MP duo Dorian Boccolacci and Niko Kari have been disqualified from the results of GP3’s feature race at Circuit Paul Ricard, resulting in championship leader Anthoine Hubert inheriting victory.
Boccolacci, who beat Hubert by 0.6 seconds on track in the earlier 20-lap race, and team-mate Kari, who finished fifth, did not have a proper one-litre fuel sample for the stewards when their cars were inspected after the race.
Hubert had previously brought down the gap from around 2s in the second half of the race to under a second but was unable to get past, as well as not having use of DRS.
Kari had won an early battle for fifth with Leonardo Pulcini to finish 10.1s behind the then-race-winner.
As a result of this issue, ART now has a second 1-2 finish of the campaign as Nikita Mazepin is promoted to second, while Trident’s Giuliano Alesi takes his first feature podium.
This maiden GP3 win gives Hubert a 16-point championship lead above his Russian team-mate with Alesi a further five points behind after three races.
Pulcini is now classified fourth, with Alessio Lorandi fifth and Pedro Piquet sixth.
Joey Mawson’s efforts to hold off drivers in the latter laps of the contest rewards him with seventh ahead of Callum Ilott, Juan Manuel Correa, and Jake Hughes.
This decision means that Ilott is set to start from pole for the sprint event, with Mawson alongside on the front row.
