Round two of the International F3 Open (nee Spanish F3) championship headed for Madrid's Jarama circuit, and produced wins for veteran Celso Miguez and Bruno Mendez.
Mendez qualified on pole for race one, but the start was marred by a spectacular accident that saw Samuele Buttarelli (Emiliodevillota.com) hit the back of Carmen Jordá (GTA) and destroy the rear of her car. Biagio Bulnes (RP Motorsport) also had a big shunt a few laps from the end which required the intervention of the safety car.
Miguez was accompanied on the podium by Sergio Canamasas (Emiliodevillota.com), and Mendez (Campos Racing), while the latter's team-mate, Adrián Campos Jr, who had started on the front row, took the chequered flag in fifth position, behind Argentine Augusto Scalbi (GTA). The Cup class, for drivers using the older Dallara 306 chassis, went to the British driver Callum Macleod (Team West-Tec), who was sixth overall, ahead of Hache team-mates Edgar Fernández and Michele Faccin.
Mendez, meanwhile, dominated the second race after inheriting the lead from Macleod - who had started from pole after the top six from race one were inverted - and came home comfortably ahead of Scalbi and Miguez. Team-mate Campos Jr again failed to take advantage of being second on the grid, however, and dropped to fourth, followed home by West-Tec's Thor-Christian Ebbbesvik and Team Meycom's Nil Montserrat. With Macleod out, Cup class honours went to Fernández, from Toño Fernández da Silva and José Luis Abadin.
Méndez retains the championship lead with 43 points, followed by Miguez with 40 and Campos Jr with 28.
The next round of the European F3 Open will take place at Spa-Francorchamps over 27-28 June, with both the German and Italian series in action a week earlier, at Oschersleben - supporting the FIA GT Championship - and Mugello respectively.