Jakes takes maiden win in race two
James Jakes won his first race in the Formula 3 Euro Series for Manor Motorsport at Magny-Cours on Sunday, the Yorkshireman taking the win after a fraught 25-minute event
Starting third on the reverse grid, Jakes lost a place to Manor teammate Franck Mallieux off the start, while a heavy shunt further back, between another Manor driver, Cyndie Alleman, and Mucke's Edoardo Piscopo brought out the safety car for a lap.
At the restart, pole man Jean Karl Vernay (Signature) led away from Manor's Yelmer Buurman, Mallieux and Jakes.
Jakes passed Mallieux with a smart move around the outside of the Adelaide hairpin, while Vernay and Buurman also briefly swapped the lead there.
Vernay stayed ahead until Buurman drove into the side of him at the hairpin with three laps to go. As they rubbed wheels, Jakes took his opportunity to dive past both of them and scorched away to a three second win.
Vernay finished second, ahead of Buurman, Mallieux and the Ultimate-run Mygale of Esteban Guerrieri, who finished fifth after Sebastian Buemi collected Tom Dillmann at the hairpin.
Yesterday's winner Kamui Kobayashi finished ninth after a trip through the Estoril gravel. Both he and ASM teammate Romain Grosjean were given five-place grid penalties for speeding under yellow flags yesterday. Grosjean finished seventh, just 0.3 seconds away from stealing the last point from Tim Sandtler.
Pos Driver Car Time
1. James Jakes Dallara/Mercedes 25:39.141
2. Jean-Karl Vernay Dallara/Mercedes + 3.388
3. Yelmer Buurman Dallara/Mercedes + 3.739
4. Franck Mailleux Dallara/Mercedes + 4.442
5. E.Guerrieri Mygale/Mercedes + 5.600
6. Tim Sandtler Dallara/Mercedes + 7.034
7. Romain Grosjean Dallara/Mercedes + 7.447
8. R.van der Zande Dallara/Mercedes + 7.894
9. Kamui Kobayashi Dallara/Mercedes + 11.003
10. Daniel Clos Dallara/Mercedes + 11.652
11. Yann Clairay Dallara/Mercedes + 14.772
12. Edoardo Mortara Dallara/Mercedes + 15.685
13. H.Schlegelmilch Dallara/Mercedes + 16.828
14. N.Hulkenberg Dallara/Mercedes + 17.314
15. Filip Salaquarda Dallara/Mercedes + 19.036
16. Michael Devaney Mygale/Mercedes + 19.479
17. Marco Holzer Dallara/Opel + 28.979
18. Michael Patrizi Dallara/Mercedes + 33.960
19. Sebastien Buemi Dallara/Mercedes + 54.892
Not classified:
Driver Car Laps
Tom Dillmann Dallara/Mercedes 8
Sergei Afanasiev Dallara/Mercedes 8
Basil Shaaban Dallara/Mercedes 8
Edoardo Piscopo Dallara/Mercedes 0
Cyndie Allemann Dallara/Mercedes 0
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