The first rac♊e of the weekend in Saudi Arabia was littered with incidents with two Safety Car periods and a controversial moment for reverse grid pole-sitter Dennis Hauger.

Hauger re🎀tained the lead after the first Safety Car which was caused by Amaury Cordeel's shunt on Lap 2.

A second Safety Car was deployed after Jack🍸 Doohan and Logan Sargeant collided at th🥃e restart in close proximity to the pit lane.

Shortly afterwards, race control ordered the drivers to go down to the pit lane 𒁏whic💫h Hauger did.

However, just before Hauger entered the pit lane, race control decided to close it meaning H♋auger wasn't allowed to do so and incurred a 1𒊎0-second stop-go penalty - as Lewis Hamilton did at the 2020 Italian Grand Prix in F1.

With Hauger out𒅌 of the way, once the racing resumed 🃏Calan Williams led the way ahead of Hughes.

Hughes made the most of his soft tyres to get past Williams at the Safety Car restart into the open𒉰ing sequence of corners.

Williams str❀uggled for pace and soon dropped behind Lawson, who had a 1.2s gap to make up on🍸 Hughes.

With Hughes' soft tyres fading, Lawson caught up and overto𝕴ok🌄 into Turn 1 on Lap 18.

❀Hughes continued to struggle, falling into the clutches of Juri Vips on the run to the start-finish line on the final ဣlap.

Vips overtook just before the start-ꦦfinish line to secure second ahead of Hughes.

Felipe Drugovich got past Williams for fourth, while Richard Verschoor, Ayumu Iwasa and Ralph Boschung completed the 🍷top eight.

Click here for the full FIA Formula 2 race results from the Saudi Arabi🐻a sprint race