Parente Wins First Knockhill Race

The Carlin Motorsport driver, who missed the first two races of the season, started the race from pole position and maintained a lead throughout the race, despite difficult weather conditions.

The race began under heavy rain, and the rainfall eased off only towards the end of the race.

T-Sport's Ryan Lewis finished second after a race-long battle with Fortec's Mike Conway, who finished third.

Lewis, starting from fourth position, overtook Steven Kane, who was third on the grid, on the second lap, and then went on to overtake Mike Conway on lap seven. Lewis maintained his position to the end, despite several attempts by Conway to overtake him.

Conway himself had to battle for his position with Kane as well, and by lap 17, Kane overtook Conway for third, but lost his place back to Conway on lap 21, when he was lapping Buno Senna and Nick Jones. The two backmarkers forced Kane to go wide, allowing Conway through and back to third.

The second race at Knockhill begins this afternoon, with parente again on pole position.

British F3 Round 7 (Race 8) - Knockhill Race Results:

CLASSIFIED:

Pos  Driver              Chassis-Engine                Time
 1.  Alvaro Parente      Dallara F305 Mugen-Honda      22:58.695
 2.  Ryan Lewis          Dallara F305 Mugen-Honda      +   7.820
 3.  Mike Conway         Dallara Opel Spiess           +   8.708
 4.  Steven Kane         Lola B05/30 Mugen-Honda       +  16.333
 5.  Danilo Dirani       Lola B05/30 Mugen Honda       +  19.528
 6.  Christian Bakkerud  Dallara F305 Mugen-Honda      +  44.482
 7.  Charlie Hollings    Lola-Dome F106/4 Mugen Honda  +  46.530
 8.  Salvador Duran      Dallara F304 Mugen-Honda      +  48.943
 9.  Josh Fisher         Dallara F304 Mugen-Honda      +  51.269
10.  Barton Mawer        Dallara F304 Mugen-Honda      +  1 Lap
11.  Stephen Jelley      Dallara F305 Opel Spiess      +  1 Lap
12.  Juho Annala         Dallara F304 Mugen-Honda      +  1 Lap
13.  Jonathan Kennard    Dallara F304 Mugen-Honda      +  1 Lap
14.  Bruno Senna         Dallara F305 Mugen-Honda      +  1 Lap
15.  Ronayne O'mahony    Dallara F305 Opel Spiess      +  1 Lap
16.  Keiko Ihara         Dallara F305 Mugen-Honda      +  2 Laps
17.  Ricardo Teixeira    Dallara F304 Mugen-Honda      +  3 Laps

NOT CLASSIFIED/RETIREMENTS:

     Driver              Chassis-Engine             On Lap
     Tim Bridgman        Dallara F305 Mugen-Honda    20
     Nick Jones          Dallara F304 Mugen-Honda    18
     Marko Asmer         Dallara F305 Mugen-Honda    16
     James Walker        Dallara F305 Opel Spiess    15
     Cheong Lou Meng     Dallara F304 Mugen-Honda    15
     Charlie Kimball     Dallara F305 Mugen-Honda     0

FASTEST LAPS:

Championship: Steven Kane       54.025 on lap 18
National:     Charlie Hollings  54.426 on lap  5