Anthoine Hubert shines at home at Paul Ricard

Anthoine Hubert (Arden) signed a perfect performance this Sunday in the sprint race at Paul Ricard, winning from pole position.

The Frenchman had achieved a perfect start, immediately widening a first gap from the first meters. Behind the Frenchman, Jordan King (MP Motorsport) dives into the first corner in second position, but has to go off-line, leaving Jack Aitken (Campos Racing), author of a great start from the third row, to take second place. .

King then lost several positions, the classification behind Hubert and Aitken being completed by Juan Manuel Correa (Sauber Junior Team by Charouz), Nicholas latifi (DAMS), Guanyu-Zhou (Uni-Virtuosi) and Sergio Sette Camara (DAMS).

Zhou then took the advantage over Latifi by diving under braking at turn 5. In the lead, Aitken seems to threaten Hubert for a while, but the Frenchman keeps the driver in check Renault, who finally had to lose when braking at the Mistral chicane on the 6th lap against Correa.

Aitken tries to respond before Signes by going off course, but cannot regain his place. The Briton then lost a place in the last corner of the same lap against Zhou.

Hubert from start to finish

At the controls of the race, Hubert sees Correa line up best lap after best lap, but without coming within immediate reach of the French leader who controls the entire race and wins for the second time of the year after his race victory sprint in Monaco.

Correa and Zhou took the podium ahead of Aitken, Sette Camara, Latifi, Louis Deletraz (Carlin), Callum Ilott (Sauber Junior Team by Charouz), Nobuharu Matsushita (Carlin) and Nyck de Vries (ART Grand Prix), winner yesterday and who saves the top 10.

Dorian Boccolacci (Campos Racing) and Giuliano Alesi (Trident) finished 13th and 14th, when Mick Schumacher (Prema) did not see the checkerboard, forced to stop at the side of the track, after entering the pits for the first time.

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- PREMA (@PREMA_Team) June 23, 2019

Discover the full report from the FIA F2 at Paul Ricard, in AUTO n°2222hebdo, available tomorrow evening in digital version, and from this Wednesday on newsstands.