Third 1-2 for Carlin at Silverstone

The race ended a perfect weekend for the team at Silverstone, with Parente and Kimball taking the top two spots in all three races - Kimball taking one win, while Parente has taken the other two.

The race was effectively won at the start - when Parente, starting from second, shot past pole-sitter Marko Asmer, who made a bad start. The Estonian would eventually finish fifth.

"My start was very good," Parente said after the race. "It was my best start of the three races. At the start, I pulled away from [Mike] Conway, even though my car's tyres only came in slowly.

"It meant I had some oversteer, but Asmer and Charlie were fighting and that let me pull away a little more. It meant I could win by a comfortable margin."

Third place went to Bruno Senna, taking his first podium. He said: "I got a good start and got Asmer, but he took me back at Copse.

"I finally got a tow into Stowe and braked really late when he tried to outbreak me. I went really wide, and then was able to get Kane too. After that it was just not making any mistakes."

CLASSIFIED:

Pos  Driver              Make-Engine                   Time
 1.  Alvaro Parente      Dallara F305 Mugen-Honda      30:54.693
 2.  Charlie Kimball     Dallara F305 Mugen-Honda      +   2.017
 3.  Bruno Senna         Dallara F305 Mugen-Honda      +   9.241
 4.  Steven Kane         Lola B05/30 Mugen-Honda       +  13.122
 5.  Marko Asmer         Dallara F305 Mugen-Honda      +  15.137
 6.  Dan Clarke          Dallara F305 Mugen-Honda      +  16.617
 7.  Danilo Dirani       Lola B05/30 Mugen Honda       +  16.641
 8.  James Walker        Dallara F305 Opel Spiess      +  17.176
 9.  Christian Bakkerud  Dallara F305 Mugen-Honda      +  23.826
10.  Stephen Jelley      Dallara F305 Opel Spiess      +  31.589
11.  Salvador Duran      Dallara F304 Mugen-Honda      +  32.179
12.  Ben Clucas          Lola-Dome F106/4 Mugen-Honda  +  35.782
13.  Ronayne O'mahony    Dallara F305 Opel Spiess      +  43.369
14.  Ryan Lewis          Dallara F305 Mugen-Honda      +  47.931
15.  Josh Fisher         Dallara F304 Mugen-Honda      +  49.138
16.  Michael Herck       Dallara F305 Opel Spiess      +  51.180
17.  Barton Mawer        Dallara F304 Mugen-Honda      +  52.106
18.  Jonathan Kennard    Dallara F304 Mugen-Honda      +  52.642
19.  Juho Annala         Dallara F304 Mugen-Honda      +  54.131
20.  Keiko Ihara         Dallara F305 Mugen-Honda      +1:06.109
21.  Ricardo Teixeira    Dallara F304 Mugen-Honda      +1:18.913
22.  Nick Jones          Dallara F304 Mugen-Honda      +1:53.670

NOT CLASSIFIED/RETIREMENTS:

     Driver              Make-Engine                   On Laps
     Cheong Lou Meng     Dallara F304 Mugen-Honda        10
     Karl Reindler       Dallara F305 Mugen-Honda         8
     Mike Conway         Dallara Opel Spiess              5
     Alejandro Nunez     Dallara F305 Opel Spiess         0
     Charlie Hollings    Lola-Dome F106/4 Mugen Honda     0