Emanuele Olivieri Takes Race 3 Victory On Home Soil
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Italian driver - Olivieri takes a FREC victory on home soil at Monza and Sebastian Wheldon now leads the championship standings.
The lights go green and yellows waved for the Prema of Tomass Stolcermanis who stalled his car but managed to get going again. Overall, a pretty clean start for Italian Emanuele Olivieri who was defending from Kean Nakamura-Berta.
Off into the gravel at Curva della Roggia went the Trident of Kai Daryanani after contact with Marcus Saeter, triggering yellow flags to be waved and the deployment of a safety car, the second time Daryanani has failed to take the chequered flag this weekend.
With the safety car in, Olivieri had an excellent restart with Nakamura-Berta on the back of him. Contact into the first corner led the car of Rahim Alibhai to go off but he managed to rejoin the track.
Nakamura-Berta attempted an overtake on Olivieri and it was contact into the Lesmos between Nakamura-Berta and Gabriel Gomez, the championship leader - Kean Nakamura-Berta was out of the race. Yellow flags were waved and it was another deployment of the safety car.
Following an earlier contact between Miguel Costa and Marcus Saeter, Costa was into the pits and out of the race with a broken steering system. The safety car came back in with 19 minutes + 1 lap to go and it was rookies Olivieri and Gomez that would be fighting for the first place spot at the restart.
Taking the grid right back to full speed just before the corner was Olivieri with Gomez only a few cars lengths behind him and with Sebastian Wheldon making up places, he could finish the race 1 point ahead of Nakamura-Berta in the championship.
Yellow flags were waved at Turns 1 and 2 for Marcus Saeter who had taken to the gravel, another safety car deployed. It was back to green once again, and another great restart from Olivieri. But there was some front wing damage for Seeworuthun and then chaos unfolded as the Van Amersfoort of Dion Gowda went wide.
In the same spot at Lesmo 1 that Kean Nakamura-Berta went off earlier in the race, it was another Prema - this time Tomass Stolcermanis that went off into the gravel but managed to recover.
Along with Dion Gowda, his teammate Francisco Macedo also went wide at the second Lesmo and fell down the field. Al Dhaheri, the Race 2 winner tried to make a move on Abkhazava and there was contact between the two with suspension damage for Abkhazava triggering a safety car deployment.
We went green for the final time, with one racing lap to go and Wheldon managed to make the move on Gomez for second position and it was yellow flags being waved again further down the pack for Kabir Anurag and Andrija Kostić who went off track.
It’s Emanuele Olivieri who took the win, victorious on home soil with Sebastian Wheldon in second and now in control of the championship. Yuki Sani took the final podium position after gaining three places in the final few corners.
Following this race, it’s Sebastian Wheldon who leads the championship by 7 points from Kean Nakamura-Berta.
Ian Salvestrin spoke with race winner Olivieri after the race.
IS - “A fantastic Italian victory, you’ve done it, what a drive and what a win! Congratulations Emanuele Olivieri, how does it feel to win at Monza?”
EO - “Honestly winning here at home for FREC is something I will never forget. It wasn’t easy, it was so hot but I’m really happy with what the team gave me.”
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