SPA
The latest International round of British Formula Three came from the historic Spa circuit in Belgium. The championship leaders before the weekend were: Fluid’s Jay Bridger in the National Class and in the International Class Jamie Alguersuari of Carlin and Sergio Perez of T-Sport share the championship lead.
In race one Oliver Turvey took victory in a Carlin 1-2-3-4 after starting from pole position. Brendon Hartley passed him at the first corner but after running side-by-side through Eau Rouge Turvey took back the lead and held it for the rest of the race.
After that he ran a sensible race keeping Hartley between half a second and one and a half seconds behind through the entire race, as the two were joined on the podium by Alguersuari.
Sam Abay was fourth to complete the Carlin 1-2-3-4, fifth was John Martin of Double R with championship leader Perez in sixth. Marcus Ericsson was seventh for Fortec with Michael Devaney of Ultimate eighth, Walter Grubmuller ninth for Hitech and Atte Mustonen completing the points driving for Double R.
The National Class winner was Stefan Wilson of Fluid, Salman Al-Khalifa was second for T-Sport with, Bridger third.
Turvey was on pole for the second race but his engine broke on the warm up lap leaving him stranded on the grid, opening the door for team mate Hartley to take victory after a brave last lap pass on Perez.
Perez took the lead at turn one after Ericsson and Abay made contract and moved into a lead until Hartley passed him late on.
Third went to Nick Tandy of JTR, Alguersuari was fourth enough to keep his championship lead. Fifth was Ericsson, Daniel Campos-Hull of HBR was sixth, Henry Arundell was seventh for Double R, Sebastien Hohenthal of Fortec was eighth, Phillip Major finished ninth for Fortec and Max Chilton completed the points for Double R in tenth place.
Bridger won the National Class finishing twelfth overall, ahead of Steven Guerrero of T-Sport in second and Al-Khalifa in third.
In the championship Alguersuari had 164 points leading by just one from Perez. Turvey is third with 150. In the National Class Bridger extends his lead now having 231 points. Andy Meyrick is still second despite missing another round due to illness, and Guerrero is third with 163 points – just eleven behind Meyrick.
Written: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:32:26
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