Antonio Felix da Costa won round 14 of the Formula 3 Euro Series at Brands Hatch in England, leading the 55-lap race from start to finish.

Da Costa (Motopark) led home Carlos Munoz (Mucke) and Daniel Juncadella (Prema) who drove in grid order throughout the race. Their only excitement came at the end, when the chequered flag did not come out when it was supposed to.

The race’s main incidents occurred on the opening lap. Yesterday’s race winner, and series leader, Edoardo Mortara was punted off at the first corner by his Signature team-mate Laurens Vanthoor. A corner later, ART duo Alexander Sims and more …

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Alexander Sims finished respectively 5th of today’s 13th round of the Formula 3 Euro Series at Brands Hatch. Mortara rocketed off the line from third on the grid, and dived between polesitting team-mate Laurens Vanthoor and the third Signature car of Marco Wittman into Paddock. Vanthoor clung to the inside line, but was forced to lift-off to avoid a collision, which allowed Mortara to complete his move around the outside of him to lead.

From that point on, Mortara was never challenged. He led by over five seconds in the middle stages before backing off to win by 3.7s. Vanthoor held off the challenge of ART’s more …

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Alexander will start tomorrow’s race from 6th on the grid, while Laurens Vanthoor took his first pole position in the Formula 3 Euro Series at Brands Hatch on Friday, leading a 1-2-3 for the Signature-Volkswagen team.

The Belgian snatched the top spot from his team-mate Marco Wittmann with three minutes remaining. Wittmann had held provisional pole since the middle of the session, and had just improved on his own time a few seconds before Vanthoor knocked him back.

Championship leader Edoardo Mortara, who had taken pole position in the previous four qualifying sessions this year, had to settle for third behind his two less more …

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