Alex Lynn cruised to victory in this morning's Sprint Race in Hockenheim, making a strong start before leaving his rivals to squabble over the scraps and then easing late in the race for his second win of the season ahead of new standings leader Sergey Sirotkin and Arthur Pic.

When the lights went out the Williams tester was gone: Lynn easily claimed the lead of the race into Turn one from the front row when poleman Antonio Giovinazzi was slow off the line, pushing Pic wide into the first turn as Oliver Rowland slid inside for P2 and Gustav Malja squeezed inside his teammate for P4, with Sirotkin moving up two spots from 8th ahead of a fierce battle between countrymen Raffaele Marciello and Luca Ghiotto for the final points positions.

As the race shook itself out Pierre Gasly, who started last on the grid after being disqualified from yesterday's Feature Race due to a fire extinguisher failure, was already looking to claw something back from his weekend and was up to P14 by the end of the first lap. Just ahead of him Norman Nato and Nabil Jeffri were squabbling for position, with the pair clattering together over the kerbs, with the Frenchman out on the spot and the Malaysian limping back to the pits as the first VSC period commenced.

The top six were nose to tail as the race ran live on lap 8, with Lynn easing away as a train formed behind Rowland: eventually Giovinazzi had a go at Turn 5 but lost his front wing components on the back of the Briton's car and didn't have enough downforce to avoid the gravel trap, prompting another VSC period to remove the Italian's stricken car. When the race ran live again on lap 15 Lynn had a big enough gap to easily hold the restart, but a train had formed behind Malja, now up to P3 on track.

Sirotkin tried in vain to get by at the restart and was soon biding his time for his tyres to make a difference: four laps later he ran around the outside of the Swede at the hairpin and was on the podium and looking for more. The Russian threw everything he had at Rowland, who was equal to the task until lap 23, when Sirotkin faked an outside move on the Briton before slicing inside and through at the hairpin, running side by side with Rowland until they reached the final complex where the Russian finally made the move stick.

And with the race coming to an end tyres were impacting the order up and down the race, but Lynn sailed on serenely: the Briton eased off late in the race to win by 3 seconds from Sirotkin, whose win and second place promoted him to the top of the drivers' standings. Pic rounded out the podium by following in the Russian's wake as he forced his way forward, with Ghiotto in P4 after a number of late race overtakes. Rowland held on despite tired tyres for 5th, ahead of a barnstorming drive by Gasly for P6, and Marciello held on for 7th ahead of Malja, who ran wide at Turn one late in the race and paid a high price but grabbed the final point at the expense of Artem Markelov, who had a time penalty for speeding in the pitlane.

A stunning weekend by Sirotkin and a disappointing penalty for Gasly saw the drivers' standings shift once again, with the pair both on 113 points: the pair both have 2 wins and 2 seconds, but an extra third place give the Russian bragging rights going into the summer break, with Marciello third on 102 points from Giovinazzi on 100 and Rowland on 99. In the teams' standings ART Grand Prix have closed the gap to leaders PREMA Racing, 213 points to 171, ahead of RUSSIAN TIME on 167 points, Racing Engineering on 161 and MP Motorsport on 105 points as the paddock recharges ahead of the next round at Spa-Francorchamps.

1. Alex Lynn DAMS
2. Sergey Sirotkin ART Grand Prix
3. Arthur Pic Rapax
4. Luca Ghiotto Trident
5. Oliver Rowland MP Motorsport
6. Pierre Gasly PREMA Racing
7. Raffaele Marciello RUSSIAN TIME
8. Gustav Malja Rapax
9. Artem Markelova RUSSIAN TIME
10. Mitch Evans Pertamina Campos Racing
11. Jordan King Racing Engineering
12. Nobuharu Matsushita ART Grand Prix
13. Jimmy Eriksson Arden International
14. Marvin Kirchhöfer Carlin
15. Rene Binder Carlin
16. Daniël de Jong MP Motorsport
17. Nicholas Latifi DAMS
18. Norman Nato Racing Engineering
19. Sean Gelael Pertamina Campos Racing

Fastest Lap: Artem Markelov (RUSSIAN TIME) 1:25.236 (lap 20)

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Philo Paz Armand Trident
Antonio Giovinazzi PREMA Racing
Nabil Jeffri Arden International

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Drivers Standings after Germany

Pos	Name	Nat	Team	Points
1	Gasly	FRA	Prema Racing	113
2	Sirotkin	RUS	ART Grand Prix	113
3	Marciello	ITA	Russian Time	102
4	Giovinazzi	ITA	Prema Racing	100
5	Rowland	GBR	MP Motorsport	99
6	Nato	FRA	Racing Engineering	81
7	King	GBR	Racing Engineering	80
8	Evans	NZL	Pertamina Campos Racing	77
9	Lynn	GBR	DAMS	72
10	Markelov	RUS	Russian Time	65
11	Ghiotto	ITA	Trident	64
12	Matsushita	JPN	ART Grand Prix	58
13	Pic	FRA	Rapax	36
14	Gelael	INO	Pertamina Campos Racing	24
15	Latifi	CAN	DAMS	21
16	Kirchhofer	GER	Carlin	20
17	Canamasas	GBR	Carlin	14
18	Malja	SWE	Rapax	12
19	Eriksson	SWE	Arden International	10
20	de Jong	NED	MP Motorsport	6
21	Jeffri	MAS	Arden International	2

Team standings after Germany

Pos	Team	Points
1	Prema Racing	213
2	ART Grand Prix	171
3	Russian Time	167
4	Racing Engineering	161
5	MP Motorsport	105
6	Pertamina Campos Racing	101
7	DAMS	93
8	Trident	64
9	Rapax	48
10	Carlin	34
11	Arden International	12