F3 Monza: Colapinto wins Italian sprint after lap one chaos

The MP Motorsport drivers tussled over the lead, swapping places several times during the 18-lap sprint race, but Williams junior Colapinto had the upper hand.

Boya snatched the lead from poleman Colapinto off the line, but racing was quickly neutralised after Caio Collet, Paul Aron and Jonny Edgar collided further back.

Racing resumed on lap five, with third-place runner Gregoire Saucy (ART) closing on the pair before contact from Zak O’Sullivan (Prema) scuppered his chances.

Colapinto took the lead on lap 10 down to Turn 1, but Boya bounced back two laps later to reclaim the lead before he was again passed the following tour.

The Argentinian then built enough gap to hold off Boya before Bortoleto (Trident) swept into second at the Variante della Roggia, leaving Boya to take third.

Colapinto and Boya were promoted to the front row after all three Hitech cars were disqualified from yesterday’s qualifying session, relegating them to the back of the grid.

The Rodin Carlin cars of Francesco Simonazzi and Ido Cohen were also disqualified after all five drivers were found to be in breach of the FIA International Sporting Code after their tyres were changed whilst the cars were under parc ferme regulations.

Gabriel Bortoleto, Trident (Photo by: Formula Motorsport Ltd)

Saucy, who had been on reverse-grid pole, was boosted two places for Sunday’s race, dropping him to third for the sprint.

Boya took the lead off the line before the collision behind paused the action.

Van Amersfoort Racing driver Collet had clipped Aron’s rear-left wheel, forcing the Prema driver into a spin where he collected Edgar’s MP Motorsport-run car.

Collet received a 10-second penalty for the collision, with the other two drivers forced to retire.

Racing resumed on lap five, with O’Sullivan making solid progress, taking two places in five corners to run fourth.

Saucy began to close on Boya and Colapinto before his contact from O’Sullivan, which gave him a rear-left puncture and handed O’Sullivan a 10-second penalty, as Colapinto retook the lead ahead.

Though Boya repeated the move the following lap, taking back the lead, Colapinto passed him back on lap 13 to reclaim control.

Oliver Goethe, Trident (Photo by: Formula Motorsport Ltd)

Colapinto cleared a large enough gap to maintain his lead, with Boya unable to pass down to Turn 1, before he was passed by Bortoleto on the final lap at the second chicane.

Taylor Barnard was fourth for Jenzer Motorsport, with Hitech’s Luke Browning fifth after a superb charge from 27th on the grid, having been disqualified from qualifying.

But Browning was later also disqualified from the race after it was found that the lowest point of the side floor fin on the right-hand side of the car was found to exceed the limits set out in the technical regulations.

Trident’s Leonardo Fornaroli, who finished sixth, then received a five-second time penalty for exceeding track limits on four separate occasions.

As result, Oliver Goethe, Gabriele Mini and Christian Mansell move up two places each to fifth, sixth and seventh respectively ahead of Fornaroli, who drops to eighth.

Nikola Tsolov and Rafael Villagomez were also promoted one place each, handing the VAR driver the final point, with O’Sullivan relegated to 12th by his penalty.

F3 Monza Sprint Results

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Driver Info			Main Information Additional Data
Cla	Driver	#		Laps	Time	Interval	km/h	Pits	Points	Retirement	Bonus
1	F. Colapinto Franco Colapinto MP Motorsport	10		18	-				10
2	G. Bortoleto Gabriel Bortoleto Trident	5		18	+1.300	1.300			9
3	M. Boya Mari Boya MP Motorsport	11		18	+2.100	0.800			8
4	T. Barnard Taylor Barnard Jenzer Motorsport	27		18	+2.300	0.200			7
5	L. Browning Luke Browning Hitech Pulse-Eight	16		18	+3.200	0.900			6
6	L. Fornaroli Leonardo Fornaroli Trident	4		18	+6.100	2.900			5
7	O. Goethe Oliver Goethe Trident	6		18	+8.000	1.900			4		1
8	G. Minì Gabriele Minì Hitech Pulse-Eight	15		18	+9.800	1.800			3
9	C. Mansell Christian Mansell Campos Racing	24		18	+11.000	1.200			2
10	N. Tsolov Nikola Tsolov ART Grand Prix	9		18	+11.400	0.400			1
11	R. Villagomez Rafael Villagomez Van Amersfoort Racing	18		18	+12.100	0.700
12	Z. O'Sullivan Zak O'Sullivan Prema Powerteam	3		18	+12.400	0.300
13	S. Montoya Sebastian Montoya Hitech Pulse-Eight	14		18	+12.700	0.300
14	D. Beganovic Dino Beganovic Prema Powerteam	2		18	+16.200	3.500
15	J. Dufek Joshua Dufek Campos Racing	25		18	+16.500	0.300
16	N. Bedrin Nikita Bedrin Jenzer Motorsport	26		18	+20.000	3.500
17	S. Flörsch Sophia Flörsch PHM Racing by Charouz	29		18	+20.300	0.300
18	A. Garcia Alex Garcia Jenzer Motorsport	28		18	+21.200	0.900
19	F. Simonazzi Francesco Simonazzi Rodin Carlin	21		18	+21.700	0.500
20	C. Collet Caio Collet Van Amersfoort Racing	17		18	+23.600	1.900		1
21	K. Frederick Kaylen Frederick ART Grand Prix	7		18	+30.900	7.300
22	I. Cohen Ido Cohen Rodin Carlin	22		18	+33.300	2.400
23	G. Saucy Gregoire Saucy ART Grand Prix	8		18	+1'36.900	1'03.600		1
dnf	R. Faria Roberto Faria PHM Racing by Charouz	30		15	3 laps			1		Retirement
dnf	O. Gray Oliver Gray Rodin Carlin	20		11	7 laps			1		Retirement
dnf	T. Smith Tommy Smith Van Amersfoort Racing	19		10	8 laps					Retirement
dnf	M. Shin Michael Shin PHM Racing by Charouz	31		2	16 laps			1		Retirement
dnf	P. Martí Pepe Martí Campos Racing	23		14						Retirement
dnf	J. Edgar Jonny Edgar MP Motorsport	12		14						Retirement
dnf	P. Aron Paul Aron Prema Powerteam	1		14						Retirement
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