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F3 Macau: Antonio Felix da Costa wins qualifying race for Carlin

Antonio Felix da Costa won the qualification race for the Macau Grand Prix after leading all 10 laps around the Guia circuit

From the outside of the front row, the Portuguese driver immediately got ahead of polesitter Alex Lynn.

Felix Rosenqvist, fourth on the grid, got an even better start and moved into the lead, but da Costa slipstreamed back ahead of him into Lisboa for the first time.

Da Costa took four laps to build his lead to a second, but by the seventh lap Rosenqvist began to close. Da Costa then extended his advantage again as the Carlin Dallara-Volkswagen led home the Mucke Motorsport Dallara-Mercedes.

"Today it's all about bringing it home," said GP3 and Formula Renault 3.5 race winner da Costa.

"Tomorrow is the day that counts. I pushed a bit on the first lap, then I managed to break the tow and pull away."Lynn lost a couple of seconds to the leading duo on the opening lap, in part due to having to repass the fast-starting Daniel Juncadella and fend off Carlos Sainz Jr on the run to Lisboa.

He then maintained the gap and finished a comfortable third in his Fortec Motorsport Dallara-Mercedes.

As Lynn and Sainz repassed Juncadella, Harry Tincknell took advantage to also demote the European champion and move into fifth.

Juncadella got Tincknell got back on lap four, and from then on Carlin driver Sainz had his work cut out fending off Juncadella's Prema Powerteam Dallara-Mercedes.

Fortec runner Tincknell and Mucke driver Pascal Wehrlein also latched onto this group, and by the end it had grown to six as Hannes van Asseldonk and Felipe Nasr joined in, the Dutchman passing the Brazilian on the final lap.

Alexander Sims completed the top 10 in his ThreeBond/T-Sport Dallara-Nissan, winning a seesawing battle with Raffaele Marciello.

Four cars crashed out, although there were no safety cars. The most significant of the retirements was Felix Serralles, who was racing through from a back-of-the-grid start, his penalty for needing an engine change after his shunt in qualifying. He retired with a broken wishbone halfway through the race after brushing the wall on the opening lap.

Meanwhile, Kevin Korjus started his Double R Racing Dallara-Mercedes from the pitlane and was too far adrift to climb into the top 20.

Race result: 10 laps

Pos  Driver                  Team/Car                       Time/Gap
 1.  Antonio Felix da Costa  Carlin Dallara-VW              22m31.290s
 2.  Felix Rosenqvist        Mucke Dallara-Mercedes           + 1.559s
 3.  Alex Lynn               Fortec Dallara-Mercedes          + 4.567s
 4.  Carlos Sainz Jr         Carlin Dallara-VW                + 7.638s
 5.  Daniel Juncadella       Prema Dallara-Mercedes           + 8.460s
 6.  Harry Tincknell         Fortec Dallara-Mercedes         + 10.427s
 7.  Pascal Wehrlein         Mucke Dallara-Mercedes          + 11.452s
 8.  Hannes van Asseldonk    Prema Dallara-Mercedes          + 12.264s
 9.  Felipe Nasr             Carlin Dallara-VW               + 13.243s
10.  Alexander Sims          T-Sport Dallara-Nissan          + 14.439s
11.  Raffaele Marciello      Prema Dallara-Mercedes          + 16.747s
12.  Jack Harvey             Carlin Dallara-VW               + 18.291s
13.  Pipo Derani             Fortec Dallara-Mercedes         + 21.565s
14.  Will Buller             Carlin Dallara-VW               + 22.296s
15.  Daniel Abt              Carlin Dallara-VW               + 24.338s
16.  Hideki Yamauchi         B-Max Dallara-Toyota            + 24.778s
17.  Jimmy Eriksson          Double R Dallara-Mercedes       + 30.092s
18.  Tom Blomqvist           Euro International Dallara-VW   + 30.578s
19.  Jazeman Jaafar          TOM'S Dallara-Toyota            + 32.945s
20.  Mitchell Gilbert        Mucke Dallara-Mercedes          + 34.180s
21.  Kevin Korjus            Double R Dallara-Mercedes       + 40.698s
22.  Lucas Auer              Van Amersfoort Dallara-VW       + 42.149s
23.  Luis Sa Silva           Angola Dallara-Mercedes         + 48.582s
24.  Ryo Hirakawa            RSS Dallara-Toyota              + 49.825s
25.  Dennis van de Laar      Van Amersfoort Dallara-VW       + 50.579s
26.  Lucas Wolf              URD Dallara-Mercedes            + 50.829s

Retirements:

     Sven Muller             Prema Dallara-Mercedes             8 laps
     Andrea Roda             Jo Zeller Dallara-Mercedes         8 laps
     Felix Serralles         Fortec Dallara-Mercedes            6 laps
     Yuichi Nakayama         TOM'S Dallara-Toyota               3 laps

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