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Vettel scores maiden win

Sebastian Vettel scored his maiden F3 Euroseries win and ASM's first of the season with victory at Hockenheim today

British series regular Yelmer Buurman (Fortec Motorsport) started the race from pole but quickly slipped backwards, with Vettel relieving him of the lead on the first lap. Paul di Resta and Kamui Kobayashi followed him through.

Then Vettel severely outbraked himself at the hairpin, which allowed di Resta to claim the lead from his teammate.

But only two laps later, di Resta lost control in the Sachs Kurve and gifted the lead back to the German.

Vettel almost succumbed to Kobayashi after he repeated the same error a little later, but just held on and was then able to control the rest of the race.

Kobayashi later made a mistake of his own, which allowed Esteban Guerreri and Kohei Hirate to pass him. The order remained unchanged to the flag despite only 1.4 seconds covering the top four at the line.

CLASSIFIED:

Pos  Driver               Team                  Time
 1.  Sebastian Vettel     ASM Formule 3         28:42.167
 2.  Guillaume Moreau     Signature-Plus        +  00.499
 3.  Esteban Guerrieri    Manor Motorsport      +  00.952
 4.  Kohei Hirate         Manor Motorsport      +  01.676
 5.  Kamui Kobayashi      ASM Formule 3         +  03.566
 6.  Kazuki Nakajima      Manor Motorsport      +  04.375
 7.  Giedo van der Garde  ASM Formule 3         +  04.983
 8.  James Jakes          Hitech Racing         +  17.973
 9.  Joao Urbano          Prema Powerteam       +  27.688
10.  Alejandro Nunez      Prema Powerteam       +  28.494
11.  Jonathan Summerton   ASL M?cke Motorsport  +  29.138
12.  Charlie Kimball      Signature-Plus        +  29.793
13.  Romain Grosjean      Signature-Plus        +  30.803
14.  S?bastien Buemi      ASL M?cke Motorsport  +  32.565
15.  Filip Salaquarda     Team ISR              +  35.315
16.  Michael Herck        Bas Leinders Junior   +  35.987
17.  Ronayne O'Mahony     Prema Powerteam       +  46.356
18.  Julian Theobald      SMS Seyffarth         +1:20.475
19.  Anthony Janiec       Janiec Racing Team    +1:21.324
20.  Cemil Cipa           HBR Motorsport        +1:22.431
21.  Peter Elkmann        Jo Zeller Racing      +  2 laps
22.  Tim Sandtler         Signature-Plus        +  3 laps

NOT CLASSIFIED:

     Driver               Team                Laps
     Yelmer Buurman       Fortec Motorsport    10
     James Walker         Hitech Racing         4
     Paul di Resta        ASM Formule 3         3
     Kevin Fank           SMS Seyffarth         1

Fastest lap: Hirate, 1:33.987 on lap 7
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