At the start of lap nine Marshall had the lead and his concern would now be the factor of the Carlin drivers, Alvaro Parente and Danilo Dirani. Though they pitted at the same time at the end of the second formation lap, Parente was in first to the pits and had parked in a better place for the inpromtu tyre swap to take place and had a considerable advantage over his team-mate on circuit.
Just as Marshall was taking the lead Parente was taking Will Power for fifth, and the Portuguese driver was usefully quicker than the man from down under. By the start to the tenth lap Parente was in second and closing, though there was some five seconds of leeway for the Fortec car.
Parente, head down, tried all he could to close on the hard-peddling Aussie, but Marshall kept it all together and scored a fantastic first victory in the British F3 series.
Scholarship honours were just as unexpected, with Vasilije Calasan taking the double, the Frenchman probably the last person to have expected to find himself leaving the circuit with two golds.
Top ten
1.
Marcus Marshall
2.
Alvaro Parente
3.
Danilo Dirani
4.
Nelson Piquet
5.
Rob Austin
6.
Will Power
7.
James Rossiter
8.
Danny Watts
9.
Vasilije Calasan
10.
Marko Asmer
