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 Ryan
Lewis scored his 14th and 15th pole positions of the season at Brands
Hatch today despite a burst of rain and suffering understeer throughout
the first session. Session two saw a red flag incident but the 19
year-old from Royston was unable to improve his time in the remaining
four minutes despite making changes to the car, which converted
the understeer to oversteer.
He still finished over three-hundredths of a second faster than
his closest rivals in both sessions though to line up ahead of Stephen
Jelley for race one and Ronayne O'Mahony for race two.
With the pressure off after securing the championship at Thruxton
last month, Ryan's goal for tomorrow's two 28-lap races is to challenge
for high overall positions and is aiming to beat his best overall
finish - 10th at Castle Combe. As Brands Hatch is a `low-downforce'
circuit and with rain forecast, he is confident of being able to
convert his two - 15th overall starts to top ten finishes.
“I had quite bad understeer in the first session so we made
a few changes and I went out on old tyres for the start of the second
session and tried to find a good balance, as we had had a pretty
good balance in the first. Then we went out on new tyres on and
the car was completely unbalanced, we had so much understeer in
the fast corners and we were losing out so much in the first sector
and just couldn't squeeze anymore time out of it.
“Then I came in and made a few changes when the red flag came
out and that brought a load of oversteer in when the tyres were
getting a bit older so it's frustrating to say the least, a bit
like banging your head against a brick wall!
“However the forecast for tomorrow is rain all day, which will
throw everything we've done today out of the window but it will
equalise the difference between the scholarship and the championship
class cars.”
Qualifying for Round 23
1.RYAN LEWIS BES Dallara F301 Mugen-Honda 42.924
2.Stephen Jelley Dallara F301 Opel Spiess 42.961
3.Vasilije Calasan Dallara F301 Mugen-Honda 43.730
4.Ronayne O'Mahony Dallara F301 Opel Spiess 45.256
5.Lars Sexton Dallara F301 Mugen-Honda 45.418
Qualifying for Round 24
1. RYAN LEWIS BES Dallara F301 Mugen-Honda 43.200
2. Ronayne O'Mahony Dallara F301 Opel Spiess 43.502
3. Stephen Jelley Dallara F301 Opel Spiess 43.554
4. Lars Sexton Dallara F301 Mugen-Honda 43.926
5. Vasilije Calasan Dallara F301 Mugen-Honda 44.078
Avon Tyres British Formula 3 Scholarship Points after 22 rounds
1. RYAN LEWIS 381 (Champion)
2. Stephen Jelley 236
3. Vasilije Calasan 168
4. Barton Mawer 134
5. Ronayne O'Mahony 109
6. Adam Khan 78
7. Ajit Kumar 70
8. James Winslow 27
9. Lars Sexton 23
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