Norman Nato dominated this morning's Sprint Race in Monza, grabbing the lead with a storming start before building a lead which would not be touched for his second win of the season ahead of PREMA teammates Pierre Gasly and Antonio Giovinazzi.

When the lights went out poleman Mitch Evans had a poor getaway while Jordan King looked to have claimed the lead from P2, but his Racing Engineering teammate had other ideas: Nato eased up the inside into Turn 1 to steal the top spot, while behind them Luca Ghiotto was squeezed between Evans and a fast starting Gasly, with the Red Bull tester nabbing P3 ahead of his rivals.

The field headed for Della Roggia together, and it was soon clear that they were too close: Oliver Rowland tapped Ghiotto into a spin and retirement (picking up a 10 second penalty for the move), with Gustav Malja similarly pushing Evans out of the race (and picking up the same penalty) before also knocking an element off Giovinazzi's front wing as he looked to get away again, prompting a brief VSC period to remove the stricken cars.

When the race ran live again on lap 2 the order at the front was Nato from King, Gasly, Malja, Giovinazzi and Nobuharu Matsushita, with the Italian quickly taking revenge by claiming the Swede's scalp on lap 5. The PREMA pair were on their usual hot pace as Gasly hunted down King for lap after lap before striking on lap 9: the Frenchman went outside into Turn 1 to be inside for the chicane exit, before running side by side all the way to Della Roggia for the inside line and P2.

Further back Markelov was repeating his weekend long speed, making short work of mugging Matsushita for P6 and looking for more, as King slowly fell back into his rivals clutches: Giovinazzi eventually stole his podium on lap 17 at Turn 1. Malja was pushing the Briton all round the track, finally getting side by side with him up to Della Roggia on the final lap before cutting the corner, handing a run to the Russian. Up front Nato, Gasly and Giovinazzi ran their own pace to fill the podium, while King just denied P4 to Markelov despite a lunge at the line. Malja's time penalty promoted Alex Lynn to 6th after mugging Matsushita on the line, while Nicholas Latifi grabbed the final point of the race.

1. Norman Nato Racing Engineering
2. Pierre Gasly PREMA Racing
3. Antonio Giovinazzi PREMA Racing
4. Jordan King Racing Engineering
5. Artem Markelov RUSSIAN TIME
6. Alex Lynn DAMS
7. Nobuharu Matsushita ART Grand Prix
8. Nicholas Latifi DAMS
9. Gustav Malja Rapax
10. Marvin Kirchhöfer Carlin
11. Oliver Rowland MP Motorsport
12. Arthur Pic Rapax
13. Nabil Jeffri Arden International
14. Sergio Canamasas Carlin
15. Raffaele Marciello RUSSIAN TIME
16. Sean Gelael Pertamina Campos Racing
17. Philo Paz Armand Trident
18. Jimmy Eriksson Arden International
19. Daniël de Jong MP Motorsport

Fastest Lap: Artem Markelov (RUSSIAN TIME) 1:33.727 (Lap 5)

Not Classified

Sergey Sirotkin ART Grand Prix
Mitch Evans Pertamina Campos Racing
Luca Ghiotto Trident

Drivers Standings after Italy

Pos	Name	Nat	Team	Points
1	Gasly	FRA	Prema Racing	174
2	Giovinazzi	ITA	Prema Racing	164
3	Marciello	ITA	Russian Time	138
4	Sirotkin	RUS	ART Grand Prix	115
5	King	GBR	Racing Engineering	112
6	Nato	FRA	Racing Engineering	107
7	Rowland	GBR	MP Motorsport	106
8	Lynn	GBR	DAMS	91
9	Ghiotto	ITA	Trident	90
10	Markelov	RUS	Russian Time	86
11	Evans	NZL	Pertamina Campos Racing	81
12	Matsushita	JPN	ART Grand Prix	60
13	Malja	SWE	Rapax	43
14	Pic	FRA	Rapax	36
15	Gelael	INO	Pertamina Campos Racing	24
16	Latifi	CAN	DAMS	22
17	Kirchhofer	GER	Carlin	20
18	Canamasas	GBR	Carlin	16
19	Eriksson	SWE	Arden International	10
20	de Jong	NED	MP Motorsport	6
21	Jeffri	MAS	Arden International	2

Team standings after Italy

Pos	Team	Points
1	Prema Racing	338
2	Russian Time	224
3	Racing Engineering	219
4	ART Grand Prix	175
5	DAMS	113
6	MP Motorsport	112
7	Pertamina Campos Racing	105
8	Trident	90
9	Rapax	79
10	Carlin	36
11	Arden International	12