Emphatic victory for Jehan in Barcelona

Young Indian racer Jehan Daruvala, driving for Prema Racing, won the inaugural round of the FIA Formula 3 Championship, one of the support events to Formula One, here Sunday.

The all new FIA F3 Championship was created by merging the erstwhile GP3 Championship and FIA F3 European Championship, resulting in an ultra-competitive 30 car grid.

The only Indian on the grid, 20-year-old Jehan started from second position and grabbed the lead into the run down to the first corner. With an accident involving four cars at the back of the grid, the safety car was deployed on lap one.

At the restart Kari was able to benefit from Jehan's slipstream during the restart, and Jehan had to defend hard to keep the lead.

Over the next two laps Jehan quickly opened up a gap of over 1.5 seconds so as to prevent Kari from deploying DRS (Drag Reduction System).

The safety car was deployed a second time negating the advantage of a 2 second gap which Jehan had built up. During the restart, Jehan was much ...