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Dennis Hauger endured his relentless trip of manufacture in a rain-hampered Urge 3 at Budapest, overcoming his polesitting teammate Arthur Leclerc to grab a third grab of the season and a sixth podium in simply 10 races.

The Championship chief started from second but conquered the moist stipulations sooner than those around him to pounce on Leclerc in the outlet laps. The Monegasque driver tailored and fought wait on on a drying music, but a leisurely Security Automobile introduced their fight to a shut and led the sphere all the intention by the line.

Jack Doohan headed a trio of chilled out Trident drivers previous the chequered flag in third, fourth and fifth, as the Australian racer made up for a scoreless Urge 2 and returned to second in the Drivers’ Championship.

The leisure of the head 10 executed somewhat well-known where they started, rather than Enzo Fittipaldi, who placed on a peerless performance in the moist to price from 17th to ninth.

AS IT HAPPENED

With raining hammering down onto the Hungaroring circuit, the Security Automobile led the sphere off the line for a rolling open. Leclerc was unchallenged on pole, easing away and into the lead as those in the wait on of him started seeking out any spots of grip.

Victor Martins was but to attain a degree in Budapest, but his dire weekend wasn’t about to receive any better. The Frenchman got caught up in a scuffle with Oliver Rasmussen and ended up clipping the obstacles. The Security Automobile was known as out, though Martins was ready to receive his MP Motorsport machine going all over again and shot into the pits for a fixup, returning in closing.

The Security Automobile headed in, however the drama endured with the sphere exhibiting no danger on the rain-soaked tarmac. Ayumu Iwasa, Olli Caldwell and Logan Sargeant all traded places on the wait on of the head 10, with Iwasa gaining two spots and Sargeant shedding two.

Dennis Hauger wasn’t allowing his rookie teammate residing to breathe on the entrance of the flee, hounding the rear of the Ferrari junior. The Crimson Bull prodigy had a trek-around Turn 1 after a scramble from the Ferrari prodigy, but he couldn’t invent the switch stick.

Hauger refused to relent and a lap later made an plucky second strive all the intention by the commence air of his teammate at Turn 3, the utilize of all of his ride to plug ahead and take away the interior line. The Championship chief couldn’t invent the gap that he would have expected to, though, with Leclerc lighting up the timing screens and final in tow.

The rain had relented, with the solar breaking by and music temperature as much as 32 degrees. With the tarmac initiating to dry, Matteo Nannini risked swapping out his slicks. The HWA returned with a scramble but perceived to have made the real dedication as Roman Stanek and Johnathan Hoggard had been clearly struggling for grip and ran wide.

Stanek’s fight endured, and the Urge 2 podium finisher collided with Amaury Cordeel and the pair had been thrown off-music. There was a additional collision in the wait on of them, as Rafael Villagomez and Ido Cohen came to blows and the latter spun to a conclude. Laszlo Toth’s Campos then collided with the stationary Carlin Buzz and introduced out a Security Automobile.

Cohen and Toth each and every clambered out safely, but with simply four laps to switch, the Security Automobile led the sphere all the intention by the line. That introduced an live to Leclerc’s pursuit of his teammate, though the Norwegian had simply nicked the fastest lap and regarded residing to lastly separate from.

The duo crossed the line in first and second, with Doohan a cramped beneath a second in the wait on of in third. The Australian’s Trident teammates David Schumacher and Clément Novalak followed in fourth and fifth, with ART Advantageous Prix duo, Alex Smolyar and Frederik Vesti, sixth and seventh.

Caldwell had managed to fight wait on to eighth as Ayumu Iwasa’s spin waned, and he dropped out of the head 10. Urge 2 podium finisher Enzo Fittipaldi placed on a shapely performance to upward thrust a mega eight places and take away P9 earlier than Sargeant.

KEY QUOTE – DENNIS HAUGER (PREMA RACING)

“I’m genuinely joyful with the grab, I genuinely pushed for it on the inspiration and tried to receive previous. I felt somewhat solid, and the music began to dry so I felt admire I had the spin to switch for it.

“After that, I attempted to protect watch over things and was ready to develop a cramped gap. I’m genuinely joyful with some extra correct points for the Championship and can’t live up for the following spherical.”

THE CHAMPIONSHIP VIEW

Hauger now leads the title flee on 152 points, with Doohan rising to second on 89, three earlier than Caldwell. Vesti is fourth with 80 points and Smolyar fifth with 73.

In the Groups’ title flee, PREMA Racing lead on 282 points, earlier than Trident on 194. ART Advantageous Prix are third with 162, earlier than MP Motorsport on 107 and Hitech Advantageous Prix on 64.


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