Marco, how do you feel about your season so far? MW: Quite good. I’ve had quite a lot of podiums already. It’s going well compared to 2009, which was really bad. This year started with two podiums at Le Castellet, then afterwards at Hockenheim I had my first pole and my first victory, and I was just one point behind Edoardo Mortara. Unfortunately, I had a bad weekend in Valencia. An aero part broke in the race and it was a weekend without points, which I’m missing compared to my team-mate. But there’s nothing you can do about it, and more …
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Valtteri Bottas took the win ahead of Signature pairing Marco Wittmann and Edoardo Mortara today, as the top three drivers from race one worked their way through to all make the podium in the reversed grid race.
Bottas got from sixth on the grid to third at the start, and began hunting down race leader Alexander Sims once the two of them had passed early leader Roberto Merhi.
Sims surrendered the lead on the exit of Turn 1 on lap 21, and after that Bottas made a gap while his ART team-mate fought to keep the Signature cars at bay.
His lead was given a boost more …
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Edoardo Mortara took a lights-to-flag victory in the first Formula 3 Euro Series race of the weekend at the Norisring on Saturday.
The Signature driver extended his championship lead after sustaining race-long pressure from Valtteri Bottas, and even survived a late-race restart to move 16 points clear in the title race.
Bottas had been starting to drop back shortly before the safety car period in the closing stages – which was triggered by a three-car accident at the back of the field involving Mathias Laine, Daniel Juncadella and Nicolas Marroc.
But the Finn was unable to attack Mortara on the restart and instead lost out more …
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