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Barcelona GP2: Williams F1 test driver Alex Lynn wins for DAMS

Williams Formula 1 protege Alex Lynn claimed his maiden GP2 victory in the sprint race at Barcelona

The DAMS driver started fourth on the grid, passing wheelspinning team-mate Pierre Gasly and Raffele Marciello to run second by the first corner.

He then tracked pole-position starter Norman Nato's Arden machine, closing in on him using the DRS on the start/finish straight and taking the lead into Turn 1.

Lynn subsequently consolidated his lead, with championship leader Stoffel Vandoorne, who started eighth after winning Saturday's feature race, moved up to second.

Vandoorne closed in on Lynn just after half-distance and looked to be lining up an attack, only for Lynn to respond.

Last year's GP3 champion crossed the line 2.2 seconds ahead of Vandoorne.

While Marciello spun at the restart after an early virtual safety car period, caused by a collision between Rene Binder and Andre Negrao, Gasly recovered from his bad start to take third place ahead of Racing Engineering's Alexander Rossi.

Campos driver Rio Haryanto and the vastly improved Artem Markelov also worked their way past the fading Nato.

Haryanto looked set to finish fifth until he was passed by Markelov into the first corner on lap 22.

Arthur Pic also passed Nato, although the Campos driver had been hit with a five-second penalty for being out of position on the grid, which contributed to an aborted start.

This relegated Pic to eighth ahead of MP Motorsport's Daniel de Jong.

Feature-race runner up Mitch Evans had a disastrous day, with his Russian Time machine stopping on track before the race had even got under way.

RESULTS - 25 LAPS:

Pos Driver Team Gap
1 Alex Lynn DAMS 41m30.395s
2 Stoffel Vandoorne ART Grand Prix 2.204s
3 Pierre Gasly DAMS 8.320s
4 Alexander Rossi Racing Engineering 9.614s
5 Artem Markelov RUSSIAN TIME 11.964s
6 Rio Haryanto Campos Racing 13.686s
7 Norman Nato Arden International 23.506s
8 Arthur Pic Campos Racing 25.090s
9 Daniel de Jong MP Motorsport 32.003s
10 Sergey Sirotkin Rapax 33.552s
11 Jordan King Racing Engineering 33.591s
12 Nathanael Berthon Lazarus 34.276s
13 Zoel Amberg Lazarus 34.560s
14 Nick Yelloly Hilmer Motorsport 38.041s
15 Sergio Canamasas MP Motorsport 42.181s
16 Julian Leal Carlin 42.742s
17 Raffaele Marciello Trident 43.110s
18 Nobuharu Matsushita ART Grand Prix 46.006s
19 Richie Stanaway Status Grand Prix 53.190s
20 Marlon Stockinger Status Grand Prix 53.573s
21 Andre Negrao Arden International 55.887s
22 Marco Sorensen Carlin 59.535s
23 Robert Visoiu Rapax 1m01.886s
- Johnny Cecotto Jr. Hilmer Motorsport Brakes
- Mitch Evans RUSSIAN TIME Not started
- Rene Binder Trident Accident

CHAMPIONSHIP POSITIONS:

Pos Driver Points
1 Stoffel Vandoorne 86
2 Rio Haryanto 49
3 Alexander Rossi 46
4 Mitch Evans 28
5 Alex Lynn 25
6 Nathanael Berthon 16
7 Pierre Gasly 16
8 Jordan King 12
9 Robert Visoiu 12
10 Julian Leal 10
11 Raffaele Marciello 8
12 Nobuharu Matsushita 7
13 Artem Markelov 6
14 Norman Nato 6
15 Arthur Pic 3
16 Andre Negrao 3
17 Richie Stanaway 1

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