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Drivers awarded 22 separate penalties

Twenty-two separate penalties have been applied following yesterday's GP3 Series practice session at Hockenheim

Twenty-one of the penalties relate to a single incident, and were triggered when Addax's Pablo Sanchez Lopez spun and became stranded at the exit of the final corner.

While marshals worked to retrieve his car under double-waved yellows, two-thirds of the field set their quickest times over the final sector. Several of the offenders pointed out that the drying track meant that they had improved their times over when it had been wetter despite backing off, but after deliberating overnight the stewards decided to apply the penalties right across the board.

Consequently, Pal Varhaug has been dropped seven grid places (his punishment being increased on the grounds that he lost control under yellows as well as speeding up), and Felipe Guimaraes will be docked five places.

Three-place penalties have been applied to Leonardo Cordeiro, Daniel Juncadella, Nigel Melker, Mirko Bortolotti, Adrian Quaife-Hobbs, Ivan Lukashevich, Lucas Foresti, Doru Sechelariu, Daniel Morad, Diego Nunes (who also has a 10-place penalty carried over into this weekend for causing a crash in the previous round at Silverstone) and Oliver Oakes, the latter also picking up an additional 10-place penalty for ignoring a red flag earlier in the session.

Two-place penalties will be applied to Michael Christensen, Simon Trummer, Stefano Coletti, Tobias Hegewald, Vittorio Ghirelli, Alexander Rossi, and provisional front-row starters James Jakes and Robert Wickens, meaning that Carlin's Josef Newgarden appears set to start today's race from pole.

Final starting order after penalties:

Pos  Driver                Team
 1.  Josef Newgarden       Carlin
 2.  James Jakes           Manor
 3.  Robert Wickens        Status
 4.  Roberto Merhi         Atech CRS
 5.  Renger van der Zande  RSC Mucke
 6.  Adrian Quaife-Hobbs   Manor
 7.  Michael Christensen   MW Arden
 8.  Rio Haryanto          Manor
 9.  Daniel Juncadella     Tech 1
10.  Esteban Gutierrez     ART
11.  Nico Muller           Jenzer
12.  Simon Trummer         Jenzer
13.  Nigel Melker          RSC Mucke
14.  Stefano Coletti       Tech 1
15.  Dean Smith            Carlin
16.  Mirko Bortolotti      Addax
17.  Miki Monras           MW Arden
18.  Tobias Hegewald       RSC Mucke
19.  Alexander Rossi       ART
20.  Pablo Sanchez Lopez   Addax
21.  Pal Varhaug           Jenzer
22.  Doru Sechelariu       Tech 1
23.  Leonardo Cordeiro     MW Arden
24.  Daniel Morad          Status
25.  Lucas Foresti         Carlin
26.  Vittorio Ghirelli     Atech CRS
27.  Felipe Guimaraes      Addax
28.  Pedro Nunes           ART
29.  Ivan Lukashevich      Status
30.  Oliver Oakes          Atech CRS

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