Spa F3: Doohan wins feature race to thrust into title contention

The Trident driver, who qualified in pole, emerged victorious from a fierce battle with Victor Martins (MP Motorsport), who took second place for his fourth podium of the year. 

Martins passed the leader at one point, but was forced to give back the position amid fears he may have had all four wheels off the track. 

ART Grand Prix’s Alexander Smolyar took third, while Martins’ teammate Collet took fourth. 

Clement Novalak (Trident) took fifth, with ART’s Frederik Vesti, who is third in the drivers standings, in sixth. 

Championship leader Dennis Hauger made up six places to finish eighth, having had a tough weekend in Belgium. 

Doohan leaves the weekend with 44 points, having taken four for qualifying on pole, 15 for his sprint race win on Saturday and 25 for the feature race victory, while Martins took the two points for the fastest lap. 

The 14-lap race saw two formation laps behind the safety car before a rolling start, as rainfall continued to generate spray on track. 

Hauger set off on his charge through the field on lap two, having made up several places to challenge Crawford for 11th, although the wet track forced him to hang back. 

On lap two, Matteo Nannini was forced to pit after contact with teammate Rafael Villagomez – the former suffered a puncture, but was back into the race in P28, while the latter retired from the race. 

Hauger passed Crawford into 11th around the outside of Les Combes on lap three, while the top two almost dipped it into the gravel, having pulled a three second gap between second-placed Martins and Smolyar in third. 

With ten laps to go, Schumacher passed Hoggard into eighth, with Hauger taking advantage of the move to pass the Brit at Les Combes. 

Martins made a dramatic move to pass Doohan into Pouhon, taking the lead, but gave the place back amid concerns he had moved all four wheels over the track limit while overtaking. 

Trident’s Clement Novalak managed to make it past Logan Sargeant (Charouz Racing System) on lap seven, moving into P5. 

By lap eight, Hauger had moved up from P14 to P9, continuing to apply pressure to Schumacher. 

Hoggard ran off the road while tussling with Leclerc for tenth, with the Prema driver having made up three places to get into the points. 

At the front of the field, Doohan and Martins continued to battle for the lead, having created over six seconds behind them to Smolyar. 

Hauger finally took eighth on lap 10, sweeping around the outside of Schumacher, while two laps later, Vesti passed Sargeant on the Kimmel Straight to take sixth. 

Despite Martins’ best efforts, Doohan clung onto the lead, crossing the finish line to take his second victory of the weekend. 

Spa F3 - Race results:

Cla	#	Driver	Team	Gap
1	4	Jack Doohan	Trident
2	17	Victor Martins	MP Motorsport	2.000
3	8	Alexander Smolyar	ART Grand Prix	12.200
4	18	Caio Collet	MP Motorsport	13.300
5	5	Clement Novalak	Trident	14.300
6	7	Frederik Vesti	ART Grand Prix	15.900
7	29	Logan Sargeant	Charouz Racing System	17.700
8	1	Dennis Hauger	Prema Powerteam	18.300
9	6	David Schumacher	Trident	20.900
10	2	Arthur Leclerc	Prema Powerteam	22.900
11	3	Olli Caldwell	Prema Powerteam	30.200
12	10	Jak Crawford	HitechGP	35.400
13	11	Ayumu Iwasa	HitechGP	37.400
14	21	Lorenzo Colombo	Campos Racing	38.000
15	12	Roman Staněk	HitechGP	43.600
16	27	Johnathan Hoggard	Jenzer Motorsport	45.600
17	15	Oliver Rasmussen	HWA AG	50.000
18	26	Calan Williams	Jenzer Motorsport	52.900
19	19	Tijmen van	MP Motorsport	54.100
20	25	Jonny Edgar	Carlin	54.400
21	23	Ido Cohen	Carlin	55.000
22	9	Juan Manuel Correa	ART Grand Prix	55.600
23	20	László Tóth	Campos Racing	1'01.300
24	31	Zdenek Chovanec	Charouz Racing System	1'03.300
25	28	Filip Ugran	Jenzer Motorsport	1'18.600
26	14	Matteo Nannini	HWA AG	2'13.900
	22	Amaury Cordeel	Campos Racing
	30	Hunter Yeany	Charouz Racing System
	16	Rafael Villagómez	HWA AG
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