Monza F3: Ilott wins final race from Norris

Front row starters Joel Eriksson and Lando Norris, winners of the first two races, both lost out off the line and were overtaken by Prema duo Ilott and Guan Yu Zhou.

Norris went past Zhou at the first Lesmo corner on Lap 5, and remained around one second behind Ilott for the rest of the race.

Behind the top two, Zhou soon also dropped behind Motopark driver Eriksson and Prema's Maximilian Gunther.

The latter took third from Eriksson two laps later, the duo not changing positions for the rest of the race.

Carlin's Ferdinand Habsburg took his third consecutive top five finish in fifth, followed by Prema's Mick Schumacher and Van Amersfoort Racing's Pedro Piquet.

Lead Hitech driver Ralf Aron was running as high as fifth at one point but ended up being shuffled down the order, the Estonian settling for eighth.

Zhou also continued to lose positions and was eventually only 10th, behind Force India protege Jehan Daruvala (Carlin).

After winning once and taking fourth twice, Eriksson leaves Monza with the championship lead, but by just a single point over Norris.

Prema duo Ilott and Gunther sit third and fourth with a deficit of 28 and 32 points respectively.

Race 3 results

Pos.	Driver	Team	Time/Gap
1	Callum Ilott	Prema Powerteam	35m05.53s
2	Lando Norris	Carlin	0.736
3	Maximilian Gunther	Prema Powerteam	2.705
4	Joel Eriksson	Motopark	9.074
5	Ferdinand Habsburg	Carlin	9.762
6	Mick Schumacher	Prema Powerteam	12.135
7	Pedro Piquet	Van Amersfoort Racing	13.627
8	Ralf Aron	HitechGP	14.980
9	Jehan Daruvala	Carlin	15.371
10	Guan Yu Zhou	Prema Powerteam	17.436
11	Nikita Mazepin	HitechGP	17.873
12	Marino Sato	Motopark	19.376
13	Tadasuke Makino	HitechGP	27.198
14	David Beckmann	Van Amersfoort Racing	28.094
15	Harrison Newey	Van Amersfoort Racing	29.742
16	Joey Mawson	Van Amersfoort Racing	1 Lp.
-	Keyvan Andres Soori	Motopark	13 Lp.
-	Jake Dennis	Carlin	19 Lp.
-	Jake Hughes	HitechGP	19 Lp.