Photo: formel3.de
Emil Bernstorff won race one of the German F3 round at Nurburgring from pole, controlling the race from lights to flag to lead a Lotus 1-2-3.
Alongside him on the front row, Artem Markelov held second for most of the race but eventually resigned it to a charging Marvin Kirchhofer. Performance Racing drivers followed after the Lotus crew, with John Bryant-Meisner leading Thomas Jager and Yannick Mettler.
Gustavo Menezes crossed the finish line in seventh, ahead of the ADM pair of Matteo Cairoli and Tomasz Krzeminski. In tenth, Hubertus-Carlos Vier took full advantage of an incident-filled race for the GU-Racing pair to take the victory in the Trophy class.
With the reverse-grid race cancelled after fog caused delays to the schedule of the Nurburgring 24 Hours weekend, the only remaining German F3 action will be a feature 30-minute race on Sunday, which Bernstorff will also start from pole.
Race results
Pos. | Driver | Cl. | Team | Time/Gap |
1 | Emil Bernstorff | C | Lotus | 19 laps |
2 | Marvin Kirchhofer | C | Lotus | +3.003 |
3 | Artem Markelov | C | Lotus | +7.310 |
4 | John Bryant-Meisner | C | Performance Racing | +14.802 |
5 | Thomas Jager | C | Performance Racing | +19.006 |
6 | Yannick Mettler | C | Performance Racing | +19.249 |
7 | Gustavo Menezes | C | Van Amersfoort | +19.815 |
8 | Matteo Cairoli | C | ADM Motorsport | +24.364 |
9 | Tomasz Krzeminski | C | ADM Motorsport | +37.497 |
10 | Hubertus-Carlos Vier | T | TTC Motorsport | +1:16.887 |
11 | Freddy Killensberger | T | GU-Racing | +1:17.508 |
12 | Sheban Siddiqi | C | Lotus | +1:18.907 |
13 | Sebastian Balthasar | T | GU-Racing | +1:33.895 |
14 | Jan Schwitter | C | Rennsport Rossler | +1:40.336 |
15 | Maximilian Hackl | T | Frank Woss Racing | +1 lap |
16 | Thomas Warken | T | CR Racing Team | +1 lap |
17 | Nabil Jeffri | C | EuroInternational | +1 lap |
18 | Christian Zeller | T | CR Racing Team | +1 lap |
19 | Jordi Weckx | C | Van Amersfoort | +1 lap |
20 | Andreas Germann | T | CR Racing Team | +2 laps |
Not classified | ||||
21 | Thomas Amweg | T | Jo Zeller Racing | +18 laps |