Red Bull Ring GP2: King leads Rowland, Lynn in all-British podium
Jordan King led from pole position to the chequered flag to lead a British 1-2-3 in an absorbing reversed-grid GP2 Series race at a wet Red Bull Ring
King was elevated from 10th to eighth in the results of the Saturday feature race thanks to a couple of post-race penalties to other drivers, giving him pole position for Sunday.
The Racing Engineering driver grabbed the opportunity with both hands and was never seriously threatened throughout a race that featured a festival of overtaking in his wake.
After three laps behind the safety car, King led team-mate Norman Nato, but the Frenchman seemed to struggle for pace in the wet.
It took a few laps for Oliver Rowland to breach Nato's defences, and once into second the MP Motorsport man cut the gap to King, but the leader then responded to pull out a four-second advantage.
The safety car appeared with seven laps remaining after Nicholas Latifi spun at Turn 1 and came to rest just off the track on the inside, but the field spent just one lap under caution.
King made no mistakes on the restart and Rowland had no chance of challenging him.
Raffaele Marciello had stayed close to Rowland for most of the race, but the Russian Time man came under threat from Alex Lynn, who had stormed through from 11th on the grid in his DAMS car, at the restart.
It took about half a lap to complete the move, but Lynn got the better of Marciello to complete the all-British podium.
Marciello then had to fend off a feisty Antonio Giovinazzi, the Prema man having taken to the gravel early in the race before redeeming himself with a mighty drive back up from 13th position, and only just failing to catch Marciello on the line.
Luca Ghiotto was also well in the mix but there was heartbreak for the Trident driver when he spun at the final corner of the last lap, dropping to ninth - and out of the points - behind Sergey Sirotkin, Pierre Gasly and Mitch Evans.
The late safety car gave the midfielders chance to make an opportunist switch to slicks for the drying circuit.
But the brevity of the caution meant they were too far adrift of the field once they rejoined, and to compound this the crossover came with only two laps to go.
Artem Markelov was the best of them in 11th, although Nato claimed fastest lap at the flag on his way to 12th.
RESULTS - 28 LAPS:
| Pos | Driver | Team | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jordan King | Racing Engineering | 44m34.966s |
| 2 | Oliver Rowland | MP Motorsport | 6.019s |
| 3 | Alex Lynn | DAMS | 7.702s |
| 4 | Raffaele Marciello | RUSSIAN TIME | 10.234s |
| 5 | Antonio Giovinazzi | Prema Racing | 10.417s |
| 6 | Sergey Sirotkin | ART Grand Prix | 11.821s |
| 7 | Pierre Gasly | Prema Racing | 12.594s |
| 8 | Mitch Evans | Pertamina Campos Racing | 12.881s |
| 9 | Luca Ghiotto | Trident | 15.878s |
| 10 | Sergio Canamasas | Carlin | 35.019s |
| 11 | Artem Markelov | RUSSIAN TIME | 57.740s |
| 12 | Norman Nato | Racing Engineering | 1m00.076s |
| 13 | Jimmy Eriksson | Arden International | 1m00.107s |
| 14 | Philo Paz Armand | Trident | 1m16.880s |
| 15 | Rene Binder | ART Grand Prix | 1m17.325s |
| 16 | Gustav Malja | Rapax | 1 Lap |
| 17 | Nabil Jeffri | Arden International | 1 Lap |
| 18 | Arthur Pic | Rapax | 1 Lap |
| 19 | Marvin Kirchhofer | Carlin | 1 Lap |
| 20 | Daniel de Jong | MP Motorsport | 1 Lap |
| - | Nicholas Latifi | DAMS | Retirement |
| - | Sean Gelael | Pertamina Campos Racing | Retirement |
CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS
| Pos | Driver | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Raffaele Marciello | 66 |
| 2 | Mitch Evans | 56 |
| 3 | Norman Nato | 55 |
| 4 | Artem Markelov | 54 |
| 5 | Oliver Rowland | 54 |
| 6 | Antonio Giovinazzi | 52 |
| 7 | Alex Lynn | 51 |
| 8 | Pierre Gasly | 47 |
| 9 | Jordan King | 45 |
| 10 | Sergey Sirotkin | 40 |
| 11 | Nobuharu Matsushita | 32 |
| 12 | Sean Gelael | 24 |
| 13 | Nicholas Latifi | 21 |
| 14 | Marvin Kirchhofer | 18 |
| 15 | Luca Ghiotto | 14 |
| 16 | Sergio Canamasas | 14 |
| 17 | Jimmy Eriksson | 10 |
| 18 | Daniel de Jong | 6 |
| 19 | Arthur Pic | 4 |
| 20 | Gustav Malja | 3 |
| 21 | Nabil Jeffri | 2 |
| 22 | Philo Paz Armand | 0 |
| 23 | Rene Binder | 0 |
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