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The 2022 Peragian Grand Prix (officially known as the Series 1 Gran Premio del Peragen 2022) was a Series One race held on 26 June 2022 at the Circuito Internacional de Conoso, a motor racing circuit in Conoso, a co-capital of [[Peragen]]. It was the ninth race of the [[2022 Series One World Championship]], and the first win for a [[Template:Borea|Borean]] driver since Haulan Edzhurat in 2019.
== Qualifying ==
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== Race ==
The race began at 13:30 local time. Matthieu Soyer started poorly and defended against Haaland Rusnák on the inside of the first corner, allowing Kasran is'Vaara to go around the outside and take the lead of the race. Many laps passed without any changes to the top three positions, until the Tamradh Monsal of Aedan Jaosar Lanfie suffered an engine failure on lap 32 on the start-finish straight, prompting a virtual safety car. Nearly all the teams took this opportunity for a quick pit stop, setting their drivers onto the same pit strategy, apart from [[Blueacia|Blueacian]] driver Josephina Louzar, who had come in for hard-compound tyres on the previous lap.
On lap 63, Czesława Pajor and Marianna Edifredi made contact at the turn three hairpin, sending debris onto the track and prompting a second virtual safety car. Marlan Kalming took an extra pit stop to change onto the faster but less durable soft tyres, and the following lap, Novia pitted is'Vaara from the lead to cover him off, letting Soyer inherit the lead of the race. Over the final six laps racing, is'Vaara and Kalming both gained two seconds a lap to Soyer, and by the penultimate lap, is'Vaara was within [[W:Drag Reduction System|DRS]] range of his teammate.
Soyer reported to his team that if his teammate were to attempt to overtake him, attempts to defend his position would compromise both of their racing lines, and allow Kalming to close the seven-second gap and potentially overtake one or both of the Novias. Shortly afterwards, Novia team principal Hector Adnet told is'Vaara via the radio: "Do not pass Soyer; we need these seven points in the fight with Kalming." Is'Vaara did not respond, and instead overtook Soyer at the final corner of the final lap, catching his teammate by surprise and forcing him to take evasive action to avoid a collision. Later analysis of the telemetry showed that if is'Vaara had braked a tenth of a second later, he would have crashed both himself and his teammate out of the race, which would have cost Novia 37 points{{Ref|1|1}}.
Kasran is'Vaara became one of only nineteen drivers in Series One history to win a race in their rookie season, as well as setting the record for shortest time between the formation of a country and one of its drivers winning a race: the West Borean Federation had been declared at the [[Victory Square Protest]] just ten months earlier.
Soyer refused to look at his teammate during the podium; the team representative, who was there to collect the Winning Constructors' trophy, was overheard saying that the refusal of team orders would be discussed behind closed doors.
Kasran is'Vaara's controversial overtake cost Matthieu Soyer seven championship points. Soyer would go on to lose the championship to Spiiker's Marlan Kalming by a margin of seven points.
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