Mumbai Falcons’ Jack Beeton ends FRME season with maiden victory

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Mumbai Falcons’ Jack Beeton ended the Formula Regional Middle East season at Losail with his maiden victory.

After two races where tyre management proved critical, drivers knew to be more careful in race three and the only driver to get caught out this time was R-ace GP’s Enzo Deligny. He started fourth and finished 16th.

The first driver he lost out to was Beeton, who had lined up fifth on the grid. On lap two he overtook team-mate Freddie Slater and Sainteloc Racing’s Nikita Bedrin, then pursued R-ace’s poleman Ugo Ugochukwu until passing him on lap five.

ART Grand Prix’s champion newly crowned champion Evan Giltaire demoted his title rival Slater to fifth on lap four, but four laps later he was able to regain the place. The top four held position until the end, with Slater far away from the podium and focusing on ART GP’s Kanato Le in his mirrors towards the end.

Giltaire finished sixth, ahead of R-ace’s Jin Nakamura, Pinnacle Motorsport’s Ernesto Rivera and Mumbai Falcons’ Rashid Al Dhaheri.

Outside of the points was a fight decided by very close margins. On the last two lap, R-ace’s Akshay Bohra passed three drivers and he clinched 17th place by just 0.134 seconds over Origine Motorsport’s Yujia Gao.

The day before the race, Prema posted a promotional video online featuring Al Dhaheri wearing official Mercedes-AMG Junior Team kit. The Formula 1 team is yet to confirm to media whether he is a new member, and has still not added recent signing Ethan Jeff-Hall to its junior line-up on its website.

Race results (16 laps)