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Monaco GP2: Richie Stanaway takes first win for Status GP

Richie Stanaway scored a lights-to-flag victory in the GP2 sprint race at Monaco, giving the Status team its first win in the Formula 1 support category

From the outside of the front row, Kiwi Stanaway powered a past bogged down polesitter Raffaele Marciello away from the lights.

Sergey Sirotkin slotted in ahead of third-qualifier Julian Leal into Sainte Devote, and the top-three would remain static until the chequered flag.

As in the Monaco feature race on Friday, Sergio Canamasas was in feisty and inspired form, making a bold pass on Leal into Sainte Devote on lap seven.

Canamasas just made the corner, and once past he pulled eight seconds clear to back up his feature race podium with another strong points haul.

A congested first lap conspired to produce multiple incidents and retirements.

Championship challenger Alexander Rossi, in sixth, was fortunate to survive nose-butting the rear of Arthur Pic's Campos machine at Sainte Devote, and the American escaped apparently with just cosmetic damage.

A more spectacular accident occurred at the tail of the field on the run up to Massenet, when Lazarus GP driver Zoel Amberg became entangled with former Monaco GP2 winner Johnny Cecotto Jr and found the barriers.

Both drivers were joined in retirement by Bahrain sprint race winner Rio Haryanto, who was squeezed very wide on the exit of the hairpin by Norman Nato.

Haryanto was unable to complete the corner, and a virtual safety-car was deployed as the three stricken cars were removed from the circuit.

On the restart, Stanaway demonstrated a clear, if tight, pace advantage over Marciello, and by mid-distance his lead stood at three seconds.

Ferrari Academy driver Marciello, in turn, held a comfortable two second lead over Sirotkin, as the leaders fanned out.

After eventual sixth-placed finisher Pic dropped back in his efforts to wrest fifth from Leal, the closest battles on track were disputed by a train of cars behind Red Bull Junior racer Pierre Gasly in 10th and a slightly tardy Rene Binder in 15th.

Former British Formula 3 champion Jordan King's attempts at pressurising Gasly into a mistake went dramatically wrong six laps from home, when he made contact with the rear of the DAMS machine into the chicane.

King was launched into the air and exited the race at high speed down the escape road.

Championship leader and feature race victor Stoffel Vandoorne was eighth, one place behind Rossi, but has a 44-point lead over the Racing Engineering man in the drivers' standings.

For the second sprint race in succession, Mitch Evans was unable to take the start after his Russian Time car stopped out on track on the way to the grid.

SPRINT RACE RESULT

Pos Driver Team Laps Gap
1 Richie Stanaway Status Grand Prix 30 42m45.918s
2 Raffaele Marciello Trident 30 2.038s
3 Sergey Sirotkin Rapax 30 3.207s
4 Sergio Canamasas MP Motorsport 30 5.698s
5 Julian Leal Carlin 30 13.479s
6 Arthur Pic Campos Racing 30 20.637s
7 Alexander Rossi Racing Engineering 30 22.119s
8 Stoffel Vandoorne ART Grand Prix 30 23.103s
9 Nick Yelloly Hilmer Motorsport 30 33.361s
10 Pierre Gasly DAMS 30 45.367s
11 Alex Lynn DAMS 30 46.007s
12 Daniel de Jong MP Motorsport 30 47.018s
13 Robert Visoiu Rapax 30 47.331s
14 Artem Markelov RUSSIAN TIME 30 47.697s
15 Nathanael Berthon Lazarus 30 50.015s
16 Rene Binder Trident 30 58.315s
17 Andre Negrao Arden International 30 58.464s
18 Marlon Stockinger Status Grand Prix 30 59.823s
19 Nobuharu Matsushita ART Grand Prix 30 1m00.570s
20 Marco Sorensen Carlin 30 1m08.579s
21 Norman Nato Arden International 30 1m10.989s
- Jordan King Racing Engineering 24 Retirement
- Johnny Cecotto Jr. Hilmer Motorsport 0 Retirement
- Mitch Evans RUSSIAN TIME 0 Not started
- Zoel Amberg Lazarus 0 Retirement
- Rio Haryanto Campos Racing 0 Retirement

CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS:

Pos Driver Points
1 Stoffel Vandoorne 114
2 Alexander Rossi 70
3 Rio Haryanto 49
4 Mitch Evans 28
5 Alex Lynn 25
6 Raffaele Marciello 24
7 Julian Leal 24
8 Sergio Canamasas 23
9 Richie Stanaway 22
10 Sergey Sirotkin 20
11 Arthur Pic 19
12 Pierre Gasly 16
13 Nathanael Berthon 16
14 Jordan King 14
15 Robert Visoiu 12
16 Nobuharu Matsushita 7
17 Artem Markelov 6
18 Norman Nato 6
19 Andre Negrao 3
20 Nick Yelloly 3
21 Daniel de Jong 0
22 Rene Binder 0
23 Marlon Stockinger 0
24 Zoel Amberg 0
25 Marco Sorensen 0
26 Johnny Cecotto Jr. 0


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