 British driver Arvid Lindblad took a memorable win in front of his home crowd, on Saturday, took victory in the Formula 3 sprint race at Silverstone. Lindblad would take his third win of the year as the only repeat winner of the 2024 Formula 3 winner so far. The Red Bull Driver Academy Prema driver would take a super win to bring himself well into contention for the title. The 16-year old would finish ahead of Mexican driver Noel Leon of Van Amersfoort racing, while history would be made for Peru driver Matias Zagazeta. Zagazeta would become the first Peruvian driver to score points and take a podium as he finished third at Silverstone. Championship leader Luke Browning would suffer a puncture during the race and drop out of the points. He would start on pole position for the Sunday feature race, How the rescheduled Formula 3 sprint race unfoldedIt was time for racing, on Saturday evening, for Formula 3 at Silverstone in support of the British Grand Prix. Formula 3 was here for the fifth time in six years to compete in round seven of 10 in the 2024 championship. There had already been a lot of brilliant action in the weekend with qualifying being down to less than a tenth between the top three. Luke Browning of Hitech would take pole position at his home event at Silverstone, with Max Esterson and Sami Meguetounif qualifying second and third. Noel Leon, of Van Amersfoort Racing, would start on the reverse grid pole after qualifying 12th. He would start on the front row with British driver Arvid Lindblad alongside him. The race would be suspended from its initial start of 09:20 due to adverse wet weather conditions that had made the Silverstone circuit far from safe for racing. The sprint would be rescheduled for 18:00 that evening. All 30 cars would take to the grid for the start of the race and it was time for the sprint race of round seven. Lights would go out and it would be a fantastic start from Arvid Lindblad who would take the lead through Abbey as the front row as well as Matias Zagazeta were three wide into turn one but it would be Lindblad to take the lead. Zagazeta would be up into second ahead of Leon, who had a tough start to the race. Battles would be happening all the way through the field on the opening lap with Christian Mansell, who would initially be ahead of Callum Voisin, but those two would change position on lap 2. In the latter stages of the opening lap it would be a pass made by Leon, who would make an excellent start to the race. A disaster of a start for Sophia Floersch as she picked up damage in a tangle on the opening lap and would be forced to pit for repairs. Lap 3 and the virtual safety car would be deployed as Santiago Ramos would pick up a puncture and lose a lot of his tyre which would fall off the car and onto the circuit. The VSC would be deployed to get the tyre removed from the circuit. There would not be long before the drivers went racing again as the debris was quickly cleared from the circuit. The following lap and there would not be much green flag racing the safety car would be brought out after a collision between Oliver Goethe and Max Esterson saw both cars go off into the barrier at Copse in a big shunt. Thankfully both drivers would be okay and they would be able to climb out of their cars. However, there would be time spent while the safety cars were out to move the tyres. Safety car would be brought in and the race would resume on lap 8 of the race. There would be drama at the restart as Luke Browning was off the road and slow. He had collided with the MP Motorsport of Tim Tramnitz who went wide at turn 4. Browning would suffer a puncture as both would be forced to pit as Tramnitz would have front wing damage. With lap 10 of the race and Lindblad had maintained the race lead at the restart but had Noel Leon within a second and with DRS on him. Lindblad had to be wary as he was trying to take victory at Silverstone - his home venue. MP Motorsport's Alex Dunne was on a charge and took sixth place from the Jenzer Motorsport of Charlie Wurz and the Irishman took sixth. He was on a charge and was up into fifth on Christian Mansell. However, shortly after the MP Motorsport of Dunne gave the place back to Wurz but then would re-overtake the Austrian down the Wellington straight. Dunne would try to overtake with wheels on the grass and was trying to get ahead. The gap would be narrowing the two collided that caused more drama in the sprint race, on Saturday evening a Silverstone. Wurz would be out at Brooklands, while Dunne would continue on. Lindblad would have the lead at the VSC with Leon, Zagazeta, Callum Voisin, Mansell, Nikola Tsolov, Gabriele Mini, Sami Meguetounif, Sebastian Montoya and Laurens Van Hoepen rounded off the top 10. The green flag would drop and soon Lindblad would be extending the margin to 1.8 seconds over the Van Amersfoort car of Noel Leon who was in second. Onto the 15th lap and a train was beginning to form for the final points position as the Formula 3 sprint race at Silverstone entered the final stages with Lindblad in the lead. Moving onto the following lap and the Red Bull junior, Prema driver, Arvid Lindblad would be pulling clear out front with some great pace. A nightmare for Christian Mansell who would receive a five-second time penalty for track limits, which would massively effect his race result. The ART driver had a good race but it was not to be. Tommy Smith, of Van Amersfoort Racing, would receive a 10-second time penalty in the latter stages after an incident earlier on in the race. On the final lap, the two Alpine Academy drivers would be battling through the Brooklands, Luffield and Woodcote complex and would be fighting for position. Tsolov however would make a robust defence and squeezed Gabriele Mini out and off the road. Mini, who was a fair bit alongside, through the Woodcote corner. This would be looked into after the race had concluded. Out in front, it was a delightful drive from Arvid Lindblad. The British driver had been magnificent out front and conquered any challenges that had come his way. On home soil, Lindblad would take the win for Prema. The 16-year old would take his third win of the year and had brought himself into right contention for the championship, with a dominant display from the Red Bull junior driver. Lindblad would win clear of Mexican driver Noel Leon would come home in second place for Van Amersfoort Racing.While just behind Jenzer Motorsport's Matias Zagazeta would be creating Formula 3 history. Zagazeta would become the first driver from Peru to score points and take a podium in Formula 3 history. A truly magical and special moment for Zagazeta and it would be Jenzer Motorsport's first podium of the season. Zagazeta would take his first Formula 3 points as would Rodin Motorsport's Callum Voisin who finished fourth to also take his first Formula 3 points. Nikola Tsolov would complete the top five. Gabriele Mini would finish sixth ahead of former teammate Sebastian Montoya, who was seventh. Sami Meguetounif, Laurens Van Hoepen and Leonardo Fornaroli would complete the top 10. After a fantastic race of action attention would turn to the feature race action, which is a longer race, taking place on Sunday morning with home fans cheering for Brit Luke Browning, who would start from pole position. 2024 Formula One Championship: Round 7 - Silverstone sprint race provisional result
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