Second British F3 Win for Charlie Kimball at Thruxton

30 May 2005

Carlin Motorsport's Charlie Kimball continued his brilliant form of the day by winning race two at Thruxton with as much ease as he secured victory in the first race. Leading the field from the start, initially followed by Alvaro Parente in the no 14 Dallara and Marko Asmer, he extended his lead throughout, and also got a new lap record of 1m 06.921s, lowering the mark set earlier in the day by Christian Bakkerud. "I basically followed the same plan," Kimball reflected. "I was focusing to get really fast laps and after the re-start, once I had some space, I could settle down and bring the win home."

Brazilians Danilo Dirani in the no 1 P1 Motorsport Lola and no 28 Bruno Senna (Raikönnen Robertson Racing) made contact in the chicane in the early stages of the race, which resulted in both cars retiring and the Safety car on track. Tim Bridgman (Hitech Racing) had a demon re-start into fourth, but too much speed into the last chicane saw him touching the back of Alvaro Parente's Carlin car. The Hitech Racing driver retired and Parente unable to finish in the points after losing time in the resulting spin.

Marko Asmer from Hitech Racing came second yet again and is now the new Series leader. "Obviously I was pushing hard to win this race," Asmer commented. "I overtook Alvaro Parente at the re-start and put in consistent lap times. But I was simply not quick enough and had to settle for second place."

Christian Bakkerud (Carlin Motorsport) finished in third place, just as in the first race. After a pretty ordinary race for the Danish driver, Bakkerud said afterwards: "I was pretty much by myself all race. I took it easy even though I saw Ryan [Lewis] closing in on me, but I kept it clear."

Ryan Lewis (T-Sport) finished in fourth place after he made a superb move on Raikkonen Robertson Racing's Dan Clarke.

Barton Mawer also won his second race of the day for T-Sport. "This race was easier for me than the first won," Mawer admitted. "It has definitely been the best weekend for us so far in the whole season." Running on limited budget, Mawer hopes to be back in action for the next round of the British F3 International Series, which will take place at Castle Combe in three weeks. "It's looking good that I will be racing at Castle Combe," he commented on that matter.
The Australian was closely followed by Promatecme's Charlie Hollings and Juho Annala, who finished in third place for Alan Docking Racing.

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