However, Vidales' win is in doubt with an incident with Crawford under investigation after the Spꦬaniard allegedly ran the American off the track when the pair battled for the lead into Turn 1 on Lap 12.

Crawford attempted to go around the outside of Vidales into the first corner but was forced to cut the corner, bouncing over the sausage kerb at Turn 1▨.

The Prema driver was unable to mount a charge in the subseque🅺nt laps, dropping to over 1.🧸5s behind before closing up again to 1.2s by Lap 20.

The incident will ꩲgo to the stewards' room to determine wheꦓther Vidales didn't leave adequate space for Crawford.

The likeliest penalty - should the stewards feel one is necessary - is ☂a five-second penalty for Vidales, which would drop him to second as Caio Collet finished 6.4s off the lead in third.

Collet got past Juan Manuel Correa to secure the podium ahead of Arthur Leclerc, who left it late🧔 to charge from seven♛th up to fourth.

Correa ultimately dropped 🍌to fifth - a strong result after missing the last round, with Aleksandr Smolyar, Kaylen Frederick and Roman Stanek - who will start Sunday's feature race from pole position - rounded out the top eight.

Reece Ushijima was a strong n♎inth ahead of Red Bull F1 junior Isack Hadjar in the Hitech Grand Prix.

Click here for the full FIA Formula 3 results from the sprint race in Bar🌄cel🀅ona