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Merhi victorious in Ricard race two

Roberto Merhi made up for his earlier disappointment by winning the second Formula 3 Euro Series race of the weekend at Paul Ricard

The Prema driver moved up from his fifth place on the reversed grid immediately and lay third by the end of the opening lap, right behind Signature's Marco Wittmann, who had started one place ahead of him.

Within a few laps, both Wittmann and Merhi had drafted past polesitter Laurens Vanthoor (Signature), and set about disputing the lead between themselves.

The critical moment came on lap four when Merhi used the power of his Mercedes engine - and a slipstream - to seize the lead from Wittmann's Volkswagen-engined car. After that the Spaniard moved just out of reach of the German and went on to take victory by 0.8 seconds.

During the latter stages of the race Daniel Juncadella - who had spent lap after lap trying to get by Carlos Munoz's Signature car - closed in on Wittmann, but was unable to make a challenge as he was suffering from a gearbox glitch.

Race one winner Nigel Melker came through to fourth by the finish, but was given a post-race 30s penalty for unsporting behaviour on the track that dropped him to 12th in the results.

His Mucke team-mate Felix Rosenqvist therefore inherited fourth place, ahead of Vanthoor, but the Belgian was penalised 5s himself for his on-track behaviour, which dropped him to seventh behind Munoz and Kimiya Sato in the best of the Motopark cars.

Results - 10 laps:

Pos  Driver              Team/Car                Time/Gap
 1.  Roberto Merhi       Prema Dallara-Merc    19m10.637s
 2.  Marco Wittmann      Signature Dallara-VW    + 0.800s
 3.  Daniel Juncadella   Prema Dallara-Merc      + 1.360s
 4.  Felix Rosenqvist    Mucke Dallara-Merc      + 7.056s
 5.  Carlos Munoz        Signature Dallara-VW   + 10.152s
 6.  Kimiya Sato         Motopark Dallara-VW    + 10.394s
 7.  Laurens Vanthoor    Signature Dallara-VW   + 11.856s
 8.  Kuba Giermaziak     Star Dallara-VW        + 12.607s
 9.  Jimmy Eriksson      Motopark Dallara-VW    + 13.492s
10.  Gianmarco Raimondo  Motopark Dallara-VW    + 16.438s
11.  Daniel Abt          Signature Dallara-VW   + 16.940s
12.  Nigel Melker        Mucke Dallara-Merc     + 34.948s

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