F3: Tim Tramnitz wins the Imola sprint
Tim Tramnitz, a member of the Red Bull youth program, became the winner of Saturday's Formula 3 sprint in Imola. Bruno del Pino and Nikola Tsolov joined him on the podium.
Saturday morning greeted the riders with cloudless weather and an air temperature of +19C. Pole holder Bruno del Pino retained the lead at the start, although Tim Tramnitz actively pressed his teammate in the first two sectors.
Roman Bilinsky overtook Louis Sharpe in the fight for seventh place. The rest of the top ten drivers retained their positions on the first lap, as did championship leader Rafael Camara, who started twelfth.
On the third lap, Tramnitz conducted a successful attack on del Pino on the only straight DRS and led the peloton. Behind Louis, Sharp started to recoup and rose to fifth place.
On the fifth lap, yellow flags appeared on the track, and then a safety car pulled out due to the fact that the rear right wheel flew off Nicola Marinangeli's car at the exit of turn 7. Before that, Nikola cut the sixth turn hard on the gravel, and this could have caused the wheel nut to break.
The marshals slowly evacuated Marinangeli's car, and the race resumed on the ninth lap out of eighteen. The pair of leaders retained their positions, and after the fight with Tsolov, Mario rolled out of the top ten and went to the pits, where he turned off the engine and got off.
At the end of the lap, a safety car entered the track for the second time. The reason is that Mathias Zagazeta got stuck in the gravel of the second turn with a broken front suspension.
The restart was given on the twelfth lap. Nikola Tsolov tried to attack del Pino, but Bruno remained in second position. Tim Tramnitz showed the best time in an attempt to break away from his pursuers. However, Bruno del Pino recorded the best lap on the thirteenth lap and remained one second behind the leader.
On lap fourteen, at the exit of turn seven, after a fight with Tuukka Taponen, Noel Leon found himself off the track and dropped back to ninth place.
On the seventeenth lap, Hugo Ugochukwu made a mistake in Turn 12 - the Prema rider drove into gravel, lost time and returned to the track in eighth.
Tim Tramnitz took the race to his first victory of the season and reduced the gap in the individual standings by ten points from Rafael Camara, who finished eleventh. Bruno del Pino's second place was the best result in the Spanish driver's career. Nikola Tsolov rounded out the top three, and an additional point for the best lap went to Noah Stromstead.
Pilot
Team
Circles
1. T.Tramnitz
MP Motorsport
18
2. B.del Pino
MP Motorsport
18
3. N.Tsolov
Campos Racing
18
4. L.Sharpe
Rodin Motorsport
18
5. R.Bilinsky
Rodin Motorsport
18
6. N. Stromsted
Trident
18
7. T.Taponen
ART Grand Prix
18
8. U.Ugochukwu
Prema Racing
18
9. N.Leon
Prema Racing
18
10. A.Just
MP Motorsport
18
11. R.Kamara
Trident
18
12. B. Benavides
AIX Racing
18
13. M.Stenshorn
Hitech TGR
18
14. D.Dufek
Hitech TGR
18
15. N. Lacorte
DAMS Lucas Oil
18
16. B.Badoer
Prema Racing
18
17. L. van Hoepen
ART Grand Prix
18
18. D. Hedley
AIX Racing
18
19. T.Intrafuvasak
Campos Racing
18
20. T.Nael
Van Amersfoort Racing
18
21. K.Ho
DAMS Lucas Oil
18
22. D. Wharton
ART Grand Prix
18
23. Ch.Wurz
Trident
18
24. J.Si
Hitech TGR
18
25. I. Dominguez
Van Amersfoort Racing
18
26. K.Voisin
Rodin Motorsport
18
27. S.Ramos
Van Amersfoort Racing
17
-.
M.de Campos Racing
9
-. M.Zagazeta
DAMS Lucas Oil
8
- N.Marinangeli
AIX Racing
3
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