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Joey Mawson and Mick Schumacher show heats up, while Jordan Love shows strong form.
GERMAN F4 title protagonists Australian Joey Mawson and local son-of-a-gun Mick Schumacher each scored a win and a second place in the three races held at the Nurburgring at the weekend, continuing their intense fight for the crown.
Mawson’s success in race two was his seventh victory of the season and his 13th podium, and his pace and consistency has kept him 46 points ahead of the German.
But Joey Mawson was fastest in race two qualifying, with Schumacher third.
Mawson led into the first corner, with Schumacher aggressively charging into second. A few corners later, Schumacher dived up the inside of Mawson, hitting the Aussie’s left rear wheel and forcing the leader off line.
Mawson went on to take the win, with Schumacher 15th.
With the grid for race three settled by the outcome of the opening two heats, Mawson and Schumacher lined up ninth and 10th respectively.
Both made good starts, Schumacher moving forward to fifth, with Mawson right with him.
Things are hotting up between the two dominant drivers.
Aussie Jordan Love opens account in South-East Asia F4 Championship
Seventeen-year-old Love took a superb first-up win in the opening heat on Friday, and then after a mechanical-related non-finish on Saturday, bounced back with another win and a second-place on Sunday, finishing second overall in the points. A drive-through penalty in the fifth heat for jumping the start (from pole) was costly.
Young Singaporean Danial Frost took three wins to leave Sepang with the championship lead, ahead of Love, 127 points to 108.
