Evans wins GP3 race two at Hockenheim, which is marred by two serious accidents

Lotus's Daniel Abt was the early leader, a rocket-like start taking him past poleman Evans (MW Arden), who spent the run to the first corner squeezing Tamas Pal Kiss towards the pitwall to retain second place.

The race was soon interrupted by a lengthy safety car after a lap one crash that involved Piria. Her Trident car was overtaken by Kevin Ceccon's Ocean machine, who was lunging wildly down the inside of the Spitzkehre hairpin after being relegated from third to 17th after yesterday's race for a rules infringement. Apparently distracted by Ceccon, who was going so fast he spun at the exit, she rode over the back of Robert Cregan's Ocean car and was launched into the air, landing just before a second, even harsher impact with Will Buller's Carlin machine, which launched her skyward again.

Piria stopped short of the tyrewall, but needed to be extracted while still in her seat, which took up seven laps of the race under the safety car.

At the restart, Evans wasted little time in lining up a pass on Abt. Evans made a superbly-judged outbraking move at Spitzkehre to grab the lead, taking fastest lap on that tour despite that. He was fastest of all on the next lap too, to extended a 1.1s lead over Abt when the safety car was required again.

This time, Fabiano Machado's Marussia Manor car ran wide at Turn 1 and was launched into the air when he hit a bump in the grass. The severity of the landing caused him such pain that he was unable to get out of the car, and the ambulance was required at the scene.

The race finished under the safety car in the order Evans, Abt, Daly (who passed Pal Kiss at the hairpin on the opening lap), Pal Kiss, Matias Laine, Aaro Vainio, Tio Ellinas and Giovanni Venturini. Evans extends his championship lead, with 121 points against Vainio's 103.

Results - 15 laps:

Pos  Driver                  Team         Time/Gap
 1.  Mitch Evans             MW Arden   30m14.349s
 2.  Daniel Abt              Lotus        + 0.428s
 3.  Conor Daly              Lotus        + 0.987s
 4.  Tamas Pal Kiss          Atech CRS    + 1.342s
 5.  Matias Laine            MW Arden     + 2.737s
 6.  Aaro Vainio             Lotus        + 2.917s
 7.  Tio Ellinas             Manor        + 3.086s
 8.  Giovanni Venturini      Trident      + 4.020s
 9.  Patric Niederhauser     Jenzer       + 5.553s
10.  David Fumanelli         MW Arden     + 6.602s
11.  Marlon Stockinger       Status       + 6.784s
12.  Robert Visoiu           Jenzer       + 8.972s
13.  Alex Brundle            Carlin       + 9.201s
14.  Dmitry Suranovich       Manor       + 10.306s
15.  Kevin Ceccon            Ocean       + 11.715s
16.  Ethan Ringel            Atech CRS   + 12.218s

Retirements:

     Carmen Jorda            Ocean         10 laps
     Fabiano Machado         Manor          8 laps
     Robert Cregan           Ocean          5 laps
     Alice Powell            Status         0 laps
     Will Buller             Carlin         0 laps
     Lewis Williamson        Status         0 laps
     Antonio Felix da Costa  Carlin         0 laps
     Vicky Piria             Trident        0 laps