Ninovic wins in Italy in GB3’s inaugural Monza race

Photo: Jakob Ebrey Photography

GB3 champion Alex Ninovic scored his ninth victory of 2025 in a restarted race one of the weekend at the Monza season finale.

The Rodin Motorsport driver resisted a challenge from Xcel Motorsport’s Patrick Heuzenroeder at the original start before the contest was red flagged due to multiple cars retiring in first lap incidents.

Elite Motorsport’s GB4 graduate Isaac Phelps tangled with August Raber on the run to the first chicane and damaged his car against the wall, Bart Harrison and Rodrigo Gonzalez were part of a three-car collision through Curve Grande and retired in the gravel trap, and Kai Daryanani also stopped on circuit with suspension damage following a separate incident.

The race was fully restarted following a short delay, with the contest shortened to 10 laps. This time Heuzenroeder was slightly slow away and had to defend from Hitech GP’s Deagen Fairclough into the first corner, while Ninovic held a half-second advantage at the front.

Fairclough ended up losing third to Rodin’s Gianmarco Pradel, but he dived back up the inside into the della Roggia chicane to reclaim the place.

There was a brief safety car period after Bianca Bustamante was tagged into a spin at turn one by her Elite team-mate Flynn Jackes, and Ninovic continued to the lead once the track returned to green.

The Australian struggled to break out of slipstream range from his pursuers from there, with as many as six cars in the lead train, but he did edge away slightly on the final lap.

He took the chequered flag with a winning margin of 1.613 seconds over Heuzenroeder, who cemented his hopes of taking second in the championship by finishing directly ahead of his two main rivals.

Pradel completed a double podium for Rodin by sweeping around the outside of Fairclough into Ascari on the penultimate tour, with Fairclough resisting a further challenge from Hillspeed’s debutant Newman Chi to finish fourth.

Maxim Rehm finished just behind his Hillspeed team-mate on his first GB3 start, with Reza Seewooruthun and Luca Fluxa following him home.

Race results (10 laps)