British F4: Bansal takes maiden British F4 win in race 2 at Zandvoort

Ary Bansal takes his first British F4 victory in a stunning display in race 2 at Zandvoort.

Bansal would start on pole ahead of Thomas Bearman for the second race of the weekend as they look to get the better start. Both drivers would get decent starts, but Ella Lloyd would immediately challenge them off the line with an excellent start, both the drivers would manage to defend from the McLaren junior as Bearman would then go for a move on the pole sitter to take the lead from Bansal. However, a red flag would be deployed due to an incident further back in the field caused Xavier Avramides to flip over and end their race upside down on the circuit, thankfully able to get out the car and is okay.

This would lead to the race being restarted in the order they were at the start of the race so Bansal would once more start on pole ahead of Bearman. Bansal would get a better start this time while Bearman would ultimately drop two places initially due to a poor start but would manage to get the better exit on the first corner to regain second place. However, contact for Bearman and Adam Al Azhari would cause damage for the Hitech. Bearman would begin to put pressure on the race leader straight away trying to get by Bansal quickly on the opening lap but would be unable to do so. Bearman tried top go for a divebomb into turn 1 but Bansal would manage to defend before going for another move into the banked turn 3. It would ultimately lead to him losing a place though as Al Azhari would manage to make a move by him after Bearman went too deep.

Bansal would start to pull away from the rest of the field as Al Azhari and Bearman fight for position and would continue to show excellent pace. Meanwhile, Lloyd would make a move on Bearman who began to suffer significantly with the front wing damage as he dropped to 4^th and continues to lose time and pace before his front wing become almost fully detached and has to come into the pitlane.

Bansal commanded the rest of the race to take his maiden British F4 victory while further back Lloyd would manage to get ahead of Al Azhari in the final 5 minutes of the race after Al Azhari made an error in the chicane. Lloyd would come home in second while Al Azhari finished third. James Piszcyk would take home 4^th place ahead of Tommy Harfield and Ethan Jeff-Hall as they managed to jump by Fionn McLaughlin who ends his race in 7^th but crucially ahead of Martin Molnár who finishes in 8^th. Theo Palmer and August Raber would round out the top 10 in a closely fought race over the back half of the top 10.

McLaughlin would retake the championship lead from Molnár as the championship rivals continue to swap the lead with one another as the season progresses.