Trident takes home podium with Richard Verschoor

The Feature Race that concluded the eleventh round of the FIA Formula 2 Championship at the legendary Monza track handed Trident Motorsport an excellent podium with Richard Verschoor. Despite a lackluster qualifying session, which saw Richard Verschoor and Roman Staněk take the P19 and P20 respectively, a brilliant reading of the race by the team's pit wall allowed the Dutch driver to get back in the fight and earn his third podium of the season. 

The race featured two safety car situations and strategies took a critical role. The caution situations were on laps 2 and 9 and during the second one, Trident Motorsport made a smart move, calling Verschoor in for tyres. He returned to the track in third place among the drivers who had made the pit stop. Being further back, Staněk, on the other hand, stayed on the track waiting for a third possible caution that could have brought him back into the game. After the restart though, the race was a pure performance one. 23-year-old Verschoor kept a solid pace that provided him with a deserved spot on the podium. The Feature Race did not offer other opportunities to put Roman Staněk back into the fight and he finished in P18. Now the championship takes a week of break, before returning into action at the Azerbaijani track of Baku in mid-September.

Giacomo Ricci, Team Manager, Feature Race Quote:“In today’s Feature Race, strategies proved decisive. We chose to call Verschoor to change tyres during the second caution, putting the Dutchman back in a position to fight for the podium despite a tough qualifying session. For Staněk, however, we preferred to wait and see how the race evolved, but the race evolution did not give him the chance to get back in the fight at the front. Unlike Verschoor, Staněk had started on the Prime tyres, and it would not have been appropriate to put him on Options so early. We are very happy to be back on the podium at Monza in front of our home crowd. Now we want to make the most of our good moment in Baku”.