Callum Ilott turned pole into a win in the 2020 F2 70th Anniversary Feature Race

Callum Ilott followed his start on pole with a fantastic display to win the F2 70th Anniversary race at Silverstone.

Starting Grid

Callum Ilott started on pole with Christian Lundgaard and Jack Aitken in second and third respectively. Dan Ticktum in fourth, Luca Ghiotto in fifth, Guanyu Zhou in sixth, Nikita Mazepin in seventh, Mick Schumacher in eighth, Louis Deletraz in ninth and Yuki Tsunoda rounded off the top ten.

Robert Shwartzman in P11, Felipe Drugovich in P12, Pedro Piquet in P13, Marino Sato in P14, Jahun Daruvala in P15, Nobuharu Matsushita in P16, Artem Markolov in P17, Marcus Armstrong in P18, Giuliano Alesi in P19. After a five-place grid drop for not complying with the correct number of tyres Sean Geleal started in P20 with Roy Nissany and Guilherme Samaia on the back-row of the grid in P21 and P22 respectively.

And it’s lights out away we go!

Ticktum made a great start by getting past Aitken and Lundgaard but it was Ilott who led the way at the start.

Deletraz moved up into seventh after a great move past Ghiotto into the Vale chicane. Ticktum looked to cut the deficit on Ilott being roughly about eight-tenths behind the Uni-Virtuosi driver.

Ticktum went off the road with Lundgaard and Aitken reclaiming their grid start positions and the DAMS driver down to fourth place.

After five laps, Ilott was out in front leading Lundgaard by nearly three seconds with Aitken one second behind the ART.

Schumacher got past Ticktum going into Brooklands and then Ticktum fazed back losing out to Mazepin in Maggots corner.

Most of the drivers with the red-worn soft tyres went into the pits after lap seven to go onto the white-worn hard tyres.

After ten laps of the Grand Prix, Schumacher was first with Mazepin was second and Shwartzman was in third.

Lundgaard and Aitken moved past Samaia for 11th and 12th respectively as the Campos driver started to drop back.

Ilott did drop to ninth but grabbed the fastest lap of the race and was closing in on Alesi in eighth.

At the half-way point of the Feature Race, Schumacher lead away from Mazepin, Shwartzman was third, Zhou was fourth, Drugovich was fifth, Daruvala was sixth, Nissany was seventh, Ilott was eighth, Alesi was ninth and Markelov rounded off the top ten.

Ilott moved up into seventh going into Stowe corner and moved past Nissany with the better hard tyre fitted on the Uni-Virtuosi driver.

A great move by Deletraz on Ticktum in the Vale chicane saw him move up into 12th place. Tsunoda also moved past Markelov into 14th place.

With ten laps to go, the top three looked the same as Schumacher led away from Mazepin and Shwartzman with the three drivers yet to make a pit-stop.

Tsunoda then moved into tenth after a good battle with Ticktum, putting the Japanese into the points position.

But Ilott made an excellent recovery and with five laps of the Grand Prix left, he moved up to first first. Lundgaard was in second, Aitken in third, Deletraz in fourth, and Tsunoda in fifth. Schumacher, Mazepin and Shwartzman had all dropped to sixth, seventh and eight respectively.

Zhou made his way past Ticktum and into ninth as the Brit’s hard tyre rubber slow down after an early pit-stop.

Mazepin made a confident move past Schumacher into sixth down into Stowe corner, the Hitech driver dipped a tyre onto the grass but was able to make his way past Schumacher.

Callum Ilott won the race following his amazing comeback, with a huge gap between him and Lundgaard in second.