If you thought that Nelson Piquet dominated the first race of the day at
Oulton Park in the British F3 championship then you should have seen the second race, the Brazilian driver disappearing off into the distance leaving the rest of the field far, far behind.
Oulton Park could well go down as the round that wins Piquet the championship with the Piquet Sports Dallara working the track so much better than any other on circuit, making a second on the chasing Lucas Di Grassi on almost every lap.
Piquet's lead was some 1.5 seconds at the end of race one and no-one had any retort to the flying Brazilian. Behind Piquet for the entire race was Hitech's Lucas Di Grassi, making amends for having to miss the first race of the day with technical problems with a faultless second race.
Di Grassi's Hitech was unchallenged, though James Rossiter's Fortec behind was always within a second of Di Grassi, but never close enough to challenge for second.
Alvaro Parente took fourth place with team-mate Danilo Dirani coming home in fifth. Marko Asmer took sixth with race one second place man Fairuz Fauzy not doing as well in his second race for the P1 Motorsport team.
Fauzy did beat new team-mate Adam Carroll once more, Carroll coming home behind the Malaysian, his championship challenge being a lot tougher after this weekend. He entered the weekend on equal points with Piquet but ending the weekend with plenty to do if he want the lead back.
Scholarship honours went to Stephen Jelley for the second time this season with regular class winner Ryan Lewis falling backwards.
Top ten
1 Nelson Piquet
2 Lucas Di Grassi
3 James Rossiter
4 Alvaro Parente
5 Danilo Dirani
6 Marko Asmer
7 Fairuz Fauzy
8 Adam Carroll
9 Danny Watts
10 Andrew Thompson
Scholarship
1 Stephen Jelley
2 Ryan Lewis
3 Vasilije Calasan
