F3 Euroseries - Hockenheim

[winny]

The F3 Euroseries championship starts this weekend at Hockenheim. The qualifying for the 1st race of tomorrow has already been done.
Manor seem very competitive since the winter testing and confirm this at Hockenheim. I'm a bit surprised not to see ASM at the top. Don't get me wrong their positions are good, but compared to last year we can feel manor are better. OK I guessed their domination would end some day but didn't expect this from the first race. Then again maybe the races will prove me wrong...

Here are the qualifying results:


1. Esteban Guerrieri - Manor - 1'33"651
2. Kohei Hirate - Manor - 1'33"674
3. Giedo Van der Garde - ASM - 1'33"908
4. Kazuki Nakajima - Manor - 1'34"001
5. Paul Di Resta - ASM - 1'34"086
6. Sebastien Buemi - Mucke - 1'34"279
7. Sebastian Vettel - ASM - 1'34"366
8. Kamui Kobayashi - ASM - 1'34"368
9. Romain Grosjean - Signature - 1'34"404
10.Tim Sandtler - Signature - 1'34"418
11.Guillaume Moreau - Signature - 1'34"511
12.Charlie Kimball - Signature - 1'34"758
13.Richard Antinucci - HBR - 1'34"787
14.Joao Urbano - Prema - 1'34"814
15.Michael Herck - Leinders - 1'34"828
16.Yelmer Buurman - Fortec - 1'34"874
17.Alejandro Nunez - Prema - 1'34"946
18.Jonathan Summerton - Mucke - 1'35"030
19.James Walker - Hitech - 1'35"053
20.Peter Elkmann (Dallara 306-Opel) - Zeller - 1'35"159
21.James Jakes - Hitech - 1'35"282
22.Filip Salaquarda (Dallara 306-Opel) - ISR - 1'35"592
23.Ronayne O'Mahony - Prema - 1'35"865
24.Bruno Fechner (Dallara 304-Mercedes) - Seyffarth - 1'37"380
25.Julian Theobald (Dallara 304-Mercedes) - Seyffarth - 1'37"887
26.Kevin Fank (Dallara 304-Mercedes) - Seyffarth - 1'38"840
27.Cemil Cipa (Dallara 304-Opel) - HBR - 1'38"729
28.Anthony Janiec (Dallara 302-Renault) - Janiec - 1'38"853
29.Julia Kuhn - Kuhn - 1'44"491

[bella]

it's going to be a very competitive season at this rate.

big surprises for me are buemi and sandtler. on the other end of the scale, i'm pleased my prediction for sebastien vettel is right at least at this stage. if you believe the hype, he should be fastest easily.

[strider]

Umm, and what about your prediction for Guillaume Moreau? At least Signature seem to be giving their drivers equal equipment, although so do Manor, come to think of it.

[winny]

Race 1 results:

1. 3 Hirate/JPN 22 40:27.868 40:27.868
2. 18 Nakajima/JPN 22 40:30.296 02.428
3. 2 di Resta/GBR 22 40:35.520 07.652
4. 9 Moreau/FRA 22 40:39.973 12.105
5. 1 Vettel/GER 22 40:40.696 12.828
6. 17 Kobayashi/JPN 22 40:50.861 22.993
7. 11 Antinucci/USA 22 40:56.063 28.195
8. 26 Buurman/NED 22 40:58.825 30.957
9. 29 Jakes/GBR 22 41:15.336 47.468
10. 5 Nunez/ESP 22 41:19.777 51.909
11. 19 Urbano/POR 22 41:26.450 58.582
12. 24 Elkmann/GER 22 41:31.477 1:03.609
13. 43 Theobald/GER 22 41:40.557 1:12.689
14. 4 Guerrieri/ARG 22 41:42.605 1:14.737
15. 21 Sandtler/GER 22 41:46.889 1:19.021
16. 40 Janiec/FRA 22 41:49.817 1:21.949
17. 42 Fank/GER 22 42:00.063 1:32.195
18. 41 Cipa/TUR 21 40:44.838 1 lap
19. 7 Buemi/SUI 21 41:18.379 1 lap
20. 30 Walker/GBR 18 34:50.412 4 laps
21. 10 Grosjean/FRA 16 31:36.395 6 laps
22. 20 Kimball/USA 16 31:47.074 6 laps
23. 14 Salaquarda/CEZ 15 30:17.287 7 laps
24. 8 Summerton/USA 13 26:42.444 9 laps
25. 6 O´Mahony/IRL 13 26:44.034 9 laps
26. 16 van der Garde/NED 12 24:40.635 10 laps

[strider]

Tomorrow will be interesting. Yelmer Buurman will start from pole now that they've adopted the GP2-style top eight reverse grid for Race 2.

Apparently today's poleman, Guerrieri, smacked his team-mate up the rear on the first lap and indirectly that triggered off a multi-car moment. Hey ho, latin temperament!

[flor]

Originally Posted by bella

on the other end of the scale, i'm pleased my prediction for sebastien vettel is right at least at this stage. if you believe the hype, he should be fastest easily.

guess who won today

[flor]

Result

Pos. No. Driver Lap Time Gap
1. 1 Vettel/GER 18 28:42.167 28:42.167
2. 9 Moreau/FRA 18 28:42.666 00.499
3. 4 Guerrieri/ARG 18 28:43.119 00.952
4. 3 Hirate/JPN 18 28:43.843 01.676
5. 17 Kobayashi/JPN 18 28:45.733 03.566
6. 18 Nakajima/JPN 18 28:46.542 04.375
7. 16 van der Garde/NED 18 28:47.150 04.983
8. 29 Jakes/GBR 18 29:00.140 17.973
9. 19 Urbano/POR 18 29:09.855 27.688
10. 5 Nunez/ESP 18 29:10.661 28.494
11. 8 Summerton/USA 18 29:11.305 29.138
12. 20 Kimball/USA 18 29:11.960 29.793
13. 10 Grosjean/FRA 18 29:12.970 30.803
14. 7 Buemi/SUI 18 29:14.732 32.565
15. 14 Salaquarda/CEZ 18 29:17.482 35.315
16. 22 Herck/MCO 18 29:18.154 35.987
17. 6 O´Mahony/IRL 18 29:28.523 46.356
18. 43 Theobald/GER 18 30:02.642 1:20.475
19. 40 Janiec/FRA 18 30:03.491 1:21.324
20. 41 Cipa/TUR 18 30:04.598 1:22.431
21. 24 Elkmann/GER 16 29:18.984 2 laps
22. 21 Sandtler/GER 15 24:21.732 3 laps
23. 26 Buurman/NED 10 16:15.057 8 laps
24. 30 Walker/GBR 4 6:47.095 14 laps
25. 2 di Resta/GBR 3 4:56.889 15 laps
26. 42 Fank/GER 1 2:58.534 17 laps

[bella]

Originally Posted by flor

guess who won today

if you saw the race, it was more by luck than judgement. he was all over the place. not that di resta wasn't, but if he's as good as the hype, he shouldn't be running wide more than once on the same corner and so forth.

i thought moreau was very good. and as i said to someone yesterday evening, it was clear that anyone can drive an asm car, but you do have to be decently competant to drive a signature car to nearly the same level.

paul di resta shouldn't be making hideous mistakes at this level either.

[Croc]

The japanese guys are looking strong, racing for top teams like Manor and ASM, it's worth to keep eyes on them.