Rashid Al Qamzi secures fourth F2 world title
Team Abu Dhabi star delegated once more after culminate strategic race in Portugal.
Peso da Régua: A culminate strategic drive was all that required for Group Abu Dhabi’s Rashid Al Qamzi as he secured his fourth UIM F2 World Championship title on Sunday, as Lithuania’s Edgaras Riabko recorded triumph at the Grand Prix of Portugal.
A second-place wrap up within the penultimate circular of the 2023 championship taking after his Grand Prix triumphs in Lithuania and Italy was sufficient to see the Emirati driver include to his past F2 triumphs in 2017, 2019 and 2021.
Including to the celebrations for Group Abu Dhabi at Peso da Régua in northern Portugal, Al Qamzi’s colleague, Mansoor Al Mansoori, joined him on the platform with a wonderful drive to third put after beginning fifth.
After seeing shaft position grabbed absent from him by Riabko 24 hours prior, Al Qamzi was barely held off by the Lithuanian as they fought from the begin to gain the advantage at the primary turn on the Douro river circuit.
From that point onwards, Al Qamzi settled into his beat, substance to hold second put with his two closest rivals, Monaco’s Giacomo Sacchi and Estonian Stefan Arand, well in arrears, and the ultimate circular to take after another end of the week.
Playing an important part on the day, Al Mansoori climbed two places over the primary four laps to require hold of third put, advertising his colleague assurance within the occasion of any danger from behind.
Third triumph
It fizzled to emerge, be that as it may, with Sacchi making a untimely exit through mechanical issues, whereas Arand was constrained to settle for fifth put.
Celebrating at the finish with Al Mansoori and the rest of the Group Abu Dhabi line-up, Al Qamzi will presently target a third triumph of the season within the season’s last Grand Prix on the Tagus stream in Vila Velha de Ródão following Sunday.
It was there two a long time back that he recorded a second Grand Prix triumph within the space of eight days to wrap up his third F2 world title.
Al Qamzi had arrived in Portugal full of certainty, holding a 16-point championship lead over Sacchi. His as it were stressing minute came in yesterday’s free practice session when he flipped and harmed his boat.
It was repaired in quick time by the Group Abu Dhabi professionals, permitting Al Qemzi to qualify in a comfortable second put, on his way to joining Sweden’s Erik Stark within the record books as a four-time F2 world winner.
It too implies that Guido Cappellini has conveyed 17 world championship titles to the UAE capital since he took charge as Group Abu Dhabi chief eight years prior.