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James Calado scores maiden GP3 victory in Valencia

James Calado took his maiden GP3 win in style with a lights to flag performance in the second race of the weekend on the streets of Valencia

The ART driver led the field away from pole position, and then gradually pulled out a comfortable cushion while those behind him engaged in a fierce scrap for the remaining points positions.

Second place starter Valtteri Bottas spent the first few laps keeping Dean Smith and Alexander Sims at bay. As the Finn defended from Smith, Sims was able to sneak past around the outside of his countryman into Turn 6, and later in the lap the Status driver was ahead of Bottas' ART car as well.

Bottas held on to third after that, while championship leader Mitch Evans came home best of the rest after some pretty tough fights of his own.

The Kiwi got past his MW Arden team-mate Lewis Williamson on lap three, and on lap nine he pounced to pass Gabby Chaves and Smith as they scrapped over fourth place.

Smith seemed set to come home fifth ahead of his Addax team-mate, but the Briton was given a drive-through penalty on the final lap for ignoring yellow flags.

His penalty was set to hand fifth to Chaves, and a first point to Carlin's Conor Daly, who came alive in the final laps to work his way past race one winner Adrian Quaife-Hobbs (Manor) and Lewis Williamson (MW Arden).

However, Daly then attacked Chaves into the final corner on the last lap, and as both ran wide, Williamson was able to pass Daly on the run to the flag for sixth.

Results - 14 laps:

Pos  Driver                  Team          Time/Gap
 1.  James Calado            ART         28m06.179s
 2.  Alexander Sims          Status        + 4.445s
 3.  Valtteri Bottas         ART           + 7.917s
 4.  Mitch Evans             MW Arden     + 10.808s
 5.  Gabby Chaves            Addax        + 18.843s
 6.  Lewis Williamson        MW Arden     + 19.133s
 7.  Conor Daly              Carlin       + 19.212s
 8.  Adrian Quaife-Hobbs     Manor        + 20.037s
 9.  Vittorio Ghirelli       Jenzer       + 20.659s
10.  Luciano Bacheta         RSC Mucke    + 21.298s
11.  Dean Smith              Addax        + 22.293s
12.  Nick Yelloly            Atech CRS    + 22.817s
13.  Tamas Pal Kiss          Tech 1       + 27.269s
14.  Nico Muller             Jenzer       + 28.381s
15.  Pedro Nunes             ART          + 34.266s
16.  Marlon Stockinger       Atech CRS    + 40.739s
17.  Leonardo Cordeiro       Carlin       + 51.691s
18.  Zoel Amberg             Atech CRS  + 1m01.816s
19.  Nigel Melker            RSC Mucke  + 1m39.578s

Retirements:

     Antonio Felix da Costa  Status         13 laps
     Maxim Zimin             Jenzer         13 laps
     Rio Haryanto            Manor          13 laps
     Michael Christensen     RSC Mucke       8 laps
     Tom Dillmann            Addax           8 laps
     Daniel Morad            Carlin          0 laps
     Matias Laine            Manor           0 laps
     Aaro Vainio             Tech 1          0 laps
     Simon Trummer           MW Arden        0 laps
     Ivan Lukashevich        Status          0 laps
     Thomas Hylkema          Tech 1          0 laps

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