Hockenheim F3: Giovinazzi ends Prema's winning streak

The Carlin driver survived two safety car restarts and the advances of Prema duo Jake Dennis and Felix Rosenqvist to stop the Italian squad from taking their eighth consecutive victory in the series.

Front row starters Giovinazzi and Dennis entered Turn 1 side-by-side with the Italian keeping the lead by running wide, and forcing the Prema driver to take the outside line into the hairpin later on.

With the Italian completing the first lap in the lead, the safety car came out when Signature's Alex Albon braked on the kerbs, lost control and crashed out at Nordkurve.

After the restart, the green flags were back out for a handful of corners before a collision between Nabil Jeffri and Tatiana Calderon left the former’s car stranded in the hairpin runoff.

Giovinazzi confidently pulled away at the second restart but soon came under pressure from Rosenqvist as the Swede had gotten past Dennis.

Running wide at the hairpin, Giovinazzi almost gifted the lead to Rosenqvist but the Italian held on and slowly started to increase his lead.

Dennis then took second back from the Swede but with four minutes left on the clock, Giovinazzi was untroubled in taking the chequered flag.

New Prema recruit Maximilian Gunther repeated his race one result in fourth by narrowly keeping Alexander Sims at bay on the second restart as the top seven was completed by Mucke’s Mikkel Jensen and Ferrari junior Lance Stroll.

Sergio Sette Camara kept George Russell behind to secure eighth with Markus Pommer in 10th and Charles Leclerc in 11th.

Although the Monegasque driver still scored a point due to Sims' status as a guest driver, he fell behind Dennis in the standings by 5.5 points.

Pos.	Driver	Team	Time/Delay
1	Antonio Giovinazzi	Carlin	35'33.967
2	Jake Dennis	Prema	1.863
3	Felix Rosenqvist	Prema	3.762
4	Maximilian Gunther	Prema	5.281
5	Alexander Sims	Hitech	6.599
6	Mikkel Jensen	Mucke	8.765
7	Lance Stroll	Prema	9.755
8	Sergio Sette Camara	Motopark	15.993
9	George Russell	Carlin	16.633
10	Markus Pommer	Motopark	17.437
11	Charles Leclerc	Van Amersfoort	19.899
12	Callum Ilott	Carlin	21.268
13	Gustavo Menezes	Carlin	21.726
14	Alessio Lorandi	Van Amersfoort	22.730
15	Arjun Maini	Van Amersfoort	23.346
16	Dorian Boccolacci	Signature	25.644
17	Pietro Fittipaldi	Fortec	31.803
18	Santino Ferrucci	Mucke	32.956
19	Andy Chang	Fortec	33.300
20	Julio Moreno	T-Sport	33.760
21	Michele Beretta	Mucke	37.725
22	Tatiana Calderon	Carlin	38.966
23	Harald Schlegelmilch	ArtLine	47.941
24	Tanart Sathienthirakul	Motopark	48.799
25	Nicolas Pohler	Double R	49.782
26	Marvin Dienst	ArtLine	50.845
27	Matt Solomon	Double R	51.374
28	Zhi Cong Li	Fortec	51.560
29	Matt Rao	Fortec	1 Lap
30	Ryan Tveter	Carlin	3 Laps
Ret	Nabil Jeffri	Motopark
Ret	Alexander Albon	Signature