Finally after a long 10 weeks we now have Formula 2 back for the last two rounds of the 2021 Championship. Let’s take a look at what happened on our last race weekend in Sochi, the Championship and what to expect this weekend!
We only had one sprint race and a feature race in Russia due to the weather. Sprint race 1 saw Dan Ticktum win, with Juri Vips finish second and Robert Shwartzman in third.
Both UNI-Virtuosis didn’t start the race which meant the Championship leader Oscar Piastri could try and further his lead but he only finished 9th.
Now onto the feature race, Oscar Piastri managed to get pole on the Friday and he turned his pole into the feature race win, his second consecutive feature race win, this also saw him extend his championship lead.
Theo Pourchaire finished second with Jehan Daruvala finished 3rd! Whilst Zhou who is fighting for the championship finished 6th.
It wasn’t Guanyu Zhou’s weekend when we was in Russia, he could of scored good points but with a DNS and a 7th the gap between him and Oscar could of been less significant!
The Championship-
There is only, 36 points between Piastri and Zhou, even though you may think it’s a lot it’s really not consider they have 3 races a weekend and 6 left of 2021.
Shwartzman is closing in on Zhou only 7 points between the pair, Shwartzman is most definitely going to look to see if he can get those 7 points and more this weekend.
Prema are flying away with the Teams Championship they are currently on 313 points, in 2nd is Carlin and they are on 225 points which has seen them grab lots of podiums and wins this season, in 3rd we have UNI-Virtusoi they are on 201 points, its all down to these final races now!
What to expect this weekend-
Considering Jeddah is a brand new track to every driver on the grid its going to be quite difficult to get right even more so because of the long break we have had it will take quite a lot of running in free practice to get comfortable again. We saw this happen earlier on in the season where we had a long break between races and when drivers got back to a race weekend it took a little while to get things right.
A close battle between Zhou and Piastri as usual but maybe an appearance from Ticktum and possibly Pourchaire? Both drivers been very strong this year so I will definitely be keeping an eye on them.
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