GP2: Penalties hand Marciello a point

Ferrari Formula 1 junior Raffaele Marciello has been elevated into the points in the second Hungaroring GP2 race after eighth-placed Adrian Quaife-Hobbs was among those given post-event penalties.

Rapax driver Quaife-Hobbs was judged to have been at fault in a last-lap collision that ended Caterham driver Tom Dillmann's race. A 20-second penalty for Quaife-Hobbs drops him from eighth to 12th in the results and brings Marciello up to score the final point.

The post-race elevation ends an up-and-down weekend for reigning European Formula 3 champion Marciello in which he was on course for feature race victory only to get penalties for speeding in the pitlane and passing Stoffel Vandoorne behind the safety car. That prompted public criticism of "two unacceptable driver's mistakes" on Twitter from his Ferrari Driver Academy chiefs, but Marciello responded by coming from 20th on the grid to ninth on Sunday morning, before gaining a point through Quaife-Hobbs' demotion.

The Italian's performance on Sunday earned praise from the FDA, which said on Twitter during the race that it was "the best answer to our criticism."

The GP2 stewards have also punished Daniel de Jong and Andre Negrao for collisions with Julian Leal and Simon Trummer, respectively.  A 20sec penalty for de Jong drops him from 17th to 18th, while Negrao gets a five-place grid penalty for the next round at Spa as his clash ended his race in Hungary.