Great show in Bahrain, first F3 Feature Race, Luke Browning triumphs followed by Mansell and Tim Tramnitz. Minì and Fornaroli placed sixth and seventh respectively: let's find out what happened:
After the show Sprint Race of yesterday, today we return with the Feature Race by F3 in Bahrain. In the front row here Beganovich e Browning, followed by Mini in third place e Fornaroli in sixth. All on hard tyres, there are no pit stops.
At the start of this one first F3 Feature Race in Bahrain slow Beganovich: everyone takes advantage of it, especially finds himself Browning in first place. Mini loses a few positions and is sixth, Fornaroli eighth. Megetounif follows Browning by about half a second.
Further behind there was a very heated battle between Loake e Montoya for twentieth place. mansell meanwhile attack Tramnitz and takes it by force third place. in the meantime Fornaroli passes Tsolov and goes back to seventh place.
Ad ignite the battle I'm at the top on the fifth lap Mansell and Megetounif, with the former prevailing and the hunt begins Browning, which in the meantime gained about 1 second. Megetounif is also attacked by Tramnitz. Also note the rise of Lindblad, winner yesterday, ateighth place.
A Boyà are assigned 5 second penalty. Noel Leon e Nikita Bedrin they pass Esterson and are respectively thirteenth e fourteenth.
Al 9th lap everyone on the track starts to focus on tire management, the pace is compact: it's there calm before the final storm.
In fact, the top 8 are all encompassed in 5 seconds!
In the meantime, it moves up a few positions Beganovich, which after his disastrous start is now seventeenth. We are on the fourteenth lap of the 22 planned for this one F3 Feature Race in Bahrain e Mini starts to look threatening behind Ramos, which in the meantime is going wide.
Goethe attacks Van Hoepen and it passes, it's time tenth. Minì goes hand to hand with Ramos, who for now manages to defend himself. Beganovich meanwhile climb over Bedrin and it is sixteenth: great regrets for what could have been without that mistake at the start.
Browning sees mansell get closer, it's now half a second away. At the seventeenth round also Mini e Megetounif they have a lock and go wide, a sign of how much they are pushing on the accelerator in this very balanced car race final.
At the dawn of nineteenth round Tramnitz passes Megetounif in turn 1: now it is third, ready to play for victory with Browning, who got a tear-off visor caught in the back of the car, and mansell.
Big battle further back between Goethe, Tsolov e Dunne: Tsolov, trying to attack Goethe, is passed by Dunne on turn 8. Stenshorne has great blocking and gets attacked by Beganovich, who manages to pass it and is thirteenth.
We are on the last lap of the F3 Feature Race weekend in Bahrain: Fornaroli attacks Mini and takes it with him Lindblad. At the top Browning It now seems out of the question.
And here it is Luke browning wins first Feature Race of the F3 season in Bahrain, Followed by mansell e Tramnitz!
The final results:
