Monza European F3: Rosenqvist wins as race abandoned after crashes

Officials had warned drivers at an emergency meeting last night, in the wake of a shambolic second race, that continuing bad behaviour would not be tolerated.

The abandoned race, like the second, will only count for half-points.

Rosenqvist converted his pole position into an early race lead, with front-row partner Charles Leclerc in second place and Jake Dennis squeezing past Antonio Giovinazzi into the Rettifilo chicane for third.

But the race immediately went under a safety car as Ryan Tveter launched over Fabian Schiller and crashed to a stop.

On the second lap of the restart, Dennis pulled off a beautiful move around the outside of Leclerc to take second place at the Roggia chicane to make it a Prema Powerteam one-two.

"I have to thank the team, because we had a perfect car this weekend," said Rosenqvist.

"Three poles, three wins and eight safety cars, which I think I managed to deal quite well with.

"But unfortunately we got penalised because of other drivers being stupid - just 50 points instead of 75."

Meanwhile, behind Giovinazzi, a great battle for fifth was resolved in Brandon Maisano's favour over Gustavo Menezes.

A hectic scrap behind featured George Russell carving through from outside the points to seventh in about half a lap, but this group came to grief at the Rettifilo when Mikkel Jensen tripped over Lance Stroll and landed in the gravel with deranged suspension.

Santino Ferrucci, Stroll and Maximilian Gunther moved up to complete the top 10.

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