Guanyu Zhou took his second victory of the season but his first since the opening race of the year at the Hockenheimring on Saturday, while Daniel Ticktum remains mathematically in the championship hunt thanks to his fifth place finish.
Mick Schumacher will start seventh on the grid for race one in Germany as he bids to secure the championship at the earliest possible opportunity.
Daniel Ticktum has a forty-nine-point deficit to overcome if he is to deny Mick Schumacher the 2018 FIA European Formula 3 Championship title this weekend in Germany.
The German has a forty-nine-point lead heading into the season finale in Germany this weekend and can secure the title if he finishes inside the top ten and betters Daniel Ticktum’s result.
Daniel Ticktum has more development to do in order to be ready for a Formula 1 race seat, according to Aston Martin Red Bull Racing Team Principal Christian Horner.
European Formula 3 and GP3 Series heavyweights, Prema Racing and ART Grand Prix have signed up to the new Formula 3 Championship coming in 2019.
The current Formula 3 cars being used in the FIA European Formula 3 Championship look likely to be raced again in 2019, with Formel 3 Vermarktungs GmbH formalising plans to run a European-based F3 series in support to the DTM Series.
The French-Argentine joins Arden International for the final two GP3 Series rounds of 2018 in Russia and Abu Dhabi.
Daniel Ticktum saw his championship ambitions take a big hit last weekend in Austria and has queried the reasons why Mick Schumacher and Robert Shwartzman have seemingly got the jump on the rest of the field in recent races.
Robert Shwartzman became the fifth Prema Theodore Racing driver to win a race in 2018 after coming out on top in race three at the Red Bull Ring on Sunday.
Two wins and a second place ensured Mick Schumacher left the Red Bull Ring with a healthy advantage at the top of the Drivers’ Standings.
Robert Shwartzman ensured Mick Schumacher could not make it six wins in a row but the German will still head to the Hockenheimring next month with a substantial advantage at the top of the championship standings.
Mick Schumacher has now won the last five European Formula 3 championship races after a lights-to-flag triumph in race two at the Red Bull Ring on Sunday.
The German is the new leader of the championship after his seventh victory of the season, while he will also start the final two races of the weekend in Austria from pole position.
Mick Schumacher has now taken five consecutive pole positions after securing a double for races two and three at the Red Bull Ring on Saturday afternoon.
Mick Schumacher’s fourth consecutive victory, and seventh of the season, took him to the top of the European Formula 3 championship standings.
Daniel Ticktum is now focused firmly on winning the European Formula 3 title in 2018 after initially being distracted by rumours linking him with a F1 seat in 2019.
