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Ghiotto penalised; Fuoco gets maiden F2 win

2017 FIA Formula 2 Round 9. Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, Monza, Italy. Saturday 2 September 2017. Antonio Fuoco (ITA, PREMA Racing). Photo: Zak Mauger/FIA Formula 2. ref: Digital Image _T9I0834

Antonio Fuoco has “inherited” win in Monza feature race after Luca Ghiotto has been given a penalty for gaining time after cutting a chicane. Alex Albon has also been penalised.

First F2 race in Monza, held earlier today, has finished crazily, after a crash between race leaders Nyck De Vries and Charles LeclercLuca Ghiotto has claimed win, however, he had cut the first chicane in the same moment that Racing Engineering and Prema driver collided.

Ghiotto was awarded as the winner and went on the podium, next to Antonio Fuoco and Nobuharu Matsushita. Russian Time, however, has been given a penalty some hours later due to that corner cutting on last lap, the points he has been given for setting the fastest lap of the race (which was set on that last lap) have been also removed. That means that Fuoco, whose performance had been improving on the last rounds, claims his maiden win on the series.

Alex Albon has been also penalised for causing a collision with Norman Nato on last lap and gets dropped from 5th to 14th place. Next to Fuoco, Matsushita gets promoted to second position, with Nicholas Latifi third and with the fastest lap. The penalised driver Ghiotto, Sean Gelael, Sergio Sette Camara, Louis Deletraz, Gustav Malja (who will start on Pole tomorrow), Artem Markelov and Jordan King complete the Top 10.

De Vries has been also given a penalty, of 20 seconds in this case, due to the contact with Leclerc. The penalty, however, has no practical effect as the Dutch driver didn’t make it to the finish line.