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Hungary GP2: Sergey Sirotkin beats Jordan King for first 2016 win

ART's Sergey Sirotkin beat Jordan King to victory in the GP2 sprint race at the Hungaroring to claim his first win of the 2016 season

King's Racing Engineering team-mate Norman Nato completed the podium, while Prema Racing's Pierre Gasly extended his championship lead after finishing safely in the pack.

Polesitter King, eyeing a third reversed-grid win in as many races, held the lead off the line at the start of the race as Sirotkin rocketed from sixth on the grid and dived down the inside of Nato and ART team-mate Nobuharu Matsushita at Turn 1.

As the pack went through Turn 2, Arthur Pic spun and forced the field to take evasive action, but DAMS' Alex Lynn collected the Rapax driver, while Matsushita and Trident's Luca Ghiotto ended up in the barriers on the exit of the corner.

The safety car was required to allow the marshals to clear away the four stranded cars, and when it came in after four laps, King immediately ran wide at Turn 13 before the restart, allowing Sirotkin to press him for the lead.

When the pair raced onto the pit straight, King defended the inside line on the approach to Turn 1, and the Briton looked to have held position.

But a snap of oversteer on the run to Turn 3 gave Sirotkin the chance to move alongside and the Russian sealed the move under braking for Turn 4.

From there, Sirotkin pulled clear and although the pair exchanged fastest laps approaching the halfway mark, the 20-year-old extended his lead over King to 4.9 seconds by the chequered flag to seal victory, his second in GP2.

Nato came home just ahead of Russian Time's charging Artem Markelov, who had passed Campos Racing's Mitch Evans for fourth with a late move down the inside at Turn 1 in the early stages.

MP Motorsport's Oliver Rowland closed in on Evans in the closing stages, but the Briton had to settle for sixth.

Red Bull Formula 1 junior and race one winner Gasly finished seventh, one spot ahead of Raffaele Marciello.

Frenchman Gasly extended his points lead by sealing the fastest lap, while Prema team-mate Antonio Giovinazzi picked up front wing damage and a 10-second penalty for colliding with Matsushita on the first lap, which forced the Italian driver to pit for repairs. He finished 17th.

Carlin's Sergio Canamasas and Campos' Sean Gelael completed the top 10, with the latter surviving pressure from MP Motorsport's Daniel de Jong and a warning for exceeding track limits at the top chicane late in the race.

Gasly's championship lead is now seven points over Giovinazzi, with Marciello 11 further back in third.

RESULT - 28 LAPS:

Pos Driver Team Gap
1 Sergey Sirotkin ART Grand Prix 44m47.059s
2 Jordan King Racing Engineering 4.953s
3 Norman Nato Racing Engineering 7.506s
4 Artem Markelov RUSSIAN TIME 8.988s
5 Mitch Evans Pertamina Campos Racing 14.146s
6 Oliver Rowland MP Motorsport 15.283s
7 Pierre Gasly Prema Racing 16.662s
8 Raffaele Marciello RUSSIAN TIME 20.939s
9 Sergio Canamasas Carlin 25.985s
10 Sean Gelael Pertamina Campos Racing 30.884s
11 Daniel de Jong MP Motorsport 32.518s
12 Nicholas Latifi DAMS 35.100s
13 Marvin Kirchhofer Carlin 36.913s
14 Gustav Malja Rapax 39.660s
15 Philo Paz Armand Trident 46.412s
16 Nabil Jeffri Arden International 1m00.825s
17 Antonio Giovinazzi Prema Racing 1m01.928s
- Jimmy Eriksson Arden International Retirement
- Nobuharu Matsushita ART Grand Prix Collision
- Alex Lynn DAMS Collision
- Arthur Pic Rapax Collision
- Luca Ghiotto Trident Collision

CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS

Pos Driver Points
1 Pierre Gasly 107
2 Antonio Giovinazzi 96
3 Raffaele Marciello 85
4 Oliver Rowland 83
5 Norman Nato 81
6 Jordan King 80
7 Mitch Evans 77
8 Sergey Sirotkin 70
9 Artem Markelov 65
10 Nobuharu Matsushita 56
11 Alex Lynn 51
12 Luca Ghiotto 38
13 Sean Gelael 24
14 Nicholas Latifi 21
15 Marvin Kirchhofer 19
16 Sergio Canamasas 14
17 Arthur Pic 14
18 Jimmy Eriksson 10
19 Daniel de Jong 6
20 Gustav Malja 3
21 Nabil Jeffri 2
22 Philo Paz Armand 0
23 Rene Binder 0

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