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Oz: Title races tightens after Mallala.

Leanne Tander (aust) HSV Tandersport Mercedes Benz Dallara F307Australian F3 championshipRd's 3 & 4V8 SupercarsRd 1 Clipsal 500AdelaideAUST

F3 » Oz: Title races tightens after Mallala.

Monday, 19th May 2008

Second-time winners Tander and Caratti close gap at top of championship.

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McFadyen was slow away from pole in race two, allowing Caratti to take the advantage into turn one, with the Piccola Scuderia driver heading Percat and Tander in the top four. Tander quickly passed Percat and, after a multiple-lap dice, passed McFadyen to end the race in second, setting the race's fastest lap in the process. Caratti, though, had enough in hand to record a one-second win – his second of the season – and vault himself back into the championship lead. Reindler again won National Class, with Lee Farrell second and Tate again third in class.

“I finally got off the line well and got into the lead into turn one,” Caratti said, ”Once I saw that I had a good lead – and I was pulling away from the field – I settled in and made sure that I held the gap to the finish. After Eastern Creek, it was a bit disappointing not to get another win, so it's nice to get it here and get ourselves into the championship lead.”

Erstwhile points leader Winslow had a better end to the day than the rest of his weekend had suggested would be the case and, despite stalling at the start of race one and having to recover to tenth on the road, he took his Astuti Motorsport car to a much-improved fifth place overall in race two.

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The racing was relatively incident-free, with only one safety car needed after National Class drivers Ash Samadi and Stuart Kostera found themselves off the track at turn five in race one.

In the F3 Trophy class, South Australian driver Jesse Wakeman took the spoils in the second race just days after piecing together a $50,000 rebuild of his Dallara F301 – Spiess. Wakeman finished second – behind class leader Andrew Mill – in race one, but was able to win the class in the second outing to reward his team and supporters for a fortnight of hard work to rebuild the car.
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