Hockenheim F3: Rosenqvist survives to win crash-filled finale

While Rosenqvist held firm out front after taking the lead early on, the track conditions proved too much for many of his fellow competitors, with the safety car making four appearances.

Jake Dennis and Antonio Giovinazzi shared the front row, the Brit opting to gamble on wet tyres, but both ended up passed by fast starter Rosenqvist, as well as Alexander Albon and Alexander Sims.

Signature driver Albon was all over Rosenqvist over the opening laps, revelling in the damp conditions, but their battle was interrupted by the first appearance of the safety car, which came out when Pietro Fittipaldi and Nicolas Pohler came together on lap 5.

The next SC followed shortly after the restart as cars started going off left and right - with George Russell punted off by Matt Rao, newcomer Tanart Sathienthirakul clashing with Harald Schlegelmilch's ArtLine and Julio Moreno spinning on his own.

And while Giovinazzi managed to take third off of Sims during the next green flag stint, the wheel-to-wheel racing did not last long as Nabil Jeffri went off in the gravel.

Fittingly, the race concluded under the fourth and final safety car period due to debris.

As such, Rosenqvist secured the win, while Albon remained winless but picked up his third runner-up finish of his rookie campaign.

Giovinazzi completed the podium ahead of Sims, who was disqualified from his fifth place finish in Saturday's second race, and Callum Ilott, while Prema newcomer while Maximilian Gunther recovered from being turned around on lap one to take sixth.

After pitting for slicks, Dennis made his way up to seventh, ahead of Mikkel Jensen and Michele Beretta, the latter securing his first F3 points in the final race of his sophomore season.

Tatiana Calderon was also on course to score for the first time of the year, crossing the finish line in 10th, but picked up a time penalty for spinning Alessio Lorandi under the safety car; the spot was thus inherited by Raoul Hyman.

Erstwhile title contender Charles Leclerc languished on wets and finished well down the order in 21st after leaving his tyre change late.

Race results:

Pos.	Driver	Team	Time/Gap
1	Felix Rosenqvist	Prema	35'27.859
2	Alexander Albon	Signature	0.511
3	Antonio Giovinazzi	Carlin	0.862
4	Alexander Sims	Hitech	1.050
5	Callum Ilott	Carlin	2.019
6	Maximilian Gunther	Prema	2.615
7	Jake Dennis	Prema	2.991
8	Mikkel Jensen	Mucke	4.825
9	Michele Beretta	Mucke	5.634
10	Raoul Hyman	West-Tec	7.289
11	Sergio Sette Camara	Motopark	8.645
12	Alessio Lorandi	Van Amersfoort	9.092
13	Gustavo Menezes	Carlin	10.267
14	Matt Solomon	Double R	10.430
15	Nicolas Pohler	Double R	11.549
16	Julio Moreno	T-Sport	13.158
17	Arjun Maini	Van Amersfoort	14.507
18	Matt Rao	Fortec	14.812
19	Zhi Cong Li	Fortec	16.006
20	Andy Chang	Fortec	16.678
21	Charles Leclerc	Van Amersfoort	18.371
22	Markus Pommer	Motopark	20.579
23	Dorian Boccolacci	Signature	32.361
24	Tatiana Calderon	Carlin	36.667
-	Santino Ferrucci	Mucke
-	Nabil Jeffri	Motopark
-	Harald Schlegelmilch	ArtLine
-	George Russell	Carlin
-	Tanart Sathienthirakul	Motopark
-	Lance Stroll	Prema
-	Marvin Dienst	ArtLine
-	Pietro Fittipaldi	Fortec
-	Ryan Tveter	Carlin