After winning the feature race at the Valencia round of the GP3 Series Mitch Evans has extended his lead in the championship with a solid sixth place in the final race of the weekend. He now leads Aaro Vainio by four points with a large gap of 32 points back to Daniel Abt in third place.

Swiss driver Patric Niederhauser raced to the top of the podium at the Valencia Street Circuit for Race 2. The Jenzer Motorsport driver started from reverse pole to celebrate a commanding victory, to finish ahead of Lotus GP’s Daniel Abt and Marussia Manor Racing’s Tio Ellinas who was later issued with a one second time penalty following contact with Kevin Ceccon on the final lap. This dropped him back to fifth.

Round 4 of the GP3 Series takes place at Silverstone on 6-8 July 2012.

Points after 3/8 rounds (Top 10)
1 M. Evans 78
2 A. Vainio 74
3 D. Abt 42
4 M. Stöckinger 39
5 P. Niederhauser 39
6 M. Laine 38
7 D. FUMANELLI 35
8 K. Ceccon 35
9 T. Ellinas 31
10 A. Félix Da Costa 27

Race 1 (14 laps)
1 M. Evans
2 A. Vainio
3 D. FUMANELLI
4 T. Ellinas
5 M. Laine
6 D. Abt
7 K. Ceccon
8 P. Niederhauser
9 T. PAL KISS
10 W. Buller
11 C. Daly
12 J. Wartique
13 C. Jordá
14 E. Ringel
15 R. Cregan
16 A. Brundle
17 V. Piria
18 A. Powell
19 M. Stöckinger
dnf D. Suranovich
dnf A. Félix Da Costa
dnf R. Visoiu
dnf F. Machado
dnf A. Spavone

Race 2 (14 laps)
1 P. Niederhauser
2 D. Abt
3 M. Laine
4 K. Ceccon
5 T. Ellinas
6 M. Evans
7 A. Vainio
8 A. Félix Da Costa
9 W. Buller
10 T. PAL KISS
11 M. Stöckinger
12 R. Visoiu
13 R. Cregan
14 A. Brundle
15 D. Suranovich
16 D. FUMANELLI
17 A. Spavone
18 V. Piria
19 F. Machado
dnf C. Jordá
dnf E. Ringel
dnf J. Wartique
dnf C. Daly
dnf A. Powell

Media: NZ Motor Racing/ GP3 25th June 12