Composed Daruvala drove an exemplary second Sprint Race at Monza to claim his first victory of the F2 season

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Jehan Daruvala made the move for the lead at the start and controlled the race without any challenges from behind.

All the chaos happened behind the rapid Carlin driver as Bent Viscaal claimed second place ahead of Robert Shwartzman in third after David Beckmann’s late lock-up cost him a podium once more.

Starting Grid

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David Beckmann started from pole position for the second successive race after he finished 10th in Sprint Race one with Carlin’s Jehan Daruvala alongside the German on the front row of the grid.

On the second row, Juri Vips started from third ahead of Bent Viscaal in fourth. Robert Shwartzman followed in fifth, Liam Lawson in sixth, Oscar Piastri in seventh, Christian Lundgaard in eighth, Guanyu Zhou in ninth and Theo Pourchaire rounded out the top 10.

Marcus Armstrong started 11th, Jake Hughes in 12th, Alessio Deledda in 13th, Ralph Boschung in 14th, Lirim Zendeli in 15th, Marino Sato in 16th, Richard Verschoor in 17th, Roy Nissany in 18th, Guilherme Samaia in 19th, Felipe Drugovich in 20th, Enzo Fittipaldi in 21st and Dan Ticktum started from 22nd.

As It Happened

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The race start was a carbon copy from this morning’s Sprint Race One as Beckmann looked to close the door on the challenging Daruvala in second. However, the Carlin driver made it down the inside of the German to take the lead of the race into turn one.

Further back, Ticktum and Drugovich both made places from the start with the former overtaking the latter for 16th place.

Piastri tried to make the move on Shwartzman but in doing so allowed Pourchaire to get up to seventh ahead of the championship leader.

The Virtual Safety Car was deployed as Hughes tried to stay ahead of his HWA teammate Deledda but spun at the second chicane and retired from the race.

Samaia tried to crawl back to the pits, however, he failed to do so and had to jump out of the car becoming the second retiree.

On lap seven, Nissany and Ticktum both overtook the Deledda down the start/finish straight. The DAMS driver locked up into the first chicane and used the escape road but eventually handed Ticktum 13th place into the second chicane.

Armstrong was awarded a five-second time penalty for causing a collision with Shwartzman moving up to fifth ahead of Lawson.

At the halfway point, Daruvala led the race with Beckmann in second and Viscaal in third. Vips was fourth, Shwartzman in fifth, Lawson in sixth, Pourchaire in seventh, Piastri in eighth, Zhou in ninth and Boschung in 10th.

The superb Shwartzman went around the outside of Vips into the second chicane for fourth place with the Estonian falling down to sixth after Lawson overtook him into the Ascari chicane.

Beckmann and Viscaal went side by side in the battle for second with the former shutting the door on the latter and holding the position.

Nissany was handed a five-second time penalty for not following the race director’s instructions after he ran off at turn one when overtaking Deledda a few laps earlier.

Piastri took a leaf out of Pourchaire’s book as he made a move on the Frenchman into turn one to claim seventh place.

After a couple of laps of battling, Zhou was finally able to get up to eighth as Pourchaire locked up into turn one and conceded another position.

The race winner from this morning fell down to 10th as Boschung overtook the ART driver on the exit of the first chicane.

In the dying embers of the race, Beckmann crumbled under the pressure as his lock-up cost him a podium finish as Viscaal and Shwartzman took second and third place. However, it was Daruvala that claimed the victory after a really comfortable victory.

Rounding out the top 10 were Lawson, Beckmann, Vips, Piastri, Zhou, Boschung and Pourchaire.

What’s Next?

Championship leader Oscar Piastri qualified first in Friday’s qualifying session and will hope to have a clean run down into turn one.

He will be accompanied by Jehan Daruvala on the front row of the grid with Guanyu Zhou directly behind his championship rival in third.

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