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Silverstone F2: Ilott takes points lead with feature race win

Ferrari junior Callum Ilott vaulted into the lead of the 2020 Formula 2 drivers’ championship with a supreme feature race win at Silverstone.

Josh Suttill

Edited: Aug 8, 2020, 10:47 PM

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Callum Ilott, UNI-VIRTUOSI

Virtuosi driver Ilott comfortably led away from pole position – managing to avoid stalling his car, which cost him a front-row start last Saturday – and switched to the hard tyres from on lap seven of the 29-lap race.

Ilott held a small advantage over Renault junior Christian Lundgaard before he made his pitstop, but after emerging from the pits, he was able to build a lead of over eight seconds in just a few laps.

This extended to over 10 seconds when ART Grand Prix’s Lundgaard ran off the track at Brooklands with just a handful of laps to go.

Lundgaard clawed back a small amount of time, but he could do nothing to prevent Ilott taking his first F2 win since triumphing in the season-opener at the Red Bull Ring.

Williams F1 reserve driver Jack Aitken finally claimed his first podium of 2020 following a difficult opening to his third year in the championship with Campos Racing.

Hitech’s Nikita Mazepin, who won last Saturday’s feature race at Silverstone in dominant fashion, was the leading driver on the alternative strategy in fourth place.

Charouz Racing System’s Louis Deletraz charged from ninth on the grid to finish in fifth place, repeating his audacious move at the Vale chicane from last week on two separate occasions.

The first came as Haas F1 reserve driver Deletraz demoted fellow F2 veteran Luca Ghiotto whilst the second left last weekend’s sprint race winner Dan Ticktum furious.

“Next time he [Deletraz] pulls a kamikaze move like that, I’m going to crash with him. I’ll never give him that much respect ever again,” Ticktum fumed to his DAMS team.

Ticktum was running in second place by the end of the opening lap but struggled with tyre wear issues and slumped to 15th place at the chequered flag.

Deletraz lost fourth place to Mazepin on the final lap at Brooklands but fended off the advances of Red Bull junior Yuki Tsunoda, who had to settle for sixth place.

Ferrari junior Mick Schumacher led the early stages of the race on the alternative strategy, but faded to finish in seventh place, just ahead of his Prema teammate Robert Shwartzman.

After a point-less weekend, Shwartzman picked up four points for his eighth-place finish but lost the championship lead to fellow Ferrari protege Ilott.

Ilott’s teammate, Renault junior Guanyu Zhou, missed out on reverse-grid pole position by just three-tenths in ninth place, with MP Motorsport’s Felipe Drugovich taking the final point in 10th place.

F2 Silverstone - Feature race results:

Cla # Driver Team Laps Gap 1 4 United Kingdom Callum Ilott UNI-Virtuosi 29 2 6 Denmark Christian Lundgaard France ART Grand Prix 29 8.574 3 9 Jack Aitken Spain Campos Racing 29 12.303 4 24 Russian Federation Nikita Mazepin HitechGP 29 15.020 5 11 Switzerland Louis Deletraz Czech Republic Charouz Racing System 29 16.644 6 7 Japan Yuki Tsunoda United Kingdom Carlin 29 17.010 7 20 Germany Mick Schumacher Italy Prema Powerteam 29 19.232 8 21 Robert Shwartzman Italy Prema Powerteam 29 20.033 9 3 China Guanyu Zhou UNI-Virtuosi 29 20.428 10 15 Brazil Felipe Drugovich Netherlands MP Motorsport 29 24.127 11 14 Japan Nobuharu Matsushita MP Motorsport 29 26.418 12 8 India Jehan Daruvala United Kingdom Carlin 29 28.109 13 25 Italy Luca Ghiotto HitechGP 29 36.114 14 5 New Zealand Marcus Armstrong France ART Grand Prix 29 41.725 15 2 Dan Ticktum France DAMS 29 43.109 16 17 France Giuliano Alesi Germany HWA AG 29 43.252 17 23 Japan Marino Sato Italy Trident 29 50.048 18 22 Israel Roy Nissany Italy Trident 29 51.428 19 16 Russian Federation Artem Markelov Germany HWA AG 29 1'14.193 20 10 Brazil Guilherme Samaia Spain Campos Racing 29 1'15.090 21 12 Brazil Pedro Piquet Czech Republic Charouz Racing System 28 1 Lap 1 Indonesia Sean Gelael France DAMS 21 View full results

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