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Brands British F3: Jazeman Jaafar resists Jordan King in race one

Jazeman Jaafar held off a concerted race-long challenge from Jordan King to win the opening race of the British Formula 3 International Series weekend at Brands Hatch

The Malaysian, making his return to F3 from his usual programme in Formula Renault 3.5, led from pole position to the finish.

King would occasionally drop back in a vain bid to take fastest lap, then close on the sister Carlin Dallara-Volkswagen.

"It's really awesome to be driving the F3 car again, and driving at this track is very special," said Jaafar.

"Jordan was very quick throughout the race. We had two different goals: him fighting for the championship and me for my own race. I just focused on doing a consistent job."

A rather clear-cut jumped start carried championship leader Will Buller from sixth to third, but Antonio Giovinazzi dived down the inside of the Northern Irishman into Paddock Hill Bend.

Giovinazzi did a good job in his Double R Racing car to not lose too much ground to the duo in front, and likewise was comfortably clear of Nicholas Latifi, who moved up to fourth when Buller served his drive-through penalty.

Latifi has been given a five-place grid penalty for race two for going off the track in an incident zone, after Sean Gelael had spun out, but AUTOSPORT understands the Canadian is arguing that there were no yellow flags before the corner.

From his penalised grid position, Jann Mardenborough finished a distant fifth.

Buller recovered to sixth, overtaking Fortec team-mate Felipe Guimaraes, who had stalled at the start, with two laps to go at Paddock Hill Bend. Crucially, Buller also denied King the fastest lap point.

With Sean Gelael exiting the race in the early stages, Tatiana Calderon took eighth and earned pole position for the reversed-grid counter on Sunday morning.

National Class poleman Ed Jones did not get away from the grid on the green-flag lap and started from the pitlane.

That gave Sun Zheng the advantage, but the Chinese driver had to shrug off a strong challenge from Cameron Twynham during the first half of the race before taking victory. Jones retired on the sixth lap.

Results - 23 laps:

Pos  Driver              Team/Car                   Time/Gap
 1.  Jazeman Jaafar      Carlin Dallara-VW        30m48.434s
 2.  Jordan King         Carlin Dallara-VW           +0.428s
 3.  Antonio Giovinazzi  Double R Dallara-Merc       +4.894s
 4.  Nicholas Latifi     Carlin Dallara-VW           +7.271s
 5.  Jann Mardenborough  Carlin Dallara-VW          +13.757s
 6.  Will Buller         Fortec Dallara-Merc        +22.966s
 7.  Felipe Guimaraes    Fortec Dallara-Merc        +23.696s
 8.  Tatiana Calderon    Double R Dallara-Merc      +52.572s
 9.  Sun Zheng           CF Dallara-Mugen         +1m22.512s
10.  Cameron Twynham     West-Tec Dallara-Toyota      +1 lap
11.  Peter Zhi Cong Li   Carlin Dallara-VW            +1 lap
12.  Chris Vlok          West-Tec Dallara-Toyota      +1 lap

Retirements:

     Ed Jones            West-Tec Dallara-Toyota      5 laps
     Sean Gelael         Double R Dallara-Merc        2 laps

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