Tim Tramnitz grew to become the twelfth completely different F3 race winner this season, breaking his duck within the Monza dash race.
Within the penultimate outing of the season, the MP Motorsport driver was an image of composure, taking a lights-to-flag victory in a race that noticed no adjustments for the lead, regardless of the intense impact of the tow.
Tramnitz’s success was secured with a cool head on the 2 security automotive restarts, the place he was capable of pull a transparent margin over Sebastian Montoya (Campos) on each events.
Santiago Ramos (Trident) joined the pair on the rostrum, claiming the primary silverware of his F3 profession.
Nonetheless, with a beginning process infringement for Tramnitz being investigated after the race, there stays an asterisk over the race end result.
Championship combatants Leonardo Fornaroli (Trident), Gabriele Mini (Prema) and Luke Browning (Hitech) have been among the many raft of grid penalties for qualifying infringements, however Tramnitz’s place was unaffected as he lined up on the reversed grid pole.
Main away from the grid, the MP Motorsport driver put up an on-the-limit defence on Montoya and Dino Beganovic (Prema) on the run to the Rettifilo chicane amid a may of smoke attributable to locked brakes.
This dramatic-looking begin set the tone for what was to come back, though the battles all passed off within the mirrors of a managed Tramnitz.
However the motion got here to a fast halt, as the security automotive was deployed on the finish of lap two after Noel Leon and Tommy Smith (Van Amersfoort Racing) tangled with Nikita Bedrin (AIX Racing). For inflicting the incident, Smith acquired a 10-second penalty.
Racing resumed on lap six with the championship-leading trio nonetheless outdoors of the factors, however Fornaroli was a person on a mission and made up 4 locations on the restart, and thrust himself into the highest 10 one lap later.
This journey reached a peak of seventh however moments earlier than getting into a second security automotive interval on lap 13, he dropped behind Mari Boya (Campos) as his tyres started to scream sufficient.
This newest disruption was attributable to a careless incident on the Rettifilo chicane between Max Esterson and Piotr Wisnicki.
Simply as Fornaroli had progressed within the preliminary security automotive restart, Browning strode ahead on the second event, passing the championship chief on the first chicane earlier than overcoming Boya for seventh.
With one race remaining, Fornaroli – who will begin the function race from pole – has a three-point lead from Mini, who took one level for ending tenth, with Browning two additional again.
Regardless of not scoring in eleventh, Arvid Lindblad (Prema) stays in with an out of doors shot of the title, however trails by 21 factors.
F3 Italy Race 1 Outcomes
| 1 |
T. Tramnitz MP Motorsport |
7 | 17 | ||||||||
| 2 | S. Montoya Campos Racing | 11 | 17 | 0.700 | |||||||
| 3 |
S. Ramos Trident |
6 | 17 | 0.200 | |||||||
| 4 |
A. Dunne MP Motorsport |
9 | 17 | 0.400 | |||||||
| 5 |
D. Beganovic Prema Powerteam |
1 | 17 | 0.600 | |||||||
| 6 |
S. Meguetounif Trident |
5 | 17 | 2.100 | |||||||
| 7 |
L. Browning Hitech Pulse-Eight |
14 | 17 | 0.100 | |||||||
| 8 |
M. Boya Campos Racing |
12 | 17 | 0.200 | |||||||
| 9 |
L. Fornaroli Trident |
4 | 17 | 0.500 | |||||||
| 10 |
G. Minì Prema Powerteam |
2 | 17 | 0.300 | |||||||
| 11 |
M. Stenshorne Hitech Pulse-Eight |
15 | 17 | 0.400 | |||||||
| 12 |
A. Lindblad Prema Powerteam |
3 | 17 | 0.400 | |||||||
| 13 |
L. Van ART Grand Prix |
24 | 17 | 0.600 | |||||||
| 14 |
M. Zagazeta Jenzer Motorsport |
19 | 17 | 0.200 | |||||||
| 15 |
J. Loake Rodin Motorsport |
31 | 17 | 0.100 | |||||||
| 16 |  |
21 | 17 | 0.000 | |||||||
| 17 |
N. Strømsted Campos Racing |
10 | 17 | 0.100 | |||||||
| 18 |
C. Shields Hitech Pulse-Eight |
16 | 17 | 0.400 | 1 | ||||||
| 19 |
T. Inthraphuvasak PHM AIX Racing |
26 | 17 | 0.200 | |||||||
| 20 |
Ok. Sztuka MP Motorsport |
8 | 17 | 1.100 | |||||||
| 21 |
N. Tsolov ART Grand Prix |
25 | 17 | 2.400 | |||||||
| 22 |
C. Mansell ART Grand Prix |
23 | 17 | 2.000 | 1 | ||||||
| 23 |
T. Smith Van Amersfoort Racing |
22 | 17 | 5.500 | |||||||
| 24 |
C. Wurz Jenzer Motorsport |
17 | 16 | ||||||||
| 25 |
C. Voisin Rodin Motorsport |
29 | 16 | 1 | |||||||
| dnf |
J. Dufek PHM AIX Racing |
28 | 13 | 1 | Retirement | ||||||
| dnf |
M. Esterson Jenzer Motorsport |
18 | 12 | Accident | |||||||
| dnf |
P. Wiśnicki Rodin Motorsport |
30 | 12 | Accident | |||||||
| dnf |
N. Bedrin PHM AIX Racing |
27 | 1 | Accident | |||||||
| dnf |
N. León Van Amersfoort Racing |
20 | 1 | Accident |
