Yuki Tsunoda took a brilliant third victory of the F2 season from pole but it wasn’t as simple as lights-to-flag in Sakhir, with the Carlin racer locked in a race-long dogfight with the entirety of the top five.
Guanyu Zhou came out of that brawl in second after a magnificent charge through the field from 11th, while Nikita Mazepin was forced to settle for third despite leading for large parts of the afternoon. Zhou’s efforts weren’t enough to prevent PREMA from sealing the Teams’ title, as Robert Shwartzman finished fifth behind Felipe Drugovich, confirming the Italian outfit as champions with one race to go. Tsunoda’s win may not have been enough to keep him in the Drivers’ title fight, but the battle between Callum Ilott and Mick Schumacher for the crown will go down to the wire. The pair had started the day in ninth and 18th on the grid after a tough Qualifying session but recovered strongly to finish in sixth and seventh.
Schumacher retains a 14-point advantage heading into the final race of the season, sitting first on 213 points ahead of Ilott on 199. Tsunoda is up to third on 186 with Mazepin fourth on 177 and Shwartzman fifth with 169. PREMA are the new Teams’ Champions, finishing first with 382 points, ahead of UNI-Virtuosi on 342.5 and Hitech Grand Prix on 281. Carlin are fourth with 241 and ART Grand Prix fifth on 201.
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