Kevin Magnussen wins second British F3 race at Spa for Carlin

Much like race one winner Roberto Merhi, Magnussen converted pole into an immediate lead with a strong start and stretched out an early lead with some rapid initial laps.

Magnussen was followed home by his Carlin team-mate Rupert Svendsen-Cook and Merhi's fast-starting Prema Powerteam team-mate Daniel Juncadella.

Juncadella rose from eighth on the grid to head Svendsen-Cook on the first lap, before the Brit fought back and reclaimed the place.

He chased hard after Magnussen with Juncadella in tow, but finished 2.6 seconds adrift after eight laps of racing.

Fourth placed Hannes van Asseldonk was the star of this race. The German F3 regular started 12th, but climbed to eighth on the opening lap, as race one winner Merhi (seventh on the grid) and Carlin's Jazeman Jaafar (who started fifth) tumbled down the order after appearing to tangle at Les Combes.

The Dutchman then worked his way past British F3 championship leader Felipe Nasr (Carlin) and Signature team-mates Carlos Munoz and Marco Wittmann, before finishing just 0.8s adrift of the podium.

Signature's Laurens Vanthoor completed a strong drive from 17th on the grid by further demoting Nasr on the penultimate lap to finish seventh, while Fortec's Will Buller and Carlin's Carlos Huertas looked set to round out the top 10, but both were jumped by Signature's Daniel Abt on the final lap.

Results - 8 laps:

Pos  Driver                Team            Car              Time/Gap
 1.  Kevin Magnussen       Carlin          Dallara-VW     18m12.965s
 2.  Rupert Svendsen-Cook  Carlin          Dallara-VW       + 2.614s
 3.  Daniel Juncadella     Prema           Dallara-Merc     + 3.369s
 4.  Hannes van Asseldonk  Van Amersfoort  Dallara-VW       + 4.245s
 5.  Marco Wittmann        Signature       Dallara-VW       + 6.118s
 6.  Carlos Munoz          Signature       Dallara-VW       + 7.143s
 7.  Laurens Vanthoor      Signature       Dallara-VW       + 7.862s
 8.  Felipe Nasr           Carlin          Dallara-VW       + 8.485s
 9.  Daniel Abt            Signature       Dallara-VW      + 13.043s
10.  Will Buller           Fortec          Dallara-Merc    + 14.563s
11.  Carlos Huertas        Carlin          Dallara-VW      + 14.866s
12.  Jack Harvey           Carlin          Dallara-VW      + 15.177s
13.  Lucas Foresti         Fortec          Dallara-Merc    + 17.934s
14.  Pietro Fantin         Hitech          Dallara-VW      + 18.811s
15.  Roberto Merhi         Prema           Dallara-Merc    + 19.964s
16.  Jazeman Jaafar        Carlin          Dallara-VW      + 24.116s
17.  Scott Pye             Double R        Dallara-Merc    + 26.246s
18.  Raffaelle Marciello   Prema           Dallara-Merc    + 28.423s
19.  Hywel Lloyd           Sino Vision     Dallara-Merc    + 28.757s
20.  Yann Cunha            T-Sport         Dallara-VW      + 29.939s
21.  Adderly Fong          Sino Vision     Dallara-Merc    + 31.981s
22.  Pipo Derani           Double R        Dallara-Merc    + 33.185s
23.  Bart Hylkema          T-Sport         Dallara-VW      + 39.149s
24.  Kotaro Sakurai        Hitech          Dallara-Mugen   + 50.402s

Retirements:

     Menasheh Idafar       T-Sport         Dallara-VW         5 laps
     Harry Tincknell       Fortec          Dallara-Merc       4 laps
     Marko Asmer           Double R        Dallara-Merc       2 laps
     Fahmi Ilyas           Fortec          Dallara-Merc       2 laps