Dan Ticktum claimed his second Formula 2 sprint race victory of the season after dominating Sunday’s race at Monza.
The DAMS driver out-dragged reversed-grid polesitter Louis Deletraz off the line, before controlling the race from the front to win by 4.6 seconds.
Virtuosi’s Callum Ilott regained the championship lead with second place, the Ferrari junior passing Louis Deletraz at the halfway stage, having started from third on the grid. Ilott held on to second despite late pressure from cars behind following a late virtual safety car, caused when MP Motorsport’s Felipe Drugovich was spun to a halt at the first chicane by Trident’s Roy Nissany while running in tenth.
Deletraz slowly slipped down the order in the closing stages, being picked off my ART’s Christian Lundgaard and Prema’s Mick Schumacher, but just held off Robert Shwartzman – joint championship leader before the race – to take fifth.
Lundgaard came out on top in a late battle with Saturday’s feature race winner Schumacher to take third. Schumacher made another great start from eighth on the grid to run fifth early on, though lost a couple of places after locking up and taking to the escape road at the first chicane, flatspotting his tyre in the process.
Schumacher gained two places due to early mechanical woes for Carlin’s Yuki Tsunoda and Virtuosi’s Guanyu Zhou, who both had been running in the top four. Schumacher moves up to second in the championship, one point ahead of Prema team-mate Robert Shwartzman, who took sixth at the flag.
Yehan Daruvula finished in seventh, with Jack Aitken taking the final point with eighth for Campos. Nikita Mazepin finished in ninth for Hitech ahead of DAMS driver Juri Vips.
Luca Ghiotto and Pedro Piquet both suffered damaged front wings during the race in separate incidents, dropping them down the order after pitting.
Race result (21 laps)
| 1 | Dan Ticktum | DAMS | 34m07.935s |
| 2 | Callum Ilott | Virtuosi | +4.663s |
| 3 | Christian Lundgaard | ART | +5.299s |
| 4 | Mick Schumacher | Prema | +6.615s |
| 5 | Louis Deletraz | Charouz | +7.072s |
| 6 | Robert Shwartzman | Prema | +7.338s |
| 7 | Jehan Daruvala | Carlin | +10.989s |
| 8 | Jack Aitken | Campos | +16.962s |
| 9 | Nikita Mazepin | Hitech | +18.782s |
| 10 | Juri Vips | DAMS | +18.782s |
| 11 | Roy Nisany | Trident | +30.844s |
| 12 | Nobuharu Matsushita | MP Motorsport | +31.080s |
| 13 | Giuliano Alesi | HWA | +32.331s |
| 14 | Marino Sato | Trident | +33.113s |
| 15 | Guilherme Samaia | Campos | +41.766s |
| 16 | Luca Ghiotto | Hitech | +1m00.054s |
| 17 | Artem Markelov | HWA | +1 lap |
| 18 | Pedro Piquet | Charouz | +1 lap |
| 19 | Marcus Armstrong | ART | +1 lap |
| DNF | Felipe Drugovich | MP Motorsport | |
| DNF | Yuki Tsunoda | Carlin | |
| DNF | Guanyu Zhou | Virtuosi |
Feature image credit: @fia_f2 official twitter
