Brazilian wins second Brands encounter as Jones nicks National
The second Cooper Tires British Formula 3 International Series race at Brands Hatch saw a new winner in Brazlian Felipe Lopes Guimaraes for Fortec Motorsport, while Ed Jones recovered from the back to win the National class.Guimaraes took advantage of a poor start for pole-sitter Tatiana Calderon to inherit second place, but that became the race lead after Will Buller repeated his opening race blunder with another jump start. The championship leader's subsequent drive-through penalty dropped him down the order to eighth place, where he then launched a recovery drive.His team-mate Guimaraes inheritted a lead of over three seconds from Jann Madenborough and the fast-starting Antonio Giovinazzi after Buller served his punishment, Giovinazzi keeping Mardenborough under pressure during the first half of the 30-minute race.The Double R man then took advantage of a mistake around the GP loop for Mardenborough, the Carlin driver dropping from second to fifth as his team-mates Jazeman Jaafar and Jordan King picked up the pieces to move up to third and fourth.Guimaraes had gapped his opposition sufficiently enough to hold a five-second lead by the time Giovinazzi had moved up to the runner-up spot, the Fortec man taking a first win in the Championship by 2.6 seconds.Yesterday's race winner Jaafar claimed a second podium of the weekend ahead of Carlin team-mates King and Mardenborough, King the biggest gainer in the championship after Buller was demoted to ninth by a 30-second penalty for not respecting track limits, something also slapped to Nicholas Latifi's race time.Buller made his way past several drivers up to fifth ahead of Mardenborough, but after his penalty finished behind the Double R Dallara-Mercedes duo of Sean Gelael and Calderon, as well as National class winner Jones, the West-Tec driver recovering from the back of the grid after clutch problems put him out of race one.Jones caught and passed class point leader Sun Zheng to equal the CF Racing driver's win tally of four in the class, Cameron Twynham finishing third in class while Chris Vlok was the only non-finisher.The third and final race of the way sees Jaafar start on pole position ahead of team-mate King, the race getting underway at 16:50 later this afternoon.Quotes:Felipe Guimaraes, Fortec Motorsport - 1st in INT:
"I thought I had a good start but then I saw Will overtake me and thought 'wow, that's incredible!' But then I saw that he had a drive-through so he was too fast. It's amazing after a tough weekend so far for us; we were struggling to find a good set-up for me. It was better, I was faster and I could really concentrate. I was praying in the car to help me get this first win."
Antonio Giovinazzi, Double R - 2nd in INT:"It was a good start - I was fourth at the end of the first lap and took advantage of Buller and then Mardenborough in the second half of the race when he made a mistake at the seventh corner. When I had free track the pace was good and I closed to gap to three seconds. I'm happy because the car is really good and I hope we can do well once again"Jazeman Jaafar, Carlin - 3rd in INT:
"I made a good start; I told myself that the only way I could captalise could be the first three corners, and I got past two cars in the first two corners. I tred to catch Giovinazzi who was very quick, then I saw Mardenborough went off. It's a good podium and I'm honoured that the team could give me a good car."
Ed Jones, West-Tec - 1st in NAT:
"After yesterday's misfortunes with the car breaking down several times I had to start right from the back. It was quite difficult coming thorugh the traffic, especially around this circuit where it is difficult to overtake. We had much better pace than the other drivers; once I got past Sun I pulled quite a big gap, and from then on it was all about not making any mistakes."Cooper Tires British Formula 3 International Series - Round 3, Brands Hatch GP Circuit (11/08/2013)1 Felipe GUIMARAES / BRA, Fortec Dallara-HWA Mercedes 30:51.9832 Antonio GIOVINAZZI / ITA, Double R Racing Dallara-HWA Mercedes +2.6093 Jazeman JAAFAR / MAL, Carlin Dallara-Volkswagen +13.0634 Jordan KING / GBR, Carlin Dallara-Volkswagen +17.2905 Jann MARDENBOROUGH / GBR, Carlin Dallara-Volkswagen +19.9186 Sean GELAEL / INA, Double R Racing Dallara-HWA Mercedes +27.8897 Tatiana CALDERON / COL, Double R Racing Dallara-HWA Mercedes + 38.5158 Ed JONES / GBR, Team West-Tec Dallara-Toyota +44.3969 Will BULLER / BGR, Fortec Dallara-HWA Mercedes +50.27910 Nicholas LATIFI / CDN, Carlin Dallara-Volkswagen +1:00.390National class:1 Ed JONES / GBR, Team West-Tec Dallara-Toyota 31:36.3792 Sun ZHENG / CHI, CF Racing Dallara-NBE +19.0723 Cameron TWYNHAM / GBR, Team West-Tec Dallara-Toyota +21.569Provisional championship standings:International class: 1 Buller 108 pts; 2 King 100 pts; 3 Giovinazzi 97 pts; 4 Guimaraes 63 pts; 5 Gelael 60 ptsNational class: 1 Zheng 143 pts; 2 Jones 77 pts; 3 Twynham 64 pts; 4 Vlok 58 pts; 5 Oon 45 pts.Race three grid: Jaafar - King - Latifi - Mardenborough - Giovinazzi - Guimaraes - Buller - Gelael - Calderon - JonesFull results: http://bit.ly/15qjqgh
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