Monza European F3: Rosenqvist wins as race abandoned after crashes
Felix Rosenqvist completed a Monza hat-trick in the final race of the Formula 3 European Championship round, which was red-flagged and not restarted after nine laps
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.
RESULTS - 8 LAPS:
Pos | Driver | Team | Car | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Felix Rosenqvist | Prema Powerteam | Dallara/Mercedes | 19m40.310s |
2 | Jake Dennis | Prema Powerteam | Dallara/Mercedes | 1.441s |
3 | Charles Leclerc | Van Amersfoort Racing | Dallara/Volkswagen | 2.700s |
4 | Antonio Giovinazzi | Jagonya Ayam with Carlin | Dallara/Volkswagen | 3.211s |
5 | Brandon Maisano | Prema Powerteam | Dallara/Mercedes | 4.184s |
6 | Gustavo Menezes | Jagonya Ayam with Carlin | Dallara/Volkswagen | 4.745s |
7 | George Russell | Carlin | Dallara/Volkswagen | 6.211s |
8 | Santino Ferrucci | KFZTeile24 Mucke Motorsport | Dallara/Mercedes | 7.365s |
9 | Maximilian Guenther | KFZTeile24 Mucke Motorsport | Dallara/Mercedes | 8.966s |
10 | Markus Pommer | Motopark | Dallara/Volkswagen | 9.603s |
11 | Pietro Fittipaldi | Fortec Motorsports | Dallara/Mercedes | 10.749s |
12 | Raoul Hyman | Team West-Tec F3 | Dallara/Mercedes | 12.066s |
13 | Tatiana Calderon | Carlin | Dallara/Volkswagen | 12.426s |
14 | Callum Ilott | Carlin | Dallara/Volkswagen | 13.502s |
15 | Martin Cao | Fortec Motorsports | Dallara/Mercedes | 13.949s |
16 | Nicolas Pohler | Double R Racing | Dallara/Mercedes | 14.578s |
17 | Alessio Lorandi | Van Amersfoort Racing | Dallara/Volkswagen | 14.947s |
18 | Artur Janosz | EuroInternational | Dallara/Mercedes | 16.237s |
19 | Matt Solomon | Double R Racing | Dallara/Mercedes | 17.348s |
20 | Arjun Maini | Van Amersfoort Racing | Dallara/Volkswagen | 18.063s |
21 | Nabil Jeffri | Motopark | Dallara/Volkswagen | 19.175s |
22 | Sergio Sette Camara | Motopark | Dallara/Volkswagen | 20.643s |
23 | Julio Moreno | ThreeBond with T-Sport | Dallara/NBE | 21.894s |
24 | Kang Ling | KFZTeile24 Mucke Motorsport | Dallara/Mercedes | 22.859s |
25 | Mahaveer Raghunathan | Motopark | Dallara/Volkswagen | 23.818s |
26 | Sam MacLeod | Motopark | Dallara/Volkswagen | 49.121s |
- | Lance Stroll | Prema Powerteam | Dallara/Mercedes | Excluded |
- | Mikkel Jensen | KFZTeile24 Mucke Motorsport | Dallara/Mercedes | Retirement |
- | Fabian Schiller | Team West-Tec F3 | Dallara/Mercedes | Retirement |
- | Dorian Boccolacci | Signature | Dallara/Volkswagen | Excluded |
- | Alexander Albon | Signature | Dallara/Volkswagen | Withdrawn |
- | Michele Beretta | KFZTeile24 Mucke Motorsport | Dallara/Mercedes | Withdrawn |
- | Ryan Tveter | Jagonya Ayam with Carlin | Dallara/Volkswagen | Retirement |
- | Matt Rao | Fortec Motorsports | Dallara/Mercedes | Excluded |
- | Facu Regalia | EuroInternational | Dallara/Mercedes | Withdrawn |
CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS:
Pos | Driver | Points |
---|---|---|
1 | Antonio Giovinazzi | 182 |
2 | Charles Leclerc | 166.5 |
3 | Felix Rosenqvist | 160 |
4 | Jake Dennis | 129 |
5 | George Russell | 68 |
6 | Maximilian Guenther | 65 |
7 | Mikkel Jensen | 53.5 |
8 | Lance Stroll | 51 |
9 | Alexander Albon | 50 |
10 | Gustavo Menezes | 35 |
11 | Brandon Maisano | 30 |
12 | Markus Pommer | 28.5 |
13 | Arjun Maini | 23 |
14 | Santino Ferrucci | 20 |
15 | Callum Ilott | 14 |
16 | Alessio Lorandi | 14 |
17 | Pietro Fittipaldi | 11 |
18 | Raoul Hyman | 8.5 |
19 | Sam MacLeod | 2 |
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