Mortara wins again at Brands Hatch

Mortara rocketed off the line from third on the grid, and dived between polesitting team-mate Laurens Vanthoor and the third Signature car of Marco Wittman into Paddock.

Vanthoor clung to the inside line, but was forced to lift-off to avoid a collision, which allowed Mortara to complete his move around the outside of him to lead.

From that point on, Mortara was never challenged. He led by over five seconds in the middle stages before backing off to win by 3.7s.

Vanthoor held off the challenge of ART's Valtteri Bottas, who had also made a fantastic start to run third from fifth on the grid, for lap after lap. But just over half distance, Bottas outbraked himself at Graham Hill Bend and allowed Wittman to nip past him, to ensure a Signature Dallara-VW 1-2-3.

Bottas held on to fourth, ahead of team-mate Alexander Simms, who passed Prema's Daniel Juncadella on lap 25. Behind Juncadella, Carlos Munoz (Mucke) and Antonio Felix da Costa (Motopark) rounded out the point scorers.

Pos  Driver                  Team       Car    Time/Gap
 1.  Edoardo Mortara         Signature  D/V  28m19.770s
 2.  Laurens Vanthoor        Signature  D/V    + 3.761s
 3.  Marco Wittmann          Signature  D/V    + 4.406s
 4.  Valtteri Bottas         ART        D/M    + 4.746s
 5.  Alexander Sims          ART        D/M    + 5.723s
 6.  Daniel Juncadella       Prema      D/M    + 7.369s
 7.  Carlos Munoz            Mucke      D/M   + 16.439s
 8.  Antonio Felix da Costa  Motopark   D/V   + 17.160s
 9.  Mika Maki               Motopark   D/V   + 24.372s
10.  Matias Laine            Motopark   D/V   + 25.762s
11.  Roberto Merhi           Mucke      D/M   + 26.025s
12.  Nicolas Marroc          Prema      D/M   + 26.737s
13.  Jim Pla                 ART        D/M   + 31.183s