Gabriel Gomez prolonged his lead within the System Winter Collection standings after persevering with his excellent podium document for the yr in Valencia.
The US Racing driver began on pole for all three races at Circuit Ricardo Tormo final weekend however solely transformed one into victory which got here within the opening half-hour contest.
Gomez leads the 2025 championship by 34 factors regardless, whereas Maxim Rehm and Leo Robinson received the opposite races within the season’s second weekend.
The Brazilian scored a comparatively easy lights-to-flag victory within the opening race, regardless of three security automotive intervals for incidents additional again.
It was his third victory of the season with Robinson ending as runner-up, regardless of the Algerian initially being disqualified from the race as his automotive allegedly breached the technical rules.
The choice was overturned, so the Hitech driver cut up Gomez and the Brazilian’s US Racing team-mate Rehm on the rostrum.
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Gomez suffered a poor begin to race two although, as he misplaced the result in Robinson earlier than dropping to fourth behind Rehm and Fionn McLaughlin.
The protection automotive interval which quickly appeared compelled the highest 4 to maintain place however then on the restart, McLaughlin thwarted Gomez’s try to take third at Flip 2.
Moments later, Rehm overtook Robinson for the lead on the exit of Flip 6 to finally take his maiden sequence victory after being disqualified from the opening weekend in Portimao as his automotive brakes breached the technical rules.
Robinson settled for second and the pair had been joined on the rostrum by Gomez, who jumped forward of McLaughlin because the Irishman acquired a five-second penalty for leaping the beginning.
Historical past repeated itself within the remaining race, as pole sitter Gomez endured a sluggish begin shedding his lead at Flip 2 to Robinson who subsequently by no means misplaced place for his first win and fifth podium of the yr.
Gomez settled for second and the championship’s high two drivers had been joined by Van Amersfoort Racing’s Maksimilian Popov, who claimed his second podium of the yr.
It means the Italian is now third within the championship, 80 factors behind Gomez with the Aragon (27 February – 2 March) and Barcelona (6-9 March) rounds remaining.
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