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Bohra scores second win to leave Mugello leading Euro 4 standings


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Akshay Bohra survived two safety car restarts to take his second win of the Euro 4 opener in race three at Mugello, leading a US Racing one-two.

With race two winner Hiyu Yamakoshi down in 20th on the grid, Prema’s Rashid Al Dhaheri joined Bohra on the front row of the grid but failed to get away when the lights went out, as Jack Beeton and Ethan Ischer leapt up from the third row into second and third behind Bohra.

While lap one was relatively calm, lap two was anything but. Alex Powell pitted with a puncture and Maxim Rehm came to a halt after clashes in the bottom half of the top 10, before Van Amersfoort Racing duo Lin Hodenius and Gustav Jonsson (who started 24th after podiums in the first two races) tangled and ended up in the gravel.

Following a safety car, Bohra had to defend from his team-mate Beeton but managed to stay ahead. He was more comfortable at the second restart, which came with four minutes to go after Alpine junior Kabir Anurag and Alvise Rodella collided.

Italian Formula 4 dominator Freddie Slater’s difficult weekend continued. Having dropped from third to fourth at the start, he briefly challenged Jenzer Motorsport’s Ischer at the first restart but on the next lap found himself attacked into the first corner by Prema team-mate Kean Nakamura-Berta.

Slater was forced half onto the grass on exit, and while he tried to fight back into the next chicane, he found himself passed by another team-mate, Tomass Stolcermanis, and then by US Racing’s Gianmarco Pradel.

Dion Gowda also got by on the following lap, and after the final restart Slater slipped to 10th, behind Enea Frey and Maximilian Popov and just 0.4s ahead of the recovering Yamakoshi at the flag.

Race result (14 laps)
Pos Driver Team Time
1 Akshay Bohra US Racing 32m03.118s
2 Jack Beeton US Racing +0.792s
3 Ethan Ischer Jenzer Motorsport +1.598s
4 Kean Nakamura-Berta Prema Racing +3.273s
5 Tomass Stolcermanis Prema Racing +4.022s
6 Gianmarco Pradel US Racing +4.480s
7 Dion Gowda Prema Racing +5.069s
8 Enea Frey Jenzer Motorsport +5.611s
9 Maximilian Popov PHM Racing +6.113s
10 Freddie Slater Prema Racing +7.153s
11 Hiyu Yamakoshi Van Amersfoort Racing +7.565s
12 Rashid Al Dhaheri Prema Racing +8.355s
13 Enzo Yeh R-ace GP +9.132s
14 Davide Larini PHM Racing +10.006s
15 Emanuele Olivieri AKM Motorsport +10.488s
16 Andrija Kostic Van Amersfoort Racing +11.202s
17 Alex Powell Prema Racing +11.720s
18 Gabriel Gomez PHM Racing +12.449s
19 Luca Viisoreanu Real Racing +13.873s
20 Everett Stack PHM Racing +14.685s
21 Mattia Marchiante AKM Motorsport +15.334s
22 Oleksandr Savinkov AKM Motorsport +19.160s
Ret Alvise Rodella Van Amersfoort Racing
Ret Kabir Anurag US Racing
Ret Lin Hodenius Van Amersfoort Racing
Ret Gustav Jonsson Van Amersfoort Racing
Ret Maxim Rehm US Racing
Fastest lap: Bohra, 1m50.208s

Championship standings
1 Bohra 54   2 Yamakoshi 43   3 Beeton 30   4 Jonsson 30   5 Slater 29   6 Nakamura-Berta 24   7 Pradel 18   8 Ischer 16   9 Stolcermanis 16   10 Gowda 14



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