Emil Bernstorff won the second GP3 race at the Red Bull Ring, charging through from seventh on the grid and avoiding the crashing leaders to take his first series victory.
Bernstorff’s Carlin team-mate Luis Sa Silva led from pole, but had Status’s Nick Yelloly attacking him right from the start. Yelloly grasped the lead at Turn 1 on lap two, but Sa Silva repassed him at Turn 2.
This led to a bottleneck of cars behind, and third-placed Matheo Tuscher was able to leapfrog Yelloly for second on the exit of Turn 2 and attacked Sa Silva into Turn 3.
Sa Silva failed to leave him a car’s width on the inside, however, and once on the grass Tuscher was out of control and flew over Sa Silva’s rear wheel and into the gravel, taking the erstwhile leader with him.
Unhindered by this, Bernstorff inherited the lead and cruised to a 7.7s victory.
Richie Stanaway lost second place to Jimmy Eriksson with a handful of laps remaining, as Eriksson outbraked him into Turn 2.
The rear-tyre-troubled Stanaway fended off Roman de Beer to the finish for third, de Beer having passed Yelloly for third at Turn 3 with three laps remaining.
Patric Niederhauser finished sixth after Jann Mardenborough spun out of that position at Turn 6 on lap seven. Dino Zamparelli completed the point scorers, while fellow Briton Dean Stoneman charged from 23rd to 10th.
Yesterday’s winner Alex Lynn finished 20th after being forced to pit for a new front wing on the opening lap.
Results - 18 laps:
Pos Driver Team Time/Gap
1. Emil Bernstorff Carlin 23m24.023s
2. Jimmy Eriksson Koiranen +7.793s
3. Richie Stanaway Status +11.891s
4. Roman de Beer Trident +12.336s
5. Nick Yelloly Status +12.985s
6. Patric Niederhauser Arden +13.423s
7. Patrick Kujala Manor +16.947s
8. Dino Zamparelli ART +19.196s
9. Pal Varhaug Jenzer +19.701s
10. Dean Stoneman Manor +21.213s
11. Riccardo Agostini Hilmer +21.551s
12. Santiago Urrutia Koiranen +23.846s
13. Ryan Cullen Manor +24.676s
14. Robert Visoiu Arden +25.503s
15. Adderly Fong Jenzer +26.670s
16. Nelson Mason Hilmer +27.382s
17. Alex Fontana ART +30.742s
18. Victor Carbone Trident +33.153s
19. Alfonso Celis Jr Status +37.441s
20. Alex Lynn Carlin +57.946s
21. Carmen Jorda Koiranen +1m11.813s
22. Luis Sa Silva Carlin -1 lap
Retirements
Jann Mardenborough Arden 7 laps
Matheo Tuscher Jenzer 1 lap
Marvin Kirchhofer ART 0 laps
Nikolay Martsenko Hilmer 0 laps
