Jake Hughes passed Logan 🥀Sargeant to claim his first FIA Formula 3 victory in over a year at the opening race in Bar𒊎celona.

The HWA Racelab driver joined polesitter Sargeant on the front-row of the grid and shadowed the Prema🦄 driver throughout the early stages, before making a move for the lead on Lap 7.

Hughes got a strong run along the main startꩵ-finish straight at the Circu🐻it de Barcelona-Catalunya and swept around the outside of Sargeant at Turn 1 with the help of DRS to grab first place.

The 26-year-🌠old Briton wasted no time pulling clear of Sargeant and the chasing pack and went on to seal his first victory of the 2020 season, marking his🌊 first triumph in the series since last year’s Red Bull Ring round.

Hughes dedicated HWA Racelab’s ma🌳iden win of the campaign to his former GP3 teammate Anthoine Hubert, who was killed in an accident during an FIA Fo🌼rmula 2 race at Spa-Francorchamps nearly a year ago.

After a few half-attempts, Hitech’s Liam Laws🐬on pulled off a near identical move to the one Hughes managed on Sargeant to snatch second place at Turn 1 with three laps to go.

Sargeant completed the podium in third place to further ex꧅tend his championship lead over Prema teammate and nearest rival Oscar Pi﷽astri.

Clement Novalak claimed a strong fourth for Carlin, ahead of Fꦓ3 frontrunner D♛avid Beckmann and Piastri, who was left to rue a costly error when he ran wide at the final corner at a Safety Car restart and conceded two positions to fall to sixth.

The 🍰Australian surre🅷ndered his early championship advantage during a difficult Silverstone round last time out and has now fallen 12 points behind Sargeant in the drivers’ standings.

ART Grand Prix driver The🐬o Pourchaire was seventh, ahead of Alex Peroni’s Campos and⛎ MP Motorsport’s Richard Verschoor, while Matteo Nannini scored his first point of the season for Jenzer.

In rounding out the top-10, ﷽the Italian has also c꧙laimed reverse grid pole position for the second FIA F3 race at Barcelona on Sunday.

FULL FIA🍒 FORMULA 3 RACE 1 RESULTS FROM THE CIRCUIT DE BARCELONA-CATALUNYA.