Indian racer Jehan Daruvala earned his maiden System 2 podium after pipping championship chief Mick Schumacher in a gripping battle for the third place on the Bahrain Grand Prix help race, right here.

Beginning eighth on the grid, Daruvala gained two locations and stayed sixth for a number of laps. Nonetheless, in Lap 5, he misplaced two locations and was pressured off the circuit.

The ensuing lack of velocity price him extra positions. He stayed in tenth place for a number of laps earlier than pitting to vary tyres.

The 22-year-old Indian emerged from the pits down within the 18th place however shortly climbed up the order. He gained extra positions as others pitted and was working sixth by lap 19 of the 32 lap race.

Daruvala quickly overtook a number of race winner Robert Schwartzman to maneuver as much as fifth. Race chief Schumacher then took his obligatory pit cease. Daruvala’s blistering tempo after his personal pitstop meant that Schumacher emerged from the pits behind the Indian, who was now working third.

The 2 have been evenly matched for no less than one other six laps, earlier than Schumacher began closing the hole on Daruvala, due to the the German’s more energizing tyres.

Schumacher quickly introduced the hole down from 2 seconds to round 1.5 seconds. With the sooner medium compounds on, he was in a position to cut back the hole all the way down to 0.7 seconds with 5 laps remaining.

This meant that Schumacher was now additionally ready to make use of his DRS (Drag Discount System) which gave him further velocity on three straights across the F1 circuit.

It appeared solely a matter of corners earlier than Schumacher would overtake Daruvala. Nonetheless, in a nail biting few laps, Daruvala with out the choice of DRS and a tyre drawback drove one among his finest races of the season.

Daruvala’s wonderful racing induced Schumacher to make a few errors. This allowed the Indian room to breathe. He continued his clever drive to extend the hole and crossed the road 0.894 seconds forward of Schumacher, to earn third place.

Felipe Drugovich gained the race forward of Callum Ilott. Daruvala was the 2nd runner up within the FIA System 3 Championship final 12 months.