HOME I F3 BRITAIN I 2005 I British F3 Championship Race No. 11, Round 21& 22 08/09 October 2005 Silverstone Qualifying 1 Qualifying 2 Race 11, Round No. 21 Race 11, Round No. 22   British F3 Championship Race No. 10, Round 19 & 20 16/18 September 2005 Mondello Park Qualifying 1 Qualifying 2 Race 10, Round No. 19 Race 10, Round No. 20   10 October 2005 (tho/wai) British Int. Formula 3 / Silverstone Report Race 2 The titles are decided, the Mugen-Honda boys seem to have made at least one step towards the challenge of Mercedes next year, and there's a big silver truck been delivered to the circuit between races. It belongs to Fortec Motorsport, which shouldn't surprise anyone familiar with Richard Dutton and his team, and it says "powered by Mercedes" in big ...... 10 October 2005 (tho/wai) British Int. Formula 3 / Silverstone Report Race 1 The penultimate round of the British F3 International Series was held in crisply autumnal weather at Silverstone this morning. Whatever the weather, things were hotting up before the race even started. As poleman Charlie Kimball (Carlin Motorsport) led the field round to take the start, it became apparent that Steven Kane (Promatecme F3) and ..... 09 October 2005 (tho/wai) British Int. Formula 3 / Silverstone Report Qualifying 2 Hopefully, this session would be more interesting than the morning one. It certainly couldn't have been less interesting… In fact it got off to a bit of an unusual start when Stephen Jelley (Menu Motorsport) went straight to provisional pole, only to be deposed by Ben Clucas (Fluid Motorsport) in a National Class car. This is not supposed to be ...... 09 October 2005 (tho/wai) British Int. Formula 3 / Silverstone Report Qualifying 1 If you were looking for action at Silverstone this morning, you needed to be here for the first ten minutes or so of the 30-minute session. After that, nothing really happened. The two potential runners-up this year, Mike Conway (Fortec Motorsport) and Charlie Kimball (Carlin Motorsport), were both keen. In the case of Conway this ....... 19 September 2005 (tho/wai) British Int. Formula 3 / Mondello Park Report Race 2 There was a case of collective strange behaviour breaking out at Carlin just before the start of what was to be Alvaro Parente's final F3 run for the team (he is committed to A1GP with the Portuguese team from now on and the dates clash). In celebration of his championship, and in farewell, most of the team had spray-dyed their hair in the Portuguese colours of ...... 18 September 2005 (tho/wai) British Int. Formula 3 / Mondello Park Report Race 1 After a great deal of confusion, caused by the officials initially trying to line the grid up on a two-by-two linear formation, as opposed to the correct staggered grid line up, the race finally got underway. Interestingly, perhaps, pole sitter Steven Kane (Promatecme F3) promptly messed up his start when he crept prior to the lights coming on. Realising his ...... 18 September 2005 (tho/wai) British Int. Formula 3 / Mondello Park Report Qualifying 2 Possibly because most of the fast times were set in the first part of the morning session, there was a mass rush for the pit lane exit at the start of the qualifying session for Round 20. This time Ronayne O'Mahony (Fortec Motorsport) was first out of the pits, and onto the track, but this didn't make him especially fast. Instead, Danilo Dirani (P1 Motorsport) was the first man to ..... 18 September 2005 (tho/wai) British Int. Formula 3 / Mondello Park Report Qualifying 1 In a departure from normal procedure, instead of Ryan Lewis (T-Sport) being the first runner on the track, Stephen Jelley (Menu Motorsport) was the first man out, the Englishman leaving the pit apron a good twenty seconds ahead of anyone else. As a result, at the end of the first handful of flying laps, Jelley was fastest, ahead of ..... 03 September 2005 (tho/wai) British Int. Formula 3 / Nürburgring Report Race 2 In some ways the story of this race can pretty much be told in a full description of what happened on the very first lap. With Bruno Senna and Daniel Clarke occupying the front row of the grid for Double R Racing, it did look as if Senna might be about to claim his first victory. However, Alvaro Parente (Carlin Motorsport) had other ideas. The series leader might ...... 03 September 2005 (tho/wai) British Int. Formula 3 / Nürburgring Report Race 1 There's always at least one very odd race each season, and it's possible that Round 17 was it. There are a number of drivers who look likely winners, but most people would not necessarily have included James Walker (Fortec Motorsport) among them. However, that was exactly what happened this morning at the Nürburgring. With Alvaro ...... 02 September 2005 (tho/wai) British Int. Formula 3 / Nürburgring Report Qualifying 2 It's 8am at the Nurburgring, and you have to wonder who decided this was a sensible time to hold a qualifying session. At least we'd find out who the morning people were… And it wouldn't necessarily be the people you would expect. With the last of the early morning mist burning away, the field came out to play. We would bet that ....... 02 September 2005 (tho/wai) British Int. Formula 3 / Nürburgring Report Qualifying 1 As usual Ryan Lewis (T-Sport) was the first one out onto the track. It never does him any good, but they repeatedly do it anyway… While a number of the competitors opted to sit in the pit lane for the opening minutes, Lewis went charging round the Eifel Mountains looking for that elusive pole position. Someone else who wasn't hanging ....... 15 August 2005 (tho/wai) British Int. Formula 3 / Silverstone Report Race 2 Before the race started, we lost Tim Bridgman (Hitech Racing), a man who seems determined to prove the Chinese curse about living in interesting times. With a dreadful cold hampering him to start with, he was somehow inexplicably short of tyres for the second race of the day. The advice from Avon was that if he only had wet weather tyres left, he'd be seriously ill-advised to ..... 15 August 2005 (tho/wai) British Int. Formula 3 / Silverstone Report Race 1 Before the race started Ricardo Teixeira (Carlin Motorsport) seemed to have a bit of a problem in the steering area. Certainly he stopped off in the pitlane and waved desperately at the mechanics. They didn't seem to think there was much they could do, and duly sent him back out. Maybe he was just suffering from back pain. His rib injury was really giving him a ..... 13 August 2005 (tho/wai) British Int. Formula 3 / Silverstone Report Qualifying 2 Under cloudy skies, almost 6 hours later than the morning session, the F3 boys were allowed out to play again, this session at least starting bang on time despite the best efforts of that staircase of talent, the Formula Palmer Audi championship. The long gap had been advantageous for some, especially Tim Bridgman (Hitech Racing), who'd managed to modify his ...... 13 August 2005 (tho/wai) British Int. Formula 3 / Silverstone Report Qualifying 1 With the meeting running slightly late, the drivers took to the track around 7 minutes late, on a cold, slightly damp August morning. Tim Bridgman (Hitech Motorsport), who claimed to have learned some lessons from his indiscretions at Monza, was first out, while Mike Conway (Fortec Motorsport) was last out by quite a long way. Of course, because ....... 11 July 2005 (tho/wai) British Int. Formula 3 / Monza/ITA Report Race 2 After all the earlier excitement it came as something of a relief when Round 14 was far calmer. Even so, there was more than enough action to go round, especially in the National Class. As in Round 13 there were things happening even before the start, as the Hitech Racing boys could be seen dragging Marko Asmer's car back down the pitlane and pushing it ...... 11 July 2005 (tho/wai) British Int. Formula 3 / Monza/ITA Report Race 1 There are many sorts of motor race, some more exciting than others. At Monza on Saturday afternoon the British F3 International Series boys gave us more excitement than we could possibly have asked for. This was a thriller of a race, a rollercoaster ride with no brakes, and probably one of the best races anywhere this or any other season. Coming to a ...... 11 July 2005 (tho/wai) British Int. Formula 3 / Monza/ITA Report Qualifying 2 At the start of the session there were a number of dramas being enacted. The first to come to light was when Juho Annala (Alan Docking Racing) discovered he'd got a driveshaft that wasn't working. Some desperate work on the part of the team saw him eventually wheeled out to join the fray. Meanwhile Charlie Hollings (Promatecme F3) came straight into ...... 11 July 2005 (tho/wai) British Int. Formula 3 / Monza/ITA Report Qualifying 1 Imagine Formula Threes racing in Italy. Sunshine bouncing off the bodywork, and glinting on helmets. Now imagine the reality… It's raining like there's no tomorrow out there, but with a cramped timetable (because we have we have an extra race - left over from Spa - to fit in before Sunday morning) they have to go out to play regardless of the ...... 27 June 2005 (tho/wai) British Int. Formula 3 / Castle Combe Report Round 11 For once the weather gods seemed to have lost interest in F3. It was a welcome change, and there was even a suggestion of sunshine as the 27-strong field lined up on the grid, prior to the start of Round 11 of the 2005 British F3 championship. Every so often you get an element of panic in the air at this point, and at Combe it was ...... 26 June 2005 (tho/wai) British Int. Formula 3 / Castle Combe Report Qualifying 2 At the start of this session we were missing three of the twenty-seven cars, with Christian Bakkerud (Carlin Motorsport), Nick Jones (Team SWR) and Steven Kane (Promatecme F3) all hors de combat after a series of incidents in the earlier session. It was looking likely that Bakkerud might make it out before ...... 26 June 2005 (tho/wai) British Int. Formula 3 / Castle Combe Report Qualifying 1 With skies as cloudy as ever the first practice session of the weekend saw Ryan Lewis (T-Sport) instantly on the attack, driving as aggressively as ever. While it took him to an early pole position, ultimately it does him no favours. F3 cars do not like having their necks wrung and they go slower than if they're treated to a ..... 29 May 2005 British Int. Formula 3 / Thruxton Second win for Charlie Kimball at Thruxton Carlin Motorsport’s Charlie Kimball continued his good form of the day by winning race two at Thruxton as well after securing victory in the race earlier. Marko Asmer from Hitech Racing came second and Christian Bakkerud (Carlin Motorsport) finished in third ..... 29 May 2005 British Int. Formula 3 / Thruxton Charlie Kimball wins his first ever British F3 race Charlie Kimball secured victory in Sunday’s first British F3 race at Thruxton. The Carlin Motorsport driver was over the moon. “It’s an amazing feeling,” he said. “To do what I love to do and be the best in the race is ..... 28 May 2005 British Int. Formula 3 / Thruxton Charlie Kimball gets second pole of the day at Thruxton Carlin Motorsport had a great result in the second qualifying session with three of their five cars finishing in the top three. Charlie Kimball set a new lap record of 1:06.848 (the previous lap record was held by Takuma Sato from 2001 with a time of ..... 28 May 2005 British Int. Formula 3 / Thruxton Charlie Kimball snatches pole position at Thruxton Charlie Kimball secured his first ever pole position in the British F3 International Series at Thruxton. The Carlin Motorsport driver set a time of 1.07.140, which saw him 0.256 seconds ahead of second placed Mike Conway from Fortec Motorsport. The current ..... 23 May 2005 (tho/wai) British Int. Formula 3 / Knockhill Report Round 8 / Heir Apparente? Even though the clouds were looking threatening at the start of the race, the weather stayed dry and relatively pleasant, the sun finally emerging before the end, all of which made a very welcome change. After all, we've had fog, hail, thunder and gallons and gallons of rain. However, there was a little bit of Brazil that the sun ...... 23 May 2005 (tho/wai) British Int. Formula 3 / Knockhill Report Round 7 / Parente Takes Control There was mayhem on the exploratory lap, with several drivers apparently unsure of quite where they were supposed to line up. Apparently Ryan Lewis (T-Sport) was more confused than most, and although no one was lining up properly, he made an attempt to go up the pitlane, only to be met by a wall of humanity coming the other ..... 23 May 2005 (tho/wai) British Int. Formula 3 / Knockhill Report Qualifying 2 / Parente Dominant If the weather had been unsettled in the morning, it was a lot worse in the afternoon. It was raining as the cars went out, again with Ryan Lewis and Barton Mawer leading the field round in their T-Sport cars. With the weather looking set to worsen dramatically, it was a good idea to get a time as soon as you could. Even so, the ...... 23 May 2005 (tho/wai) British Int. Formula 3 / Knockhill Report Qualifying 1 / Parente on Pole Again The theory that the weather gods have it in for F3 this year still holds water. This time, after a fine and sunny morning, the session started just as the rain clouds swept in from the North Sea and started to deposit their payload on Fife. Knockhill is an intensely tricky circuit, with lots of complicated corners, and is ..... 22 May 2005 British Int. Formula 3 / Knockhill Alvaro Parente’s impressive drive to win two at Knockhill Alvaro Parente won the second race of the British F3 International Series at Knockhill on Sunday. The Carlin Motorsport driver had an easy drive until two laps before the chequered flag, when he ran over something in the first corner and nearly lost ..... 22 May 2005 British Int. Formula 3 / Knockhill Alvaro Parente wins wet race at Knockhill Carlin Motorsport’s Alvaro Parente won the first race on Sunday at Knockhill under very difficult conditions. The race was started in heavy rain, which slightly eased off towards the end. Starting the race from pole position, Parente lead the field all the way to the finish with ...... 21 May 2005 British Int. Formula 3 / Knockhill Alvaro Parente secures pole position in qualifying two Carlin Motorsport’s Alvaro Parente secured another pole position, his fourth in a row, by setting a best lap of 54.015 in the second qualifying session at Knockhill. The session was run in very wet conditions, which saw a number of cars spinning ..... 21 May 2005 British Int. Formula 3 / Knockhill Alvaro Parente on pole position for race one at Knockhill Portuguese Alvaro Parente put his Dallara F305 Mugen-Honda on pole position for Sunday’s first British F3 race at Knockhill. The Carlin Motorsport driver set a time of 46.923, which was only 0.086 seconds faster than second-placed Mike Conway’s from Fortec Motorsport. Promatecme’s Stephen Kane came ..... 09 May 2005 (tho/wai) British Int. Formula 3 / Croft Report Round 6 Whatever the F3 boys have done to annoy the weather gods, it really needs to stop now. Shortly after Round 5 ended the entire proceedings at Croft ground to a halt as hailstones bounced off people's heads, and Ginettas (which were racing at the time) bounced off the barriers and into each other. With thunder crashing overhead, and ...... 09 May 2005 (tho/wai) British Int. Formula 3 / Croft Report Round 5 / Conway Gives Fortec First 2005 Victory The weather was decidedly odd for this one, and the result was even more peculiar. We didn't get the result we expected, and in fact we were lucky to get a result at all as it turned out. It all started out sanely enough, under sunny skies, though with some rather nasty clouds lurking in the distance. Tim Bridgman (Hitech Racing) was unable to start, having got as far as ...... 09 May 2005 (tho/wai) British Int. Formula 3 / Croft Report Qualifying 2 / Parente-Power at Croft It didn't get any warmer as the day wore on. The second F3 session of the day was run around lunchtime, and while it wasn't quite a bone-chillingly cold as it had been, there were some ominous looking black clouds on the horizon, a fact which prompted most drivers to get out of the pits as early as possible in order to set a banker lap before ...... 09 May 2005 (tho/wai) British Int. Formula 3 / Croft Report Qualifying 1 / Parente on Form at Croft The session got underway on time, as it should have done given the F3 boys were the first act of the day here in Yorkshire. With a freezing cold wind blowing across the circuit (possibly from Finland) getting tyres warm enough to do the job was likely to be tricky. Keeping them that way might well prove even more difficult. There were two schools of thought in ...... 08 May 2005 British Int. Formula 3 / Croft One-two finish for Carlin Motorsport at a rainy Croft Alvaro Parente had a easy afternoon drive to take a start to finish victory in the second race at Croft on Sunday afternoon. Starting the race from pole, Carlin Motorsport driver Parente had a clean race, keeping out of trouble in tricky conditions caused by light rain on an already wet track. ...... 08 May 2005 British Int. Formula 3 / Croft Mike Conway secures his first F3 victory at Croft Fortec Motorsport driver Mike Conway won the first race at Croft on Sunday lunchtime after a great start from second place on the grid. After a second and a third place at Donington Park two weeks ago, Conway is now the new Championship class leader. Marko Asmer (Hitech Racing) finished the race in second place ahead of pole sitter ..... 07 May 2005 British Int. Formula 3 / Croft Parente secures double pole positions for both races at Croft Alvaro Parente (Carlin Motorsport) set the quickest time again in the second qualifying session to secure a double pole position at Croft. Parente set a fastest lap of 1:14.639 in his Dallara F305 Mugen-Honda in another closely fought qualifying session between the top three. Parente was followed by ..... 16 April 2005 (tho/wai) British Int. Formula 3 / Spa Franchorchamps Report Qualifying 2 The session got underway on time - almost. Given the torrential rain that had plagued the LMES session in the morning, to say nothing of the number of broken cars that had to be dragged back from the Classic Endurance Racing Series session, five minutes was the least we could expect. James Walker (Fortec Motorsport) and his team-mate ...... 16 April 2005 British Int. Formula 3 / Spa Franchorchamps Qualifying 2 A thrilling qualifying session round the 6.976 km Spa Francorchamps circuit saw 24-year old Promatecme driver Steven Kane take his first F3 overall pole position, with a lap of 2:35.414 in extremely wet conditions. He will be joined on the front row by Ryan Lewis (T-Sport), whose best lap was only five thousandths of a second slower than Kane's. Carlin's Charlie Kimball was third. .....Result 16 April 2005 (tho/wai) British Int. Formula 3 / Spa Franchorchamps Report Qualifying 1 It was an odd day - weather wise the conditions for testing in the morning were actually quite pleasant, but the afternoon's session was horrible. Someone having a very odd day before we even got to first qualifying was Marko Asmer. The Estonian managed to spin out of the test session, and was dragged to a place of safety at the Bus Stop. He spent the rest of the ...... 06 April 2005 (tho/wai) British Int. Formula 3 / Donington Report Round 2 Again there was a lot of activity prior to the race start. Marko Asmer's Hitech Racing car needed a new flywheel. He'd discovered this early on in Round 1, when he'd failed to get off the line at the start, and had had to put in quite a recovery drive. "I had a clutch problem this morning. The clutch was slipping - actually it was - I don't know what they ..... 06 April 2005 (tho/wai) British Int. Formula 3 / Donington Report Round 1 Predictions of mayhem were widespread before the start of Round 1 of the British F3 International series. Partly this was down to the nature of the track (a very long run to the first corner, Redgate, which is pretty unforgiving), partly it was down to the fact that there were so many rookies in the field, and a lot of ..... 06 April 2005 (tho/wai) British Int. Formula 3 / Donington Report Qualifying 2 After a somewhat eventful first session, the second session of the day proved even more troublesome for Ricardo Teixeira (Carlin Motorsport). The Angolan driver stopped at Redgate and had some trouble getting going again. Meanwhile, both Daniel Clarke (Double R Racing) and Steven Kane (Promatecme F3) had announced in advance that they would be late out… As it turned out, Clarke wasn't especially late. Kane, on the other hand was, as ..... 06 April 2005 (tho/wai) British Int. Formula 3 / Donington Report Qualifying 1 Another year, another season and here we all are again. And after the sodden unpleasantness of the Media Day in March, the first qualifying session of the newly named British F3 International Series was held in sunny - albeit chilly - conditions. Of course, some people didn't get much of an opportunity to appreciate the weather. With a field full of rookies, and a number of new teams, there was always ..... 03 April 2005 British Int. Formula 3 / Donington Danilo Dirani does it again Dirani did it again in the second race of the British F3 International Series with a spotless start to finishing victory for Lola and P1 Motorsport. Right from the start, Dirani managed to get four car length ahead of Asmer, who started on second position on the grid. Having a much better start than in the first race, Hitech driver Marko Asmer finished the race in second place after just keeping ahead of Mike Conway, who finished the race in third position for Fortec Motorsport. ..... Result 03 April 2005 British Int. Formula 3 / Donington Danilo Dirani wins season opener at Donington Park Danilo Dirani secured a phenomenal victory for Lola and P1 Motorsport at the opening round of the British F3 International Series at Donington Park on Sunday morning. After the collision of three cars at the start, which saw the Safety Car coming out for the first five laps, and facing an ongoing battle with Mike Conway (Fortec Motorsport) and the Double R Racing driver Daniel Clarke, the Brazilian kept clear ahead of Conway throughout the race and took a solid start-to-finish win. ..... Result 02 April 2005 British Int. Formula 3 / Donington Marko Asmer on Pole for Round 2 at Donington Estonian Marko Asmer took pole position in the second qualifying this afternoon. The Hitech Motorsport driver’s best lap was 1:03.119. Danilo Dirani wasn’t able to repeat his pole from the first qualifying, even though he came within 0.013 seconds of the time of Asmer. Mike Conway came third, setting a time of 1:03.296. ..... Result 02 April 2005 British Int. Formula 3 / Donington Danilo Dirani takes Pole for Round 1 at Donington Sensational pole position for Danilo Dirani/BRA in his new Lola B05/30-Mugen at Donington Park in the first qualifying session. Marko Asmer/EST takes second place on the grid just 0,010secs away from Dirani´s time. Third on the Grid is Mike Conway/GBR ahead of Daniel Clarke and Bruno Senna in fifth position. ...... Result 31 March 2005 British Formula 3 / Test Donigton British F3 International Series Pre Race Test Donington ...... Result 24 March 2005 British Formula 3 / Test Croft British F3 International Series Test Croft .... Results Day 2 18 March 2005 (tho/wai) British Formula 3 / Test Silverstone Report British F3 International Series Press Day Someone told Ronayne O'Mahony (Fortec Motorsport) that it would be the wettest day of the year. At first it seemed as if his flatmates might just be winding him up, but as the day wore on it began to look as if it might be true. It was certainly pretty grim by mid-morning. The teams had all been asked to set up and look professional, and some of 17 March 2005 British Formula 3 / Test Silverstone Marko Asmer/EST quickest driver at Silverstone Marko Asmer was the quickest driver in the three-hour test session at the Silverstone Int. circuit. The test was part of the 2005 British F3 Internatinal Series Media Day. ..... Result 05 March 2005 (pdp) British Formula 3 Pictures Test Donington First pictures from British Formula 3 Championship by Paul Davies

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