Force India Formula 1 tester Nikita Mazepin has won GP3’s sprint race at Spa-Francorchamps, leading an ART 1-2-3-4.
Mazepin passed team-mate Jake Hughes after finding time at the Kemmel Straight on lap four and was left unopposed for the remainder of the contest.
The Russian went on to win by 1.8 seconds ahead of Anthoine Hubert, who moved forward by four positions to claim second.
Anthoine Hubert made a similar overtaking manoeuvre to claim third before passing championship rival Callum Ilott for his final position around the outside of the end of the Kemmel area.
This means that Hubert’s fourth podium in a row extends his lead over the margin of one feature race win and 26 points with three rounds and six races remaining.
Ilott completed the podium above Hughes who fell 4.6s behind in fourth at the chequered flag after leading one lap before Mazepin when overtaking polesitter Joey Mawson.
Mawson fell behind all ART-run machines by lap five after DRS passes across Kemmel, exiting the points four laps later.
The Australian later ran off track twice before entering the pitlane to retire.
Pedro Piquet finished in fifth above Trident team-mate and Ferrari academy racer Giuliano Alesi.
Richard Verschoor made 10 positions in his second event in the series to claim a maiden points finish in seventh.
Ryan Tveter managed to successfully defend eighth for the final point despite pressure from Sauber F1 test driver Tatiana Calderon.
Calderon closed onto the rear of the American’s Trident-Dallara across the Kemmel Straight on the final two laps without passing.
As a result of Tveter’s defence, the Colombian came out on top in a drag race accelerating from the right-handed Bus Stop chicane, denying Juan Manuel Correa.
This was the second battle between the pair in the contest as Correa went off track at the first right-handed turn on lap one after contact from the front left of Calderon’s Jenzer-Dallara before both recovered positiions.
Simo Laaksonen ended in 13th after going onto a similar area of run-off at Turn 1 when battling Campos team-mate Diego Menchaca.
Menchaca was deemed to have forced him off track and received a five-second time penalty which put him in 16th in the final classification.
Leonardo Pulcini had entered a points position in sixth but pitted on lap eight, with television pictures appearing to suggest the issue being caused by a visor tear-off strip.
Feature race victor David Beckmann did not start after falling to the rear of the field on the formation lap, slowing with a technical issue at Kemmel.
