Victor Martins Takes Maiden Formula 3 Victory At Zandvoort

MP Motorsport’s Victor Martins has added a FIA Formula 3 victory to his already decorated CV which includes a Formula Renault title, the Frenchman rose four places to beat the Trident of Clémant Novalek and the ART of Frederik Vesti.

Novalek had been at the front of the race for most of it, after getting a better start than pole-sitter Ido Cohen, but the Frenchman’s tyres began to wear heavily towards the end of the race and was unable to hold old on, his fellow countryman passing him for the lead with the aid of the DRS. Despite finishing in third place Fred Vesti would fall to fourth in the drivers standings.

Neither Jack Doohan or Dennis Hauger scored points after championship leader was taken out of the race after a collision with Ido Cohen, Doohan making what could prove to be a costly mistake being unable to capitalise on Hauger’s misfortune sliding into the gravel trap on the last lap.

Off the start it was Olli Caldwell and Jack Doohan who would lose places, Caldwell losing a further place to Martins just before the safety car was brought out due to the Campos of Lorenzo Columbos suffering a puncture leading to the Italian taking a unwanted trip into the barrier by no fault of his own.

Frederik Vesti was looking to overtake Ido Cohen immediately after the Safety Car restart but really should have been paying more attention to his mirrors, the Frenchman capitalising on the Dane’s error overtaking him at the exit of turn 1.

After being in Novalak’s DRS range for so long once the Frenchman pulled out of range it left Cohen as a ‘sitting duck’ to Victor Martins who himself had use of DRS, it woudl get worse for the Carlin rookie as Vesti overtook him one lap later knocking Cohen off the podium.

After pulling away from Cohen enough so that the Carlin driver did not have DRS Martins wasted no time in getting to work on Novalak passing his fellow countryman on the main straight before taking the fastest lap for good measure. However, the race was far from done, Amaury Cordeel beached his Campos in the gravel bringing out another safety car, with now only two laps of racing left, Cohen and Hauger collided at the top of the banking leaving them both out of contention. Jack Doohan then beached his car into the gravel, no doubt to the relief of Dennis Hauger. David Schumacher would steal fifth place from Olli Caldwell, the German finishing one place behind Martin’s team-mate Caio Collet who came home in fourth.

Full Zandvoort FIA Formula 3 Race 2 Results

Position	Driver	Country	Team	Interval
1	Victor Martins	FRA	MP Motorsport	24 Laps
2	Clement Novalak	FRA	Trident	+ 0.396s
3	Frederik Vesti	DEN	ART Grand Prix	+ 2.025s
4	Caio Collet	BRA	MP Motorsport	+ 2.408s
5	David Schumacher	GER	Trident	+ 3.897s
6	Olli Caldwell	GBR	Prema Racing	+ 5.102s
7	Arthur Leclerc	MON	Prema Racing	+ 5.537s
8	Jak Crawford	USA	Hitech Grand Prix	+ 6.765s
9	Matteo Nannini	ITA	HWA Racelab	+ 7.223s
10	Logan Sargeant	USA	Charouz Racing System	+ 7.790s
11	Kaylen Frederick	USA	Carlin	+ 8.353s
12	Filip Ugran	ROM	Jenzer Motorsport	+ 10.117s
13	Oliver Rasmussen	DEN	HWA Racelab	+ 10.184s
14	Rafael Villagomez	MEX	HWA Racelab	+ 10.936s
15	Aleksandr Smolyar	RUS	ART Grand Prix	+ 10.992s
16	Roman Stanek	CZH	Hitech Grand Prix	+ 11.672s
17	László Tóth	HUN	Campos Racing	+ 12.071s
18	Juan Manuel Correa	USA	ART Grand Prix	+ 12.491s
19	Jack Doohan	AUS	Trident	+ 13.146s
20	Johnathan Hoggard	GBR	Jenzer Motorsport	+ 13.312s
21	Zdeněk Chovanec	POR	Charouz Racing System	+ 13.622s
22	Tijmen van der Helm	NED	MP Motorsport	+ 13.977s
23	Calan Williams	AUS	Jenzer Motorsport	+ 14.041s
24	Hunter Yeany	USA	Charouz Racing System	+ 14.885s
25	Jonny Edgar	GBR	Carlin	+ 22.135s
26	Ido Cohen	ISR	Carlin	+ 1 Lap
27	Dennis Hauger	NOR	Prema Racing	+ 1 Lap
28	Armaury Cordeel	BEL	Campos Racing	DNF
29	Ayumu Iwasa	JPN	Hitech Grand Prix	DNF
30	Lorenzo Colombo	ITA	Campos Racing	DNF