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FIA F2 Barcelona
F2 Spain: Martins ends F2 victory drought as Correa returns to podium
Victor Martins rediscovered his 2023 F2 form with a composed domination of the Barcelona sprint race.
Sam Hall
Edited: Jun 22, 2024, 1:49 PM
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Alpine Formula 1 Academy driver Victor Martins ended a victory drought by claiming his first win of the 2024 Formula 2 season following a dominant performance in the Barcelona sprint race.
Martins took the victory by 4.4s from Invicta polesitter Kush Maini, who dropped back to fifth in the opening exchanges. Juan Manuel Correa completed the podium after pulling off a late move on Gabriel Bortoleto (Invicta), whose tyres had dropped off the cliff.
The podium for Correa came exactly five years to the date after his last rostrum visit in the series at the Paul Ricard Circuit. It is the latest step following his recovery from suffering multiple injuries in an horrific crash in Belgium in 2019.
Martins has endured some dreadful luck this season having entered the 2024 F2 campaign as the best-performing rookie in his maiden season. But his drive in the Spanish Grand Prix sprint race showed the ART driver’s full ability as he converted a second-place starting position.
A sign of his dominance was that he was hardly seen throughout the duration, as he gradually extended a lead with zero threat from behind.
It was a less positive day for Rodin driver Ritomo Miyata, who crossed the line in second but dropped to eighth after incurring a pair of five-second penalties for exceeding track limits.
The Japanese was far from alone in his track limits breaches, with Roman Stanek (Trident) and Zane Maloney (Rodin) both sanctioned, while Franco Colapinto, Dennis Hauger (both MP Motorsport) and Maloney, again, all subject to post-race investigations.
It was another day to forget for Prema as well, as both Andrea Kimi Antonelli and Oliver Bearman struggled, with the former finishing P10 and the latter dropping like a stone to the rear of the pack before pitting. He returned to the track and finished in P21, 41s off the pace.
In truth, the action was limited with cars quickly forming DRS trains and being forced to manage tyres due to the extremely high levels of degradation that are common on the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.
Paul Aron (Hitech) maintained his championship lead with a fourth-place finish while his chief rival, Isack Hadjar (Campos) could manage only seventh.
Maloney’s slide down drivers’ standings continued as the once championship leader came home in P19.
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Cla Driver # Laps Time Interval km/h Pits Points Retirement Bonus 1 V. Martins ART Grand Prix 1 26
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2 K. Maini Invicta Racing 9 26
+4.400
4.4
4.400 3 J. Correa DAMS Lucas Oil 8 26
+7.900
7.9
3.500 4
P. Aron Hitech Pulse-Eight
17 26
+8.600
8.6
0.700 5 J. Crawford DAMS Lucas Oil 7 26
+9.000
9.0
0.400 6
G. Bortoleto Invicta Racing
10 26
+10.700
10.7
1.700 7 I. Hadjar Campos Racing 20 26
+11.600
11.6
0.900 8 R. Miyata Rodin Motorsport 6 26
+12.600
12.6
1.000 9 D. Hauger MP Motorsport 11 26
+17.800
17.8
5.200 10 A. Antonelli Prema Powerteam 4 26
+24.900
24.9
7.100 11 F. Colapinto MP Motorsport 12 26
+25.500
25.5
0.600 12 Z. O'Sullivan ART Grand Prix 2 26
+25.900
25.9
0.400 13
J. Duerksen PHM AIX Racing
24 26
+26.800
26.8
0.900 14
P. Martí Campos Racing
21 26
+27.400
27.4
0.600 15 R. Villagomez Van Amersfoort Racing 15 26
+28.000
28.0
0.600 16 R. Verschoor Trident 22 26
+29.300
29.3
1.300 17 A. Cordeel Hitech Pulse-Eight 16 26
+29.800
29.8
0.500 18 E. Fittipaldi Van Amersfoort Racing 14 26
+31.700
31.7
1.900 19 Z. Maloney Rodin Motorsport 5 26
+36.400
36.4
4.700 20
T. Barnard PHM AIX Racing
25 26
+38.300
38.3
1.900 21 O. Bearman Prema Powerteam 3 26
+41.400
41.4
3.100 22 R. Staněk Trident 23 26
+41.500
41.5
0.100 View full results
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