James Rossiter was the driver who topped the timesheets at
Donington, after missing the Brands test, and the trampolining fan has been scorching the tarmac seemingly at every test, whether this translates to race pace is a question that many are asking.
2002 F3 champions, Alan Docking Racing, see Will Power as their sole Championship class runner after the late decision from Alex Lloyd to leave the squad after a backer pulled out. ADR will also be running a Scholarship car with Adam Langley-Kahn
The T-Sport team see Karun Chandhok move up to the Scholarship class for the Indian to get the chance to play with the big boys.
The Scholarship class sees currently eight drivers listed on the entry list with five Brits, and Aussie, a Frenchman and an Indian. Championship teams Promatecme, Alan Docking Racing and T-Sport run cars here with Vasilije Calasan, Adam Langley-Kahn and Ryan Lewis respectively.
Stephen Jelley for Performance Racing Europe and T-Sport's Ryan Lewis were the top two Scholarship runners at both Brands and Donington with Jelley's team-mate Barton Mawer hot on their heels.
The Scholarship class runs with an older chassis to the Championship class – all the Scholarship runners use the Dallara F301 chassis as opposed to the F304 that is used by all bar one of the Championship contenders.
The newly resurfaced Donington circuit sees the British F3 runners take to two qualifying sessions this Saturday, followed by two twenty lap races come Sunday.
A cloudy, but dry, Saturday is due to give way to a sunny Sunday with a high of 14 degrees Celsius at Donington as the British F3 season gets underway.
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