The 2012 Silverstone GP3 Series round was a GP3 Series motor race held on 7 and 8 July 2012 at Silverstone Circuit in Silverstone, United Kingdom. It was the fourth round of the 2012 GP3 Season. The race supported the 2012 British Grand Prix.

Trident Racing entered a third car for Giovanni Venturini in the GP3 category, making the Silverstone rounds the first time the GP3 Series had been run with a full twenty-seven car grid in 2012.

Classification

Qualifying Driver Team Time 1 4 Mitch Evans MW Arden 1:51.892 1 2 3 Aaro Vainio Lotus GP 1:52.216 2 3 27 António Félix da Costa Carlin 1:52.233 3 4 6 Matias Laine MW Arden 1:52.332 4 5 2 Conor Daly Lotus GP 1:52.519 5 6 1 Daniel Abt Lotus GP 1:52.543 6 7 18 Kevin Ceccon Ocean Racing Technology 1:52.572 7 8 28 William Buller Carlin 1:52.648 8 9 15 Kotaro Sakurai Status Grand Prix 1:52.807 9 10 5 David Fumanelli MW Arden 1:52.921 12 11 29 Tamás Pál Kiss ATECH CRS Grand Prix 1:52.930 21 12 26 Alex Brundle Carlin 1:53.133 10 13 9 Tio Ellinas Marussia Manor Racing 1:53.536 11 14 22 Facu Regalia Jenzer Motorsport 1:53.549 13 15 25 Giovanni Venturini Trident Racing 1:53.624 14 16 23 Vicky Piria Trident Racing 1:53.769 15 17 16 Alice Powell Status Grand Prix 1:53.852 18 18 20 Robert Visoiu Jenzer Motorsport 1:53.861 16 19 21 Patric Niederhauser Jenzer Motorsport 1:53.893 17 20 7 Dmitry Suranovich Marussia Manor Racing 1:54.324 19 21 24 Antonio Spavone Trident Racing 1:54.339 20 22 8 Fabiano Machado Marussia Manor Racing 1:54.427 22 23 30 Fabio Gamberini ATECH CRS Grand Prix 1:55.175 23 24 19 Robert Cregan Ocean Racing Technology 1:55.363 24 25 14 Marlon Stöckinger Status Grand Prix 1:55.711 25 26 31 Ethan Ringel ATECH CRS Grand Prix 1:59.371 26 — 17 Carmen Jordá Ocean Racing Technology 1:59.989 — Source: Notes: — David Fumanelli and Alice Powell were both given two place grid penalties for taking the chequered flag twice at the end of the Qualifying session. — Tamás Pál Kiss wash given a ten-place grid penalty for ignoring yellow flags during the first practice session. — Ethan Ringel was given a ten-place grid penalty for ignoring yellow flags during the first practice session. He later received a two-place grid penalty for taking the chequered flag twice at the end of qualifying. As Ringel qualified twenty-sixth of the twenty-six drivers to set a lap time, and so started the feature race from the back of the grid. — Carmen Jordá was given a two-place grid penalty for taking the chequered flag twice at the end of qualifying. However, as she did not set a lap time within 107% of Mitch Evans' pole position time, she was not given permission to start the race.

Race 1 Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 27 António Félix da Costa Carlin 14 27:14.410 3 27 () 2 4 Mitch Evans MW Arden 14 +7.062 1 22 () 3 3 Aaro Vainio Lotus GP 14 +8.783 2 15 4 1 Daniel Abt Lotus GP 14 +16.136 6 12 5 2 Conor Daly Lotus GP 14 +22.156 5 10 6 9 Tio Ellinas Marussia Manor Racing 14 +22.325 11 8 7 26 Alex Brundle Carlin 14 +38.448 10 6 8 18 Kevin Ceccon Ocean Racing Technology 14 +41.719 7 4 9 6 Matias Laine MW Arden 14 +42.314 4 2 10 21 Patric Niederhauser Jenzer Motorsport 14 +44.489 17 1 11 29 Tamás Pál Kiss ATECH CRS Grand Prix 14 +53.795 21 12 20 Robert Visoiu Jenzer Motorsport 14 +60.061 16 13 25 Giovanni Venturini Trident Racing 14 +62.451 14 14 22 Facu Regalia Jenzer Motorsport 14 +63.081 13 15 15 Kotaro Sakurai Status Grand Prix 14 +65.140 9 16 14 Marlon Stöckinger Status Grand Prix 14 +72.707 25 17 16 Alice Powell Status Grand Prix 14 +86.048 18 18 23 Vicky Piria Trident Racing 14 +1:34.318 15 19 8 Fabiano Machado Marussia Manor Racing 14 +1:38.754 22 20 19 Robert Cregan Ocean Racing Technology 14 +1:39.170 24 21 24 Antonio Spavone Trident Racing 14 +1:39.960 20 22 7 Dmitry Suranovich Marussia Manor Racing 14 +1:40.812 19 23 30 Fabio Gamberini ATECH CRS Grand Prix 13 +1 lap 23 Ret 31 Ethan Ringel ATECH CRS Grand Prix 2 Retired 26 Ret 28 William Buller Carlin 0 Retired 8 DNS 5 David Fumanelli MW Arden 0 Did not start 12 DNQ 17 Carmen Jordá Ocean Racing Technology 0 Did not qualify — Source:

Race 2 Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 28 William Buller Carlin 14 29:49.526 25 15 2 2 Conor Daly Lotus GP 14 +8.577 4 12 3 21 Patric Niederhauser Jenzer Motorsport 14 +30.017 10 10 4 9 Tio Ellinas Marussia Manor Racing 14 +37.529 3 10 () 5 20 Robert Visoiu Jenzer Motorsport 14 +52.038 15 6 6 27 António Félix da Costa Carlin 14 +1:03.722 8 4 7 18 Kevin Ceccon Ocean Racing Technology 14 +1:05.954 1 2 8 30 Fabio Gamberini ATECH CRS Grand Prix 14 +1:06.482 23 1 9 8 Fabiano Machado Marussia Manor Racing 14 +1:07.321 19 10 26 Alex Brundle Carlin 14 +1:20.941 2 11 4 Mitch Evans MW Arden 14 +1:22.894 7 12 22 Facu Regalia Jenzer Motorsport 14 +1:23.503 13 13 15 Kotaro Sakurai Status Grand Prix 14 +1:24.203 14 14 29 Tamás Pál Kiss ATECH CRS Grand Prix 14 +1:28.143 11 15 19 Robert Cregan Ocean Racing Technology 14 +1:44.079 20 16 25 Giovanni Venturini Trident Racing 14 +1:52.408 12 17 31 Ethan Ringel ATECH CRS Grand Prix 14 +1:54.151 24 18 6 Matias Laine MW Arden 13 Retired 9 19 24 Antonio Spavone Trident Racing 13 Retired 21 20 7 Dmitry Suranovich Marussia Manor Racing 12 Retired 22 21 23 Vicky Piria Trident Racing 12 Retired 18 Ret 1 Daniel Abt Lotus GP 11 Retired 5 Ret 14 Marlon Stöckinger Status Grand Prix 11 Retired 16 Ret 3 Aaro Vainio Lotus GP 11 Retired 6 Ret 16 Alice Powell Status Grand Prix 9 Retired 17 DNS 5 David Fumanelli MW Arden 0 Did not start 12 DNQ 17 Carmen Jordá Ocean Racing Technology 0 Did not qualify — Source: Notes: — Robert Visoiu finished Race 1 in twelfth position, but received a three-place grid penalty for crossing the finish line twice at the end of the race, and so started Race 2 from fifteenth position.

Standings after the round

Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 Mitch Evans 100 2 Aaro Vainio 89 6 3 António Félix da Costa 58 1 4 Daniel Abt 54 1 5 Patric Niederhauser 50

Teams' Championship standings Pos Team Points 1 1 Lotus GP 188 1 2 MW Arden 177 3 3 Carlin 83 1 4 Jenzer Motorsport 72 2 5 Marussia Manor Racing 45

Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

See also 2012 British Grand Prix 2012 Silverstone GP2 Series round

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