Starting from pole position, Piastri made a💙 fantastic start as he r🌟etained his lead into the opening sequence of corners.

Piastri and Theo Pourchaire were in a league of their own on race day, finishing over 10s c𒈔lear of Carlin’s Jehan Daruvala.

While it w🦋as a fairly uneventful race in Sochi, the battle for the lead came down to the pit stop phase.

Piastri p🙈it for new tyres on Lap 9, while Pourchaire stopped 🥀a lap later, rejoining just ahead of the Australian.

Due♑ to his cold tyres, Piastri was able to get back ahead of the ART Grand Prix driver to reclaim his l🌄ead.

From൲ that moment onwards, Piastri controlled the race from the front, taking the win by 1.9s. 

It was a lonely race for Daruvala in the end but he spent several laps battling Campo❀s’ Ralph Bos𒀰chung.

During their battle, Boschung flat-spotted his tyres wᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚhich ultimately led to his retirement as he picked up a puncture on L🥃ap 26.

Before that, Boschung was already dropping down the field with Robert Shwartzman, Dan ಌTicktum and Guanyu Zhou all overtaౠking him.

Shwar💧tzman finished fourth as he continues to close in on Zhou f🔯or second in the championship, while Ticktum finished fifth.

Zhou was sixth, losing morꦇe ground to Piastri in the race for the tit🍨le.

Completinꦛg the top 10 in Sochi was Liam Lawson, Richard Verschoor, Christian Lundgaard and David Beckmann.