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Nasr makes it two wins from three

Felipe Nasr cemented his place at the top of the British Formula 3 championship table with a supremely measured drive to victory in a frenetic 40-minute 'feature' race at Monza this afternoon

The Brazilian started only eighth and completed the first lap outside the top 10, but picked his way through the field with some well-executed slipstream passes and battled his way up to second as the race entered its second half.

By this time, Fortec's Lucas Foresti had established himself at the head of the field, after jumping early leader Jazeman Jaafar (Carlin) at the Rettifilio chicane on lap seven of 21.

Once into second, Nasr closed down fellow Brazilian Foresti's one-second lead and attacked.

Foresti defended from Nasr for all his worth, but the Carlin driver eventually swept round the outside of his rival at the Variante Della Roggia with three laps to go after repeated unsuccessful attempts to find a way by.

Once clear, Nasr powered home to win by 2.1s, while fighting further back allowed Foresti to stay clear of the rest of the field and claim the best result of his British F3 career so far.

Jaafar won an epic fight to complete the podium. The Malaysian grabbed the lead by jumping slow-starting team-mate Kevin Magnussen and running poleman Will Buller (Fortec) out wide and through the gravel as they swept through the Curva Di Biassono for the first time.

After losing out to Foresti, Jaafar spent most of the race locked in a titanic tussle with team-mate Carlos Huertas. This fight also included Magnussen, until the Dane damaged his front wing and fell back.

Buller hauled himself back through the field and past Huertas to challenge Jaafar in the closing laps, but finished half a second adrift in fourth.

Rupert Svendsen-Cook (Carlin) completed the top six after an eventful race that included several missed chicanes. He passed the impressive Pietro Fantin (Hitech) by following Buller through at the Rettifilio with three laps to run.

After being bullied out of the top five, Fantin held off the ailing Magnussen to finish a highly-creditable seventh.

Four seconds further back, Double R's Pipo Derani won the battle to be best of the rest in ninth. The Brazilian finished just half a second clear of an impressive drive from Fortec late-signing Fahmi Ilyas, who capped his series debut by scoring the final point for 10th.

Results - 21 laps:

Pos  Driver                Team/Car                    Time/Gap
 1.  Felipe Nasr           Carlin Dallara-VW         40m37.942s
 2.  Lucas Foresti         Fortec Dallara-Merc         + 2.114s
 3.  Jazeman Jaafar        Carlin Dallara-VW           + 5.542s
 4.  Will Buller           Fortec Dallara-Merc         + 6.125s
 5.  Carlos Huertas        Carlin Dallara-VW           + 6.437s
 6.  Rupert Svendsen-Cook  Carlin Dallara-VW           + 7.879s
 7.  Pietro Fantin         Hitech Dallara-VW           + 8.707s
 8.  Kevin Magnussen       Carlin Dallara-VW           + 9.473s
 9.  Pipo Derani           Double R Dallara-Merc      + 13.602s
10.  Fahmi Ilyas           Fortec Dallara-Merc        + 14.152s
11.  Scott Pye             Double R Dallara-Merc      + 15.589s
12.  Riki Christodoulou    Hitech Dallara-VW          + 16.884s
13.  Menasheh Idafar       T-Sport Dallara-VW         + 21.375s
14.  Yann Cunha            T-Sport Dallara-VW         + 25.481s
15.  Hywel Lloyd           Sino Vision Dallara-Merc   + 26.166s
16.  Harry Tincknell       Fortec Dallara-Merc        + 26.481s
17.  Jack Harvey           Carlin Dallara-VW          + 28.014s
18.  Bruno Mendez          Hitech Dallara-VW          + 40.745s
19.  Bart Hylkema          T-Sport Dallara-Mugen      + 41.861s
20.  Adderly Fong          Sino Vision Dallara-Merc   + 42.557s

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