Kiss wins Barcelona GP3 race two

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