Liam Lawson took his second win of the Formula 3 season at the Silverstone feature race, seeing off the Premas of Oscar Piastri and Logan Sargeant in a race fraught with incidents.
Lawson started from second behind polesitter Sargeant. Although Sargeant held first off the line, Lawson was close enough to harry him throughout the opening lap and make a lunge around the outside of Stowe to steal the lead.
After a brief interruption on lap 4, when Matteo Nannini slowed on track and brought out a Virtual Safety Car, Lawson began pulling away from Sargeant. The American driver then dropped back into the clutches of teammate Piastri, who demoted Sargeant to third on lap 7.
Piastri was better able to keep pace with Lawson than Sargeant, closing to within half a second by lap 9. On lap 11 Piastri drew alongside Lawson under DRS and looked set to take first place, but the Australian ran wide over the kerbs and couldn’t complete the move.
With Piastri right on his tail, Lawson was handed a saving grace shortly after when the safety car was deployed for Bent Viscaal, who spun after contact with Ben Barnicoat through Luffield and collected Jack Doohan’s HWA.
The safety car remained out for four laps, but was then redeployed almost immediately when Olli Caldwell spun in the middle of the pack and was hit heavily by Lukas Dunner and Max Fewtrell.
With Caldwell’s rear wing and suspension across the track, the race went on to end under the safety car, preserving Lawson’s first place over Piastri and Sargeant.
Jake Hughes finished fourth ahead of the third Prema of Frederik Vesti, with Alex Peroni climbing up from 18th on the grid to take sixth. Sebastian Fernandez finished seventh, Clement Novalak took eighth and the fastest lap, David Beckmann was ninth, and Aleksandr Smolyar took the reverse grid pole for the tomorrow in tenth.
Full race result:
| Pos. | Driver | Team | Points |
| 1 | Liam Lawson | Hitech | 25 |
| 2 | Oscar Piastri | Prema | 18 |
| 3 | Logan Sargeant | Prema | 15 |
| 4 | Jake Hughes | HWA | 12 |
| 5 | Frederik Vesti | Prema | 10 |
| 6 | Alex Peroni | Campos | 8 |
| 7 | Sebastian Fernandez | ART | 6 |
| 8 | Clement Novalak (FL) | Carlin | 6 |
| 9 | David Beckmann | Trident | 2 |
| 10 | Aleksandr Smolyar | ART | 1 |
| 11 | Richard Verschoor | MP Motorsport | |
| 12 | Theo Pourchaire | ART | |
| 13 | Lirim Zendelli | Trident | |
| 14 | Calan Williams | Jenzer | |
| 15 | Igor Fraga | Charouz | |
| 16 | Dennis Hauger | Hitech | |
| 17 | Roman Stanek | Charouz | |
| 18 | Enzo Fittipaldi | HWA | |
| 19 | Federico Malvestiti | Jenzer | |
| 20 | Ben Barnicoat | Carlin | |
| 21 | Cameron Das | Carlin | |
| 22 | Sophia Floersch | Campos | |
| 23 | Matteo Nannini | Jenzer | |
| 24 | Alessio Deledda | Campos | |
| 25 | David Schumacher | Charouz | |
| Ret. | Olli Caldwell | Trident | |
| Ret. | Max Fewtrell | Hitech | |
| Ret. | Lukas Dunner | MP Motorsport | |
| Ret. | Bent Viscaal | MP Motorsport | |
| Ret. | Jack Doohan | HWA |