Jüri Vips secured his first FIA Formula 3 win in Race 1 at the Red Bull Ring in Austria over the weekend, leaping two positions from third. The win also marked Hitech GP’s first race win this season.  

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Yifei was forced to retire from the race. Pulcini rose up the order of the 40-minute race, securing 5th. Vips finished in P6, adding the invaluable points to the tally, pushing the team back up into 3rd in the Championship standings.
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Jüri Vips: “The early pace was very good. I don’t know if the others were under-pushing or already struggling by then but we had the pace over them in the first few laps. I got past Max because he had to defend from me in the first two laps so he didn’t have the DRS from Marcus, so that was kind of an easier move. Marcus was quite difficult. It was quite good because the last DRS detection zone before Turn 4 is just before Turn 3, so if you try to overtake under braking the other guy will normally have the DRS on you, but I made sure I went very late so I could go past him. He would probably have got me back but I’d still have the DRS. I was really happy with what I did there and then it was a really hard race after. Every lap Max had the DRS on me and I knew that if I made one mistake then he would overtake me because the gain you get with the DRS is massive. It’s like six or seventh tenths on all the three straights or something like that. It was a perfect race and it really feels good.”