DAMS driver Oliver Rowland took victory in the dramatic Formula 2 feature race in Hungary, as championship leader Charles Leclerc recovered from 19th to fourth.
Russian Time’s Artem Markelov took the lead from polesitter Rowland – who inherited P1 on the grid due to Leclerc’s qualifying exclusion – at the start.
However, Markelov lost out to Rowland in the pitstops, only to fight back towards the end of the race and attempt a move with a few laps remaining.
Just as he moved to take the inside line, Rowland followed him across and Markelov bounced across the grass, sliding off track and into the barriers.
It brought the race to a conclusion, with the deployment of the safety car – which released the field at the end of the final lap. Rowland claimed first, ahead of his team-mate Nicholas Latifi.
The Canadian had a strong start to make up places and strong pace helped him close in on the top two, before advancing one position when Markelov retired.
Nyck de Vries also had a good first lap and kept out of trouble to pick up a podium in third for Rapax, ahead of Leclerc.
The Monegasque racer made up eight places on the opening tour of the Hungaroring and went long on the harder tyre, going for an alternative strategy.
He emerged from his pitstop in 11th, making up two spots when Sergio Canamasas and Robert Visoiu collided, before picking off drivers on his fresher and softer tyres.
Leclerc continued to climb up the order right to the very end, claiming fourth, just ahead of Nobuharu Matsushita and Luca Ghiotto.
Norman Nato failed to get away from the grid and started from the pits, but stayed out of trouble to work his way up to seventh, with Alexander Albon taking reverse grid pole. Sean Gelael and Santino Ferrucci – on his F2 debut – completed the top 10.
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