Marciello moves to within one point of F3 Euro Series lead after second win at Brands Hatch

The Italian teenager lay second initially, but was gifted the lead when his leading Prema team-mate Daniel Juncadella was given a drive-through penalty for lining up ahead of his pole position marking on the grid.

By the time Juncadella surrendered a three-second lead to take his penalty, Marciello was left with a 5s advantage over Carlin's Will Buller and was able to increase it to over 15s by the end.

Marciello's third Euro Series win of the year means he is only one point behind Juncadella in the standings, but has increased his lead over Carlos Sainz Jr in the FIA European F3 Championship, for which the race also counted, to 22 points.

Buller's second place was the British driver's best finish in the Euro Series and came by a comfortable margin from Prema's Michael Lewis, who took his second podium of the weekend in third.

Carlin driver Sainz finished on Lewis' tail in fourth, while a few seconds further back Pascal Wehrlein finished fifth for Mucke, his race being made easier when his team-mate Felix Rosenqvist retired from right behind him with a clutch problem.

Harry Tincknell was the best of the British F3 interlopers in sixth for Carlin, while ma-con driver Tom Blomqvist finished right behind him.

After dropping to 14th after his pitstop, Juncadella overtook four cars to bring himself onto the tail of Fahmi Ilyas for ninth. Diving down the inside of the Double R driver at Druids with 15 laps to go, slight contact was made, bending the Malaysian's right-front suspension and putting him out of the race.

Juncadella finished eighth, ahead of Emil Bernstorff's ma-con car and Prema driver Sven Muller.

Muller had dropped to the tail of the field after colliding with race two winner Jazeman Jaafar at Graham Hill bend on the opening lap. Both resumed, with a second attempt by Muller to pass at Druids 20 laps later giving his Carlin rival bent steering and forcing him out.

Results - 56 laps:

Pos  Driver               Team/Car                  Time/Gap
 1.  Raffaelle Marciello  Prema Dallara-Merc      39m06.997s
 2.  Will Buller          Carlin Dallara-VW        + 15.537s
 3.  Michael Lewis        Prema Dallara-Merc       + 17.987s
 4.  Carlos Sainz Jr      Carlin Dallara-VW        + 20.476s
 5.  Pascal Wehrlein      Mucke Dallara-Merc       + 26.308s
 6.  Harry Tincknell      Carlin Dallara-VW        + 26.995s
 7.  Tom Blomqvist        ma-con Dallara-VW        + 28.318s
 8.  Daniel Juncadella    Prema Dallara-Merc       + 31.036s
 9.  Emil Bernstorff      ma-con Dallara-VW        + 39.753s
10.  Sven Muller          Prema Dallara-Merc       + 40.182s
11.  Andrea Roda          Jo Zeller Dallara-Merc     + 1 lap
12.  Geoff Uhrhane        Double R Dallara-Merc      + 1 lap
13.  Lucas Wolf           URD Dallara-Merc           + 1 lap
14.  Sandro Zeller        Jo Zeller Dallara-Merc     + 1 lap

Retirements:

     Fahmi Ilyas          Double R Dallara-Merc      43 laps
     Felix Rosenqvist     Mucke Dallara-Merc         39 laps
     Jazeman Jaafar       Carlin Dallara-VW          22 laps
     Luis Sa Silva        Angola Dallara-Merc         0 laps