Different behavior async/await in almost the same methods

Question

Let\'s say I have two async methods

public async static Task RunAsync1()
{
    await Task.Delay(2000);
    await Task.Delay(2000);
}

and

Answer 1

Whenever you start a Task. It already started when you created it, not when you called await.

If you create a task and put it in a variable, it might already finish when you await that. This is what happen to your second case. await just ensures that it must finish before continuing.