Brendon Hartley became the fourth winner in as many British F3 International Series rounds with victory in the second race of the weekend at
Croft.
In a race that was restarted after a multi-car accident, the Carlin man came ahead of race one winner Sergio Perez and
Oulton Park victor Oliver Turvey, while Andy Meyrick continued his domination of the National Class with a fourth win in as many starts.
As the lights went out to start the race, Hartley got a good start to lead the 29 car field into the first corner at Clervaux with Marcus Ericsson and Perez battling for second. Sam Abay also got a good start to move up a place at the expense of his Carlin team-mate Oliver Turvey for fourth.
Perez and Ericsson were battling down the back straight with nothing separating the two cars as they exited Tower and charged towards the
Jim Clark Esses. Perez got his nose down the inside of Ericsson but both cars were offline and they touched, with the Fortec Dallara spinning round across the track. Perez managed to avoid being collected by the spinning Swede but the cars following behind weren't so lucky and mayhem ensued.
Abay went off in avoidance and was joined in the tyre wall by Henry Arundel, Esteban Guerrieri, Oliver Oakes and Niall Quinn, causing the race to be red-flagged on lap two. All the drivers were ok but one marshal was injured, being treated at the trackside for a broken leg before being moved to the medical centre.
The cars formed up on the grid to restart in the positions at the end of lap one to race over 18 laps, the times of which would be an aggregate of the two race starts.
