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Silverstone Euro F3: Raffaele Marciello triumphs in finale

Ferrari protege Raffaele Marciello took victory in Sunday's final FIA Formula 3 European Championship race of the weekend at Silverstone

Marciello did it in dramatic fashion, hunting down long-time leader Felix Rosenqvist and sweeping ahead on the outside into Stowe Corner on the penultimate lap.

Rosenqvist, from third on the grid, had launched his Mucke Motorsport Dallara-Mercedes ahead of the polesitting Prema Powerteam Dallara-Merc of Alex Lynn and front-row starter Marciello.

The Swede immediately opened a big lead on a track still slippery after yesterday's rain, but with seven cars off the safety car emerged, primarily because Sven Muller was stranded too close to the track at Becketts.

At the restart, Marciello outbraked Lynn after the safety car line into the Club chicane and hunted down Rosenqvist. He made a succession of attempts on the 14th lap of 16, but had to wait until the following lap to move ahead, thanks to Rosenqvist straying onto a wet patch at Becketts and having "a full-lock" moment.

"He went onto the wet patch at Becketts and had some oversteer," said Marciello. "It was not too difficult to pass because he had a very bad exit."

Lynn was disappointed to fall away in third, and was being caught near the end by his old team-mate Felix Serralles, the Puerto Rican having charged through from 19th on the grid to fourth in just four racing laps. He set fastest lap as he caught Lynn.

Will Buller did a sound defensive job in ThreeBond T-Sport's Dallara-Nissan to fend off the Carlin Dallara-Volkswagens of Jordan King and single-seater newboy Jann Mardenborough for fifth. Welshman Mardenborough lost seventh to Lucas Auer on the final lap.

Saturday winner Harry Tincknell took a lonely ninth amid gear selection problems, while team-mate Nicholas Latifi made it four Carlin cars in the points.

Of the other Brits, Tom Blomqvist started from the back of the grid due to his wheel falling off before he completed a lap in qualifying, and had to pit before finishing 14th. Josh Hill was a first-lap casualty.

Two drivers started the race on rain tyres: Lucas Wolf charged to fourth early on before slipping back to finish last, while Eddie Cheever clashed with Michael Lewis on the first lap at Becketts, putting both out of the race.

Results - 16 laps:

Pos  Driver               Team/Car                          Time/Gap
 1.  Raffaelle Marciello  Prema Dallara-Merc              35m13.207s
 2.  Felix Rosenqvist     Mucke Dallara-Merc                + 1.511s
 3.  Alex Lynn            Prema Dallara-Merc                + 4.674s
 4.  Felix Serralles      Fortec Dallara-Merc               + 5.460s
 5.  Will Buller          T-Sport Dallara-Nissan           + 19.919s
 6.  Jordan King          Carlin Dallara-VW                + 20.688s
 7.  Lucas Auer           Prema Dallara-Merc               + 21.355s
 8.  Jann Mardenborough   Carlin Dallara-VW                + 21.641s
 9.  Harry Tincknell      Carlin Dallara-VW                + 28.931s
10.  Nicholas Latifi      Carlin Dallara-VW                + 29.448s
11.  Antonio Giovanazzi   Double R Dallara-Merc            + 46.246s
12.  Mans Grenhagen       Van Amersfoort Dallara-VW        + 56.110s
13.  Gary Thompson        Ferraris Dallara-Merc          + 1m18.887s
14.  Tom Blomqvist        Eurointernational Dallara-Merc + 1m27.555s
15.  Tatiana Calderon     Double R Dallara-Merc          + 1m32.043s
16.  Andre Rudersdorf     Ma-con Dallara-VW              + 1m44.645s
17.  Lucas Wolf           URD Dallara-Merc               + 1m52.136s
18.  Sean Geleal          Double R Dallara-Merc              + 1 lap

Retirements:

     Pipo Derani          Fortec Dallara-Merc                10 laps
     Sandro Zeller        Zeller Dallara-Merc                10 laps
     Roy Nissany          Mucke Dallara-Merc                  3 laps
     Dennis van der Laar  Van Amersfoort Dallara-VW            1 lap
     Sven Muller          Ma-con Dallara-VW                   0 laps
     Michael Lewis        Mucke Dallara-Merc                  0 laps
     Josh Hill            Fortec Dallara-Merc                 0 laps
     Spike Goddard        T-Sport Dallara-Nissan              0 laps
     Eddie Cheever        Prema Dallara-Merc                  0 laps
     Mitchell Gilbert     Mucke Dallara-Merc                  0 laps

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