It had been a weekend of dominance for Dunne in Belgium, who topped the follow session and certified on pole in dry circumstances by 0.421 seconds.
He gained two factors on Verschoor for pole place and chipped one other two factors out of the Dutch driver’s lead by ending seventh within the reverse grid dash race.
Rain hit the Belgian circuit on Sunday morning, to the extent the System 3 race needed to be cancelled, however circumstances cleared as much as enable the F2 race to get beneath method behind the security automotive – a special begin process that in the end led to his penalty.
Dunne pulled out a four-second lead as soon as racing began and, regardless of a quick problem from Japan’s Ritomo Miyata, he maintained his lead for the mid-race pit stops.
His Rodin Motorsport staff produced a quick pit cease to get him again into the race in fourth place, behind drivers who had but to cease.
Dunne then produced a shocking overtake across the exterior of Pouhon bend previous Ollie Goethe to re-take the lead and pulled away from Stanek and Lindblad.
There was a late security automotive for Sebastian Montoya, who spun at Eau Rouge with 5 laps remaining.
The Colombian’s automotive was nonetheless being recovered when Goethe’s engine expired with two laps to go, which meant race management crimson flagged the race and Dunne was in a position to take the chequered flag unchallenged.
Nonetheless, Dunne was handed the penalty for the infringement at the beginning of the race behind the security automotive.
FIA paperwork say that his Rodin staff “determined to not activate the set-up process” and that Dunne checked along with his engineers earlier than setting off from the grid.
The error was expensive in what had been essentially the most full efficiency of Dunne’s rookie System 2 season so far, however the penalty now leaves him 11 factors off Fornaroli.
It’s the second time Dunne has misplaced a podium end in three rounds after he was disqualified from the function race in Austria after extreme plank put on on the skid block of his automotive.
The eleventh spherical of 14 takes place in Hungary subsequent weekend.
