Ghiotto wins in Bahrain after an amazing strategy
- Muhammad Humais
- Mar 31, 2019
- 3 min read
It was Luca Ghiotto who won the second race in Bahrain. 2nd race was a reverse gird, only top 8 finishers from 1st race. Luca Ghiotto started 7th on medium tyres and was pushing from the start.
AS IT HAPPENED
Mick Schumacher finished the last race in 8th, so today he was starting on pole alongside Aitkin. Lights out and Mick Schumacher gets an amazing start, he moves to the left to cover Aitkin. Mick Schumacher defends his position going into the first corner. Deletraz moves into the third behind Mick and Aitkin. As Aitkin, Deletraz and De Vries are going into the 2nd sector of the track, Deletraz goes over the AstroTurf, and Aitkin and De Vries collide with each other, all the three drivers are off the track but rejoin the track before turn 8, there is chaos at the first corner. Latifi moves into 2nd and so do Sette in 3rd. Ghiotto fights Hubert at turn 11, almost gets the job done but Hubert fights back and gets the position back before turn 13.
Going into lap no.4 Mick Schumacher is overtaken by Sette and Ghiotto at turn 12. He doesn’t defend his position because he doesn’t want to pit. Remember, the pitstop isn’t necessary for this race. Race 1 winner, Nicholas Latifi is behind Schumacher. Both are battling for 3rd position. Latifi overtakes Schumacher going into the first corner around the outside. Latifi is in 3rd now. Ghiotto is unstoppable as he moves around the inside of Sette at turn 4 on lap 4. On lap 5, De Vries, Deletraz and Aitkin are under investigation for first lap incident. Alesi overtakes Boschung for 13th at turn 11 on lap no.5, that was a brilliant move around the inside, we don’t see overtakes like that at turn 11. Matsushita overtakes Aitkin for 8th at turn 1, around the inside on lap 6. Schumacher isn’t defending his position and now De Vries overtakes him for 4th position at turn 4 on lap 6. Lap no. 7 and the race control announces no further action for the first lap incident, all three drivers escape penalty. Jordan King and Correa collide with each other on lap 8 at turn 4, which forces Correa to pit even though it wasn’t mandatory for him to pit. Correa pits for fresh softs on lap 9 and rejoins the track in P19. Sean Gelael pits on lap 10, he goes for softs and rejoins the track in 18th. After ten laps the top five is as following: Ghiotto, Sette, Latifi, De Vreis and Schumacher.
Matsushita pits on lap 11, he too goes for softs and rejoins the track in 17th position. Ghiotto on lap 12 confirms that he will pit, he is leading the race right now and he is 5 seconds ahead of Sette. He finally pits on lap 12 and goes for soft tyres, rejoins in 14th position. Sette Camara is leading the race, meanwhile his teammate is in second and Mick is in 3rd. Hubert pits too and goes for softs on lap no. 15, rejoins in P15. Meanwhile De Vries sets the fastest lap, he set a lap time of 1m47.145s on lap 15. Ghiotto on fire with the fresh rubber and he already is in 7th after overtaking Ilott around the inside at turn 12 on lap no. 15. Sette and Latifi are fighting for first postion, remember Sette hasn’t won a race in F2 since the 2017 Spa GP. Ghiotto moves into 5th after overtaking Zhou at turn 11 on lap no. 17. Ghiotto now behind Deletraz and overtakes him at turn 10 for 4th position and also overtakes Schumacher for 3rd at turn 11 on lap no. 18. Two positions at one straight, he is unstoppable. Schumacher and Deletraz didn’t fight with Ghiotto as he was on softer tyres than both of them and they both hadn’t pit unlike Ghiotto. Schumacher and Deletraz fighting for 4th position, Deletraz moves around the inside of Schumacher at turn 1, he manages to pass Schumacher but Schumacher retakes the position at turn 2, Deletraz fights back at turn 4 and manages to pass Schumacher on lap no. 19. Twenty laps are done and the top 5 are as follows: Sette, Latifi, Ghiotto, Deletraz and Schumacher.
Latifi has no choice but to yield to Ghiotto and he overtakes him going into turn 1 on lap no. 21, Ghiotto is in 2nd now. Ghiotto pressurizing Sette and he overtakes Sette going into turn 13, Ghiotto is in 1st position now on lap no. 21. Ghiotto wins in Bahrain after an amazing pitstop strategy with Sette in 2nd and Latifi in 3rd. Schumacher comes in 6th position.
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