Leclerc made a lightning start from third on the grid, getting past🅠 reverse grid pole-sitter Armaury Cordeel and Sargeant around the outside of Turn 1. 

S♓argeant looked like he claimed the lead of the race into Turn 1 but Leclerc was braver on the brꦫakes. 

The rac🦋e started dramatically with Cordeel and Aleksandr Smolyar coming to blows into Turn 3.

Smolyar ☂spun Cordeel around, sustaining front wing damage in the process and picking up a 10-second stop-go penalty from the stewards.

In 🏅the opening half of the race, Sargeant had 💜a superior race pace, maintaining a 0.5s or less gap to Leclerc. 

Sa𝔍rgeant continued to pressure Leclerc, forcing the Monegasque to defend on multiple occasions into✅ Turn 1. 

A late Safety Car was the last test for Leclerc at ꦡthe fron🍃t. 

Contact between Hunter Yeany and Johnathan Hoggard at Turn 1 saw both cars end up in theꦿ barrier.

Leclerc maintained the lead from the 🎐restart, ultimately winning by just o꧂ver one second.

Sargeant finished second, resisting late pressure from Hitech Grand Prix’s Ay🌊umu Iwasa.

Jak🧔 Cr📖awford enjoyed one of his best races of the season as he finished fourth in the second Hitech.

Crawforꩵd went up the inside of Iwasa at Turn 3 after the Safety Car restart but couldn’t make the move stick for the final spot on the rostrum.

Caio Colle⛄t finished fifth in the lead MP Motorsport car ahead of title contender Jack Doohan, who enjoyed a quiet race to sixth.

D💟ennis Hauger recovered to a strong seventh from 12th on the grid, although he didn’t have it ꧙all his way.

As he tried to overtake Victor Martins into the Turn 11 chicane, Hauger locked up and ran into the gravel trap, losing the position to Martins and then Clement Novalak.&nꦚbsp;

Hauger made up for it at the restart, getting back past Novalak into Turn 1, before going around the ou♈tside of Martins at ꦬTurn 3 a lap later. 

Completing the top 10 were Martin🐲s, Frederik Vesti and Olli Caldꦏwell.

Novalak and Ido Cohen will shar💮e the front row of the grid for the second sprint ♛race this afternoon.

Click here for the full FIA Formula 3 race𝓰 results from the first sprint race at Zandvoort.