Red Bull Ring GP3: Boschung wins wet race under safety car

In doing so, Boschung ended the ART winning streak that had kicked off the season, the Swiss driver having taken advantage of contact between reverse-grid poleman Jake Hughes and Matt Parry during a brief green-flag stretch.

With the rain pouring down before the scheduled start of the race, race control took the decision to kick off proceedings under the safety car - and it would be a while before anyone turned a lap in anger.

But even under safety car, the machinery was not having it easy. First, Kevin Jorg stalled his DAMS car at the start, before Nirei Fukuzumi, running second on the road, pulled over to the side and eventually called it quits in the pitlane.

Matevos Isaakyan and Richard Gonda would likewise come to a halt as the field cruised under safety car, but, just as suspicions that the entire required race distance would be run in this way began to creep in, race control called the safety car in on lap nine.

Hughes, leading the field, maintained his advantage into Turn 1, but opted to block Parry on corner exit and was spun around as a result, as Parry himself picked up damage to his car.

As such, Boschung stormed past teammate Parry into Turn 2, and the Welshman continued to tumble down the order.

The safety car was back out at that point for another few laps and, on the next restart, Saturday winner Charles Leclerc - having been shuffled down the order in the earlier melee - hit Tatiana Calderon, and then collected her teammate Jake Dennis into Turn 1.

That was more than enough mayhem for the race to be neutralised again - and there was no time left for another restart.

As such, Boschung took victory, with Alex Albon fighting his way through to his second runner-up finish of the weekend and Antonio Fuoco making up the podium.

Nyck de Vries took fourth, ahead of Jack Aitken, Hughes, Parry and Sandy Stuvik.

Race results

Pos.	#	Driver	Team	Laps	Time
1	17	Ralph Boschung	Koiranen GP	17	-
2	3	Alexander Albon	ART Grand Prix	17	0.8
3	5	Antonio Fuoco	Trident	17	1.7
4	4	Nyck de Vries	ART Grand Prix	17	2.2
5	11	Jack Aitken	Arden International	17	2.4
6	27	Jake Hughes	DAMS	17	3.1
7	14	Matt Parry	Koiranen GP	17	3.4
8	8	Sandy Stuvik	Trident	17	4.8
9	6	Artur Janosz	Trident	17	5.0
10	26	Santino Ferrucci	DAMS	17	6.0
11	22	Alex Palou	Campos Racing	17	6.1
12	23	Steijn Schothorst	Campos Racing	17	7.0
13	20	Oscar Tunjo	Jenzer Motorsport	17	7.3
14	28	Kevin Joerg	DAMS	17	9.5
	9	Jake Dennis	Arden International	14	3 laps
	10	Tatiana Calderon	Arden International	13	4 laps
	1	Charles Leclerc	ART Grand Prix	13	4 laps
	18	Akash Nandy	Jenzer Motorsport	10	7 laps
	24	Konstantin Tereshchenko	Campos Racing	9	8 laps
	16	Matevos Isaakyan	Koiranen GP	8	9 laps
	19	Richard Gonda	Jenzer Motorsport	5	12 laps
	2	Nirei Fukuzumi	ART Grand Prix	1	16 laps