ART Grand Prix team`s George Russell wins Baku Formula 2 sprint race
Baku, April 29, AZERTAC
ART Grand Prix team`s George Russell has won Sunday's sprint race in the Baku Formula 2.
Russell jumped to seventh at the start, and was soon using Baku's long main straight and the additional DRS to work his way forward, according to autosport.com. He was fifth at the end of the first lap.
He then joined and conquered a three-way fight with Lando Norris and Nicholas Latifi, and set about hunting down Sergio Sette Camara.
Carlin driver Sette Camara locked up at Turn 1 on lap 12 of the 21-lap race, and that, allied to purple sector after purple sector for Russell, meant the Briton was soon on his tail.
With a handful of laps remaining Russell attempted to take the lead at Turn 1 and failed.
But on the next lap, with three to go, he made the move stick and pulled away to a first F2 victory by 2.6 seconds over Camara, who has three podiums in four races for Carlin but couldn't live with reigning GP3 champion Russell in the closing stages.
Nyck de Vries took third with just a few laps to go from Latifi, taking Prema's first podium of the season after the Dutchman had lost second on Saturday with a lock up at Turn 1, which also forced then leader Russell off the road and cost him victory.
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