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Norisring European 3: Felix Rosenqvist's fuel verdict overturned

Formula 3 European Championship title contender Felix Rosenqvist has been reinstated to this weekend's Norisring results after doubts emerged over the accuracy of the tests on his post-qualifying fuel sample

The Swede was racing under appeal from the grid positions he earned in qualifying when the Mucke Motorsport team elected to contest the verdict.

He finished second in both of Saturday's races, but was not included in the results. New results have now been issued with his reinstatement.

FIA chief steward Francis Murac explained: "The man who makes the analysis said there was a problem with car number 6 because the analysis was not the same as the reference sample taken at the start of the meeting.

"Mucke made an appeal, so in this case we decided to suspend our decision.

"This morning at 7.30 I had a call from Aral [the championship's fuel supplier], saying they were not 100 per cent sure that the fuel analysis is correct.

"They made a report and with my two colleagues we decided to reverse the decision, and the appeal money has been given back to Mucke Motorsport."

The new verdict leaves Rosenqvist 31.5 points adrift of championship leader Raffaele Marciello going into this morning's third race, which the duo will start from the front row of the grid.

Amended Race One results - 39 laps:

Pos  Driver              Team/Car                           Time/Gap
 1.  Raffaelle Marciello Prema Dallara-Merc               35m46.130s
 2.  Felix Rosenqvist    Mucke Dallara-Merc                  +0.336s
 3.  Alex Lynn           Prema Dallara-Merc                  +1.178s
 4.  Felix Serralles     Fortec Dallara-Merc                 +2.077s
 5.  Tom Blomqvist       Eurointernational Dallara-Merc      +3.680s
 6.  Harry Tincknell     Carlin Dallara-VW                   +7.231s
 7.  Jann Mardenborough  Carlin Dallara-VW                   +9.124s
 8.  Roy Nissany         Mucke Dallara-Merc                 +12.463s
 9.  Andre Rudersdorf    Ma-con Dallara-VW                  +17.201s
10.  Michael Lewis       Mucke Dallara-Merc                 +17.616s
11.  Eddie Cheever       Prema Dallara-Merc                 +18.605s
12.  Sandro Zeller       Zeller Dallara-Merc                +21.103s
13   Lucas Auer          Prema Dallara-Merc                 +21.546s
14.  Alexander Sims      T-Sport Dallara-Nissan             +22.616s
15.  Pipo Derani         Fortec Dallara-Merc                +23.491s
16.  Nick Cassidy        Eurointernational Dallara-Merc     +26.239s
17.  Jordan King         Carlin Dallara-VW                  +26.424s
18.  Michela Cerruti     Ferraris Dallara-Merc              +32.301s
19.  Spike Goddard       T-Sport Dallara-Nissan              +2 laps

Retirements:

     Antonio Giovinazzi  Double R Dallara-Merc               34 laps
     Sven Muller         Ma-con Dallara-VW                   34 laps
     Lucas Wolf          URD Dallara-Merc                    34 laps
     Nicholas Latifi     Carlin Dallara-VW                   28 laps
     Tatiana Calderon    Double R Dallara-Merc               15 laps
     Dennis van de Laar  Van Amersfoort Dallara-VW           12 laps
     Sean Gelael         Double R Dallara-Merc                6 laps
     Mitchell Gilbert    Mucke Dallara-Merc                   5 laps
     Daniil Kvyat        Carlin Dallara-VW                     1 lap


Amended Race Two Results - 42 laps:

Pos  Driver              Team/Car                           Time/Gap
 1.  Alex Lynn           Prema Dallara-Merc               34m22.297s
 2.  Felix Rosenqvist    Mucke Dallara-Merc                  +1.257s
 3.  Raffaelle Marciello Prema Dallara-Merc                  +2.355s
 4.  Alexander Sims      T-Sport Dallara-Nissan              +3.258s
 5.  Pipo Derani         Fortec Dallara-Merc                +11.396s
 6.  Felix Serralles     Fortec Dallara-Merc                +12.271s
 7.  Tom Blomqvist       Eurointernational Dallara-Merc     +12.672s
 8.  Harry Tincknell     Carlin Dallara-VW                  +13.647s
 9.  Jordan King         Carlin Dallara-VW                  +19.545s
10.  Michael Lewis       Mucke Dallara-Merc                 +20.098s
11.  Nick Cassidy        Eurointernational Dallara-Merc     +21.008s
12.  Daniil Kvyat        Carlin Dallara-VW                  +21.327s
13.  Lucas Auer          Prema Dallara-Merc                 +25.377s
14.  Lucas Wolf          URD Dallara-Merc                   +27.685s
15.  Roy Nissany         Mucke Dallara-Merc                 +34.228s
16.  Eddie Cheever       Prema Dallara-Merc                 +36.076s
17.  Sven Muller         Ma-con Dallara-VW                  +36.792s
18.  Dennis van de Laar  Van Amersfoort Dallara-VW          +41.601s
19.  Nicholas Latifi     Carlin Dallara-VW                  +44.460s
20.  Andre Rudersdorf    Ma-con Dallara-VW                  +44.616s
21.  Sean Gelael         Double R Dallara-Merc              +44.702s
22.  Mitchell Gilbert    Mucke Dallara-Merc                 +46.229s
23.  Antonio Giovinazzi  Double R Dallara-Merc                +1 lap
24.  Spike Goddard       T-Sport Dallara-Nissan               +1 lap
25.  Sandro Zeller       Zeller Dallara-Merc                  +1 lap
26.  Tatiana Calderon    Double R Dallara-Merc                +1 lap
27.  Jann Mardenborough  Carlin Dallara-VW                    +1 lap
28.  Michela Cerruti     Ferraris Dallara-Merc               +2 laps

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