Dias scores first British F3 win
Gabriel Dias took his first British Formula 3 victory with a charging drive in race two at Hockenheim
The Hitech driver dropped from second to third off the line, as Oli Webb - the polesitter on the partially reversed grid - pulled away into a clear lead for Fortec ahead of Carlin's Adriano Buzaid.
But Dias was able to pass Buzaid for second into the hairpin on lap four, then chased down Webb's 2.1-second advantage before outbraking the former championship leader at the same spot with five laps remaining.
Although Webb and Buzaid remained with 2s of Dias, they could not stop the Brazilian notching up Hitech's first win of 2010.
Jay Bridger resisted pressure from points leader Jean-Eric Vergne (Carlin) to take his and Litespeed's best result yet in fourth. James Calado completed the top six in the next of the Carlin entries.
With the race two starting grid decided by the results of race one, James Cole began the race with a nine-place cushion back to his National Class rival and T-Sport team-mate Menasheh Idafar. He duly turned that advantage into a division win, despite Idafar catching up with him by the end.
Pos Driver Team Car Time/Gap
1. Gabriel Dias Hitech D/V 20m54.072s
2. Oli Webb Fortec D/M + 1.165s
3. Adriano Buzaid Carlin D/V + 1.980s
4. Jay Bridger Litespeed D/M + 3.649s
5. Jean-Eric Vergne Carlin D/V + 4.174s
6. James Calado Carlin D/V + 5.679s
7. William Buller Hitech D/V + 6.660s
8. Jazeman Jaafar Carlin D/V + 10.741s
9. Rupert Svendsen-Cook Carlin D/V + 17.679s
10. Carlos Huertas Raikkonen Robertson D/M + 24.060s
11. Daniel McKenzie Fortec D/M + 25.512s
12. Lucas Foresti Carlin D/V + 26.181s
13. Felipe Nasr Raikkonen Robertson D/M + 26.930s
14. Alex Brundle T-Sport D/V + 27.282s
15. James Cole T-Sport D/H + 27.777s
16. Menasheh Idafar T-Sport D/H + 28.528s
17. Wayne Boyd Sino Vision D/M + 32.814s
18. Hywel Lloyd CF/Manor D/M + 35.774s
Retirements:
Adderly Fong Sino Vision D/M 10 laps
Max Snegirev Fortec D/M 2 laps
Daisuke Nakajima Raikkonen Robertson D/M 0 laps
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