TRAMNITZ LOSES F3 WIN AFTER START PROCEDURE INFRINGMENT, BILINSKI INHERITS VICTORY, CAMARA HANDED A PENALTY
Tim Tramnitz has lost his second win of the season in Formula 3 after an infringment has been found on the start procedure of the German’s car. Bilinski wins.
The stewards have handed a 10 second time penalty to Tim Tramnitz after his win due to the fact that he did not engage the start set-up procedure at the start of the Formation Lap for Sprint Race, which in the past has been protagonist of the exclusion of a few drivers from the classification, for example Verschoor in the 2022 Austrian Grand Prix Feature race.
This promotes the Polish driver Roman Bilinski to the top step of the podium, and it is his first ever win in FIA Formula 3, adding up to his two other podiums in Australia and Monaco this season.
It has allowed the pole sitter of the sprint race Laurens Van Hoepen to get the podium, after he had been overtaken by Bilinski himself at the start of the race.
Martinius Stenshorne takes yet another podium getting promoted to P2, and Matias Zagazeta gets his best result of the season with a P4 with DAMS.
Ugo Ugochukwu and Theophile Nael have been promoted to the top 10 as more penalties were handed ahead of them. Noel Leon has been given a 5 second time penalty after the collision with Charlie Wurz in turn one, who had to retire from the race seconds later. Brando Badoer also suffered severe damage on the front wing and dropped out of the points.
The champion Rafael Camara was also handed a post-race penalty. The Brazilian left the track while fighting for position with his Ferrari mate Tuukka Taponen, and the stewards have understood that he gained advantage over this moment in turn 4.
Therefore, the stewards have given the Brazilian a 10 second time penalty for gaining advantage off track, and his “remontada”, as the “comeback” is called in Portuguese, went down the drain. Camara started from P30 and finished P12, and he was demoted to P25.
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