British Formula 3, Round 5, Hockenheim

[strider]

Shaking the dust of Magny Cours off their feet the teams have made their way to Hockenheim for this weekend's meeting.

There's a short preview here and note this:

There’s testing at Hockenheim on Thursday and Friday morning, ahead of official qualifying on Friday afternoon, two races on Saturday and the third on Sunday morning.

I'll try and get hold of an official timetable, but it may be easier said than done.

[bella]

http://www.hockenheimring.net/adac-masters-zeitplan

[JohnMiller]

I heard a 2009 racewinner has returned.

[strider]

Originally Posted by bella

http://www.hockenheimring.net/adac-masters-zeitplan

Excellent, bella, thank you. Can you bump this up into Hot Topic area and drop Magny Cours down, please?

[Valker]

Live timing
Results

[strider]

Thanks for those, Valker, just what needed.

It looks as Vergne has been fastest in free practice this morning from Webb and Calado. It will be good if all three of them can have a trouble-free weekend, because they haven't really raced head-to-head yet

[Valker]

In free practices, British and German F3 were about as fast. Vergne was a bit over tenth slower than Abt and, on the other hand, the slowest cup driver Martsenko was a tenth off of Fong's time.

I'm looking forward to see how the qualifying times compare.

[Valker]

For some drivers it's hard to stay between the white lines. In free practice, 17 drivers got one or more times deleted because of too wide lines and there were 5 recidivists. JEV had total of 9 and Huertas 7 laps disallowed. Calado went too wide four times, Foresti three and Idafar twice.

I wonder if there'll be penalties in qual. too... must wait for official results.

[Valker]

Litespeed tweets that the results are still provisional as there are 60 turn 1 violations

[strider]

Subject to the above, here is a qualifying report and these were the times, presumably for race 1:

Pos  Driver                Team                 Car  Time       Gap
 1.  Jean-Eric Vergne      Carlin               D/V  1m33.779s
 2.  Gabriel Dias          Hitech               D/V  1m34.199s  + 0.420
 3.  Adriano Buzaid        Carlin               D/V  1m34.263s  + 0.484
 4.  William Buller        Hitech               D/V  1m34.407s  + 0.628
 5.  Oliver Webb           Fortec               D/M  1m34.517s  + 0.738
 6.  Daisuke Nakajima      Raikkonen Robertson  D/M  1m34.579s  + 0.800
 7.  Jazeman Jaafar        Carlin               D/V  1m34.650s  + 0.871
 8.  Rupert Svendsen-Cook  Carlin               D/V  1m34.740s  + 0.961
 9.  Carlos Huertas        Raikkonen Robertson  D/M  1m34.844s  + 1.065
10.  Daniel McKenzie       Fortec               D/M  1m34.939s  + 1.160
11.  Lucas Foresti         Carlin               D/V  1m34.970s  + 1.191
12.  James Calado          Carlin               D/V  1m35.115s  + 1.336
13.  Alex Brundle          T-Sport              D/V  1m35.303s  + 1.524
14.  Felipe Nasr           Raikkonen Robertson  D/M  1m35.421s  + 1.642
15.  Wayne Boyd            Sino Vision          D/M  1m35.444s  + 1.665
16.  Max Snegirev          Fortec               D/M  1m35.506s  + 1.727
17.  Jay Bridger           Litespeed            D/M  1m35.513s  + 1.734
18.  James Cole            T-Sport              D/H  1m35.543s  + 1.764
19.  Menasheh Idafar       T-Sport              D/H  1m35.546s  + 1.767
20.  Adderley Fong         Sino Vision          D/M  1m35.708s  + 1.929
21.  Hywel Lloyd           CF/Manor             D/M  1m35.858s  + 2.079

Wayne Boyd was the returnee from last year.

[gomick]

How many races this weekend - 2 or 3?

[skells22]

the normal way for this year. there are two races today and one on Sunday in other words 3 as per normal

[strider]

Jean-Eric Vergne has won race 1 quite easily after everyone else was involved in incidents of one kind or another.

That results site does work, but they seem quite slow to post them, perhaps because there are so many penalties.

[NaBUru38]

Originally Posted by Valker

Litespeed tweets that the results are still provisional as there are 60 turn 1 violations

Why don't they put higher outside kerbs there?

[strider]

Race 1 results

Pos  Driver                Team                    Time/Gap
 1.  Jean-Eric Vergne      Carlin                25m28.768s
 2.  Jazeman Jaafar        Carlin                 + 19.192s
 3.  Daniel McKenzie       Fortec                 + 21.292s
 4.  James Calado          Carlin                 + 22.092s
 5.  Adriano Buzaid        Carlin                 + 29.286s
 6.  Jay Bridger           Litespeed              + 30.552s
 7.  Gabriel Dias          Hitech                 + 31.061s
 8.  Oli Webb              Fortec                 + 38.149s
 9.  James Cole            T-Sport                + 39.658s
10.  William Buller        Hitech                 + 41.433s
11.  Carlos Huertas        Raikkonen Robertson    + 44.198s
12.  Rupert Svendsen-Cook  Carlin                 + 49.621s
13.  Lucas Foresti         Carlin                 + 50.204s
14.  Adderly Fong          Sino Vision            + 51.397s
15.  Alex Brundle          T-Sport                + 52.613s
16.  Daisuke Nakajima      Raikkonen Robertson  + 1m03.725s
17.  Wayne Boyd            Sino Vision          + 1m06.755s
18.  Menasheh Idafar       T-Sport              + 1m10.840s
19.  Maxim Snegirev        Fortec               + 1m14.528s
20.  Hywel Lloyd           CF/Manor             + 1m39.012s

[strider]

Race 2 results:

Pos  Driver                Team                 Car    Time/Gap
 1.  Gabriel Dias          Hitech               D/V  20m54.072s
 2.  Oli Webb              Fortec               D/M    + 1.165s
 3.  Adriano Buzaid        Carlin               D/V    + 1.980s
 4.  Jay Bridger           Litespeed            D/M    + 3.649s
 5.  Jean-Eric Vergne      Carlin               D/V    + 4.174s
 6.  James Calado          Carlin               D/V    + 5.679s
 7.  William Buller        Hitech               D/V    + 6.660s
 8.  Jazeman Jaafar        Carlin               D/V   + 10.741s
 9.  Rupert Svendsen-Cook  Carlin               D/V   + 17.679s
10.  Carlos Huertas        Raikkonen Robertson  D/M   + 24.060s
11.  Daniel McKenzie       Fortec               D/M   + 25.512s
12.  Lucas Foresti         Carlin               D/V   + 26.181s
13.  Felipe Nasr           Raikkonen Robertson  D/M   + 26.930s
14.  Alex Brundle          T-Sport              D/V   + 27.282s
15.  James Cole            T-Sport              D/H   + 27.777s
16.  Menasheh Idafar       T-Sport              D/H   + 28.528s
17.  Wayne Boyd            Sino Vision          D/M   + 32.814s
18.  Hywel Lloyd           CF/Manor             D/M   + 35.774s

Retirements:

     Adderly Fong          Sino Vision          D/M  10 laps
     Max Snegirev          Fortec               D/M  2 laps
     Daisuke Nakajima      Raikkonen Robertson  D/M  0 laps

[gomick]

(Race 1) That is a big win - guess he has more experience at Hockenheim...

[strider]

Vergne has also won race 3 by over 20 seconds from Buller and Jaafar. He looks to stamping his authority on the championship now. More later.

[gomick]

Disappointing round for Oli Webb... Vergne is certainly the man at the moment - lets see what happens when they get back to racing in the UK

[strider]

That official results site is a disgrace. They don't seem to know there are 3 races and they are giving the results of race 2 from last year. Complete amateurs.

Yes, Vergne was on a roll this weekend, but there isn't another race now until the middle of July. It's the Masters at Zandvoort next weekend, though.

[strider]

Sorry forgot about the report and results of race 3:

Pos  Driver                Team                 Car     Time/Gap
 1.  Jean-Eric Vergne      Carlin               D/V   39m58.368s
 2.  William Buller        Hitech               D/V    + 21.598s
 3.  Jazeman Jaafar        Carlin               D/V    + 22.195s
 4.  Adriano Buzaid        Carlin               D/V    + 23.149s
 5.  Gabriel Dias          Hitech               D/V    + 24.367s
 6.  James Calado          Carlin               D/V    + 24.850s
 7.  Daisuke Nakajima      Raikkonen Robertson  D/M    + 25.871s
 8.  Rupert Svendsen-Cook  Carlin               D/V    + 39.739s
 9.  Lucas Foresti         Carlin               D/V    + 46.845s
10.  Alex Brundle          T-Sport              D/V    + 56.514s
11.  Oli Webb              Fortec               D/M    + 56.914s
12.  Jay Bridger           Litespeed            D/M    + 57.610s
13.  Wayne Boyd            Sino Vision          D/M    + 58.441s
14.  Carlos Huertas        Raikkonen Robertson  D/M  + 1m10.457s
15.  Hywel Lloyd           CF/Manor             D/M  + 1m20.186s
16.  Daniel McKenzie       Fortec               D/M  + 1m29.817s
17.  Menasheh Idafar       T-Sport              D/H  + 1m33.889s

Retirements:

     James Cole            T-Sport              D/H  22 laps
     Felipe Nasr           Raikkonen Robertson  D/M  10 laps
     Adderly Fong          Sino Vision          D/M  4 laps

[gomick]

Yeah, the timing site was very shyte...

[runshaw]

I can't believe the winning margins combined by Vergne this weekend, like 40 seconds from two races?? On that basis, he should walk the championship on raw pace, thats incredible driving. His team-mates are a way off, never mind anyone else. Did Calado have problems this weekend other than turn 1 qualifying violations? Otherwise you'd at least expect him to be closer.

[strider]

It was an amazing performance by Vergne. I'm keen to see if he can reproduce it in the RTL GP Masters of Formula 3, which I have just opened a new thread about.

[cg7aa]

Good to see Jazeman admitting he was at fault for the Magny Cours incident with Collado.