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Silverstone British F3: Alex Lynn charges to victory in thrilling race three

Alex Lynn took victory in a thrilling British Formula 3 International Series finale at Silverstone

The 18-year-old from Essex had to fight back from fourth place, and took the lead from Jazeman Jaafar into the Brooklands left-hander with just over two laps remaining.

Jaafar grabbed the advantage from poleman Lynn with a great move into Becketts on the opening lap and, with Lynn forced off line, he conceded further places to Harry Tincknell and Carlos Sainz Jr.

Lynn passed Sainz around the outside of Stowe, and then Tincknell into Brooklands, before setting off after Jaafar.

For lap after lap the Fortec Motorsport Dallara-Mercedes pilot put pressure on the Malaysian's Carlin Dallara-Volkswagen, and Jaafar could not hold on.

Even so, Jaafar takes the British F3 points lead into the Donington Park finale, moving six points clear of Fortec's Felix Serralles and 23 ahead of Carlin man Jack Harvey.

The fight between Harvey and Serralles was the race's other talking point. It came to a head three laps from the end when the Puerto Rican was edged onto the grass on Wellington Straight while trying to pass the Englishman for seventh place, then hit a bump and was launched into the air. Serralles was remarkably able to pass Harvey into Copse one and a half laps later.

After the race, Serralles was unable to get out of his car and was taken to hospital with severe back pain. He was taken to the circuit medical centre and from there to Northampton General Hospital with suspected broken vertebrae. It is understood that officials are looking into the incident.

Tincknell had to fend off Hannes van Asseldonk in a frantic battle for third, the Devon man just holding on, as Sainz faded to fifth with a handling imbalance. Pietro Fantin was a lonely sixth.

Sainz, as well as Lynn, remain in with a small mathematical chance of the title.

The National Class trio stayed fairly close throughout and even latched onto the tail of the A-class drivers, points leader Spike Goddard stretching his advantage with victory in his T-Sport Dallara.

Results - 20 laps:

Pos  Driver                  Team/Car                  Time/Gap
 1.  Alex Lynn               Fortec Dallara-Merc     39m03.812s
 2.  Jazeman Jaafar          Carlin Dallara-VW         + 1.810s
 3.  Harry Tincknell         Carlin Dallara-VW        + 11.877s
 4.  Hannes van Asseldonk    Fortec Dallara-Merc      + 12.262s
 5.  Carlos Sainz Jr         Carlin Dallara-VW        + 15.666s
 6.  Pietro Fantin           Carlin Dallara-VW        + 18.939s
 7.  Felix Serralles         Fortec Dallara-Merc      + 25.656s
 8.  Jack Harvey             Carlin Dallara-VW        + 28.503s
 9.  Rupert Svendsen-Cook    Double R Dallara-Merc    + 28.947s
10.  Geoff Uhrhane           Double R Dallara-Merc    + 35.071s
11.  Pipo Derani             Fortec Dallara-Merc      + 48.679s
12.  Nick McBride            T-Sport Dallara-Nissan   + 48.923s
13.  Spike Goddard           T-Sport Dallara-Mugen*   + 49.429s
14.  Duvashen Padayachee     Double R Dallara-Mugen*  + 49.994s
15.  Pedro Pablo Calbimonte  T-Sport Dallara-Mugen*   + 51.057s

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