F3 at Snetterton

Francesca · 31 Aug 2002, 10:59 (Ref:369749)

Qualifying for Race One
1 KERR 1:01.846
2 CARBONE 1:01.990
3 JOUANNY 1:01.996
4 KOVALAINEN 1:02.081
5 COURTNEY 1:02.126
6 PICCIONE 1:02.306
7 DAHLGREN 1:02.348
8 VAN DER MERWE 1:02.363
9 AUSTIN 1:02.424
10 de GROOT 1:02.476

full details here

qualifying - race one

Sato san · 31 Aug 2002, 14:05 (Ref:369852)

Rather close for 2nd place then between CARBONE /JOUANNY .

good result for Robbie . Nice one .

Speedworx · 31 Aug 2002, 14:53 (Ref:369902)

Kerr has taken another pole for the second race.

Sato san · 31 Aug 2002, 15:01 (Ref:369910)

where's Courtney ?????

Speedworx · 31 Aug 2002, 15:03 (Ref:369911)

F3, Snetterton: qualifying race 2
Pos Driver Team Time
1 Robbie Kerr Alan Docking Racing 1m01.583s
2 Robert Dahlgren* Sweeney Racing 1m01.707s
3 Heikki Kovalainen Fortec Motorsport 1m01.836s
4 Bruce Jouanny Promatecme 1m01.936s
5 Clivio Piccione* T-Sport 1m01.958s
6 Stefan de Groot Menu Motorsport 1m02.019s
7 Ronnie Bremer Manor Motorsport 1m02.053s
8 Stephen Colbert* Sweeney Racing 1m02.066s
9 Karun Chandhok* T-Sport 1m02.072s
10 James Courtney Carlin Motorsport 1m02.083s

Scholarship Class
1 Dahlgren
2 Piccione
3 Colbert

Francesca · 31 Aug 2002, 15:16 (Ref:369924)

full qualifying details for race two on my site as usual...or follow the link i posted above.
Courtney's gonna have to work hard to gain decent points from this weekend.

Speedworx · 31 Aug 2002, 15:25 (Ref:369932)

I want Kerr to win the title, he is better than Courtney.

Sato san · 31 Aug 2002, 16:13 (Ref:369967)

Kerr's confidence must be sky high at the moment .

Daisy · 31 Aug 2002, 16:54 (Ref:370007)

Stefan is doing well in British F3 is ee

Speedworx · 31 Aug 2002, 17:42 (Ref:370020)

British F3, Snetterton
Pos Driver Chassis-engine Time
1 Heikki Kovalainen Dallara-Renault 21m13.117s
2 Richard Antinucci Dallara-Mugen +0.886s
3 Bruce Jouanny Dallara-Mugen +2.873s
4 Fabio Carbone Dallara-Mugen +4.703s
5 Ronnie Bremer Dallara-Mugen +9.426s
6 Adam Carroll Dallara Mugen* +12.993s
7 Mathew Gilmore Dallara-Mugen +13.741s
8 Clivio Piccione Dallara-Mugen* +13.963s
9 James Courtney Dallara-Mugen +14.212s
10 Stephen Colbert Dallara-Mugen* +15.202s

Courtney leads series by 6.

Speedworx · 31 Aug 2002, 18:02 (Ref:370026)

Courtney 225
Kerr 219
Jouanny 167
Kovalainen 158
Keohane 142
Taylor 118
Carbone 103
van der Merwe 92
Austin 78
Antinucci 72
Bremer 60
Hosokawa 48
Gilmore 40
Judice 31
Hayes 25
Dahlgren 13
Sisley 12
Mayall 9
Andanson 9
Fabi 8
Brusatin 4
de Groot 3
Hodgetts 1
Graves 1

Francesca · 31 Aug 2002, 18:09 (Ref:370031)

Press release

Kovalainen takes second F3 victory

Finnish driver Heikki Kovalainen took his second victory of the season in the Avon Tyres British F3 Championship at Snetterton today, Saturday.

The Finn’s Fortec Motorsport Dallara Renault won by eight-tenths off a second in a dramatic race that started with a first corner clash between front row drivers James Courtney and Robbie Kerr in their Dallara Mugen Hondas. The two touched at the first corner with both spinning off the circuit and both blaming the other!

The incident put Richard Antinucci into the lead for a lap until Heikki Kovalainen outdragged him across the start and finish line and dived through at the start of the lap. Once clear Kovalainen built up an advantage as Antinucci fended off Alan van der Merwe who had relieved Bruce Jouanny of third place.

Van der Merwe tried to find a way past Antinucci but the defensive American kept van der Merwe at bay, the South African then dropping back into the clutches of Bruce Jouanny. Jouanny was elevated to third when van der Merwe’s driveshaft let go, but Kovalainen’s lead was eroded towards the end of the race when he was caught out by a dirty track and it took a lap to clean the tyres.

This allowed Antinucci to close but the Finn put his head down and pull clear again, with Antinucci second and Jouanny third.

A delighted Kovalainen said: "I got a tow off Richard and he gave me room. It was an easy move to do, but it was a scary lap when I found the dirt."

Antinucci celebrated his best finish of the year but felt he could have won. "If you hold your line on the straights here you can keep your position and if I had done that I reckon I could have won. Second is not so bad, though."

Behind Jouanny came Fabio Carbone’s Fortec Motorsport Dallara Renault and Ronnie Bremer took fifth for Manor Motorsport after a clash with team-mate Mark Taylor put the Brit our with damage on lap 12. Sixth fell to Adam Carroll who won the Scholarship Class comfortably, ahead of Clivio Piccione and Stephen Colbert who ran nose-to-tail for most of the race.

And after his first corner spin, Courtney recovered to take ninth overall and seventh in class to extend his lead over an annoyed Kerr. "I had to turn in for the corner," explained Kerr, "but James went straight into the side of me,"

Courtney now leads Kerr by six points with the next two races taking place at Snetterton tomorrow.

**bella** · 31 Aug 2002, 18:31 (Ref:370041)

wow! what's richard antinucci doing up there?

BennyBoy1978 · 31 Aug 2002, 19:04 (Ref:370051)

was the grid from croft he qualifed second there

BennyBoy1978 · 31 Aug 2002, 19:07 (Ref:370052)

didn't see the Kerr Courtney coming together but from what I here JC had a big tyre mark on his front nose

Russfeld · 31 Aug 2002, 19:39 (Ref:370067)

I thought the Croft race was for the Thruxton weekend

BennyBoy1978 · 31 Aug 2002, 19:45 (Ref:370072)

Don't know if it was or wasnt but they definatly had that race today

Les · 31 Aug 2002, 20:57 (Ref:370101)

excellent win for Heikki and it was nice to see Antinucci doing well.

aussie_f3 · 31 Aug 2002, 21:49 (Ref:370129)

sounds like Robbie is up to his old tactics - if you cant beat them, beat them up!!

Sato san · 31 Aug 2002, 22:30 (Ref:370155)

Quote:

Originally posted by BennyBoy1978
but from what I here JC had a big tyre mark on his front nose

i bet that was sore !

*formula3* · 1 Sep 2002, 10:25 (Ref:370346)

de groot qualified 10th and 6th? i´m impressed...is working well for him in british f3!

Speedworx · 1 Sep 2002, 14:32 (Ref:370474)

Kerr wins race 2 of the weekend. Now leads James by 7.

Kerr 240
Courtney 233
Jouanny 182
Kovalainen 168
Keohane 142
Taylor 118
Carbone 115
van der Merwe 98
Austin 78
Antinucci 76
Bremer 63
Hosokawa 48
Gilmore 41
Judice 31
Hayes 25
Dahlgren 13
Sisley 12
Mayall 9
Andanson 9
Fabi 8
de Groot 5
Brusatin 4
Hodgetts 1
Graves 1

Speedworx · 1 Sep 2002, 16:47 (Ref:370587)

Kerr wins race 3 of the weekend. Now leads James by 21

Kerr 260
Courtney 239
Jouanny 197
Kovalainen 180
Keohane 142
Taylor 122
Carbone 116
van der Merwe 98
Austin 78
Antinucci 78
Bremer 75
Hosokawa 51
Gilmore 41
Judice 31
Hayes 25
de Groot 13
Dahlgren 13
Sisley 12
Mayall 10
Andanson 9
Fabi 8
Brusatin 4
Hodgetts 1
Graves 1

Lets hope he wins the title.

rlinter · 1 Sep 2002, 16:49 (Ref:370589)

22 actually!

Speedworx · 1 Sep 2002, 16:50 (Ref:370590)

Avon Tyres British F3 Championship - Provisional Result - Round 22

POS NO CL DRIVER NAT CAR TIME LAPS GAP MPH BEST
1 7 C Robbie KERR GBR Dallara F302 Mugen-Honda 20:58.607 20 111.66 1:02.155
2 11 C Bruce JOUANNY FRA Dallara F302 Mugen-Honda 21:03.105 20 4.498 111.26 1:02.237
3 6 C Heikki KOVALAINEN FIN Dallara F302 Renault Sodemo 21:04.325 20 5.718 111.16 1:02.218
4 34 C Ronnie BREMER DEN Dallara F302 Mugen-Honda 21:05.790 20 7.183 111.03 1:02.293
5 17 C Stefan de GROOT NED Dallara F302 Opel Speiss 21:12.451 20 13.844 110.45 1:02.807
6 1 C James COURTNEY AUS Dallara F302 Mugen-Honda 21:19.311 20 20.704 109.85 1:02.523
7 3 C Mark TAYLOR GBR Dallara F302 Mugen-Honda 21:22.307 20 23.700 109.60 1:02.893
8 61 S Adam CARROLL GBR Dallara F301 Mugen-Honda 21:24.695 20 26.088 109.39 1:03.107
9 22 C Shinya HOSOKAWA JPN Dallara F302 Mugen-Honda 21:24.964 20 26.357 109.37 1:02.832
10 4 C Richard ANTINUCCI USA Dallara F302 Mugen-Honda 21:25.779 20 27.172 109.30 1:02.992
11 62 S Billy ASARO CAN Dallara F301 Mugen-Honda 21:26.347 20 27.740 109.25 1:02.910
12 55 S Gavin SMITH IRL Dallara F301 Mugen-Honda 21:30.346 20 31.739 108.92 1:03.219
13 8 C Mark MAYALL GBR Dallara F302 Mugen-Honda 21:31.156 20 32.549 108.85 1:03.134
14 13 C Tor GRAVES GBR Dallara F302 Mugen-Honda 21:32.133 20 33.526 108.76 1:03.207
15 77 S Harold PRIMAT FRA Dallara F301 Mugen-Honda 21:55.059 20 56.452 106.87 1:04.177
16 5 C Fabio CARBONE BRA Dallara F302 Renault Sodemo 21:00.266 19 1 LAP 105.94 1:02.138
17 66 S Pedro BARRAL ESP Dallara F301 Mugen-Honda 21:34.270 19 1 LAP 103.16 1:04.341
18 19 C Stefan HODGETTS GBR Dallara F302 Mugen-Honda 21:59.451 19 1 LAP 101.19 1:03.314
19 10 C Stefano FABI ITA Dallara F302 Mugen-Honda 21:49.845 18 2 LAPS 96.56 1:03.573

Not Classified:

68 S Karun CHANDHOK IND Dallara F301 Mugen-Honda 20:18.011 19 D.N.F. 109.61 1:03.084
56 S Stephen COLBERT GBR Dallara F301 Mugen-Honda 20:18.160 19 D.N.F. 109.60 1:02.997
2 C Alan VAN DER MERWE RSA Dallara F302 Mugen-Honda 20:22.971 19 D.N.F. 109.17 1:02.964
63 S Robert DAHLGREN SWE Dallara F301 Mugen-Honda 15:54.531 15 D.N.F. 110.42 1:02.759
51 S Mohammed FAIRUZ MAL Dallara F301 Renault Sodemo 14:05.780 13 D.N.F. 108.01 1:03.124
14 C John ANTONIADIS GRE Dallara F302 Mugen-Honda 8:42.823 8 D.N.F. 107.52 1:02.829
16 C Rob AUSTIN GBR Dallara F302 Opel Speiss 2:23.840 2 D.N.F. 97.70 1:07.307
12 C Mathew GILMORE GBR Dallara F302 Mugen-Honda 0 D.N.F. N/A
53 S Justin SHERWOOD GBR Dallara F301 Opel Speiss 0 D.N.F. N/A
67 S Clivio PICCIONE MON Dallara F301 Mugen-Honda 0 D.N.F. N/A

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