Nurburgring Euro F3: Ferrari's Raffaele Marciello dominates race one

Having taken pole position for each of the weekend's races, the Prema Powerteam driver made a strong getaway and held off Alexander Sims and Felix Rosenqvist at the first corner to hang on to first place.

After that he was able to pull away from T-Sport driver Sims to the tune of six seconds, which was more than enough to secure him an eighth victory of the season.

Sims, who won an F3 Euro Series race with T-Sport at the same circuit last year, gave the Threebond Nissan-powered squad its best result of the 2013 season.

Rosenqvist, who was hung out to dry by Sims at Turn 1 as he tried to pass on the outside, finished third. The Mucke Motorsport man's deficit to Marciello in the championship increased from 24.5 to 34.5 points as a result.

Carlin's Jordan King was fourth in the best of the Volkswagen-engined cars with Lucas Auer fifth for Prema and Pipo Derani a strong sixth.

Derani's Fortec team-mate Felix Serralles was involved in the only real fight during the race.

Lying eighth, Serralles spent most of the 26 laps under pressure from Sven Muller, but was given breathing space when the Ma-con driver ran wide and into the gravel and grass exiting Turn 7.

Daniil Kvyat instantly nipped through for ninth while Muller moved across to prevent Harry Tincknell passing as well.

That allowed both Mitch Gilbert and Tom Blomqvist onto his tail, the quartet circulating together, although without the order changing, until the finish.

Michael Lewis was a season's best seventh while Alex Lynn - third in the championship - was a disappointing 14th.

Results - 25 laps:

Pos  Driver               Team/Car                        Time/Gap
 1.  Raffaele Marciello   Prema Dallara-Merc            34m39.637s
 2.  Alexander Sims       T-Sport Dallara-Nissan           +6.147s
 3.  Felix Rosenqvist     Mucke Dallara-Merc               +7.604s
 4.  Jordan King          Carlin Dallara-VW                +7.981s
 5.  Lucas Auer           Prema Dallara-Merc              +14.591s
 6.  Pipo Derani          Fortec Dallara-Merc             +14.920s
 7.  Michael Lewis        Mucke Dallara-Merc              +15.766s
 8.  Felix Serralles      Fortec Dallara-Merc             +25.156s
 9.  Daniil Kvyat         Carlin Dallara-VW               +25.633s
10.  Sven Muller          Ma-con Dallara-VW               +27.379s
11.  Harry Tincknell      Carlin Dallara-VW               +28.202s
12.  Mitchell Gilbert     Mucke Dallara-Merc              +29.448s
13.  Tom Blomqvist        Eurointernational Dallara-VW    +30.465s
14.  Alex Lynn            Prema Dallara-Merc              +31.200s
15.  Jann Mardenborough   Carlin Dallara-VW               +33.067s
16.  Eddie Cheever        Prema Dallara-Merc              +34.944s
17.  Roy Nissany          Mucke Dallara-Merc              +36.519s
18.  Antonio Giovinazzi   Double R Dallara-Merc           +37.516s
19.  Nicholas Latifi      Carlin Dallara-VW               +39.530s
20.  Sean Gelael          Double R Dallara-Merc           +48.937s
21.  Spike Goddard        T-Sport Dallara-Nissan          +49.377s
22.  Tatiana Calderon     Double R Dallara-Merc           +53.699s
23.  Dennis van der Laar  Van Amersfoort Dallara-VW       +59.496s
24.  Sandro Zeller        Zeller Dallara-Merc           +1m05.442s
25.  Andre Rudersdorf     Ma-con Dallara-VW                 +1 lap

Retirements:

     Lucas Wolf           URD Dallara-Merc                 13 laps