Mortara seals second Macau crown

The Signature driver fought back from third place at one point in the incident-filled race to take a win that rounds off his title-winning F3 Euro Series campaign in perfect style.

Mortara had led away cleanly from pole position at the start and defended well into Lisboa, holding off Daniel Abt who had jumped ahead of front-row starter Laurens Vanthoor.

But the safety car was called out almost immediately, following a collision on the grid that put Carlos Munoz and Rio Haryanto out - and left Alexander Sims interlocked with the rear of Raikkonen Robertson team-mate Michael Ho.

The race restarted on lap three and, although Mortara tried to build up a cushion, he was swiftly swallowed up by Abt and Vanthoor - who both slipstreamed past him on the run into Lisboa.

But just a few corners later, leader Abt got it badly wrong at the Solitude Esses - swiping the wall on the right before bouncing into the barriers on the left-hand side. Vanthoor avoided getting caught up in the crash and took the lead.

With Abt's car stranded on the track another safety car was called, and at the restart on lap seven Mortara seized the opportunity to draft himself past Vanthoor on the run down to Lisboa.

After that, Mortara pulled clear at the front - opening a comfortable two-second gap to Vanthoor, who found himself under pressure in the closing stages from Bottas.

Although Bottas had shown he had the pace to threaten Vanthoor, after moving up to third place on lap eight, he did not quite have the straight-line speed to overhaul his rival, so finished third.

Fourth place went to Marco Wittmann, who finished ahead of Renger van der Zande, Antonio Felix da Costa, and Jean-Eric Vergne, while Roberto Merhi charged back through the pack after his first race puncture to finish eighth.

Pos Driver                   Team         Car              Time/Gap
 1. Edoardo Mortara          Signature    D/V    15 laps/39m30.753s
 2. Laurens Vanthoor         Signature    D/V                +2.120
 3. Valtteri Bottas          Prema        D/M                +3.156
 4. Marco Wittmann           Signature    D/V                +6.230
 5. Renger van der Zande     Motopark     D/V               +10.631
 6. Antonio Felix da Costa   Carlin       D/V               +13.173
 7. Jean-Eric Vergne         Carlin       D/V               +16.508
 8. Roberto Merhi            Prema        D/M               +19.313
 9. Felix Rosenqvist         Performance  D/V               +20.343
10. Carlos Huertas           Hitech       D/V               +21.362
11. Felipe Nasr              Raikkonen    D/M               +22.994
12. Alexandre Imperatori     Toda         D/H               +23.926
13. Hideki Yamauchi          Hanashima    D/T               +25.486
14. Jazeman Jaafar           Carlin       D/V               +25.989
15. William Buller           Fortec       D/M               +31.563
16. Yuji Kunimoto            TOM's        D/T               +36.143
17. Rafael Suzuki            TOM's        D/T               +36.621
18. Oliver Webb              Fortec       D/M               +41.413
19. James Calado             Carlin       D/V               +41.753
20. Yuhi Sekiguchi           Three Bond   D/N               +46.198
21. Adderly Fong             Sino Vision  D/M               +46.336
22. Lucas Foresti            Fortec       D/M               +46.731
23. Hywel Lloyd              CF/Manor     D/M               +49.720
24. Kimiya Sato              Motopark     D/V               +52.555

Retirements:

    Daniel Abt              Signature     D/V                2 laps
    Rio Haryanto            Raikkonen     D/M                0 laps
    Michael Ho              Raikkonen     D/M                0 laps
    Carlos Munoz            Hitech        D/V                0 laps
    Daniel Juncadella       Prema         D/M                0 laps
    Alexander Sims          Raikkonen     D/M                0 laps