Kiss wins Barcelona GP3 race two
Tamas Pal Kiss took his maiden GP3 victory with a lights-to-flag win in race two at Barcelona
The Tech 1 driver made a solid start and got to the first corner almost unchallenged. From then on he just had to keep Mucke's Nigel Melker at a safe distance to hang on to the win.
Melker climbed from third to second at the start by sweeping around the outside of Dean Smith (Addax), who held on to third for the whole race.
The Briton came under some pressure from Tech 1's Andrea Caldarelli once the latter's fourth-placed team-mate Aaro Vainio came in to serve a jump-start drive-through penalty, but the Italian's charge effectively ended three laps from home when he locked up into Turn 1 as Smith defended his place.
Race one winner Mitch Evans came home fifth for MW Arden, while the final point when to a fast-starting Gabby Chaves (Addax), who went from 13th to seventh on the opening lap, and moved up to sixth when Vainio dropped out of contention.
The start of the race was particularly dramatic as several cars either jumped it or stalled - and in some cases did both.
Nico Muller and James Calado were the highest-placed runners unable to get away. While Calado did eventually get moving - and was subsequently penalised for jumping the start as well - Muller was stranded and then hit in spectacular fashion by Marlon Stockinger and Alexander Sims.
Results - 16 laps:
Pos Driver Team Time/Gap
1. Tamas Pal Kiss Tech 1 31m08.280s
2. Nigel Melker RSC Mucke + 1.294s
3. Dean Smith Addax + 2.657s
4. Andrea Caldarelli Tech 1 + 4.055s
5. Mitch Evans MW Arden + 5.671s
6. Valtteri Bottas ART + 9.341s
7. Vittorio Ghirelli Jenzer + 10.615s
8. Lewis Williamson MW Arden + 11.830s
9. Zoel Amberg Atech CRS + 14.205s
10. Rio Haryanto Manor + 15.542s
11. Michael Christensen RSC Mucke + 17.398s
12. Ivan Lukashevich Status + 18.038s
13. Daniel Morad Carlin + 19.171s
14. Leonardo Cordeiro Carlin + 19.733s
15. Luciano Bacheta RSC Mucke + 22.275s
16. Antonio Felix da Costa Status + 22.785s
17. Gabby Chaves Addax + 27.122s
18. Nick Yelloly Atech CRS + 29.727s
19. Maxim Zimin Jenzer + 30.180s
20. Aaro Vainio Tech 1 + 31.256s
21. James Calado ART + 43.066s
22. Conor Daly Carlin + 46.796s
23. Adrian Quaife-Hobbs Manor + 50.892s
24. Matias Laine Manor + 1 lap
Retirements:
Simon Trummer MW Arden 14 laps
Pedro Nunes ART 14 laps
Dominic Storey Addax 14 laps
Alexander Sims Status 0 laps
Marlon Stockinger Atech CRS 0 laps
Nico Muller Jenzer 0 laps
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