Martins wins F3 Bahrain feature race ahead of Leclerc

Startꦬing from third on the grid, Martins overtook Roman Stanek into Turn 1 👍on Lap 5 at the Safety Car restart.
The race was p💛ut on hold early on after a number of cars were forced to retire from the race.
Caio Collet picked up susp🅷ension damage after running over the kerbs at Turn 6/ꦅ7, while Zane Maloney and Francesco Pizzi were out on the opening lap.
Once the race got back underway, pole-sitter Franco Colaܫpinto led Martins and Alexander Smolyar.
As the race progressed, Colapinto's la🗹ck of experience became aཧpparent as he struggled with his rear tyres.
On Lap 15, Martins completed a switchback mo꧃ve out of Turn 3 to take the lead of the rac🍸e.
The ART Grand Prix driver controlled the race from theꦦ 🍸front, eventually winning by 1.5s ahead of Leclerc in the Prema.
Leclerc completed a similar move on Colapinto on Lap 18, completing a sensational recover𓄧y from outside of the top 10.
If the Monegasque improves his qualifying pace for futur𓃲e races then no doubt he will be a serious 💎threat in the title race.
Gregoire Saucy completed the podium in the second ART car after Colapinto picked up a five-second penalty for exceeding track limits on multiple occasions, dropping hᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚim to fifth in the final classification.
Juan Manuel Correa made it three ARTs in the top four with a strong drive to P4, getting ahead o♓f Colapinto thanks to his penalty.
Oliver Bearman finished sixth in the second Prema as he led an in🐼tense midfield🔥 fight.
Jak Crawford,꧅ David Vidales, William Alatalo and Kaylen Frederick rounded out the top 10.
Sprint race🙈 winner Isack Hadjar finished 25th after contact with Smolyar han😼ded him an unfortunate puncture.
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