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Nurburgring Euro F3: Ferrari man Raffaele Marciello takes third win

Ferrari protege Raffaele Marciello completed a perfect weekend in the Formula 3 European Championship as he dominated race three at the Nurburgring on Sunday morning

The Italian led into the first corner after starting from pole position and was never headed.

Victory was not only his 10th of the season, but rounded out a weekend in which he led every single racing lap and increased his championship lead to 72.5 points - almost the equivalent of three race wins - over Felix Rosenqvist.

Marciello's Prema team-mate Lucas Auer out-sprinted Rosenqvist's Mucke Motorsport car off the line to grab second into Turn 1 and finished there.

In Rosenqvist's efforts to retake second during the opening sequence of corners, he left a gap into which Pipo Derani slotted his Fortec car, and lost fourth to Harry Tincknell's Carlin machine a few laps later.

Derani finished third to add to his second place in race two while Tincknell just hung on to fourth from Rosenqvist and Prema driver Alex Lynn.

Michael Lewis equalled his best result of 2013 in seventh while his Mucke team-mate Mitch Gilbert took his first points of the year in eighth.

The race was disrupted by an early safety-car period as the wreckage of two opening-lap shunts was cleared up.

The slow-starting Jordan King and Tom Blomqvist collided at Turn 1, resulting in a spin and broken suspension for the former and a puncture for the latter. Sven Muller, Spike Goddard and Tatiana Calderon all took avoiding action, only the Colombian making it through unscathed.

Four corners later Alexander Sims and Felix Serralles made contact, the T-Sport driver retiring and his Puerto Rican rival dropping down the order. Daniil Kvyat then ran into the nearly-stationary Sims, necessitating a pitstop for repairs.

Serralles, who completed the first lap in 17th, finished 12th after some well-judged overtaking moves.

Results - 25 laps:

Pos  Driver              Team/Car                          Time/Gap
 1.  Raffaele Marciello  Prema Dallara-Merc              36m03.350s
 2.  Lucas Auer          Prema Dallara-Merc                 +3.234s
 3.  Pipo Derani         Fortec Dallara-Merc               +15.928s
 4.  Harry Tincknell     Carlin Dallara-VW                 +17.707s
 5.  Felix Rosenqvist    Mucke Dallara-Merc                +18.040s
 6.  Alex Lynn           Prema Dallara-Merc                +18.424s
 7.  Michael Lewis       Mucke Dallara-Merc                +19.901s
 8.  Mitchell Gilbert    Mucke Dallara-Merc                +21.672s
 9.  Eddie Cheever       Prema Dallara-Merc                +23.937s
10.  Antonio Giovinazzi  Double R Dallara-Merc             +24.279s
11.  Jann Mardenborough  Carlin Dallara-VW                 +25.106s
12.  Felix Serralles     Fortec Dallara-Merc               +33.103s
13.  Sean Gelael         Double R Dallara-Merc             +38.988s
14.  Lucas Wolf          URD Dallara-Merc                  +40.743s
15.  Dennis van de Laar  Van Amersfoort Dallara-VW         +41.162s
16.  Daniil Kvyat        Carlin Dallara-VW                 +44.727s
17.  Andre Rudersdorf    Ma-con Dallara-VW                 +45.608s
18.  Roy Nissany         Mucke Dallara-Merc                +46.502s
19.  Tatiana Calderon    Double R Dallara-Merc             +51.260s
20.  Sandro Zeller       Zeller Dallara-Merc               +53.641s
21.  Nicholas Latifi     Carlin Dallara-VW                   +1 lap
22.  Tom Blomqvist       Eurointernational Dallara-Merc      +1 lap

Retirements:

     Alexander Sims      T-Sport Dallara-Nissan               1 lap
     Jordan King         Carlin Dallara-VW                   0 laps
     Sven Muller         Ma-con Dallara-VW                   0 laps
     Spike Goddard       T-Sport Dallara-Nissan              0 laps

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