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Revision as of 13:59, 25 September 2020
 2020 Sochi Race 1
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 The Sochi Autodrom with DRS. | ||
| Race Information | ||
| Date | 26 September 2020 | |
| No. | 88 | |
| Event | Formula 1 VTB Russian Grand Prix 2020
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| Location | Sochi Autodrom Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russia | |
| Format | 170 km / 60 min (Feature Race) | |
| Lap length | 5.848 km (3.634 mi) | |
| Distance | 28 laps / 163.744 km (101.746 km) | |
| Qualifying Result | ||
| Pole Sitter |  Yuki Tsunoda
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| Team |  Carlin
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| Time | 1:48.688 | |
| Fastest Lap | ||
| Race Result | ||
| Race Guide | ||
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 2020 Mugello Sprint Race
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2020 Sochi Sprint Race
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The 2020 Sochi Feature Race, otherwise known as the 2020 Formula 2 Sochi Race 1, was the nineteenth race of the 2020 FIA Formula 2 Championship, staged at the Sochi Autodrom in Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russia on 26 September 2020.[1] The race was to be held in support of the Formula 1 VTB Russian Grand Prix 2020.[1]
Yuki Tsunoda would emerge from qualifying with pole position, with a late effort beating teammate Jehan Daruvala by 0.006s.[2] Behind, Championship leader Mick Schumacher would claim third ahead of main rival Callum Ilott, while fellow title pretenders Christian Lundgaard and Robert Shwartzman qualified in sixth and seventh.[2]
Background
The Formula 2 class of 2020 would arrive at the familiar sights of the Sochi Olympic Park in Krasnodar Krai, Russia in late September, with the Sochi Autodrom playing host as usual.[1] The Sochi round had been restored to the calendar after an initial cancellation due to the 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic, with F2 supporting the FIA Formula One World Championship at the unchanged Russian circuit.[1] Likewise, there would be no changes to the field, with Estonian racer Jüri Vips set to sub in for the injured Sean Gelael once again at DAMS.[3]
Seat Shuffles
Ahead of the Sochi weekend MP Motorsport announced the departure of Nobuharu Matsushita from the team, with the Japanese racer and the Dutch team agreeing to a mutual separation with immediate effect.[4] His seat would be taken by Ferrari Driver Academy member Giuliano Alesi, who left HWA Racelab in order to join MP, after a difficult season with the new team had seen him only claim one points finish.[4] Alesi's vacant HWA seat, meanwhile, would be taken by Jake Hughes, who was promoted from the German squad's FIA Formula 3 Championship squad for the rest of the 2020 campaign.[5]
Mugello Masters
Mick Schumacher had ended the Tuscan weekend with the Championship lead in Formula 2 with three weekends to go, with an eight point margin over his closest challenger. Former leader Callum Ilott had made way for the German youth, slipping to second, while Christian Lundgaard broke up the Ferrari Driver Academy hold on the top of the table by climbing to third. Indeed, the Dane had moved five points ahead of Robert Shwartzman as the Russian racer slipped to fourth, while behind Nikita Mazepin was four ahead of Yuki Tsunoda in fifth.
In the Teams' Championship Prema Racing had ended their second home race weekend with a comfortable margin over second placed UNI-Virtuosi, with the Italian squad leaving Tuscany with a 40 point margin. Indeed, the British squad had chipped into Prema's lead in the Mugello Sprint, but only by enough to ensure that they remained within a Feature Race's worth of points of Prema. Hitech Grand Prix, meanwhile, had slipped 85 points off the lead in third after a self-inflicted non-score, while ART Grand Prix and Carlin rounded out the top five.
Entry List
The full entry list for the 2020 Sochi Feature Race is displayed below:
- * Placeholder liveries are show for the second drivers in each team.
Practice
Qualifying
Qualifying used the well established format for the FIA Formula 2 Championship, with a thirty minute session on Friday afternoon ahead of the Feature Race on Saturday.[2] All 22 drivers would venture onto the circuit during the session, and were allowed to complete as many laps as they could to set their qualifying time.[2] There was also a free choice of tyres, although drivers could not exceed their allocation of either compound of Pirelli tyres.[2]
Report
With temperatures hovering at 28°C on the Black Sea coast the session got underway on Friday afternoon, with Mick Schumacher leading the field out of the pits.[2] The German youth would go on to set the first lap of the session, although it was teammate and title rival Robert Shwartzman who put in the first competitive time, a 1:49.634.[2] Jehan Daruvala then appeared at the top of the times, before being supplanted by Nikita Mazepin as the first set of runs came to a conclusion.[2]
After a cool down lap all 22 drivers went for a second run on their first set of supersoft tyres, with the times at the top coming down again.[2] This time Daruvala found four tenths to return to top spot, with his Carlin teammate Yuki Tsunoda slotting into second ahead of Mazepin.[2] Otherwise it would be marginal gains on the whole for the rest of the field, although debutante Jake Hughes would notably jump to ninth as drivers began heading back to the pits.[2]
Armed with fresh supersofts the field re-emerged with ten minutes to go, with Daruvala again finding a tenth to increase his margin.[2] Tsunoda also improved but could not match the Indian racer's mark, while the two UNI-Virutosis leapt up to third and fourth, Guanyu Zhou ahead of Callum Ilott.[2] With that the field again settled into cool down laps, before once again opting to complete a second run on the same set of supersofts.[2]
This time it was Tsunoda who found the biggest gains, overcoming his one tenth deficit to Daruvala to go fastest with a 1:48.688.[2] Daruvala followed him across the line, although he would harrowingly missout on pole by 0.006s to Tsunoda as the chequered flag fell.[2] Shwartzman then claimed third although he would be shuffled back instantly by Schumacher and Ilott, before Luca Ghiotto and Christian Lundgaard made late runs to also jump the #21 Prema pilot.[2] Regardless, Shwartzman would end the session as the best placed Russian racer in the field, with Nikita Mazepin in tenth and Artem Markelov in twentieth.[2]
Results
The final qualifying result for the 2020 Sochi Feature Race are outlined below:
| 2020 Sochi Feature Race Qualifying Result | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pos. | No. | Name | Team | Time | Gap | Ave. Speed | Grid |
| 1st | 7 | Yuki Tsunoda
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Carlin
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1:48.688 | — | 193.699 km/h | 1 |
| 2nd | 8 |  Jehan Daruvala
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Carlin
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1:48.694 | +0.006s | 193.688 km/h | 2 |
| 3rd | 20 |  Mick Schumacher
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 Prema Racing
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1:48.883 | +0.195s | 193.352 km/h | 3 |
| 4th | 4 | Callum Ilott
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UNI-Virtuosi
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1:49.047 | +0.359s | 193.061 km/h | 4 |
| 5th | 25 | Luca Ghiotto
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Hitech Grand Prix
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1:49.230 | +0.542s | 192.738 km/h | 5 |
| 6th | 6 |  Christian Lundgaard
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 ART Grand Prix
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1:49.252 | +0.564s | 192.699 km/h | 6 |
| 7th | 21 | Robert Shwartzman
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Prema Racing
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1:49.284 | +0.596s | 192.643 km/h | 7 |
| 8th | 9 | Jack Aitken
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 Campos Racing
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1:49.306 | +0.618s | 192.604 km/h | 8 |
| 9th | 3 |  Guanyu Zhou
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UNI-Virtuosi
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1:49.311 | +0.623s | 192.595 km/h | 9 |
| 10th | 24 | Nikita Mazepin
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Hitech Grand Prix
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1:49.474 | +0.786s | 192.308 km/h | 10 |
| 11th | 1 |  Jüri Vips
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DAMS
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1:49.639 | +0.951s | 192.019 km/h | 11 |
| 12th | 12 |  Pedro Piquet
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 Charouz Racing System
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1:49.680 | +0.992s | 191.947 km/h | 12 |
| 13th | 11 |  Louis Delétraz
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Charouz Racing System
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1:49.699 | +1.011s | 191.914 km/h | 13 |
| 14th | 5 |  Marcus Armstrong
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ART Grand Prix
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1:49.869 | +1.181s | 191.617 km/h | 14 |
| 15th | 17 | Jake Hughes
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BWT HWA Racelab
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1:49.962 | +1.274s | 191.455 km/h | 15 |
| 16th | 15 | Felipe Drugovich
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 MP Motorsport
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1:49.976 | +1.288s | 191.430 km/h | 16 |
| 17th | 2 | Dan Ticktum
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DAMS
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1:50.214 | +1.526s | 191.017 km/h | 17 |
| 18th | 23 | Marino Sato
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Trident
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1:50.349 | +1.661s | 190.783 km/h | 18 |
| 19th | 22 |  Roy Nissany
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Trident
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1:50.456 | +1.768s | 190.598 km/h | 19 |
| 20th | 16 | Artem Markelov
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BWT HWA Racelab
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1:50.488 | +1.800s | 190.543 km/h | 20 |
| 21st | 14 | Giuliano Alesi
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MP Motorsport
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1:50.943 | +2.255s | 189.762 km/h | 21 |
| 22nd | 10 | Guilherme Samaia
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Campos Racing
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1:51.375 | +2.687s | 189.026 km/h | 22 |
| 107% Time:[7] | |||||||
| Source:[7] | |||||||
Grid
| Pos. | Pos. | |
|---|---|---|
| Driver | Driver | |
| ______________ | ||
| Row 1 | ______________ | 1 |
| 2 | Yuki Tsunoda | |
| Jehan Daruvala | ______________ | |
| Row 2 | ______________ | 3 |
| 4 | Mick Schumacher | |
| Callum Ilott | ______________ | |
| Row 3 | ______________ | 5 |
| 6 | Luca Ghiotto | |
| Christian Lundgaard | ______________ | |
| Row 4 | ______________ | 7 |
| 8 | Robert Shwartzman | |
| Jack Aitken | ______________ | |
| Row 5 | ______________ | 9 |
| 10 | Guanyu Zhou | |
| Nikita Mazepin | ______________ | |
| Row 6 | ______________ | 11 |
| 12 | Jüri Vips | |
| Pedro Piquet | ______________ | |
| Row 7 | ______________ | 13 |
| 14 | Louis Delétraz | |
| Marcus Armstrong | ______________ | |
| Row 8 | ______________ | 15 |
| 16 | Jake Hughes | |
| Felipe Drugovich | ______________ | |
| Row 9 | ______________ | 17 |
| 18 | Dan Ticktum | |
| Marino Sato | ______________ | |
| Row 10 | ______________ | 19 |
| 20 | Roy Nissany | |
| Artem Markelov | ______________ | |
| Row 11 | ______________ | 21 |
| 22 | Giuliano Alesi | |
| Guilherme Samaia | ______________ |
Race
Report
Results
The final classification of the 2020 Sochi Feature Race is displayed below:
Milestones
- Debut race for Jake Hughes.
Standings
References
Images and Videos:
References:
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 'Sochi added to the FIA Formula 2 2020 revised calendar', fiaformula2.com, (FIA Formula 2, 29/07/2020), https://www.fiaformula2.com/Latest/7HysGz7vksoAN23hWOvG1p/sochi-added-to-the-fia-formula-2-2020-revised-calendar, (Accessed 29/07/2020)
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 'Tsunoda snatches pole ahead of teammate Daruvala for Carlin one-two in Sochi', fiaformula2.com, (FIA Formula 2, 25/09/2020), https://www.fiaformula2.com/Latest/5VUT9VKzYRz6xAZKtKhvcA/tsunoda-snatches-pole-ahead-of-teammate-daruvala-for-carlin-one-two-in-sochi, (Accessed 25/09/2020)
- ↑ damsracing, 'And good news, Jüri Vips fans!', twitter.com, (Twitter: DAMS, 13/09/2020), https://twitter.com/damsracing/status/1305183366673772544, (Accessed 13/09/2020)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Charles Bradley, 'Alesi leaves HWA F2 team, replaces Matsushita at MP', motorsport.com, (Motorsport Network, 22/09/2020), https://www.motorsport.com/fia-f2/news/alesi-quits-hwa-f2-matsushita/4879435/?ic_source=home-page-widget&ic_medium=widget&ic_campaign=widget-1, (Accessed 22/09/2020)
- ↑ Keith Collantine, 'Hughes to make F2 debut as seat shuffle sees Matsushita depart', racefans.net, (Collantine Media Ltd, 22/09/2020), https://www.racefans.net/2020/09/22/hughes-to-make-f2-debut-as-seat-shuffle-sees-matsushita-depart/, (Accessed 22/09/2020)
- ↑ Archived, 'Teams and Drivers', fiaformula2.com, (FIA Formula 2, 2020), https://web.archive.org/web/20200629072311/https://www.fiaformula2.com/Teams-and-Drivers, (Accessed 14/06/2018) - Original
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Cite error: Invalid
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