Opes Prime Team BRM enjoyed a fine weekend of racing as the Australian Formula 3 Championship returned to the streets of Adelaide to ensure the team ended the second meeting of the season holding four of the top five championship positions as well as the National Class lead.
Running five cars for the first time, the team continued to show the stunning pace that saw them dominate the opening round of the championship at Eastern Creek earlier in the month. Opes Prime Team BRM drivers won the National Class in race one, and race two outright, qualified on the front row for both races and left the 3.2km circuit owning the new outright lap record to boot.
British driver James Winslow leads the teams' championship charge after the Clipsal 500 meeting, sitting second in the race for the Gold Star with 37 points.
Winslow qualified seventh for race one but rebounded strongly to sit on the front row in second for race two. He raced to fourth in the first race and then a strong third place finish in the second to continue his strong class-leading form.
It has been a fantastic event, he said. The atmosphere has been brilliant and some sections of the track are a lot like Macau, where I raced in 2006. I'm a bit disappointed with the end result, race two wasn't the best race for me, but in the end Ben pulled a really good, legitimate move so I let him have the corner [to take the lead]. Neil then just touched the back of my car which pushed me wide under braking and that let him go by as well.
Team BRM's 2006 champion, Ben Clucas, returned to the team in stunning fashion by winning the second 12-lap race of the weekend after an aggressive drive that featured hallmarks of his championship winning form of two years ago.
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