Ericsson wins again at Hockenheim

The Swede started third and vaulted past Renger van der Zande (Hitech) and championship leader Daniel Ricciardo on the first lap.

Ericsson resisted intense pressure from van der Zande, who briefly forged ahead, but ultimately the Swede had enough pace to stay in command of the race and win largely from the front.

Ricciardo could not stay with the leaders and held a distant third for the first half of the race, until van der Zande's team-mate Walter Grubmuller (up from row four) found a way past on lap 12 to take the final podium place.

Grubmuller's progress was aided by a first lap incident that eliminated Daisuke Nakajima (Double R), Riki Christodoulou (Fortec) and series debutant Robert Wickens (Carlin) at the tight right-hand hairpin at turn three.

The F2 Championship leader's Carlin team-mate Max Chilton ran fourth early on, but lost out to Grubmuller's charge on lap five and ran a lonely fifth after that.

T-Sport's Adriano Buzaid completed an unspectacular run to sixth, shadowed throughout by Colombian Carlos Huertas, who had an equally uneventful run to seventh.

JTR's Nick Tandy - a winner at Rockingham two weeks ago - stalled from his row five grid slot at the start, but recovered to eighth. He made short work of the lower order and meticulously picked off Victor Garcia (Fortec) and Wayne Boyd (T-Sport) once into the points, but curtailed his charge with a scrappy lap 11 and made no further progress.

Brazilian Victor Correa inherited his maiden National Class win when Gabriel Dias (T-Sport) and Daniel McKenzie (Fortec) ended their races together in the gravel four laps from the end.

Classified:

Pos  Driver             Make                  Time
 1.  Marcus Ericsson    Dallara/Mercedes      30:20.552
 2.  R.van der Zande    Dallara/Mercedes      +   1.188
 3.  W.Grubmüller       Dallara/Mercedes      +   7.278
 4.  Daniel Ricciardo   Dallara/Volkswagen    +   9.775
 5.  Max Chilton        Dallara/Volkswagen    +  13.583
 6.  Adriano Buzaid     Dallara/Volkswagen    +  14.526
 7.  Carlos Huertas     Dallara/Mercedes      +  16.281
 8.  Nick Tandy         Mygale/Mercedes       +  25.770
 9.  Wayne Boyd         Dallara/Volkswagen    +  30.279
10.  Victor Garcia      Dallara/Mercedes      +  36.380
11.  Hywel Lloyd        Dallara/Mugen-Honda   +  37.029
12.  Jay Bridger        Mygale/Mercedes       +  37.440
13.  Victor Corrêa      SLC/Mugen-Honda       +1:11.333
14.  Henry Arundel      Dallara/Volkswagen    +1:19.100

Not classified:

     Driver             Make                 Laps
     Gabriel Dias       Dallara/Mugen-Honda   14
     Daniel McKenzie    Dallara/Mugen-Honda   14
     Robert Wickens     Dallara/Volkswagen    0
     R.Christodoulou    Dallara/Mercedes      0
     Daisuke Nakajima   Dallara/Mercedes      0

Fastest lap: Van der Zande, 1:34.763 on lap 7