Alex Lynn went into the GP2 Series' mid-season break in the best possible way as he finished with a sprint race win at Hockenheim in Germany.

After taking points from just two races from the previous nine, the 22-year-old from Dunmow was back to top form with a composed drive that delivered a much-needed win for the DAMS Racing team.

It is one that Lynn will have time to savour as the GP2 Series now takes a three-week break ahead of the next round at Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium in August.

With chaos reigning behind him as various drivers struggled for grip from their medium compound tyres in the latter stages, Lynn proceeded serenely at the front of the pack.

Starting second on the grid, he took advantage of pole-sitter Antonio Giovinazzi having a terrible start and cruised into the lead by the first corner.

That gave him the luxury of being able to manage his tyres and the gap to fellow Brit Oliver Rowland behind him as he gradually pulled away and finished almost three seconds clear of second-placed Sergei Sirotkin at the chequered flag.

Senior members of the Williams Martini Racing Formula One team, who Lynn is development driver for, were at the podium presentation to congratulate their man for his win.

And it will be an especially sweet one after a testing period that has seen the DAMS team cars struggling to deliver the pace needed to allow Lynn to live up to his billing as one of the pre-season favourites to take the GP2 title this year.

The Essex man admitted ahead of the round in Germany that he and the team had found it tough to get the set-up right for the car at times this year, but they will now have the three-week break to work on that ahead of the final four rounds of the season.

It was also a welcome result after another tough race the previous day when, having started fifth on the grid, Lynn finished the feature race in fifth position, but was bumped down to eighth by a ten-second penalty incurred after a collision with Racing Engineering's Norman Nato.

That was later changed to a seventh-place finish after Pierre Gasly's exclusion from the race due to a technical issue with his car's fire extinguisher.