On a crisp summer morning the Formula 3 drivers were presented with a damp track, but like in yesterday’s sprint race everyone started on slick tyres, with Callum Voisin and Alex Dunne from the front row.
Voisin has a great getaway, but Dunne loses two places to Sebastian Montoya and Leonardo Fornaroli. At the back Gabriele Minì spins coming out of La Source. Voisin and Montoya outbrake themselves into Les Combes, but can both continue.
Oliver Goethe and Cian Shields complain about having a puncture, and the replay reveals that Goethe has tangled with Minì in La Source.
Heading into lap two Voisin has a little lock-up, putting himself under pressure from Montoya, but the young Briton can fend off the Colombian driver despite briefly losing first place.
Martinius Stenshorne tries to overtake Sophia Flörsch into Stavelot, but spins. Tuukaa Taponen brakes to prevent running into the Norwegian driver, but is tagged by Joshua Dufek and ends up into the side of Stenshorne’s Dallara. In the ensuing safety car Matías Zagazeta and Kacper Sztuka come in to get a new front wing.
At the restart it is Dunne with bad traction out of La Source, and he is passed by Samin Meguetounif on the Kemmel Straight. Into Bruxelles it is Joseph Loake who misses his braking point and spins into Flörsch, eliminating the Van Amersfoort Racing driver. Loake can continue, but the safety car is out once again.
With six laps to go the safety car releases the field and again it is Dunne with a poor restart, dropping to tenth. He tries to get a position back from Santiago Ramos, forcing the Mexican driver wide in Les Combes.
Chaos again ensues in Bruxelles, as Nikita Bedrin has a wobble right at the moment Christian Mansell is being overtaken by Arvid Lindblad. The Australian driver drifts wide and tags the Red Bull junior. Lindlad gets beached and in an attempt to drive around the chaos Mari Boya tags the front wing of Charlie Wurz. The Campos driver gets a puncture and crashes in Speaker’s Corner, bringing out Bernd Mayländer yet again.
This time the best restart is for Noel León who overtakes Meguetounif into Les Combes in what is the penultimate lap. Everyone comes safely through Bruxelles this time, and the final lap is started under green.
With DRS enabled for the final lap there is a little squabble for fourth place, but the order of front runners doesn’t change.
This means Voisin takes the victory from Montoya and Leonardo Fornaroli, who is the new championship leader. León finishes fourth, followed by Meguetounif, Luke Browning and Max Esterson. Ramos comes home in eighth, just in front of Tim Tramnitz and Dunne, who managed to salvage a tenth place.
In the teams’ championship it is Prema Racing that secures the title, by virtue of ART Racing scoring no points.
