Formula 3 Macau Grand Prix – Fia F3 World
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ISSUE 3 | 2018 FORMULA 3 MACAU GRAND PRIX FORMULA 3 MACAU GRAND PRIX – FIA F3 WORLD CUP – FIA F3 WORLD CUP Top 5 after Round 30 FIA FORMULA 3 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP Zhou continued to hold the POS DRIVER TEAM PTS lead to take his second 1 Mick Schumacher PREMA Theodore Racing 365 PREMA Theodore Racing driver Mick victory of the season. 2 Daniel Ticktum Motopark 308 Schumacher won the FIA Formula 3 European Shvartzman finished 3 Robert Shvartzman PREMA Theodore Racing 294 Championship, taking the title with a race to second ahead of a hard- 4 Jüri Vips Motopark 284 5 Marcus Armstrong PREMA Theodore Racing 260 spare at series’ season finale at Hockenheim. charging Vips who took the final podium position. Palou was fourth and Ticktum fifth, ahead of “Of course, I am really happy with my title win,” PREMA Theodore Racing’s Ralf Aron, third at Macao last year. With his Schumacher said. “I can hardly describe what second-place finish, Shvartzman wrapped up the rookie title. a beautiful feeling it is to be doing something that you love really well. However, I also have a FIA FORMULA 3 Pole-sitter Vips took the lead at the start of Race 2, but immediately found EUROPEAN CHAMPION great team around me that is giving me the best MICK SCHUMACHER himself under pressure from Schumacher. Following a Safety Car period, conditions, enabling me to concentrate on what Vips took the lead at the restart, with Schumacher again piling on the is important. I reckon that that is one of the keys to success. Moreover, we pressure. However, Vips stayed in front to win ahead of Schumacher and never gave up this season and have always tried to improve further. We Aron. Further down the field Ticktum, who had started from 15th on the grid, never stopped working on ourselves.” made his way to seventh, but it was not enough to keep his title hopes alive. Schumacher, who made his Macao debut last year, returns to the Guia Pole-sitter Shvartzman celebrated a dominant victory in the final race Circuit this year as one of the favourites to take the same Formula 3 Macau of the season, finishing more than 10 seconds ahead of new champion Grand Prix win that his father took in 1990. Motopark’s Ticktum also Schumacher. Third on the podium was Palou, with Ticktum’s fourth-place returns as he vies to be the fourth driver to earn a double Macao F3 victory finish securing the Briton the runner-up spot in the championship. after Edoardo Mortara, Felix Rosenqvist and António Félix da Costa. JAPANESE FORMULA 3 CHAMPIONSHIP Kuo Team TOM’S driver Sho Tsuboi dominated the Japanese Formula 3 Championship, winning the final two races of the season at Fuji. Tsuboi, who returns to Macao this year, won 17 races this season. Tsuboi’s team mate Ritomo Miyata, 12 at Macao last year, was second in the drivers classification, ahead of Ukyo Sasahara of ThreeBond Racing. Fourth in the championship standings was Toda Racing’s Sena Sakaguchi, while B-Max Racing Team driver Yu Kanamaru was fifth overall. Third in the championship standings is PREMA Theodore Racing driver Robert Shvartzman, the winner of the rookie title. Shvartzman makes his Macao debut in November as do Motopark’s Jüri Vips and Shvartzman’s team mate Marcus Armstrong, who were fourth and fifth in the championship standings, respectively. DAN TICKTUM At the final triple-header in Hockenheim, PREMA Theodore Racing’s Guanyu Zhou, eighth at Macao last year, was on pole position for the opening race. The Chinese driver took the lead at the start. Contact between Schumacher and Armstrong sent SHO TSUBOI both drivers into the pits for repairs, but while Armstrong was later forced Tsuboi once again demonstrated his command of the championship in to retire, Schumacher began making his way through the field to finish 12th. the final two races of the season. Starting from pole position, Tsuboi took the chequered flag of the opening race by more than 24 seconds ahead of SCHUMACHER AT THE SEASON FINALE AT HOCKENHEIM Sakaguchi and Shunsuke Kohno of RS Fine. In the final race of the season, JAPANESE FORMULA 3 Tsuboi was again on pole, CHAMPIONSHIP although he qualified just a tenth Top 5 after Round 19 of a second faster than his team POS DRIVER TEAM PTS mate Miyata. This time the race 1 Sho Tsuboi Kuo Team TOM’S 214 was a closer affair, with Tsuboi 2 Ritomo Miyata Kuo Team TOM’S 117 winning by nearly a four-second 3 Ukyo Sasahara ThreeBond Racing 65 margin ahead of Sasahara 4 Sena Sakaguchi Toda Racing 52 and Miyata. 5 Yu Kanamaru B-Max Racing Team 40 MACAU GRAND PRIX BULLETIN ISSUE 3 | 2018 1 MACAU GT CUP – FIA GT WORLD CUP DTM Four-time Macau GT Cup winner Edoardo Mortara, who returns to the Guia Circuit to defend his FIA GT World Cup title in November, finished sixth in this year’s DTM Championship. Other DTM drivers who will race at Macao in November include Robin Frijns and Augusto Farfus. Several Formula 3 Macau Grand Prix and Macau GT Cup alumni competed in this year’s DTM, including René Rast, who was second overall in the drivers classification and Marco Wittmann, sixth in last year’s Macau GT Cup, was fourth overall. 2011 Formula 3 Macau Grand Prix winner Daniel Juncadella also competed in DTM, as did former Macao F3 competitors Joel Eriksson, Lucas Auer and Pascal Wehrlein. ADDERLY FONG IN THE BLANCPAIN GT SERIES ASIA race was two-time Macau GT Cup podium finisher Alexandre Imperatori and co-driver Yuke Taniguchi in a Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3. Imperatori will race one of three Nissan GTRs at Macao this year. GruppeM Racing Team’s Raffaele Marciello, who returns to Macao in November, and Alexander Mattschull were 14th in the 31-lap race. In the final race of the season, Fong and Kim finished just outside of the top five in sixth place, while Imperatori and Taniguchi were 11th. FOUR-TIME MACAU GT CUP CHAMPION EDOARDO MORTARA RACING IN THIS PETIT LE MANS YEAR’S DTM CHAMPIONSHIP Oliver Jarvis, the 2007 Formula 3 Macau Grand Prix winner, finished BLANCPAIN GT SERIES second in Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta along with co-drivers Tristan Nunez and Lucas di Grassi, the 2005 F3 Macao winner who competed in Raffaele Marciello, who competes with Mercedes-AMG Team GruppeM last year’s Macau GT Cup. Jarvis returns to the Guia Circuit for the first Racing at this year’s Macau GT Cup, was crowned the Blancpain GT Series time since his Formula 3 victory and will race a Nissan GTR in this year’s champion at last month’s season finale at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. Macau GT Cup. Dries Vanthoor, who makes his Macau GT Cup debut next month, was fifth overall in the championship. The race was won by Renger van der Zande, who competed in last year’s Macau GT Cup, and co-drivers Jordan Taylor and Ryan Hunter-Reay. Other Macao alumni competing in the race included Pipo Derani, Romain Dumas, Felipe Nasr and Chaz Mostert, fifth in last year’s FIA GT World Cup. RAFFAELE MARCIELLO AT LAST YEAR’S MACAU GRAND PRIX BLANCPAIN GT SERIES ASIA 2007 F3 MACAU WINNER OLIVER JARVIS RETURNS TO THE GUIA CIRCUIT IN NOVEMBER Several Macau GT Cup regulars competed in this year’s Blancpain GT Series Asia, including Raffaele Marciello who finished seventh BATHURST 1000 overall following the championship’s double-header season finale in Ningbo, China. Two-time Le Mans winner Earl Bamber, who claimed victory in the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia support race during the 60th Macau Grand Prix, finished In the first of two races at Ningbo, Adderly Fong, who will race in this year’s fifth with Shane van Gisbergen on his debut at this month’s Bathurst 1000. Macau GT Cup, was fourth with co-driver Andrew Kim. Ninth in the first Bamber, who was fourth in the 2016 Macau GT Cup, and van Gisbergen, opening was Darryl O’Young, winner of the first-ever Macau GT Cup in who previously won the Enduro Cup in 2016 with 2004 Formula 3 Macau 2008, with co-driver Aidan Read. Securing a top-10 finish in the opening Grand Prix winner Alexandre Prémat, third in this year’s Bathurst 1000. MACAU GRAND PRIX BULLETIN ISSUE 3 | 2018 2 MACAU MOTORCYCLE GRAND PRIX – 52ND EDITION DUKE ROAD RACE RANKINGS BRITISH SUPERBIKE CHAMPIONSHIP The Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix will once again count as the season Peter Hickman finished fifth in the British Superbike Championship finale for the Duke Road Race Rankings. This year’s 26-round competition, following the season finale at Brands Hatch. In the opening race, which acknowledges performance across a season of international road Hickman finished fifth in the opening race and finished ninth in the final races, got underway in April. Last month’s races at Frohburg, Germany, race of the season. served as the penultimate round ahead of next month’s Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix. In the National Superstock 1000 Championship, Michael Rutter was 13th overall, after securing a third-place podium finish in the final race of Derek McGee leads the standings with a narrow lead over Dean Harrison, the season. seventh at Macao last year. Two-time Macao winner and a favourite for this year’s race, Peter Hickman, is seventh overall in the standings, while Davey Todd, who makes his Macao debut in 2018 is ninth. Rounding out the top 10 is Lee Johnston, whose best Macao finish was fifth in 2014.