Invicta Racing’s Joshua Durksen drove spectacularly as he went from P7 to P1 in the Monza sprint race.
He had to control a late safety car restart to earn his win. He has also become the driver with the most podiums in Monza in F2.
Trident’s John Bennett picked up second, his second podium of the season after he won the sprint in Austria too. Oliver Goethe completed the podium in third after having to battle hard the whole way through.
Bennett was the polesitter and held off Goethe to retain the lead on lap one. Goethe dropped down behind Inthraphuvasak at the first chicane. Meanwhile Durksen was already up to fourth and charging through the pack.
In the title fight, it was a dramatic few corners as Alexander Dunne and Tsolov went wheel-to-wheel in the first chicane both ran wide into Turn 2, dropping them down to eighth and ninth places.
Right behind them, Feature Race pole sitter Rafael Câmara was spun around after contact with Nico Varrone on corner exit and failed to get his car to run again. This left him out of the race. The Safety Car was then deployed to recover the stationary Invicta car.
Bennett held the lead on the restart on lap 7 from Durksen but he was glued to the Tridents rear wing. Durksen claimed the lead on lap 9 going into turn 1.
A slight error through Ascari left Goethe under pressure from Stenshorne entering Lap 11, and with a tow from Inthraphuvasak ahead, the Rodin driver moved into P4.
Roman Bilinski was out after a spin on the exit of Ascari which brought out the Safety Car on Lap 17.
With the DAMS Lucas Oil car cleared away, racing got back underway heading into Lap 20 of 21, and Duerksen retained the lead across the line. Bennett and Goethe followed. Leon finished in fourth ahead of his Campos teammate Tsolov. Rodin teammates finished in sixth and seventh. Van Hoepen completed the point scoring positions in 8th.
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