Jehan Daruvala opens F2 marketing campaign with podium end in Bahrain Sprint Race

The 23-year-old, who races for Prema Racing and is a member of the Red Bull Junior group, had began fourth after qualifying seventh beneath the championship’s reverse grid guidelines.

Jehan’s season-opening podium was based on a superb begin. He was as much as third immediately and, after keeping off fellow Red Bull junior Liam Lawson within the Carlin, he set about in pursuit of second-placed Ralph Boschung.

The security automotive was deployed on lap 3 to clear away the stranded Hitech of Marcus Armstrong. It bunched up the sector however Jehan, who took his first F2 win in Bahrain in 2020, held place, as soon as once more prevailing in a wheel-to-wheel battle with Lawson.

He caught and handed Boschung on Lap 16 simply earlier than the race was interrupted for the second time by a Virtual Safety Car.

Boschung retook second because the race resumed. But Jehan seized the place again on the 18th lap with a daring transfer across the outdoors of the Swiss racer into the right-handed flip 4. He crossed the road lower than two seconds behind Verschoor.

“We positively have lots of positives to take. Finishing second within the first race of the 12 months is an efficient begin. I feel we had the tempo to battle for the win,” Jehan mentioned.

“Unfortunately, I mistimed the Virtual Safety Car restart which misplaced us lots of time and finally price us the win. But general we’ve a very good automotive and I’m fairly happy with our begin to the season,” he added.

Jehan now heads into Sunday’s function race, which he’ll begin from seventh. He is hoping for an additional robust consequence to spherical out an encouraging season-opening weekend.

This season is Jehan’s third in Formula 2, the feeder-series that sits beneath F1 on the single-seater ladder.

He raced for Carlin within the final two seasons however has made the transfer to Prema Racing this 12 months.