Felipe Drugovich repeats victory after starting from P10 in Barcelona

Felipe Drugovich took another victory in Formula 2 in Barcelona after coming from tenth on the grid to extend his lead in the championship. Jack Doohan finished second, with Frederik Vesti taking the final podium position in third.

Doohan stayed in front at the start, overtaking Juri Vips and allowing Vesti to move into second. Logan Sargeant passed Daruvala in turn one, but with Jehan Daruvala executing the alternative strategy, having started on harder tires.

On lap three, Olli Caldwell and Dennis Hauger made contact after Hauger tried to pass Caldwell on the outside of turn 14, clipping the front wing of Campos' car.

On lap four, Daruvala's Prema slowed suddenly at the exit of turn five, leaving Ayumu Iwasa with nowhere to go to avoid hitting the rear of Daruvala's car with his own front wing. As Iwasa stopped for repairs, the Safety Car was called out due to Daruvala's car being stuck in the middle of turn seven.

Hauger also stopped behind the Safety Car for a new front wing after contact with Caldwell, for which Hauger received a five-second penalty.

The Safety Car left the track on lap six, with Doohan pulling away in the lead, while Felipe Drugovich challenged Sargeant for fourth at the first corner. Drugovich was repelled, but stayed close to Sargeant throughout the lap.

Jüri Vips was the first driver to make a scheduled mandatory pit stop, at the start of lap eight, with Jake Hughes following him into the pits. Hughes overtook Hitech, however, after a slow pit stop for Vips who saw his race fall apart from then on, with a long stretch of hard tires ahead of him.

Drugovich stayed out in the lead. Doohan, Vesti and Sargeant stopped and Drugovich, with clean air, managed to extend a lead to almost 30 seconds over Doohan on lap 14.

Hauger, who had stopped early after contact with Caldwell, widened turn eight on lap 16 and went through the gravel, ruining the hard tires he had switched to.

"Yeah, now the tires are going," Drugovich said on lap 16, finally being called into the pits by his MP Motorsport team. However, he stayed out for another lap before finally putting on his hard tires. Drugovich's stop was relatively slow, putting him back in ninth place - a net third, behind Doohan and Vesti.

Doohan and Drugovich were able to start to evolve over the drivers on the alternative strategy on lap 20, with Drugovich also overtaking Vesti by passing Hauger on the main straight.

Drugovich was placed under investigation for a pit stop violation on lap 21, with Vesti and Pourchaire also under post-race investigation for other pit lane incidents.

Clement Novalak stopped on lap 24, giving Doohan the true race lead, but Marcus Armstrong stayed out, keeping Drugovich away from Doohan. Drugovich overtook the Hitech driver - who was trying to extend a stint on hard tires - early on lap 24.

Approaching Doohan with five laps newer tires, Drugovich finally took the lead into the first corner on lap 27. On lap 32, Drugovich increased his lead by more than four seconds, with Vesti more than six seconds behind the leaders in third.

Novalak was hunting Calan Williams on lap 33, easily passing him along the main straight for seventh. The other MP driver was able to move up the order, passing Pourchaire for fifth on lap 35. Enzo Fittipaldi followed him, pushing Pourchaire to seventh and into Armstrong's clutches.

Drugovich had a 5s3 lead on the final lap, crossing the line more than half a second ahead of Doohan, even though he received a five-second penalty, with Vesti behind. Meanwhile, Novalak had reduced a five-second gap to Sargeant to just three-tenths at the checkered flag, with Sargeant holding on to fourth place.

The result extends Drugovich's lead in the championship to a healthy 26 points ahead of Theo Pourchaire, as Formula 2 heads to Monaco next weekend.

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