛ recovered well from 18th on the grid. 

Enzo Fittipaldi and Guanyu Zhou rounded out th🍰e points-paying positions in the sprint, with Ralph Boschung and F꧟elipe Drugovich completing the top 10.

Click here🌌 for the f🗹ull FIA Formula 2 results from the second sprint race in Jeddah.