Jehan Daruvala, India Formula 2 driver clinched his 2nd podium and first victory at the Sakhir Bahrain Grand Prix lat weekend. He gave a tough fight to the F2 Champion Mick Schumacher, Y. Tsunoda and Daniel Ticktum to win the race
At the starting grid, Jehan started off on the front row with pole position clinched by Daniel Tickhum; but dropped down to 3rd position after Mick Schumacher overtook him. There was an intense battle among the front three drivers, but Jehan came out on top. In this same race, Mick Schumacher took his first F2 championship title by scoring a total of 215 points which is 14 more than 2nd placed driver Callum Ilott in the championship standing.
Jehan hails from Mumbai and had started karting from a very early age of 13. He had won a lot of titles across Asia and Europe in his racing career. In 2015, Jehan raced in the Formula Renault 2.0 championship and finished 5th in the Northern European Cup. From 2016, he started participating in the European Formula 3 Championship with Carlin Racing Team, with whom he won one race and finished 6th in the overall drivers’ championship. Following year, he competed in the very first Formula 3 season with the Prema Powerteam winning two races; Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya and the feature race in France. He finished the season with the third position in the driver championship standing and missed the second place with just 1 point to his teammate Marcus Armstrong. In total, he had 7 podiums in the season.
Currently, he is a part of the Red Bull Junior Team and races for Carlin with whom he was reunited after a brief stint in the European Formula 3 championship in 2016. In the driver championship, he currently stands at 12th position with 72 points. We will wait to see if Jehan would eventually get a break with an F1 team and be the third Indian to do so after, Narain Karthikeyan and Karun Chandhok.
The 2021 F2 season will kick start from the Bahrain Grand Prix on March 26-28 as per the provisional calendar released by FIA.
