After rocketing past his team-mate Jordan King on the first lap, Alexander Rossi led the team to a 1-2 in Spa-Francorchamps.

Yesterday's madness meant that King was to start on reverse grid pole position, but it was championship leader, Stoffel Vandoorne, who made the most of the start, promoting himself to fifth.

With the tyres beginning to struggle, a train formed behind Julian Leal which Vandoorne and Mitch Evans were quick to clear.

As Vandoorne and Evans caught the leaders, the virtual safety car was deployed halting their advances. Arthur Pic spun into the gravel and beached his Campos car.

At the restart, a rare mistake from Vandoorne caused him to lose time to the leaders and drop back into the clutches of Evans.

After managing the pace, Rossi held off King to win his first race of the season. Evans swooped past Vandoorne with DRS on the final lap, claiming the final podium position.

Team-mate Artem Markelov finished in fifth after a late pass on Sergey Sirotkin. Nathaniel Berthon dropped to seventh despite racing amongst the top three, with Alex Lynn close behind. Sergio Canamasas and Rio Haryanto complete the top ten.

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1. Alexander Rossi Racing Engineering
2. Jordan King Racing Engineering
3. Mitch Evans RUSSIAN TIME
4. Stoffel Vandoorne ART Grand Prix
5. Artem Markelov RUSSIAN TIME
6. Sergey Sirotkin Rapax
7. Nathanaël Berthon Daiko Team Lazarus
8. Alex Lynn DAMS
9. Sergio Canamasas Daiko Team Lazarus
10. Rio Haryanto Campos Racing
11. Julian Leal Carlin
12. Raffaele Marciello Trident
13. Richie Stanaway Status Grand Prix
14. André Negrao Arden International
15. Nobuharu Matsushita ART Grand Prix
16. Robert Visoiu Rapax
17. Nick Yelloly Hilmer Motorsport
18. Gustav Malja Trident
19. Marlon Stockinger Status Grand Prix
20. Norman Nato Arden International
21. Sean Gelael Carlin

Fastest Lap: Vandoorne (ART Grand Prix) 2:01.151 (Lap 3)

Not Classified

Oliver Rowland MP Motorsport
Arthur Pic Campos Racing
Pierre Gasly DAMS

Standings after Belgium (Round 7)

Pos	Name	Nat	Team	Points
1	Vandoorne	BEL	ART Grand Prix	233
2	Rossi	USA	Racing Engineering	128
3	Haryanto	INA	Campos Racing	109
4	Sirotkin	RUS	Rapax	109
5	Lynn	GBR	DAMS	86
6	Gasly	FRA	DAMS	61
7	Marciello	ITA	Trident	58
8	Evans	NZL	Russian Time	57
9	Matsushita	JPN	ART Grand Prix	48
10	King	GBR	Racing Engineering	42
11	Pic	FRA	Campos Racing	39
12	Leal	COL	Carlin	38
13	Markelov	RUS	Russian Time	37
14	Berthon	FRA	Daiko Team Lazarus	24
15	Canamasas	ESP	Hilmer Motorsport	23
16	Stanaway	NZL	Status Grand Prix	22
17	Yelloly	GBR	Hilmer Motorsport	19
18	Visoiu	ROU	Rapax	18
19	Nato	FRA	Arden International	10
20	Rowland	GBR	MP Motorsport	3
21	Negrao	BRA	Arden International	3
22	De Jong	NED	MP Motorsport	1
23	Malja	SWE	Trident	1

Team standings after Belgium (Round 7)

Pos	Team	Points
1	ART Grand Prix	281
2	Racing Engineering	170
3	Campos Racing	148
4	DAMS	147
5	Rapax	127
6	Russian Time	94
7	Trident	59
8	Carlin	38
9	MP Motorsport	27
10	Daiko Team Lazarus	24
11	Status Grand Prix	22
12	Hilmer motorsport	19
13	Arden International	13