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Mustonen and Hohenthal win

ROCKINGHAM

Round four of the British Formula Three championship was held at the United Kingdoms only purpose built oval track at Rockingham. In the championship Perez of T-Sport leads by thirty points from Oliver Turvey of Carlin and in the National Class Andy Meyrick of Carlin leads by fourteen points from Fluid Motorsport driver Jay Bridger

Race one was run mainly in the dry and was won by Double R driver Atte Mustonen. He took the lead from Hitech’s Max Chilton off the line and never looked back taking victory by almost three seconds.

Second was taken by Fortec driver Marcus Ericsson after a great drive from seventh passing Jamie Alguersuari of Carlin late on as the rain began to fall in the closing stages of the race. He challenged Mustonen for the win but could not find a way past.

Chilton finished fourth after starting on pole, after twice taking to the oval track, with four British drivers in the Indy 500 yesterday it appears that there could be another contender for next year.

Championship leader Sergio Perez was fifth for T-Sport ahead of Oliver Turvey of Carlin, Sebastien Hohenthal of Fortec, another Carlin of Sam Abay, Hitech driver Walter Grubmuller and Carlin’s Brendon Hartley to complete the points down to tenth place.

Carlin driver Andy Merick won the National Class again, coming home sixteenth overall ahead of Salman Al Khalifa of T-Sport and Stefan Wilson of Fluid Motorsport.

The second race was run in total wet conditions and it was Hohenthal who came home as the winner, beating Alguersuari and Chilton in a drag race across the line at the end if lap one to take the lead he never lost, Alguersuari finished second ahead of Chilton.

The rest of the points went to race one winner Mustonen in fourth, JTR driver Nick Tandy and Ultimate Motorsport driver Michael Devaney in fourth, fifth and sixth.

Meyrick was the National Class winner, and after starting fifth on the grid dropped back to seventh in the overall results beating International Class drivers Hartley, Turvey and Ericsson who completed the points scorers.

Following Meyrick to second and third in the National Class were Jay Bridger of Fluid who was sixteenth overall and Steven Guerrero of T-Sport

In the championship, Perez still leads but it has been cut to just ten points, he leads Mustonen by 88 points to 78. Alguersuari is now up to third with 71. In that National Class another two wins put Meyrick on 126 points well clear of Bridger who has 97 and Lloyd in third with 85.

Written: Mon, 26 May 2008 18:12:47