Barcelona🇪🇸 debrief Paul edition 🏎️

F2 CHAMPIONSHIP LEADER

Qualified - Pole (2 points)
Sprint - P9 (due to durksen penalty from Monaco)

Sprint:
P3 (6 points)
Positions: +6

Feature:
P4 (12 points)
Positions: -3

A very good job from Paul at the start of the sprint race making up 3 places then maintaining 6th even when under pressure. He did an incredible overtake on Bortoleto to secure P5 which converted to P4 since Miyata got a penalty, only for Paul to be promoted to P3 after JM was handed a 5 second time penalty for track limit violations

Paul had a good start in the feature race keeping first place before an early safety car came in because of a crash from the back of the field. He managed to hang on to the lead at the safety car restart. Paul pitted at lap 12 but the pit stop was slow costing him the net race lead to Crawford whose tyres were already fired up.

Paul went into the gravel due to losing the rear and dropped down the order loosing the net race lead momentarily.
At lap 24 Paul was running in P9 which was net 4th place at the time and he was chasing down Bortoleto for net 3rd.

On lap 28 Paul overtook Bortoleto for P5 which was net 3rd taking the last podium place. On lap 30 Kimi pitted which put Paul in 3rd place.

On lap 32 JM caught up to Paul and took 3rd place from Paul despite his defensive manoeuvres. Paul ended the race in 4th place but still retained the championship lead with a 9 point gap to Isack Hadjar.

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