Team Abu Dhabi’s Rashed Al Qemzi cruises to a win in Italy
2023 UIM F2 World Championship next moves to Portugal
Team Abu Dhabi’s Rashed Al Qemzi has increased his overall lead in the 2023 UIM F2 World Championship following his victory in the 2023 Grand Prix of Italy in San Nazzaro on September 3, 2023.
The Emirati driver performed flawlessly on the River Po circuit in San Nazzaro, Italy, over his closest competitor, Sweden’s Daniel Segenmark and maintained his 100% record this season.
Al Qemzi is aiming for a record fourth UIM F2 World Championship title.
Al Qemzi’s second successive win has increased his lead in the championship to 16 points over Monaco’s Giacomo Sacchi, who claimed the third podium place on the day.
Lithuania’s Edgaras Riabko, Estonia’s Stefan Arand and Britain’s Mette Bjerknæs completed the top six.
Team Abu Dhabi’s Mansoor Al Mansoori finished seventh after starting eighth.
Circuit leader
After a typically high-octane start on September 3, Al Qemzi immediately asserted his authority before a yellow flag brought the race to an early halt when Sweden’s Mathilda Wiberg took out a buoy.
The resultant delay and pontoon restart produced an identical result, as Al Qemzi again powered his way into a clear lead from Norway’s Tobias Munthe-Kaas before Sharjah Team’s rookie Finnish driver, Totti Kemppainen, crashed out to halt the race again.
It did not affect Al Qemzi, who maintained his composure and regained control from the second restart, quickly opening a lead of more than seven seconds from Sweden’s Daniel Segenmark.
From then on, the three-time world champion looked in a class of his own, almost teasingly allowing Segenmark to narrow the gap on occasions before pulling away again to show who was in command, eventually cruising home by just under three seconds.
The UIM F2 championship winner will be decided over back-to-back Grand Prix race weekends later this month in Portugal, where Al Qemzi won his third F2 world title in 2021 with two victories a week apart.
Last Updated on 9 months by Arnold Pinto
