Pietro Fantin claims his maiden Formula 3 win after a penalty for Felipe Nasr

Carlin driver Nasr passed poleman Fantin's Hitech car through the banked first turn after the start and led the opening 14 laps of the race, but a penalty for not respecting the track limits dropped him down the order.

Fantin closed out the final eight laps to take his first win in the category, leading home Carlin trio Rupert Svendsen-Cook, Jack Harvey and Jazeman Jaafar.

"My start was not the best - my clutch slipped a bit - so I just had to keep following," said the winner. "It might not have been possible to get the place back, but luck is a part of motorsport and I had it!"

This closely-matched leading quartet was trailed home at some distance by Carlin's Carlos Huertas in fifth, while Nasr rejoined eighth after his penalty but recovered to sixth after repassing Double R's Scott Pye and Fortec's Will Buller.

Buller was also slapped with a drive-through penalty for running repeatedly outside the track limits, but failed to serve it before the chequered flag fell and crossed the line seventh.

Carlin's Kevin Magnussen ran fourth in the early laps, but fell to 13th after running off the road at Deene hairpin under the safety car, called for a first-lap tangle in the midfield.

The Dane pulled off some daring late-braking moves to recover to eighth on the road, ahead of Pye and T-Sport's Menasheh Idafar.

Sino Vision's Hywel Lloyd claimed the final point for 10th, after Buller was hit with a retrospective 60s penalty for not serving his drive-through.

Results - 23 laps:

Pos  Driver                Team         Car              Time/Gap
 1.  Pietro Fantin         Hitech       Dallara-VW        30m37.904s
 2.  Rupert Svendsen-Cook  Carlin       Dallara-VW          + 1.219s
 3.  Jack Harvey           Carlin       Dallara-VW          + 2.412s 
 4.  Jazeman Jaafar        Carlin       Dallara-VW          + 3.240s 
 5.  Carlos Huertas        Carlin       Dallara-VW         + 13.216s
 6.  Felipe Nasr           Carlin       Dallara-VW         + 15.995s  
 7.  Kevin Magnussen       Carlin       Dallara-VW         + 22.660s   
 8.  Scott Pye             Double R     Dallara-Merc       + 23.390s 
 9.  Menasheh Idafar       T-Sport      Dallara-VW         + 25.025s 
10.  Hywel Lloyd           Sino Vision  Dallara-Merc       + 25.938s  
11.  Lucas Foresti         Fortec       Dallara-Merc       + 26.495s 
12.  Bart Hylkema          T-Sport      Dallara-VW         + 30.815s 
13.  Pipo Derani           Double R     Dallara-Merc       + 30.961s  
14.  Adderly Fong          Sino Vision  Dallara-Merc       + 42.438s 
15.  William Buller        Fortec       Dallara-Merc     + 1m22.175s
16.  Luca Orlandi          West-Tec     Dallara-Mugen        + 1 lap  

Retirements:

     Harry Tincknell       Fortec       Dallara-Merc          4 laps     
     Yann Cunha            T-Sport      Dallara-VW            0 laps 
     Fahmi Ilyas           Fortec       Dallara-Merc          0 laps     
                                                              
Not classified:                                        
                                                              
     Kotaro Sakurai        Hitech       Dallara-Mugen         0 laps