Nurburgring Euro F3: Ferrari's Raffaele Marciello takes another win

The Italian, who started from pole position, got the jump on the field at the start and was never seriously challenged as he took his Prema Powerteam Dallara-Mercedes to a ninth win of 2013.

His main title rival and fellow front-row starter Felix Rosenqvist stalled at the start, allowing Alexander Sims into second place off the line.

The T-Sport driver was overtaken at the first corner by Fortec driver Pipo Derani and was unable to get back past as the Brazilian took his best result of the year. Behind them were Carlin's Jordan King and Prema's Lucas Auer.

A mid-race safety car, triggered after Lucas Wolf ploughed into a spun Roy Nissany at Turn 1, closed up the pack and allowed Sven Muller to nip by Felix Serralles for sixth at the same corner as racing resumed.

Alex Lynn was also able to get by Serralles by the end, capping a good recovery drive from 13th on the grid.

Even more impressive was Rosenqvist, who finished the opening lap 22nd and gradually made his way through the field to finish ninth.

His standout moment came when he passed Tom Blomqvist and Daniil Kvyat in four corners to close onto the fringes of the points with a handful of laps to go.

Rosenqvist's result means he is now an increased 57.5 points behind Ferrari protege Marciello in the championship with 10 races left and 250 points available.

Results - 25 laps:

Pos  Driver              Team/Car                        Time/Gap
 1.  Raffaele Marciello  Prema Dallara-Merc            36m17.972s
 2.  Pipo Derani         Fortec Dallara-Merc              +5.466s
 3.  Alexander Sims      T-Sport Dallara-Nissan           +6.159s
 4.  Jordan King         Carlin Dallara-VW                +6.841s
 5.  Lucas Auer          Prema Dallara-Merc               +9.159s
 6.  Sven Muller         Ma-con Dallara-VW               +11.045s
 7.  Alex Lynn           Prema Dallara-Merc              +11.382s
 8.  Felix Serralles     Fortec Dallara-Merc             +12.637s
 9.  Felix Rosenqvist    Mucke Dallara-Merc              +17.272s
10.  Harry Tincknell     Carlin Dallara-VW               +18.453s
11.  Michael Lewis       Mucke Dallara-Merc              +19.214s
12.  Tom Blomqvist       Eurointernational Dallara-VW    +19.545s
13.  Daniil Kvyat        Carlin Dallara-VW               +20.426s
14.  Mitchell Gilbert    Mucke Dallara-Merc              +20.849s
15.  Eddie Cheever       Prema Dallara-Merc              +21.412s
16.  Antonio Giovinazzi  Double R Dallara-Merc           +21.907s
17.  Nicholas Latifi     Carlin Dallara-VW               +22.442s
18.  Sean Gelael         Double R Dallara-Merc           +23.002s
19.  Dennis van de Laar  Van Amersfoort Dallara-VW       +23.892s
20.  Tatiana Calderon    Double R Dallara-Merc           +25.460s
21.  Spike Goddard       T-Sport Dallara-Nissan          +27.425s
22.  Andre Rudersdorf    Ma-con Dallara-VW               +27.758s
23.  Sandro Zeller       Zeller Dallara-Merc           +1m00.931s

Retirements:

     Roy Nissany         Mucke Dallara-Merc               13 laps
     Lucas Wolf          URD Dallara-Merc                 13 laps
     Jann Mardenborough  Carlin Dallara-VW                  1 lap