Sochi, Sep 26: India’s Jehan Daruvala capped off his weekend in Russia with a third place finish in the feature race of the Formula 2 Championship here on Sunday.
Jehan, who was second fastest in the qualifying, dropped a place at the start to settle for the final podium position.
It was also his fourth podium this season.
The Red Bull junior driver remains seventh in the standings with 96 points.
One of the two sprint races were scrapped this weekend due to wet weather.
Jehan finished out of points in the sole sprint race held.
Oscar Piastri took his second consecutive feature race win and extended his lead in the drivers’ standings with a commanding drive at the Sochi Autodrom.
The Australian headed Théo Pourchaire across the line, with Jehan occupying the final spot on the podium for Carlin.
Starting from pole position, Piastri retained his position at the head of the field at the start of the race, while Pourchaire moved ahead of Daruvala for second place at Turn 2.
With Daruvala third, local favourite Robert Shwartzman was fourth, ahead of Saturday’s Sprint Race victor Dan Ticktum.
A total of 21 cars lined up on the starting grid, with Felipe Drugovich ruled unfit to participate following his crash prior to the commencement of Saturday’s race.
In the Turn 13 braking zone on lap 22, Ralph Boschung, after being in contention for the podium for much of the race, had a sizeable lock-up and ran deep into the corner, allowing Daruvala to sweep through to take his fourth podium of the season. (PTI)
