Merhi stripped of race two podium

The Prema Powerteam driver charged from eighth on the grid to second in Saturday's second race. But his pass on Signature driver Marco Wittmann was deemed outside the regulations.

Merhi had gone wide at Turn 1 on the opening lap to pass Wittmann, and it was decided that he had only been able to pull off the move through excessive use of the run-off.

The officials gave Merhi a 2.4-second penalty, dropping him behind Munoz and Wittmann. The changed result also reduced the Spaniard's nine-point championship lead over Daniel Juncadella to six.

Revised results - 12 laps:

Pos  Driver              Team/Car                  Time/Gap
 1.  Daniel Juncadella   Prema Dallara-Merc      19m13.691s
 2.  Carlos Munoz        Signature Dallara-VW      + 4.350s
 3.  Marco Wittmann      Signature Dallara-VW      + 4.716s
 4.  Roberto Merhi       Prema Dallara-Merc        + 5.105s
 5.  Felix Rosenqvist    Mucke Dallara-Merc        + 5.131s
 6.  Laurens Vanthoor    Signature Dallara-VW      + 5.829s
 7.  Daniel Abt          Signature Dallara-VW      + 8.320s
 8.  Jimmy Eriksson      Motopark Dallara-VW      + 11.563s
 9.  Jazeman Jaafar      Carlin Dallara-VW        + 12.451s
10.  Tom Dillmann        Carlin Dallara-VW        + 12.696s
11.  Nigel Melker        Mucke Dallara-Merc       + 13.255s
12.  Kimiya Sato         Motopark Dallara-VW      + 13.988s
13.  Gianmarco Raimondo  Motopark Dallara-VW      + 22.349s
14.  Kuba Giermaziak     Star Dallara-VW          + 22.936s
15.  Sandro Zeller       Jo Zeller Dallara-Merc   + 23.676s

Retirements:

     Carlos Huertas      Carlin Dallara-VW           4 laps