Race details | ||
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Date | 17 November 2019 | |
Official name | 66th Suncity Group Macau Grand Prix – FIA F3 World Cup | |
Location | Guia Circuit, Macau | |
Course | Temporary street circuit 6.120 km (3.803 mi) | |
Distance | Qualifying Race 10 laps, 61.200 km (38.028 mi) Main Race 15 laps, 91.800 km (57.042 mi) | |
Weather | Qualifying Race: Dry and clear Main Race: Dry and clear | |
Qualifying Race | ||
Pole | ||
Driver | Jüri Vips | Hitech Grand Prix |
Time | 2:04.997 | |
Fastest Lap | ||
Driver | Jüri Vips | Hitech Grand Prix |
Time | 2:06.317 (on lap 8) | |
Podium | ||
First | Jüri Vips | Hitech Grand Prix |
Second | Robert Shwartzman | SJM Prema Theodore Racing |
Third | Christian Lundgaard | ART Grand Prix |
Main Race | ||
Pole | ||
Driver | Jüri Vips | Hitech Grand Prix |
Fastest Lap | ||
Driver | Jake Hughes | HWA Racelab |
Time | 2:06.419 | |
Podium | ||
First | Richard Verschoor | MP Motorsport |
Second | Jüri Vips | Hitech Grand Prix |
Third | Logan Sargeant | Carlin Buzz Racing |
The 2019 Macau Grand Prix (officially the 66th Suncity Group Macau Grand Prix – FIA F3 World Cup) was a Formula Three (F3) motor race held on the streets of Macau on 17 November 2019. Unlike previous races, the event was a non-championship round of the FIA Formula 3 Championship, and drivers from all F3 championships were welcome. The race itself was made up of two races: a ten-lap qualifying race to set the starting grid for the fifteen-lap main event. It was the 66th Macau Grand Prix, and the first for FIA Formula 3, a different specification than the pre-2018 specification now known as Formula Regional.
MP Motorsport driver Richard Verschoor won the event from fourth place. Hitech Grand Prix's Jüri Vips won the qualification race the day before and led the first seven laps of the main race before being passed by Verschoor on the eighth lap. Verschoor held off Vips' several overtake attempts to become the first rookie to win the Macau Grand Prix since Keisuke Kunimoto in 2008. He was the first Dutch driver to win the event and the second overall, after Roberto Moreno, to win the New Zealand Grand Prix and Macau. Vips finished second and Carlin Buzz Racing's Logan Sargeant was third.