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Silverstone Euro F3: Felix Rosenqvist wins action-packed race two

A pair of stunning overtaking moves gave Felix Rosenqvist victory in a breathtaking second Formula 3 European Championship race at Silverstone

The Swede beat polesitter Harry Tincknell into the first corner, but relinquished the lead at the end of an early safety-car period; being overtaken by Tincknell and Will Buller at the restart.

"I made a mistake at the restart," he said. "I thought you could not pass before the finish line, but this was wrong.

"They [Tincknell and Buller] both passed me after the line at the pit entrance and I didn't think you could do this, but at least I managed to recover."

Mucke Motorsport driver Rosenqvist was clearly faster than the two Brits and swept around the outside of Buller's T-Sport car at Brooklands at half-distance.

He repeated the move on Tincknell three laps later after a failed earlier attempt, Rosenqvist being edged onto the grass at the exit of the turn before grabbing the inside line for Luffield.

After that he romped away to victory while Tincknell began to hold up a train of six cars.

Six became five when Buller clipped a wet patch of asphalt and spun at Club, and Tincknell, who was struggling for pace due to floor damage at the rear of his car, was soon under pressure from championship leader Raffaele Marciello, who had made his way up from ninth thanks to a series of decisive passing moves.

Marciello passed Tincknell for second in the infield with three laps left while his Prema team-mate Lucas Auer also made it past the Brit for third two corners later.

Tincknell finished fourth, right ahead of Tom Blomqvist, while Alex Lynn brilliantly passed Josh Hill for sixth at the penultimate corner of the race, having spun down to 20th on the opening lap.

Sven Muller escaped punishment after locking up and pushing Mans Grenhagen and Nicholas Latifi out of fourth and fifth places as the safety car pulled off the track.

Antonio Giovinazzi stalled at the start, Felix Serralles and Jann Mardenborough colliding as each attempted to avoid the stationary Double R machine. All three retired on the spot; the track blockage necessitating the safety car.

Results - 18 laps:

Pos  Driver               Team/Car                          Time/Gap
 1.  Felix Rosenqvist     Mucke Dallara-Merc              36m10.418s
 2.  Raffaelle Marciello  Prema Dallara-Merc                + 3.507s
 3.  Lucas Auer           Prema Dallara-Merc                + 5.069s
 4.  Harry Tincknell      Carlin Dallara-VW                 + 8.227s
 5.  Tom Blomqvist        Eurointernational Dallara-Merc    + 8.326s
 6.  Alex Lynn            Prema Dallara-Merc                + 9.077s
 7.  Josh Hill            Fortec Dallara-Merc               + 9.466s
 8.  Pipo Derani          Fortec Dallara-Merc              + 12.645s
 9.  Will Buller          T-Sport Dallara-Nissan           + 13.289s
10.  Eddie Cheever        Prema Dallara-Merc               + 14.808s
11.  Michael Lewis        Mucke Dallara-Merc               + 15.323s
12.  Dennis van der Laar  Van Amersfoort Dallara-VW        + 16.970s
13.  Lucas Wolf           URD Dallara-Merc                 + 21.843s
14.  Mitchell Gilbert     Mucke Dallara-Merc               + 24.127s
15.  Spike Goddard        T-Sport Dallara-Nissan           + 24.730s
16.  Sean Geleal          Double R Dallara-Merc            + 27.346s
17.  Andre Rudersdorf     Ma-con Dallara-VW                + 37.145s
18.  Roy Nissany          Mucke Dallara-Merc               + 42.443s
19.  Tatiana Calderan     Double R Dallara-Merc            + 45.177s
20.  Sandro Zeller        Zeller Dallara-Merc              + 50.793s

Retirements:

     Mans Grenhagen       Van Amersfoort Dallara-VW          15 laps
     Jordan King          Carlin Dallara-VW                  14 laps
     Gary Thompson        Ferraris Dallara-Merc              14 laps
     Nicholas Latifi      Carlin Dallara-VW                   3 laps
     Sven Muller          Ma-con Dallara-VW                   2 laps
     Felix Serralles      Fortec Dallara-Merc                 0 laps
     Antonio Giovanazzi   Double R Dallara-Merc               0 laps
     Jann Mardenborough   Carlin Dallara-VW                   0 laps

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