Hartley dominates as Carlin take another 1-2-3

Brendon Hartley stormed to victory around the streets of Bucharest this afternoon, to take his fifth British F3 victory of the season. Racing Steps Foundation driver Oliver Turvey came home in second to strengthen his place in the championship and extend his lead to 17 points. Jaime Alguersuari completed the Carlin 1-2-3, and also moves up to second in the championship standings. Sam Abay came home in fifth place to add eight points to his tally.

Hartley made a lightening start, pulling away from Turvey into the first corner. Behind him, all three of Hartley’s International Class team mates held their positions and by the end of lap one, it was Hartley leading, with Turvey second, Alguersuari third and Abay fifth.

A flying Hartley pulled out a gap on Turvey, until a multi-car incident brought out the safety car on lap six, bunching up the field. It took track officials 10 laps to clear the cars, which also included Carlin’s National Class runner Kristjan Einar. Hartley judged the restart perfectly to maintain his lead, while Alguersuari closed up on Turvey into turn one, but couldn’t find a way past. Behind them, Sam Abay was running in strong fifth place, closing in on Esteban Guerrieri.

Positions remained unchanged until the stranded car of Ricardo Teixeira caused a red flag, bringing the race to an end four minutes early. With the race brought to an early conclusion, Hartley took his fifth victory of the season, with Turvey and Alguersuari crossing the line to give Carlin its third 1-2-3 of the 2008 season.

Race winner Hartley said, “I’m so pleased to have won here. We’ve been very strong all weekend, the car feels good and I really like this track. After a difficult start from pole last weekend at Silverstone, I’m pleased to have shown we can dominate from lights to flag. The team have done a fantastic job with the car this weekend, so I don’t think we’ll need to make many changes before qualifying tomorrow.”

Team Principal Trevor Carlin said, “This was another great result for the team, the mechanics, engineers and drivers have worked very hard to get the cars in such good shape. Brendon was extremely impressive today, both in qualifying and in the race. Both Oliver and Jaime have strengthened their position in the championship and Oliver now has a very healthy 17 point lead. Hopefully we’ll be able to carry on this level of performance tomorrow.”

Published: 2008-08-23 00:00:00

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