Weiss held on to the lead until the chequered flag, also managing the restart after the Safety Car intervention following an incident between Dominik Simek of Trident Motorsport and Kwan Ho Kingsley Zheng of Prema Racing. The Race Director handed the Chinese driver a drive-through penalty for the incident.
Romanian driver Cosma-Cristofor lost ground after wheelspin at the start prevented him from defending pole position against his rivals, dropping to third before reclaiming second place with an overtake on Arn Levi. The Swiss driver, having lost one position, then experienced a drop in performance due to tyre degradation and eventually crossed the line in sixth. Andy Consani, R-ace GP's Mercedes junior driver, completed the podium after starting from sixth on the grid.
Edward Robinson of US Racing, the Spanish-British driver, secured fourth place, making the most of the battle between Arn Levi and Kenzo Craigie to overtake both on the inside and move up to fourth. Behind him, Craigie, R-ace GP's Mercedes junior driver, managed to pass Levi, taking the Rookie class victory. The overtake proved decisive in mathematically securing the class title: the British driver, already crowned E4 Championship winner this season, completed his comeback in the standings against Ferrari Driver Academy driver Alp Aksoy, also claiming the Italian F4 Championship Rookie title. Arn Levi finished sixth overall and second among the Rookies in Race 3, completing the class podium.
Oleksandr Savinkov of US Racing took seventh place, ahead of Canadian driver Jensen Burnett. The R-ace GP driver secured third place in the Race 3 Rookie classification. Nicolas Cortes of Jenzer Motorsport finished ninth, ahead of Christian Costoya of Prema Racing, a member of the McLaren junior programme.
Payton Westcott of R-ace GP finished 11th overall and claimed victory in the women's classification. Danish driver David Walther of Maffi Racing crossed the line in 12th. Oscar Repetto of PHM Racing, Florentin Hattemer of Trident Motorsport and Noah Killion of US Racing completed the Race 3 points-paying positions.
Elia Weiss: “The team and I have had an amazing second half of the season so far. I'm just so happy to give something back to them and to finally get a win. It's an amazing feeling. We had a good start, and I think we're in a good position now for the Final later. We'll see what we can do, but we're definitely in a really strong position at the moment”.
David Cosma-Cristofor: “Obviously, starts are not my strongest point. It's something I have to work on, but we were also a bit unlucky. We had saved our new tyres for today's race, and it was raining at the beginning. The track wasn't wet, but it was really cold, so I had a lot of wheelspin at the start, which put me at a disadvantage. Then I did my best to make up for it during the race, hold my position and at least overtake one more driver to secure P2 on the podium. Those are good points for the championship”.
Andy Consani: “I started P6 and had some good battles to fight my way back up to P3. We had great pace. I think I did a good job warming up the tyres, and they remained very good until the end. There was a bit of degradation, because it's very difficult to manage the tyres in this section. For the Final, I'll push and try to gain as many positions as I can”.
Now it's time for the Final, with the weekend's top 36 drivers set to take to the track at 12:15.