Fulvio Fenix in charge again in Montreal.
Fulvio Fenix extended his lead at the top of the Q2 F3 championship with another haul of maximum points at the Gilles Villeneuve circuit in Montreal.
Qualifying was a close affair with Laurent Londes giving Fulvio a good run for his money but Fulvio grabbed pole position by 0.2 seconds, despite becoming a victim of the ‘Wall of Champions’ on his very last run. Both of these drivers managed sub 1.26 second laps with Hank Belane in his scarlet Ferrari taking the third grid spot 0.18s behind the leading duo. The top of the grid was completed with Allard van den Hoeven and Thomas Kimmich.
With a 60 minute race ahead of the drivers including a mandatory pitstop, it was Fulvio who fought of a fast starting Laurent to lead into T1.
All the drivers made it through the tight opening turns without any incidents and by the end of lap 1 Fulvio had opened up a gap of 0.6s over Laurent with the other top five drivers maintaining their qualy positions.
In 6th place Han Fazzi was going well in the Red Bull Campos RSS and as the only driver to select the hard tyre option, he was was staying ahead of the battle between Ricardo Prins (Honda) and Steve Hayward (Haas) for 7th position.
Steve managed to get ahead of Rico with a good drive out of the hairpin at T10 and got the job done under braking for T13. But one lap later Rico was caught out by the heavy fuel load and clipped Steve under braking for the fast T8/9 chicane, sending Steve into a spin and both drivers off track and to the back of the field.
Back at the front, Fulvio was gradually gapping Laurent and Hank as the rest of the field settled into a fairly static positional race.
On lap 17 Fulvio made an uncharacteristic error as he put his front left wheel on the grass under braking for T3, locked his brakes and speared his Red Bull Campos RSS Dallara into the barriers allowing Laurent through. In his efforts to rejoin the track safely, Fulvio inadvertently blocked a fast incoming Hank causing contact but Fulvio showed great sportsmanship and allowed Hank to gain track position.
But Fulvio was soon ahead again with a textbook move under braking for T13.
On lap 21 Hank was the first of the leading group to pit with Allard leaving it late with his stop on lap 30.
Allard retired with a technical VR problem after a really scary moment when he careered violently left on the exit of T6 as was lucky not to take Hank out at the same time.
Further back Taj Johal was having a battle with Steve and after an early challenge from Paul, Han was really getting on well with his second set of hard tyres to consolidate his 5th position on his return from holidays.
And that’s the way it stayed with Fulvio finishing 5.2 seconds ahead of Laurent, Hank took the final podium slot some 13s back, Thomas in 4th ,Han 5th and Paul 6th. Fulvio took the point for the fastest lap but Han topped the consistency chart, an impressive performance on the hard tyres.
Podium
1. Fulvio Fenix
2. Laurent Londes
3.Hank Belane
Championship positions after Rd3 (adjusted)
Pos | Driver | Points |
1 | Fulvio Fenix | 62 |
2 | Thomas Kimmich | 45 |
3 | Laurent Londes | 41 |
4 | Hank Belane | 41 |
5 | Jason Bagley | 33 |
6 | Richard Barratt | 25 |
7 | Allard van den Hoeven | 20 |
8 | Steve Hayward | 18 |
9 | Paul Fairweather | 16 |
10 | Jorg Evers | 11 |
11 | Han Fazzi | 10 |
12 | Rico Prins | 10 |
13 | Omar Filippini | 4 |
14 | Taj Johal | 3 |
15 | Andre Murel | 0 |
16 | Casper de Wit | 0 |
17 | Paulo Moreno | 0 |
So Fulvio now extend his lead to 17 points over Thomas with Laurent jumping up to third ,4 points back.
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