Marciello win again and scores 3/3 at Nurburgring. A special race for Derani arrived 3rd for his second personal podium of the season after the Race 2.
by: Federico Caruso
The story so far of the race…
11:00 o’clock some clouds on the track menace rain.
On the starting grid Marciello try to keep his 1st position conquered during the 3 fantastic qualifying sessions.
Marciello has a wonderful start and keep his first position.
But this is a crazy start and King, Muller, Goddard, Blomqvist, Serralles, Sims have incident.
Safety car enter on the track.
King, Muller, Goddard and Sims are out of the race.
Blomqvist and Serralles still in the race.
At lap 3 green flag and race start again.
Tincknell overtakes Rosenqvist and conquers the 4th position.
No lucky race for Blomqvist and at lap 5 face problems with car, maybe gearbox.
On the head of the race Marciello keep only 0.6 seconds of gap from Auer.
Derani keeps his 3rd position and try to leave behind the trackers.
Lap 8, fastest lap for Marciello but Lucas Auer keep the pressure up.
Serralles after the contact with Sims at the start, now has great moves and overtakes Van de Laar for the 14th position.
Incredible moves at 12 lap.
Gelael overtakes Latifi, Serralles try to overtake Latifi too, but has contact.
Lap 15.
Marciello increases gap.
Lynn attacks Rosenqvist for the 4th position.
Serralles overtakes Latifi for the 14th position.
Lap 16
A terrific battle for 4th position between Tincknell, Rosenqvist, and Lynn.
Marciello built a great gap, 2.6 seconds to Auer after 19 laps and consolidate his leadership.
Lap 23.
Latifi has problem with front wing and go to pit-stop to change it.
Lap 24.
Marciello is running to victory with a gap of 4.1 seconds to Auer.
Marciello won again in 36:03.350. Auer 2nd with gap of 03.234 seconds, and Derani 3rd.
Derani scores his second podium of the season in the same week-end.
Marciello scores a fantastic 3/3 in this Nurburgring race.
Ferrari Academy must to be very happy about this result.
Maybe Ferrari has to see inside home to find a substitute to Massa in F1?
Complete Race 3 Results:
Pos. |
No |
Driver |
Laps |
Time |
Gap |
1 |
1 |
Raffaele Marciello / ITA Prema Powerteam |
25 |
36:03.350 |
|
2 |
24 |
Lucas Auer / AUT Prema Powerteam |
25 |
36:06.584 |
+03.234 |
3 |
12 |
Luis Felipe Derani / BRA Fortec Motorsports |
25 |
36:19.278 |
+15.928 |
4 |
3 |
Harry Tincknell / GBR Carlin |
25 |
36:21.057 |
+17.707 |
5 |
6 |
Felix Rosenqvist / SWE kfzteile24 Mücke Motorsport |
25 |
36:21.390 |
+18.040 |
6 |
2 |
Alex Lynn / GBR Prema Powerteam |
25 |
36:21.774 |
+18.424 |
7 |
5 |
Michael Lewis / USA kfzteile24 Mücke Motorsport |
25 |
36:23.251 |
+19.901 |
8 |
28 |
Mitchell Gilbert / AUS kfzteile24 Mücke Motorsport |
25 |
36:25.022 |
+21.672 |
9 |
25 |
Eddie Cheever / ITA Prema Powerteam |
25 |
36:27.287 |
+23.937 |
10 |
17 |
Antonio Giovinazzi / ITA Double R Racing |
25 |
36:27.629 |
+24.279 |
11 |
27 |
Jann Mardenborough / GBR Carlin |
25 |
36:28.456 |
+25.106 |
12 |
11 |
Félix Serrallés / USA Fortec Motorsports |
25 |
36:36.453 |
+33.103 |
13 |
32 |
Sean Gelael / INA Double R Racing |
25 |
36:42.338 |
+38.988 |
14 |
9 |
Lucas Wolf / GER URD Rennsport |
25 |
36:44.093 |
+40.743 |
15 |
18 |
Dennis van de Laar / NED Van Amersfoort Racing |
25 |
36:44.512 |
+41.162 |
16 |
51 |
Daniil Kvyat / RUS Carlin |
25 |
36:48.077 |
+44.727 |
17 |
8 |
André Rudersdorf / GER ma-con |
25 |
36:48.958 |
+45.608 |
18 |
29 |
Roy Nissany / ISR kfzteile24 Mücke Motorsport |
25 |
36:49.852 |
+46.502 |
19 |
16 |
Tatiana Calderón / COL Double R Racing |
25 |
36:54.610 |
+51.260 |
20 |
10 |
Sandro Zeller / SUI Jo Zeller Racing |
25 |
36:56.991 |
+53.641 |
21 |
26 |
Nicholas Latifi / COD Carlin |
24 |
36:30.034 |
1L |
22 |
20 |
Tom Blomqvist / GBR Eurointernational |
24 |
37:01.980 |
1L |