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Foresti leads all-Fortec podium

Lucas Foresti led a Fortec 1-2-3 in this morning's British Formula 3 reversed grid race at Snetterton

The Brazilian was handed a pole position start after finishing 10th in yesterday's first race, and he converted it comfortably to score his second win of the season.

Team-mate Will Buller made a poor start from the outside of the front row, which allowed rookie Harry Tincknell through into second.

The ex-Formula Renault UK racer had to get a bit defensive to keep Buller at bay, but remained cool to score the best result of his F3 career so far.

Hitech's fast-starting Brazilian Pietro Fantin jumped Sino Vision's Hywel Loyd and chased Buller home in fourth.

Category veteran Lloyd held Carlin's Felipe Nasr at bay to record fledgling squad Sino Vision's best result of the season with fifth. Yesterday's runner-up Nasr made excellent progress to climb into the top six from ninth on the grid.

Hitech's Riki Christodoulou took seventh, while Carlin's Carlos Huertas recovered from a poor start to complete the top eight - helped by team-mate Rupert Svendsen-Cook dropping out with a misfire.

Yesterday's winner Kevin Magnussen made a good start from 10th on the grid, but fell back later on in the first lap. He recovered to ninth and nailed the race's fastest lap to bag two bonus points.

Reigning South American F3 champion Yann Cunha (T-Sport) scored his first British F3 point by taking 10th, while a first-lap sort out behind him at the Agostini hairpin put Carlin's Jack Harvey and National Class pacesetter Bart Hylkema out of the race and forced Jazeman Jaafar (Carlin) and Menasheh Idafar (T-Sport) back to the pits for repairs.

Results - 11 laps:

Pos  Driver                Team/Car                     Time/Gap
 1.  Lucas Foresti         Fortec Dallara-Merc        18m38.889s
 2.  Harry Tincknell       Fortec Dallara-Merc          + 5.395s
 3.  William Buller        Fortec Dallara-Merc          + 7.594s
 4.  Pietro Fantin         Hitech Dallara-VW            + 7.955s
 5.  Hywel Lloyd           Sino Vision Dallara-Merc     + 9.245s
 6.  Felipe Nasr           Carlin Dallara-VW           + 10.415s
 7.  Riki Christodoulou    Hitech Dallara-VW           + 10.898s
 8.  Carlos Huertas        Carlin Dallara-VW           + 11.574s
 9.  Kevin Magnussen       Carlin Dallara-VW           + 11.910s
10.  Yann Cunha            T-Sport Dallara-VW          + 13.396s
11.  Scott Pye             Double R Dallara-Merc       + 14.798s
12.  Pipo Derani           Double R Dallara-Merc       + 20.757s
13.  Fahmi Ilyas           Fortec Dallara-Merc         + 25.528s
14.  Adderly Fong          Sino Vision Dallara-Merc    + 25.905s
15.  Kotaro Sakurai        Hitech Dallara-Mugen      + 1m04.682s
16.  Jazeman Jaafar        Carlin Dallara-VW             + 1 lap
17.  Menasheh Idafar       T-Sport Dallara-VW            + 1 lap

Retirements:

     Bart Hylkema          T-Sport Dallara-Mugen          0 laps
     Jack Harvey           Carlin Dallara-VW              0 laps
     Rupert Svendsen-Cook  Carlin Dallara-VW              0 laps

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