Briton Scott has scored his ninth win of the season at Italy’s “Temple of Speed”. Troitskiy (Drivex) came second ahead of Fittje (RP Motorsport). Troitskiy has stepped on the top step of the rookies’ podium flanked by Fittje and Laaksonen (Campos Racing)

Monza.-Full of action was the first race of the weekend at the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza this afternoon. Harrison Scott (RP Motorsport) hasn’t still lost his momentum in the Euroformula Open and kept his cool to clinch his ninth victory of the season. Russia’s Nikita Troitskiy (Drivex) took the checkered flag in second place ahead of Jannes Fittje (RP Motorsport), they both got involved in a close podium fight with Simo Laaksonen (Campos Racing), Ben Hingeley (Fortec Motorsports) and Ameya Vaidyanathan (Carlin).
In the morning, Scott managed to beat Troitskiy to pole. In his RP Motorsport-run Dallara F312 he snatched his eight pole position of the season producing a lap of 1:43.840 in the dying moments of the session. Troitskiy’s best lap effort left him 60 thousandths off pole but still securing a promising front row start. Fittje clocked 3rd-fastest lap time and started alongside Laaksonen from row two. Alex Karkosik (RP Motorsport) took 5th on the starting grid ahead of Devlin DeFrancesco (Carlin). Further adrift, Ameya Vaidyanathan (Carlin) and Ben Hingeley (Fortec Motorsports) lined up seventh and eighth. Finally, Thiago Vivacqua (Campos Racing) and Tarun Reddy (Drivex) rounded out the top ten.
Later in the race, Scott stayed in control as soon as the lights went out. Fittje and Troitskiy passed each other back and forth but after the first lap the German driver was running second. Further adrift, the running order was Laaksonen, Karkosik, Hingeley, Vaidyanathan and DeFrancesco.
The RP Motorsport driver had stunning first two laps and they were good enough to pull away from the field after three laps. By then, Troitskiy made a
clean move past Fittje demoting him to third. The close battle behind was also extremely interesting with no less than ten cars running nose to tail.
With Scott holding a 4-second lead over Troitskiy, and the latter also running solidly in second place, Laaksonen overtook Fittje on lap 8 for third. However, Fittje then regained third on the rostrum with two laps to go.
After 16 laps, Scott passed under the checkered flag as race winner. Troitskiy finished second ahead of Fittje and Laaksonen. Vaidyanathan beat Hingeley to fifth place and DeFrancesco came seventh. Eliseo Martínez (Teo Martín Motorsport) put in a good recovery drive to take 8th place ahead of Tarun Reddy (Drivex) and Cameron Das (Campos Racing), they all securing points-paying finishes.
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