F3 Championship hots up

Francesca · 18 Aug 2002, 15:12 (Ref:360306)

After race One (1 - Kovalainen, 2 - Carbone, 3 - Taylor - full results on www.british-f3.com) it leaves Courtney just 3 points behind Kerr with Jouanny starting to catch up too.

Race Two has Kerr starting in sixth place with Courtney on the front row. There's not many points left to be had now the season is drawing to a close - should be an interesting fight to the last race!

Speedworx · 18 Aug 2002, 16:14 (Ref:360366)

How is Jouanny starting to catah up?

He is losing ground, rather than catching up.

Francesca · 18 Aug 2002, 16:19 (Ref:360368)

stop nit picking - you know what I mean!!!

Francesca · 18 Aug 2002, 16:30 (Ref:360376)

I feel sorry for Taylor - he'd changed to wets which was starting to pay off when they red flagged the race. He was in the lead but they gave the victory to Kovalinen who had lead the lap before. How annoying must that be!

Speedworx · 18 Aug 2002, 16:33 (Ref:360379)

Avon Tyres British F3 Championship - Provisional Result - Round 19

1 6 C Heikki KOVALAINEN FIN Dallara F302 Renault Sodemo 19:47.634 9 75.70 1:37.179
2 5 C Fabio CARBONE BRA Dallara F302 Renault Sodemo 19:47.824 9 0.190 75.69 1:37.624
3 3 C Mark TAYLOR GBR Dallara F302 Mugen-Honda 19:49.002 9 1.368 75.61 1:38.569
4 1 C James COURTNEY AUS Dallara F302 Mugen-Honda 19:57.451 9 9.817 75.08 1:37.398
5 2 C Alan VAN DER MERWE RSA Dallara F302 Mugen-Honda 19:59.229 9 11.595 74.97 1:38.052
6 34 C Ronnie BREMER DEN Dallara F302 Mugen-Honda 20:00.325 9 12.691 74.90 1:38.839
7 7 C Robbie KERR GBR Dallara F302 Mugen-Honda 20:02.641 9 15.007 74.76 1:37.868
8 67 S Clivio PICCIONE MON Dallara F301 Mugen-Honda 20:03.064 9 15.430 74.73 1:37.422
9 62 S Billy ASARO CAN Dallara F301 Mugen-Honda 20:03.218 9 15.584 74.72 1:37.391
10 4 C Richard ANTINUCCI USA Dallara F302 Mugen-Honda 20:08.222 9 20.588 74.41 1:37.871
11 56 S Stephen COLBERT GBR Dallara F301 Mugen-Honda 20:09.806 9 22.172 74.31 1:38.305
12 10 C Stefano FABI ITA Dallara F302 Mugen-Honda 20:21.113 9 33.479 73.63 1:39.305
13 19 C Stefan HODGETTS GBR Dallara F302 Mugen-Honda 20:24.843 9 37.209 73.40 1:38.372
14 66 S Pedro BARRAL ESP Dallara F301 Mugen-Honda 20:41.639 9 54.005 72.41 1:38.094
15 8 C Mark MAYALL GBR Dallara F302 Mugen-Honda 20:44.171 9 56.537 72.26 1:38.142
16 14 C John ANTONADIS GRE Dallara F302 Mugen-Honda 20:45.958 9 58.324 72.16 1:37.509
17 12 C Mathew GILMORE GBR Dallara F302 Mugen-Honda 20:58.644 9 1:11.010 71.43 1:37.889
18 17 C Stefan de GROOT NED Dallara F302 Opel Speiss 21:04.933 9 1:17.299 71.07 1:38.331
19 11 C Bruce JOUANNY FRA Dallara F302 Mugen-Honda 21:17.413 9 1:29.779 70.38 1:41.033
20 53 S Justin SHERWOOD GBR Dallara F301 Opel Speiss 20:37.886 8 1 LAP 64.56 1:56.883

Not Classified
63 S Robert DAHLGREN SWE Dallara F301 Mugen-Honda 17:56.006 8 D.N.F. 74.27 1:37.087
13 C Tor GRAVES GBR Dallara F302 Mugen-Honda 18:35.724 8 D.N.F. 71.63 1:39.853
61 S Adam CARROLL GBR Dallara F301 Mugen-Honda 15:56.217 7 D.N.F. 73.13 1:37.229
16 C Rob AUSTIN GBR Dallara F302 Opel Speiss 11:48.989 5 D.N.F. 70.45 1:33.027
51 S Mohammed FAIRUZ MAL Dallara F301 Renault Sodemo 1:50.257 1 D.N.F. 90.60 1:50.257
22 C Shinya HOSOKAWA JPN Dallara F302 Mugen-Honda 0 D.N.F. N/A
68 S Karun CHANDHOK IND Dallara F301 Mugen-Honda 0 D.N.F. N/A
55 S Gavin SMITH IRL Dallara F301 Mugen-Honda 0 D.N.F. N/A
77 S Harold PRIMAT FRA Dallara F301 Mugen-Honda 0 D.N.F. N/A

Race cut short because of rain

Speedworx · 18 Aug 2002, 16:35 (Ref:360380)

Kerr 204
Courtney 201
Jouanny 152
Keohane 142
Kovalainen 126
Taylor 118

Nice and close for top 2.

Francesca · 18 Aug 2002, 16:35 (Ref:360382)

there's a full race report on my site now.

Speedworx · 18 Aug 2002, 16:54 (Ref:360403)

How have you got Hosokawa on 59 points?

kbudden · 18 Aug 2002, 17:31 (Ref:360437)

Anyone know the result of race 2 yet - checked the MST site but its not there - or has the meeting been abandoned due to the rain ?

Francesca · 18 Aug 2002, 17:36 (Ref:360440)

hakiman - I felt sorry for him so gave him a few extra points!!!

3 sites have him down as having 59 points and 2 sites have him down as having 38!!!

The races at Oulton have all been delayed because of the rain - they're gonna have 2 F3 races to reschedule if the second race gets postponed!

Speedworx · 18 Aug 2002, 17:42 (Ref:360448)

Hosokawa has 38 points.

0,0,2,11,0,0,1,4,20 = 38

Its strange that one part of Britain is having rain and here its warm and dry.

Ian Sowman · 18 Aug 2002, 17:52 (Ref:360461)

Race 2 results, from Autosport.com. Courtney led from lights to flag, and retakes the championship lead.

1 James Courtney (Carlin Motorsport)
2 Robert Dahlgren (Sweeney Racing)*
3 Robbie Kerr (Alan Docking Racing)
4 Heikki Kovalainen (Fortec Motorsport)
5 Clivio Piccione (T-Sport)*
6 Matt Gilmore (Promatecme F3)
7 Shinya Hosokawa (Carlin Motorsport)
8 Fabio Carbone (Fortec Motorsport)
9 Alan van der Merwe (Carlin Motorsport)
10 Stefan de Groot (Menu Motorsport)
11 Bruce Jouanny (Promatemce F3)
12 Richard Antinucci (Manor Motorsport)
13 Stefan Hodgetts (Motaworld Racing)
14 Stephen Colbert (Meritus Racing)*
15 Mohammed Fairuz (Fred Goddard Racing)*
16 Tor Graves (Alan Docking Racing)
17 Justin Sherwood (Performance Racing Europe)*
18 Stefano Fabi (Team Avanti)
19 Gavin Smith (Meritus Racing)*
20 John Antonadis (Duma Racing)

Speedworx · 18 Aug 2002, 18:06 (Ref:360471)

Did Courtney set the fastest lap?

Francesca · 18 Aug 2002, 20:53 (Ref:360570)

Dahlgren has been disqiualified for mechanical infringements!

Sato san · 18 Aug 2002, 21:49 (Ref:360633)

thats a shame...great result for him...he must be gutted...will they appeal ?

KayBee · 18 Aug 2002, 22:09 (Ref:360660)

Quote:

Originally posted by hakkiman
Avon Tyres British F3 Championship - Provisional Result - Round 19

Race cut short because of rain

The race was stopped because one of the cars was in a dangerous position - having spun off during the rain. It was physically impossible for the marshals to move the car given the extremely heavy rain and the condition of the car.

**garcon** · 18 Aug 2002, 23:01 (Ref:360717)

Quote:

Originally posted by KayBee

The race was stopped because one of the cars was in a dangerous position - having spun off during the rain. It was physically impossible for the marshals to move the car given the extremely heavy rain and the condition of the car.

Ah! That explqains it. ...explqains?? sounds like aquaplanes - appropriately enough... We were wondering why it was red flagged when the worst of the shower had passed and the sun was coming out!

btw I just posted under 'Marshalls' too - everyone ok after the GT pile-up? It looked very very bad from our position near Cascades... we feared the worst at first, but I believe the only injuries were cuts and bruises? Hope so - best wishes to those involved

El_Gibleto · 19 Aug 2002, 05:34 (Ref:360879)

Dahlgren can appeal all he likes, the fact is the car was illegal, the airbox had fallen off.

Clivio took great pleasure in collecting his first place trophy from the sweeny racing awning after the race.

Ajay · 19 Aug 2002, 05:57 (Ref:360890)

Hi,
Can anybody tell me what happened to Karun Chandhok. From autosport it looks like he spun in race1 but what about his 2nd race?

El_Gibleto · 19 Aug 2002, 06:09 (Ref:360895)

not sure where he finished, if he did. The car was in one piece as I walked past the awning on my way out of the circuit, his mechanics did a very good job to get the car ready after ther first race.

mac · 19 Aug 2002, 06:37 (Ref:360904)

Congrats to James for getting back on track!

KayBee · 19 Aug 2002, 07:19 (Ref:360923)

Garcon! It depends on which part of Cascades you were on because the F3 car was between Clay Hill and Water Tower and if you had looked that way you may have seen the waved yellow at Clay Hill. Once the offending piece of bodywork had been removed the driver was able to drive back to the Pits and he was out in the second race although he didn't complete that race either.

Paul Rayner · 19 Aug 2002, 09:15 (Ref:360992)

Did anyone else see Carroll's car after the race 2 smash? He did a proper job on it, the tub has a big hole down the side! It cracked open all the way down the left, so you can actually see through it. Apart from a bit of a knocked elbow though, he's fine.

Sato san · 19 Aug 2002, 09:57 (Ref:361029)

Quote:

Originally posted by El_Gibleto
Dahlgren can appeal all he likes, the fact is the car was illegal, the airbox had fallen off.

o right !.thats fair enough then ..cant really argue with that one . Reminds me of Gonzo Rodrigez in the GP support race at Silverstone in 96 ???...he had a big speed advantage over everyone , but thats cause his airbox had fallen off.

**bella** · 19 Aug 2002, 12:09 (Ref:361147)

apparently, mackmot overheard a scrutineer telling the team not to celebrate too much because there wasn't an airbox on the car...

at least they got the remains of a bottle of champagne out of it. which reminds me, mackmot, boy, what did you do with that champagne...?

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