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Perez at the double.

Race 2 Podium (l-r) Esteban Guerrieri (ARG) - Ultimate Motorsport Mygale Mercedes, Sergio Perez (MEX) - T-Sport Dallara Mugen Honda, Atte Mustonen (FIN) - Raikkonen Robertson Racing Dallara Mercedes

F3 » Perez at the double.

Sunday, 18th May 2008

Mexican extends lead in British F3 title race with double success at Monza on challenging weekend for the field.


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Back at the front of the field Perez overtook Guerrieri, Mustonen and Alguersuari to move into second place, with the Spaniard dropping back to sixth. On a drying track Perez was now catching Chilton as Guerrieri passed Mustonen for third. Further back Walter Grubmuller had overtaken Brendon Hartley for eleventh place but the New Zealander was fighting back as the pair headed into Ascari. Hartley went for a gap but was too far back and the pair touched with both cars coming to a halt at the side of the track.

Lap ten saw Perez take the lead from Chilton, who was soon demoted to third by Guerrieri and then down to fourth a lap later when Mustonen went ahead of the Englishman. Perez couldn't shake off the second placed Argentine as the race entered the final phase with Chilton now coming under pressure from Tandy, the pair crossing the line for the twelfth time side by side with Tandy taking the place at the first corner.

As the cars crossed the line for the thirteenth time Perez was 0.6 seconds ahead of Guerrieri who had a two second advantage over Mustonen. The fight for seventh place was raging between Sebastian Hohenthal and Oliver Turvey and as they headed into the first corner Turvey went for the inside of the Swede's Dallara. The two cars touched with Hohenthal barrel rolling and coming to rest upside down in the middle of the track bringing out the red flags.

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The race was declared on lap twelve with Perez taking his third win of the season ahead of Esteban Guerrieri, who claimed the fastest lap of the race, and Atte Mustonen. Max Chilton was classified fourth because he was ahead of Tandy at the end of lap twelve, with the JTR Mygale taking the team's best finish of the year in fifth. Oliver Turvey was giving a ten second penalty for causing the accident with Hohenthal and the Swede was not classified because his car wasn't moving when the red flags were shown.
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Race 2 Podium (l-r) Esteban Guerrieri (ARG) - Ultimate Motorsport Mygale Mercedes, Sergio Perez (MEX) - T-Sport Dallara Mugen Honda, Atte Mustonen (FIN) - Raikkonen Robertson Racing Dallara Mercedes
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