Ferrari Driver Academy member Marcus Armstrong took his first Formula 2 victory in the inaugural race to be held on the Jeddah Corniche Circuit.
The Ferrari junior was able to get down the inside of Liam Lawson, who had started from pole position, going into turn one at the start, but the move wasn’t completed as Lawson then cut across the run-off to turn two. The lead finally changed hands as they braked for turn four and had to go single-file, and from there the win was Armstrong’s as Hitech driver Lawson did not have the pace to stay within DRS range of the leader.
The race was put behind the safety car moments after Marcus Armstrong’s move for the lead due to the fact that Campos’s debutant Olli Caldwell nerfed the rear of Charouz’s Guilherme Samaia at the same turn, slamming Samaia into the inside wall, which then ricocheted into Trident’s Marino Sato.
With three laps of racing to go, and Marcus Armstrong had to defend against an immediate Lawson attack and then another at the final corner of the race to take the chequered flag and score his first victory in Formula 2.
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