2008 Macau Grand Prix

Race details
Date 16 November 2008
Official name 55th Windsor Arch Macau Grand Prix
Location Guia Circuit, Macau
Course Temporary street circuit
6.120 km (3.803 mi)
Distance Qualifying Race
10 laps, 61.200 km (38.028 mi)
Main Race
15 laps, 91.800 km (57.042 mi)
Weather Qualifying Race: Sunny and dry
Main Race: Sunny and dry
Qualifying Race
Pole
Driver Netherlands Carlo van Dam TOM'S
Time 2:11.846
Fastest Lap
Driver New Zealand Brendon Hartley Carlin
Time 2:13.169 (on lap 6 of 10)
Podium
FirstItaly Edoardo MortaraSignature-Plus
SecondJapan Keisuke KunimotoTOM'S
ThirdBrazil Roberto StreitRäikkönen Robertson Racing
Main Race
Pole
Driver Italy Edoardo Mortara Signature-Plus
Fastest Lap
Driver New Zealand Brendon Hartley Carlin
Time 2:12.565 (on lap 15 of 15)
Podium
FirstJapan Keisuke KunimotoTOM'S
SecondItaly Edoardo MortaraSignature-Plus
ThirdNew Zealand Brendon HartleyCarlin

The 2008 Macau Grand Prix (formally the 55th Windsor Arch Macau Grand Prix) was a motor race for Formula Three cars that was held on the streets of Macau on 16 November 2008. Unlike other races, such as the Masters of Formula 3, the 2008 Macau Grand Prix was not a part of any Formula Three championship, but was open to entries from all Formula Three championships. The race itself was made up of two races: a ten-lap qualifying race that decided the starting grid for the fifteen-lap main race. The 2008 race was the 55th running of the Macau Grand Prix and the 26th for Formula Three cars.

The Grand Prix was won by TOM'S driver Keisuke Kunimoto on his maiden appearance in Macau, having finished second in the previous day's Qualification Race that was won by Signature-Plus driver Edoardo Mortara. Kunimoto led from the start of the race and held it throughout to become the first Japanese driver to win in Macau since Takuma Sato triumphed in the 2001 edition and it was the second consecutive victory for TOM'S in the Grand Prix. Second place went to Mortara, while the podium was completed by Carlin driver Brendon Hartley.

Background and entry list

The 2008 Macau Grand Prix was the 55th running of the event and the 26th time the race was held to Formula Three regulations. It took place on the 6.2-kilometre (3.9 mi) twenty-two turn Guia Circuit on 16 November 2008 with three preceding days of practice and qualifying.[1]

In order to compete in Macau, drivers had to compete in an Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA)-regulated championship meeting during the calendar year, in either the FIA Formula 3 International Trophy or one of the domestic championships, with the highest-placed drivers given priority in receiving an invitation to the race.[2] Within the 30-car grid of the event, two of the four major Formula Three series were represented by their respective champion.[3] Nico Hülkenberg, the Formula Three Euro Series champion, was required to miss the Grand Prix because of him partaking in a GP2 Series test session at the Circuit Paul Ricard.[4] Thus, the highest placed Formula Three Euro Series competitor at Macau was Edoardo Mortara and he was joined by British champion Jaime Alguersuari and Japanese series winner Carlo van Dam.[3] The top performing driver to represent the German championship was Laurens Vanthoor,[3] and the Australian Drivers' Championship winner James Winslow accepted an invitation by race organisers to participate in the Grand Prix.[5] Three drivers from outside of Formula Three took part in the race: Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 racer Roberto Merhi, Roberto Streit of Formula Nippon and Formula V6 Asia driver Michael Ho.[6]

The Macau Grand Prix was started in 1954 by local car enthusiasts Fernando de Macedo Pinto, Carlos da Silva and Paulo Antas as a treasure hunt around the territory's streets.[7][8] Shortly after, it was suggested that the hunt's track could host a professional race for local motoring enthusiasts.[9] The race was first entered in the FIA's international motor racing calendar in 1960 and the regulations were amended to allow sports and grand touring cars to compete. The Grand Prix attracted further exposure amongst professional racing teams following the victory of Mauro Bianchi in the 1966 edition.[9] Formula Pacific regulations were introduced in 1974. Nine years later, organiser Barry Bland decided that since the category was becoming obsolete, the race would be held to Formula Three rules after a plan to run with Formula Two cars fell through.[10] This decision has seen the Grand Prix's reputation in the motorsport world increase rapidly; it attracts the best young drivers from around the world,[7] and they consider Macau a place where reputations are forged.[11] Macau is also considered a stepping stone to higher class racing categories such as Formula One,[12] and has been termed as one of the most "prestigious" motor races by the media.[13][14]

Report

Practice and qualifying

Two practice sessions were held before Saturday's qualification race. The first session, held on Thursday morning, lasted thirty minutes, while the second identically timed session, took place on Friday morning.[15] Mortara set the fastest time for Signature-Plus in the opening practice session with a late lap of two minutes and 14.333 seconds, seven-tenths of a second faster than any one else on the circuit in spite of making a minor error on the lap. His closest challenger was Renger van der Zande in second position with Streit third and the fourth-placed Van Dam. James Jakes was fifth-fastest, ahead of Stefano Coletti in sixth. Alguersuari, Merhi and the British duo of Jon Lancaster and Sam Bird rounded out the session's top ten drivers.[16] During the session, where the top of the time sheets was shared by multiple drivers, Brendon Hartley missed the second half because of a gearbox problem. Red-flags were necessitated before the session's half-way point when Mika Mäki crashed heavily at Fisherman's Bend. Kazuya Oshima and Walter Grubmüller went into the wall at Maternity Bend on separate occasions.[16] Mäki was transported to the circuit's medical centre to undergo precautionary checks after complaining of abdomen pains and was advised to rest.[17]

Sam Bird (pictured in 2007) qualified alongside Carlo van Dam on the front row of the grid but was demoted three places because of a grid penalty.

The qualifying period was split into two sessions; the first was held on Thursday afternoon and ran for 40 minutes with the second held on Friday afternoon and was similarly timed to the previous day's session. The fastest time set by each driver from either session counted towards his final starting position for the qualification race.[2] The first qualifying session, held in warm and sunny conditions, had Mortara come out on top with a time of two minutes and 12.416 seconds and led throughout.[18] Van Dam was three-tenths of a second slower than Mortara and took second.[19] Streit held second twice during the session but settled for third by its end. Hartley recovered from his gearbox problems earlier in the day and ran strongly to take a provisional fourth place.[18] Van Der Zande was consistent and ended up fifth. He was followed by the highest-placed rookie Alguersuari in sixth and Bird was next up in seventh.[19] Jules Bianchi and his teammate Jakes were eighth and tenth; the duo were separated by Oliver Turvey.[18] Marcus Ericsson was the fastest driver not to reach the top ten despite running as high as sixth in the opening minutes of first qualifying. Following him were Keisuke Kunimoto, Kei Cozzolino with Coletti provisionally joining him on the seventh row. The Hitech Racing duo of Max Chilton and Merhi were next up ahead of Winslow, Grubmüller, Oshima and Daniel Campos-Hull. The rest of the order was completed by Laurens Vanthoor, Atte Mustonen, Basil Shaaban, Cheng Congfu, Lancaster, Masaki Matsushita, Ho and Nicola de Marco. The only driver to go under the minimum qualification time was Koki Saga.[18] The session was stopped three times:[19] firstly for Jakes who pushed hard to improve his fastest lap time before his car got unsettled on the tarmac entering Fisherman's Bend and slammed into the outside barriers, littering the track with debris. The second was caused by De Marco who heavily impacted the Fisherman's Bend barriers and angled across the circuit.[18] Matsushita spun towards the track's centre after colliding with the barriers at Police corner with one minute left.[19] Mortara and Vanthoor could not avoid his stranded car and piled into it.[18] For ignoring the red light signal which mandated him to enter the weighbridge, Matsushita was summoned to the stewards office and they ordered him to start at the back of the grid for the qualification race.[20]

Mäki returned to the circuit on the morning of the second thirty-minute practice session and was declared fit to compete. He revealed that he had been suffering from food poisoning that worsened while driving and combated this by sleeping heavily the previous day.[21] The start of the second practice session was delayed by fifty minutes due to multiple crashes in practice for the touring car support races.[22] Mortara primarily focused on race setup and topped the time sheets with a benchmark time of two minutes and 13.054 seconds by slipstreaming another car heading towards Mandarin Bend.[23] Van Dam followed 0.117 seconds adrift in second and was a full second faster than Cozzolino in third. Alguersuari ended up in fourth and Turvey was fifth-fastest. Merhi and Hartley placed sixth and seventh with Ericsson eighth, Van Der Zande ninth and Streit completed the top ten ahead of second qualifying.[24] De Marco spun at Fisherman's Bend and practice was stopped as he was adjudged to be in a dangerous place. Alguersuari damaged the left-hand side of his car and removed his rear wing in an impact with the San Francisco End barriers which halted the session for a second time. The two other incidents during the session were Mäki suffering a puncture and spending most of his time in the pit lane and Van Dam braked late for Lisboa corner and stopped in the escape road.[23]

In the second qualifying session, Van Dam bettered Mortara's lap from first qualifying until Mustonen went off the track at Police corner and the yellow flags were waved. Halfway through the session, drivers who had new tyres available had them fitted and adjusted their cars. Shortly after, Matsushita crashed near Police turn and his car was removed from the track.[22] Mortara then regained provisional pole,[22] until the session was stopped when Bianchi ran wide exiting the Reservoir Bend and glanced the tyre barriers at the end of the turn. His left rear wheel flew into the track's centre.[25] Bird became the first driver to break into the low two minutes and 11 seconds mark all weekend,[26] before red flags were needed for Cozzolino whose heavy crash at Fisherman's Bend left debris on the track.[22] At the restart, Van Dam slightly deranged his steering arm but took advantage of a clear track to lap faster than Bird and secure pole position with a lap of two minutes and 11.846 seconds.[22][25][26] This demoted Bird to second having been delayed by a slow-moving Grubmüller.[22] Kunimoto used the slipstream of another car to move into third,[26] while the previous day's provisional pole sitter Mortara ended up fourth. Streit dropped two positions to be fifth-fastest and Merhi moved up nine to start from sixth.[25] Van Der Zande chose not to slipstream other cars to avoid being delayed in the track's tight section and took seventh.[27] Turvey was as high as third but settled for eighth in the end with Alguersuari ninth and Jakes completed the top ten.[22] The rest of the field lined up as Hartley, Coletti (who crashed at Police turn and blocked the track),[25] Chilton, Mäki, Ericsson, Oshimi, Bianchi, Cozzolino, Grubmüller, Cheng, Campos-Hull, Winslow, Lancaster, Shabban, Saga, Mustonen, Vanthoor (who did not record a lap time as a result of crashing his car on his out-lap), Matsushita, Ho and De Marco.[22] After qualifying, Bird was demoted three places on the grid for missing a signal to enter the weighbridge during second practice.[25]

Qualifying race

The qualifying race to set the grid order for the main race started at 13:45 Macau Standard Time (UTC+08:00) on 15 November.[15][28] Weather conditions at the start of the qualifying race were dry and sunny with an air temperature of 23 °C (73 °F) and a track temperature at 37 °C (99 °F).[29] On the grid, Van Dam was slow to get going and Kunimoto took advantage of this to take the lead.[30] Van Dam attempted to reclaim first position from Kunimoto but ran wide and punctured his left-rear tyre when he made contact with the barriers lining the circuit going through Mandarin corner.[30][31] Mortara then made an unsuccessful attempt at overtaking Kunimoto and the duo narrowly avoided making contact.[30] Four more cars overtook Van Dam on the approach to Lisboa turn,[31] and he later tangled with fellow countryman Van Der Zande at San Francisco Bend. The two drivers' races ended early as a consequence of the contact.[30] Merhi stalled on the grid and lost several positions.[32] Further down the field on the second lap, Jakes and Hartley glanced each other against the wall heading towards the Reservoir Bend. Jakes moved across the front of Hartley's car and into the wall.[31] Hartley limped back to the pit lane with suspension damage while Jakes retired.[30]

Edoardo Mortara (pictured in 2014) won the qualifying race and the pole position in the Grand Prix itself.

A multi-car collision was triggered at Lisboa turn when Bianchi spun entering the corner. He caused a chain reaction involving the trio of Hitech cars of Grubmüller, Chilton and Merhi. Bianchi's spin caused a secondary accident that started when Shaaban went into the rear of his teammate Campos-Hull and was spun into Cheng. The two drivers squeezed Mustonen into the barriers lining the track.[31] While Merhi and Grubmüller rejoined the race,[31] Chilton, Bianchi, Cheng and Mustonen were forced to retire.[30] Since there were several cars facing in the wrong direction and others beached on the circuit's kerbing,[30] the safety car was deployed so that the wreckage could be cleared by marshals.[32] Merhi made a pit stop and Oshima did the same but elected to retire. The safety car remained on track for three laps and Kunimoto led the field back up to speed at the restart with Mortara in second. Shaaban set the fastest lap earlier in the race but retired after crashing at Reservoir turn.[30] In his attempt to claim the lead, Mortara began to attack Kunimoto but Kunimoto resisted the pressure from Mortara.[30][32] Streit was close behind the two drivers and was defending from Turvey who was distracted by Bird, who in turn, was battling with Alguersuari.[30]

At the race's halfway point, Ho lost control of his car at Police corner but did not create a traffic jam as only Matsushita was behind him and got past without any trouble.[30] Mortara clung onto the slipstream of Kunimoto and then steered left onto the outside line.[32][33] Mortara's move meant he overtook Kunimoto under braking for the lead at the start of the seventh lap.[30][31] Mortara started to pull away from Kunimoto while Streit began closing up to the latter but was observing Turvey behind him. On the ninth lap, Mäki damaged his car at the Reservoir Bend and debris was littered on the track. He continued driving despite a rear puncture and a detached rear wing and went off the track twice.[30] Mortara kept the lead for the remainder of the race and took the victory and pole position for the Grand Prix itself.[32] He was joined on the front row of the grid by Kunimoto and Streit completed the podium. Turvey followed in fourth with Bird securing fifth and Alguersuari placed sixth. Coletti, Ericsson, Campos-Hull and Cozzolino completed the top ten. Winslow, Vanthoor, Lancaster, Saga, Grubmüller, Mäki, Merhi, Matushita, De Marco and Hartley rounded out the twenty classified finishers.[31]

Warm-up

A twenty-minute warm-up session was held on the morning of the main race.[15] Hartley ran more strongly than he had done any of the previous sessions and topped the time sheets with a new fastest lap of the weekend of two minutes and 11.071 seconds. He was six-tenths of a second faster than his nearest challenger Van Dam in second with Coletti third. Ericsson was fourth ahead of Bird in fifth and the qualification race winner Mortara placed sixth. Cozzolino, Streit, Alguersuari and Campos-Hull followed in the time sheets to round out the top ten fastest drivers.[34]

Main race

The race began on 16 November at 15:30 local time.[15] The conditions on the grid at the start of the race were dry and sunny with an air temperature of 26 °C (79 °F) and a track temperature at 33 °C (91 °F).[35] When the Grand Prix started, Kunimoto accelerated faster than Mortara off the line and was ahead of him heading towards Lisboa corner.[36] Turvey stalled on the grid which created confusion as drivers swerved to avoid hitting his car.[37] Vanthoor lost six places as his clutch slipped but avoided stalling his engine.[38] Streit went defensive against Bird going into Mandarin Bend and the two drivers collided. Streit's car went across Bird's and drifted into the turn's right-band barriers. He heavily damaged his vehicle entering the corner before rebounding off the wall and veered towards the left.[36][39] Soon after, Ericsson went off the track heavily driving towards Lisboa corner and several cars piled up behind him or had to negotiate their way past his stricken vehicle. The safety car was immediately deployed to control the race by picking up Kunimoto.[40] The wreckage was cleared in two laps and Kunimoto held onto the lead at the restart and was followed by Mortara.[36] Saga became the race's fourth retirement when he hit the wall at Lisboa corner.[40] Just as Mortara locked his brakes on the track's bumpy surface, Campos-Hull slipstreamed onto the back of Alguersuari heading towards Lisboa turn and overtook him for third position.[36]

Keisuke Kunimoto (pictured during the race) took the first win for a Japanese driver in Macau since Takuma Sato seven years previously.

Mortara's brake locking meant he fell to fourth behind Campos-Hull and Alguersuari.[36] Meanwhile, Kunimoto started to pull away from the rest of the field.[40] Alguersuari got back past Campos-Hull for second on the fifth lap and Mortara overtook the latter for third place on the next lap.[36] As he was beginning to reduce the time deficit to Kunimoto, Alguersuari's chances of winning the race were diminished when he was adjudged to have jumped the start and was told that he would be handed a drive-through penalty.[36][37] Alguersuari took his penalty at the end of lap five and Mortara began reducing Kunimoto's lead of two and a half seconds.[37] As the race appeared to settle into a calm pattern, Matsushita went into the wall after leaving the Mandarin Bend and temporarily blocked the track. Winslow drifted off the circuit at Police turn and hit the wall. Lancaster lost sixth place to Hartley while Mäki was now in the top ten.[40] The safety car was called to neutralise the race on lap eight when Merhi spun at Reservoir Bend and heavily damaged his car.[36] The incident caught the recovering Van Dam off guard who clipped debris and crashed into retirement.[37][40] Kunimoto's advantage had now evaporated and he was followed by Mortara, Campos-Hull, Cozzolino and Hartley.[40]

The race restarted on the tenth lap and Kunimoto held the lead. Mortara could not hang on to Kunimoto because of the former's straight-line speed advantage.[37][40] In his effort to remain with Kunimoto, Mortara ran wide at Matsuya corner and bent his right-front suspension after contact with the wall,[36][41] and Campos-Hull challenged him.[40] Further back, Mäki was fending off Van Der Zande as the latter was attempting to move past him for sixth. Shabban was another retiree when he went off the circuit and into the barriers at Lisboa corner. Turvey recovered to move into the top ten while his teammate Hartley remained in fifth so he could observe any mistakes from Mortara, Campos-Hull and Cozzolino. Although Coletti drifted off the track and returned, he later piled into the barriers at Hospital corner and was the race's final retirement.[40] On the 13th lap, Cozzolino made an overtaking attempt on Campos-Hull but ran into the back of Campos-Hull's car under braking for Lisboa corner and they fell out of the top ten.[36][37][40] The incident promoted Hartley into third. Hartley and Turvey traded the fastest lap until Hartley claimed it on the final lap by completing a circuit in two minutes and 12.565 seconds.[40] Turvey passed Grubmüller to claim seventh on the final lap.[36][37]

On his maiden appearance in Macau, it was Kunimoto's victory,[42] achieving the first win for a Japanese driver in Macau since Takuma Sato triumphed in the 2001 edition, and it was the second consecutive Macau Grand Prix victory for his team TOM'S.[37] Mortara finished 1.710 seconds in arrears in second place and Hartley moved up seventeen places from his starting position to complete the podium in third position. Off the podium, Mäki finished in fourth place ahead of Van Der Zande in fifth, both having been distanced by the lead group during the race.[36] Vanthoor took sixth place, having started thirteenth, and was narrowly ahead of the seventh-placed Turvey.[40] The top ten was completed by Grubmüller, Bianchi and Alguersuari. Outside the top ten, Lancaster finished eleventh, having moved up two from his starting position, and placed in front of Jakes in twelfth, with Cheng claiming thirteenth ahead of Chilton. Cozzolino, Oshima, Campos-Hull, Mustonen, De Marco and Ho were the last of the classified finishers.[36]

Classification

Qualifying

Pos No. Driver Team Q1 Time Rank Q2 Time Rank Gap Grid
1 1 Netherlands Carlo van Dam TOM'S 2:12.772 2 2:11.846 1 — 1
2 21 United Kingdom Sam Bird Manor Motorsport 2:13.722 7 2:11.988 2 +0.142 51
3 2 Japan Keisuke Kunimoto TOM'S 2:14.696 12 2:12.039 3 +0.293 2
4 7 Italy Edoardo Mortara Signature-Plus 2:12.416 1 2:12.044 4 +0.298 3
5 11 Brazil Roberto Streit Räikkönen Robertson Racing 2:13.153 3 2:12.061 5 +0.315 4
6 20 Spain Roberto Merhi Hitech Racing 2:15.574 16 2:12.369 6 +0.618 6
7 16 Netherlands Renger van der Zande Prema Powerteam 2:13.607 5 2:12.402 7 +0.653 7
8 3 United Kingdom Oliver Turvey Carlin 2:14.208 9 2:12.404 8 +0.655 8
9 4 Spain Jaime Alguersuari Carlin 2:13.669 6 2:12.412 9 +0.661 9
10 15 United Kingdom James Jakes ART Grand Prix 2:14.459 10 2:12.423 10 +0.672 10
11 5 New Zealand Brendon Hartley Carlin 2:13.348 4 2:12.573 11 +0.722 11
12 17 Monaco Stefano Coletti Prema Powerteam 2:14.788 14 2:12.835 12 +0.984 12
13 18 United Kingdom Max Chilton Hitech Racing 2:15.007 15 2:12.869 13 +1.018 13
14 9 Finland Mika Mäki Signature-Plus no time DNQ 2:12.942 14 +1.091 14
15 6 Sweden Marcus Ericsson Carlin 2:14.664 11 2:12.988 15 +1.135 15
16 22 Japan Kazuya Oshima Manor Motorsport 2:15.985 19 2:13.110 16 +1.157 16
17 14 France Jules Bianchi ART Grand Prix 2:13.840 8 2:13.124 17 +1.171 17
18 24 Italy Kei Cozzolino Now Motor Sports 2:14.779 13 2:13.504 18 +1.551 18
19 19 Austria Walter Grubmüller Hitech Racing 2:15.731 18 2:13.710 19 +1.757 19
20 8 China Cheng Congfu Signature-Plus 2:17.050 24 2:13.777 20 +1.844 20
21 28 Spain Daniel Campos-Hull HBR Motorsport 2:16.345 20 2:14.325 21 +2.392 21
22 27 United Kingdom James Winslow Ombra Racing 2:15.638 17 2:14.399 22 +2.466 22
23 23 United Kingdom Jon Lancaster Manor Motorsport 2:17.490 25 2:14.620 23 +2.687 23
24 29 Lebanon Basil Shaaban HBR Motorsport 2:16.939 23 2:15.412 24 +3.479 24
25 25 Japan Koki Saga Le Beausset Motorsports 2:26.492 DNQ 2:15.969 25 +4.036 25
26 10 Finland Atte Mustonen Räikkönen Robertson Racing 2:16.675 22 2:16.029 26 +4.096 26
27 30 Belgium Laurens Vanthoor RC Motorsport 2:16.464 21 no time DNQ +4.531 27
28 26 Japan Masaki Matsushita PTRS by Ombra 2:18.059 26 2:18.667 25 +6.126 302
29 12 Macau Michael Ho Räikkönen Robertson Racing 2:18.415 27 2:18.606 27 +5.078 28
30 31 Italy Nicola de Marco RC Motorsport 2:18.668 28 no time DNQ +5.140 29
110% qualifying time: 2:25.657[43]
Source:[43][44]
Bold time indicates the faster of the two times that determined the grid order.

Notes:

  • ^1  – Sam Bird was penalised three places on the grid because of him ignoring a signal to enter the weighbridge during the second practice session.[25]
  • ^2  – Masaki Matsushita was sent to the rear of the grid because of him ignoring a signal to enter the weighbridge during the first qualifying session.[20]

Qualification Race

Pos No. Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid
1 7 Italy Edoardo Mortara Signature-Plus 10 29:20.769 3
2 2 Japan Keisuke Kunimoto TOM'S 10 +1.189 2
3 11 Brazil Roberto Streit Räikkönen Robertson Racing 10 +2.904 4
4 3 United Kingdom Oliver Turvey Carlin 10 +3.364 8
5 21 United Kingdom Sam Bird Manor Motorsport 10 +3.984 5
6 4 Spain Jaime Alguersuari Carlin 10 +4.623 9
7 17 Monaco Stefano Coletti Prema Powerteam 10 +4.952 12
8 6 Sweden Marcus Ericsson Carlin 10 +8.799 15
9 28 Spain Daniel Campos-Hull HBR Motorsport 10 +22.448 21
10 24 Italy Kei Cozzolino Now Motor Sports 10 +23.056 18
11 27 United Kingdom James Winslow Ombra Racing 10 +26.786 22
12 30 Belgium Laurens Vanthoor RC Motorsport 10 +28.090 27
13 25 Japan Koki Saga Le Beausset Motorsports 10 +42.871 25
14 19 Austria Walter Grubmüller Hitech Racing 10 +48.578 19
15 20 Spain Roberto Merhi Hitech Racing 10 +49.439 6
16 23 United Kingdom Jon Lancaster Manor Motorsport 10 +57.740 23
17 26 Japan Masaki Matsushita PTRS by Ombra 10 +1:06.943 30
18 31 Italy Nicola de Marco RC Motorsport 10 +1:31.545 29
19 9 Finland Mika Mäki Signature-Plus 10 +1:44.930 14
NC 5 New Zealand Brendon Hartley Carlin 7 +3 laps 11
Ret 12 Macau Michael Ho Räikkönen Robertson Racing 4 Accident 28
Ret 29 Lebanon Basil Shaaban HBR Motorsport 3 Accident 24
Ret 22 Japan Kazuya Oshima Manor Motorsport 3 Accident 16
Ret 18 United Kingdom Max Chilton Hitech Racing 0 Accident 13
Ret 16 Netherlands Renger van der Zande Prema Powerteam 0 Accident 7
Ret 15 United Kingdom James Jakes ART Grand Prix 0 Accident 10
Ret 10 Finland Atte Mustonen Räikkönen Robertson Racing 0 Accident 26
Ret 8 China Cheng Congfu Signature-Plus 0 Accident 20
Ret 1 Netherlands Carlo van Dam TOM'S 0 Accident 1
Ret 14 France Jules Bianchi ART Grand Prix 0 Accident 17
Fastest lap: Brendon Hartley, 2:13.169, 165.444 km/h (102.802 mph) on lap 6
Source:[29]

Main Race

Pos No. Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid
1 2 Japan Keisuke Kunimoto TOM'S 15 41:01.864 2
2 7 Italy Edoardo Mortara Signature-Plus 15 +1.710 1
3 5 New Zealand Brendon Hartley Carlin 15 +4.006 20
4 9 Finland Mika Mäki Signature-Plus 15 +8.442 19
5 16 Netherlands Renger van der Zande Prema Powerteam 15 +10.276 25
6 30 Belgium Laurens Vanthoor RC Motorsport 15 +12.975 12
7 3 United Kingdom Oliver Turvey Carlin 15 +13.134 4
8 19 Austria Walter Grubmüller Hitech Racing 15 +14.695 14
9 14 France Jules Bianchi ART Grand Prix 15 +18.725 30
10 4 Spain Jaime Alguersuari Carlin 15 +20.801 6
11 23 United Kingdom Jon Lancaster Manor Motorsport 15 +20.898 16
12 15 United Kingdom James Jakes ART Grand Prix 15 +21.418 26
13 8 China Cheng Congfu Signature-Plus 15 +22.404 28
14 18 United Kingdom Max Chilton Hitech Racing 15 +22.604 27
15 24 Italy Kei Cozzolino Now Motor Sports 15 +23.270 10
16 22 Japan Kazuya Oshima Manor Motorsport 15 +23.930 23
17 28 Spain Daniel Campos-Hull HBR Motorsport 15 +24.997 9
18 10 Finland Atte Mustonen Räikkönen Robertson Racing 15 +33.744 29
19 31 Italy Nicola de Marco RC Motorsport 15 +46.527 18
20 12 Macau Michael Ho Räikkönen Robertson Racing 15 +51.739 21
Ret 17 Monaco Stefano Coletti Prema Powerteam 11 Accident 7
Ret 29 Lebanon Basil Shaaban HBR Motorsport 10 Accident 22
Ret 1 Netherlands Carlo van Dam TOM'S 7 Accident 24
Ret 20 Spain Roberto Merhi Hitech Racing 6 Accident 15
Ret 26 Japan Masaki Matsushita PTRS by Ombra 6 Accident 17
Ret 27 United Kingdom James Winslow Ombra Racing 5 Accident 11
Ret 25 Japan Koki Saga Le Beausset Motorsports 2 Accident 13
Ret 21 United Kingdom Sam Bird Manor Motorsport 0 Accident 5
Ret 11 Brazil Roberto Streit Räikkönen Robertson Racing 0 Accident 3
Ret 6 Sweden Marcus Ericsson Carlin 0 Accident 8
Fastest lap: Brendon Hartley, 2:12.565, 166.198 km/h (103.271 mph) on lap 15
Source:[35]

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