Silverstone F3: Pulcini wins, Shwartzman back into points lead

After Juri Vips took victory on Saturday, his teammate Pulcini moved up to third at the start and made quick work of Trident Racing’s Pedro Piquet to run second behind reverse-grid poleman Liam Lawson (MP Motorsport).

Pulcini took until lap 10 of 20 to finally pass Red Bull junior Lawson, but once ahead he stretched out a four-second lead, finally crossing the finish line with 2.6s in hand.

Lawson acted as cork in the bottle for much of the race, but just after half-distance Prema driver Robert Shwartzman, who lost the points lead on Saturday to teammate Jehan Daruvala, started climbing the order from fifth.

The Ferrari and SMP Racing-backed youngster jumped Christian Lundgaard (ART Grand Prix) for fourth, Piquet for third and finally Lawson for second with six laps remaining, although it was too late for him to mount a challenge Pulcini.

Shwartzman also scored fastest lap, meaning he is now 12 points clear of Daruvala again after the Indian driver got involved in a late incident with Piquet.

Piquet had briefly moved up to third after going around the outside of Lawson at Stowe, but Daruvala clipped the right-rear of Piquet's car at Club, putting both out of the race and gifting Lawson the final spot on the podium. 

Marcus Armstrong made a move on Lundgaard in the closing stages to take fourth, while David Beckmann (ART) moved up from 11th on the grid to take sixth. 

Yuki Tsunoda made the most of the late reshuffle to move up to seventh for Jenzer ahead of Sauber Junior Team drivers Fabio Scherer and Lirim Zendeli. Carlin's Felipe Drugovich was 10th.

Race one winner Vips was barged off the track at Brooklands on the opening lap and was pushed off again later in the race.

The Red Bull-backed Estonian settle for 13th after a late crash with HWA driver Jake Hughes, and is under investigation for the incident.

UPDATE: Vips was handed a five-second penalty after the race, which demoted him to 15th in the order, but he won't face a grid drop for the next race.

Race results:

Cla	#	Driver	Team	Laps	Gap
1	20	Leonardo Pulcini	HitechGP	20
2	28	Robert Shwartzman	Prema Powerteam	20	2.692
3	4	Liam Lawson	MP Motorsport	20	9.718
4	26	Marcus Armstrong	Prema Powerteam	20	10.118
5	3	Christian Lundgaard	ART Grand Prix	20	10.671
6	1	David Beckmann	ART Grand Prix	20	11.171
7	14	Yuki Tsunoda	Jenzer Motorsport	20	12.150
8	8	Fabio Scherer	Charouz Racing System	20	13.048
9	7	Lirim Zendeli	Charouz Racing System	20	14.018
10	30	Felipe Drugovich	Carlin	20	14.857
11	22	Ye Yifei	HitechGP	20	16.744
12	2	Max Fewtrell	ART Grand Prix	20	17.488
13	21	Jüri Vips	HitechGP	20	19.160
14	31	Logan Sargeant	Carlin	20	20.043
15	25	Sebastian Fernandez	Campos Racing	20	23.660
16	29	Teppei Natori	Carlin	20	29.136
17	17	Devlin DeFrancesco	Trident	20	29.899
18	9	Raoul Hyman	Charouz Racing System	20	30.123
19	19	Niko Kari	Trident	20	30.779
20	10	Bent Viscaal	HWA AG	20	30.967
21	6	Richard Verschoor	MP Motorsport	20	32.930
22	16	Andreas Estner	Jenzer Motorsport	20	33.087
23	15	Federico Malvestiti	Jenzer Motorsport	20	36.223
24	5	Simo Laaksonen	MP Motorsport	20	36.711
25	24	Alessio Deledda	Campos Racing	20	44.287
26	12	Keyvan Andres	HWA AG	20	1'02.568
27	18	Pedro Piquet	Trident	19	1 Lap
28	27	Jehan Daruvala	Prema Powerteam	19	1 Lap
	11	Jake Hughes	HWA AG	16	4 Laps
	23	Alex Peroni	Campos Racing	8	12 Laps
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