Achieving what he should been doing all this season, Nelson Piquet took a dominant victory in the first race of the day today at
Oulton Park in the British F3 championship.
Piquet was off to a fine start and had a seven tenth lead come the end of the first lap. Second placed Fairuz Fauzy made the most of his team jump to P1 Motorsport to match Piquet on time on the next lap but from then on it was a case of Piquet making off into the distance.
Fauzy was confortable in second and unchallenged for the race, whilst Alvaro Parente came home in third.
Adam Carroll put on a fine performance to work his way up to fourth place but he was unable to make any further progress with his car unable to keep up the fast times which had propelled himself forwards from his lowly qualifying position.
Third placed starter Ryan Lewis, who had qualified in a Scholarship car, put on a fine performance against the faster machinery, but a mistake when he was being set upon for position by ADR's Will Power and Hitech's Marko Asmer saw Lewis benefit as the Championship pairing fell back.
Power was to work his way forwards once more as he had done earlier, and come the end of the fourteen lap race he had taken Lewis once more.
Another fine performance by Brit Danny Watts saw the Lola-Dome, which will now definitely be racing for the rest of the season thanks to Embassy Racing sponsorship, work its way forwards from an eleventh placed qualifying position to sixth come the chequered flag, just behind James Rossiter who ended the race where he began, in fifth.
Top ten
1 Nelson Piquet
2 Fairuz Fauzy
3 Alvaro Parete
4 Adam Carroll
5 James Rossiter
6 Danny Watts
7 Andrew Thompson
8 Clivio Piccione
9 Marcus Marshall
10 James Walker
Scholarship
1 Ryan Lewis
2 Ronayne O'Mahony
3 Vasilije Calasan
