Race details
Date	16–17 November 2013
Official name	60th Star River‧Windsor Arch Macau Grand Prix
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: Sunny; air 23 °C (73 °F), track 39 °C (102 °F) Main Race: Sunny; air 24 °C (75 °F), track 29 °C (84 °F)
Qualifying Race
Pole
Driver	Raffaele Marciello	Prema Powerteam
Time	2:11.555
Fastest Lap
Driver	Felix Rosenqvist	GR Asia with Mücke
Time	2:12.312 (on lap 8)
Podium
First	Alex Lynn	Theodore Racing by Prema
Second	Felix Rosenqvist	GR Asia with Mücke
Third	Raffaele Marciello	Prema Powerteam
Main Race
Pole
Driver	Alex Lynn	Theodore Racing by Prema
Fastest Lap
Driver	Jordan King	Carlin
Time	2:11.547 (on lap 15)
Podium
First	Alex Lynn	Theodore Racing by Prema
Second	António Félix da Costa	Carlin
Third	Pipo Derani	Fortec Motorsport

The 2013 Macau Grand Prix (formally the 60th Star River-Windsor Arch Macau Grand Prix) was a motor race for Formula Three cars that was held on the streets of Macau on 17 November 2013. Unlike other races, such as the Masters of Formula 3, the 2013 Macau Grand Prix was not a part of any Formula Three championship, but was open to entries from all Formula Three championships. The race itself was made up of two races: a ten-lap qualifying race that decided the starting grid for the fifteen-lap main race. The 2013 race was the 60th running of the Macau Grand Prix and the 31st for Formula Three cars.

The Grand Prix was won by Theodore Racing by Prema driver Alex Lynn from pole position, having won the event's Qualification Race the previous afternoon. Lynn led every lap of the main race to take victory and became the seventh driver to win the race for Theodore Racing. Second place went to the race's defending champion António Félix da Costa, competing for Carlin, while the podium was completed by Fortec Motorsport driver Pipo Derani.

Entry list and background

The Macau Grand Prix is a Formula Three race considered to be a stepping stone to higher motor racing categories such as Formula One and has been termed the territory's most prestigious international sporting event.^[1][2] The 2013 Macau Grand Prix was the 60th running of the event and the 31st time the race was held to Formula Three regulations.^[3] It took place on the 6.2 km (3.9 mi) 22-turn Guia Circuit on 17 November 2013 with three preceding days of practice and qualifying.^[3]

In order to compete in Macau, drivers had to compete in a Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA)-regulated championship meeting during the calendar year, in either the FIA Formula Three European Championship or one of the domestic championships, with the highest-ranked drivers in those series given priority in receiving an invitation to the meeting.^[4][5] Within the 28-car grid of the event, three of the four major Formula Three series were represented by their respective champion, Raffaele Marciello, the FIA Formula Three European champion, was joined in Macau by British champion Jordan King and Japanese series winner Yuichi Nakayama. German Formula Three title victor Marvin Kirchhöfer did not enter the event and so the highest-placed German series participant at Macau was fifth-placed John Bryant-Meisner.^[6] Dennis van de Laar was confirmed as a late replacement for European Formula Three driver Mitchell Gilbert at Mücke Motorsport who could not raise the necessary capital to compete in Macau due to poor results.^[7] Ed Jones and Nelson Mason, both European F3 Open Championship winners, replaced Félix Serrallés and Sandro Zeller; Serralés was replaced after his run of poor results in the European Championship.^[8]

Seven drivers who mainly competed in other series outside of Formula Three in 2013 became eligible for the Macau race: GP3 Series title contender Daniil Kvyat could not attend as he was at the United States Grand Prix testing for Toro Rosso and António Félix da Costa,^[9] the defending winner of the event, replaced him.^[4] Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 race winner Esteban Ocon and GP3 Series victor Carlos Sainz Jr. were announced among the lineup of drivers^[6][10] – Ocon to wait until his main series campaign had concluded before sealing his eligibility;^[10] Félix da Costa, Ocon and Sainz sealed their eligibility by competing in the MotorSport Vision Formula Three Cup, a second-tier Formula Three series in the United Kingdom, in its season-ending round at Snetterton.^[10][11] Three-time 2013 GP2 Series race winner Stefano Coletti and Kevin Korjus of the GP3 Series raced in the season-closing European Formula Three round at the Hockenheimring to prepare for Macau.^[12] The two other drivers who qualified for Macau were Formula Renault 3.5 Series racer Jazeman Jaafar who won two races at the Brands Hatch round of the British championship and Super GT competitor Yuhi Sekiguchi whose entry to the Masters of Formula 3 race allowed for his participation.^[13]

In April, the FIA single-seater commission president Gerhard Berger hinted to the press that the race would not have vehicles running with the more powerful 2013-specification engines from the All-Japan Formula Three championship due to a lack of car space and reliability concerns.^[14] The FIA World Motor Sport Council confirmed at a meeting at Goodwood House on 28 June that all engines installed in the cars had to be of 2012-specification.^[15] After the deaths of touring car driver Phillip Yau and motorcycle rider Luís Carreira in support races for the 2012 event, organisers installed crash protection fences for safety reasons.^[16]

Practice and qualifying

There were two 45-minute practice sessions preceding the Sunday race: one on Thursday morning and one on Friday morning.^[4] Alex Lynn set the fastest time for Theodore Racing by Prema in the opening practice session—held in variable weather conditions—with a lap of 2 minutes, 14.495 seconds, 0.061 seconds faster than any one else. His closest challenger was Félix da Costa in second in front of third-placed Coletti and Mücke Motorsport's Felix Rosenqvist in fourth position. Alexander Sims, Jaafar, Tom Blomqvist, Marciello, Lucas Auer and Korjus rounded out the session's top ten drivers. Sainz was the first driver to go off the slippery track and ricocheted off the Fisherman's Corner barrier with his car's rear. His teammate King understeered into the same barrier 11 minutes later, while Rosenqvist ran wide on dirty tyres at Lisboa turn and crashed at San Francisco Bend. Three other drivers—Sekiguchi, Lucas Wolf and Sun Zheng—failed to record a lap time by encountering incidents during the session.^[17]

Qualifying was divided into two sessions; the first was held on Thursday afternoon and ran for 40 minutes with the second held on Friday afternoon and lasted 30 minutes.^[4] The fastest time set by each driver from either session counted towards their final starting position for the qualification race.^[5] The first qualifying session had Rosenqvist come out on top with a late lap of 2 minutes, 12.751 seconds. He achieved this despite not slipstreaming any other car and recovered the lost time through the final sections of the track. Rosenqvist was 0.111 seconds faster than Félix da Costa with Sims a further three-tenths of a second slower in third.^[18] Harry Tincknell was fourth with Pipo Derani following in fifth having led the session in its opening minutes. Sainz ended up sixth in front of Coletti and Marciello. Korjus and Jaafar—who was forced to abort his fastest time because of red flags—rounded out the top ten. Auer was the fastest driver not to reach the top ten although he was fourth early on before other drivers improved on their best efforts.^[19] Following him were Blomqvist, King, Giovnazzi, Sekiguchi, William Buller, Nakayama, Ocon, Katsumasa Chiyo, Nicholas Latifi, Bryant-Meisner, Mason, Jones, Van de Laar, Sean Gelael, Lynn and Sun completing the order.^[18] Wolf sat out qualifying because of the damage sustained to his car in the first practice session.^[19] Lynn crashed his car at Fisherman's Bend in the first minutes which was temporarily halted to enable marshals to move his car into a safe location. The session ended early with a minute and 37 seconds remaining when Nakayama broke his suspension in an impact with a wall at Solitude Esses corner.^[19] Nakayama was unhurt.^[18]

In the second 45-minute practice session, Jaafar was quickest multiple times during the session until Korjus set a lap time of 2 minutes, 13.870 seconds which made him the fastest driver and ultimately held it to the conclusion of practice.^[20] Blomqvist was 0.063 seconds slower in second place. Carlin teammates Jaafar and Tincknell were third and fourth respectively. Lynn recovered from the first qualifying session to go fifth. Two more Carlin drivers: Sainz and Félix da Costa placed sixth and seventh. Sims, Buller and King occupied eighth to tenth places.^[21] Five drivers damaged their cars during the session: King made light contact with the barrier at Police Bend but rejoined after a replacement front wing was installed on his car. Auer struck a wall at the same turn with the left-hand side of the car and the session was stopped. Coletti's impact was harder and his car was extricated by a crane. Marciello did not continue after going deep at the Melco hairpin as he felt unsafe reversing. Chiyo's left-front corner was loosened from contact with a barrier lining the track.^[21]

In the second qualifying session, it was red-flagged soon after it started: Chiyo crashed at San Francisco Bend but the stoppage was short-lived as course workers worked swiftly to get running back under way.^[22] Lynn bettered Rosenqvist's benchmark first qualifying lap and recorded the fastest time which was suppressed soon by Derani.^[22][23] A second stoppage occurred when Sun and Mason crashed at Moorish corner just as Blomqvist went quickest. No driver managed a timed lap as Giovinazzi crashed against a barrier at Paiol turn, causing a third red flag.^[22][24] When the session restarted, Rosenqvist took provisional pole before Marciello took it with a 2 minutes, 11.555 seconds lap.^[23] Rosenqvist slipstreamed other cars but was cautious in the final two turns as he was confident of pole position. Lynn was a tenth of a second adrift in third. Auer moved up from his provisional grid slot to start fourth; he stalled in the pit lane.at the third restart. Félix da Costa dropped to fifth as Blomqvist improved to sixth. His teammate Derani took seventh. The top ten was completed by Carlin runners with Jaafar leading Tincknell and King. Behind them the rest of the field lined up as Sims, Buller, Korjus, Sainz, Ocon, Latifi, Coletti, Sekiguchi, Wolf, Giovinazzi, Nakayama, Van de Laar, Byrant-Meisner, Gelael, Mason, Jones, Chiyo and Sun.^[24] Jaafar, Nakayama and Jones each received penalties after second qualifying; Nakayama and Jones were demoted to the back of the grid for changing their engines while Jaafar dropped five places for a yellow flag infringement.^[22]

Qualifying classification

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Final qualifying classification

Pos	No.	Driver	Team	Q1 Time	Rank	Q2 Time	Rank	Gap	Grid
1	8	Raffaele Marciello	Prema Powerteam	2:13.831	8	2:11,555	1		1
2	14	Felix Rosenqvist	GR Asia with Mücke	2:12.751	1	2:11.622	2	+0.067	2
3	10	Alex Lynn	Theodore Racing by Prema	2:18.800	26	2:11.639	3	+0.084	3
4	9	Lucas Auer	Theodore Racing by Prema	2:14.262	11	2:12.052	4	+0.497	4
5	1	António Félix da Costa	Carlin	2:12.862	2	2:12.083	5	+0.528	5
6	21	Tom Blomqvist	Fortec Motorsport	2:14.315	12	2:12.111	6	+0.556	6
7	18	Pipo Derani	Fortec Motorsport	2:13.646	5	2:12.144	7	+0.589	7
8	4	Jazeman Jaafar	Carlin	2:14.087	10	2:12.225	8	+0.670	131
9	3	Harry Tincknell	Carlin	2:13.518	4	2:12.409	9	+0.854	8
10	5	Jordan King	Carlin	2:14.453	13	2:12.616	10	+1.061	9
11	23	Alexander Sims	ThreeBond with T-Sport	2:13.196	3	2:12.698	11	+1.143	10
12	19	William Buller	Fortec Motorsport	2:14.591	16	2:12.768	12	+1.213	11
13	24	Kevin Korjus	Double R Racing	2:13.870	9	2:13.053	13	+1.498	12
14	2	Carlos Sainz Jr.	Carlin	2:13.715	6	2:13.173	14	+1.618	14
15	11	Esteban Ocon	Prema Powerteam	2:15.119	18	2:13.333	15	+1.778	15
16	6	Nicholas Latifi	Carlin	2:15.350	20	2:13.551	16	+1.996	15
17	22	Stefano Coletti	EuroInternational	2:13.777	7	18:30.415	27	+2.222	17
18	15	Yuhi Sekiguchi	Mücke Motorsport	2:14.553	15	2:13.833	17	+2.278	18
19	29	Lucas Wolf	URD Rennsport	—	28	2:13.938	18	+2.383	19
20	27	Antonio Giovinazzi	Double R Racing	2:14.506	14	2:14.018	19	+2.463	20
21	15	Yuichi Nakayama	TOM'S	2:14.664	17	2:14.018	20	+2.753	272
22	16	Dennis van de Laar	Mücke Motorsport	2:16.473	24	2:14.310	21	+2.755	21
23	20	John Bryant-Meisner	Fortec Motorsport	2:15.881	21	2:14.570	22	+3.015	22
24	26	Sean Gelael	Double R Racing	2:17.334	25	2:14.657	23	+3.102	23
25	30	Nelson Mason	Jo Zeller Racing	2:15.949	22	2:14.706	24	+3.151	24
26	17	Ed Jones	Fortec Motorsport	2:16.094	23	2:14.975