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Wickens wins dramatic race in HockenheimStatus GP's Robert Wickens has claimed his first GP3 Series race victory in style today moving himself into second spot in the Series standings. After an abandoned start and second formation lap Race 1 at Hockenheimring got underway, but before the first lap was complete chaos ensued. Polesitter Josef Newgarden (promoted after practice penalties) had a good start off the line, but it wasn't enough to hold off a charging Wickens. The Status driver passed both James Jakes from Manor Racing and Newgarden in quick succession, but before the Canadian could make the most of his lead the safety car was deployed for a race incident further down the grid . Jenzer Motorsport's Nico Mullerr, RSC Mucke Motorsport's Nigel Melker, MW Arden's Miki Monras and Leonardo Cordeiro and Carlin's Lucas Foresti all collided in Turn 2 and had to retire.
Wickens held on to his lead at the restart, but Newgarden's race went from bad to worse when he was passed by RSC Mucke Motorsport's Renger van der Zande and ART Grand Prix's Esteban Gutierrez. However, the restart was short lived when Status GP's Daniel Morad, ART's Alexander Rossi and MW Arden's Michael Christensen clashed causing the second red flag of the race and prematurely ending the race for all three, albeit Morad continued for a further four laps. After the second restart the field settled into the remainder of the race but lap 6 saw the end of the race for three more drivers: Manor Racing's Rio Haryanto, Addax Team's Pablo Sanchez Lopez and RSC Mucke's Tobias Hegewald after the three came together. Wickens started putting clean air between him and second placed man Jakes and consistently posted fastest laps throughout. By the final stages of the race the top four had pulled away from the remainder of the pack with over five seconds between them and fifth place man Stefano Coletti, the Tech 1 Racing driver capitalising on others. misfortune to move up from 14th on the grid. The final drama of the race came on the last lap between Newgarden and Merhi. The Carlin and Atech CRS GP drivers. clashing putting an end to Newgarden's dismal race and promoting Daniel Juncadella to reversed pole position for tomorrow's race. Wickens crossed the line to take his first victory followed by Jake and van der Zande took the final podium spot for RSC Mucke Motorsport despite race long pressure from Series leader Gutierrez in fourth. Coletti finished in fifth spot ahead of Addax Team's Mirko Bortolotti and the Italian's teammate Felipe Guimaraes. Juncadella took the final point of the race for Tech 1 Racing. The action continues tomorrow at 09:25 local time with Race 2.
Full Race 1 results:
CAR # Driver Team Laps Time Gap
1 4 R. WICKENS Status Grand Prix 17 29:40.963
2 7 J. JAKES Manor Racing 17 29:43.358 2.395
3 11 R. VAN DER ZANDE RSC Muecke Motorsport 17 29:44.542 3.579
4 2 E. GUTIERREZ ART Grand Prix 17 29:44.963 4.000
5 27 S. COLETTI Tech 1 Racing 17 29:52.299 11.336
6 19 M. BORTOLOTTI Addax Team 17 29:52.866 11.903
7 17 F. GUIMARAES Addax Team 17 29:53.474 12.511
8 28 D. JUNCADELLA Tech 1 Racing 17 30:01.315 20.352
9 15 D. SMITH Carlin 17 30:01.935 20.972
10 26 D. SECHELARIU Tech 1 Racing 17 30:02.312 21.349
11 24 S. TRUMMER Jenzer Motorsport 17 30:02.610 21.647
12 23 P. VARHAUG Jenzer Motorsport 17 30:04.300 23.337
13 30 O. OAKES Atech CRS GP 17 30:06.425 25.462
14 3 P. NUNES ART Grand Prix 17 30:08.059 27.096
15 31 V. GHIRELLI Atech CRS GP 17 30:13.759 32.796
16 29 R. MERHI Atech CRS GP 17 30:21.052 40.089
17 5 I. LUKASHEVICH Status Grand Prix 17 30:21.166 40.203
18 14 J. NEWGARDEN Carlin 16 28:24.369 DNF
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6 D. MORAD Status Grand Prix 7 14:08.440 DNF
8 R. HARYANTO Manor Racing 6 12:27.765 DNF
18 P. SANCHEZ LOPEZ Addax Team 6 12:28.257 DNF
12 T. HEGEWALD RSC Muecke Motorsport 6 12:58.107 DNF
20 M. CHRISTENSEN MW Arden 3 6:17.859 DNF
1 A. ROSSI ART Grand Prix 3 6:18.664 DNF
25 N. MULLER Jenzer Motorsport 0 DNF
10 N. MELKER RSC Muecke Motorsport 0 DNF
21 M. MONRAS MW Arden 0 DNF
22 L. CORDEIRO MW Arden 0 DNF
16 L. FORESTI Carlin 0 DNF
9 A. QUAIFE-HOBBS Manor Racing 0 DNS
FASTEST LAP
4 R. WICKENS Status GP 1:33.080 LAP 15
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