British F3 - Round 1 - Oulton Park

[GolddustMini]

it was the MSV F3 cars that kept causing the reds on the tuesday/wednesday tests.

britishF3 teams didnt start arriving until thursday

[EastonNeston]

Thank you stardustmini, it's good to have that cleared up.

Hopefully, McArthur252 will confirm he was wrong in blaming BF3 teams.

[McArthur252]

yep fair enough, my mistake.
was only meant as a tongue in cheek comment anyway.

[EastonNeston]

Macarthur252,

Thanks, with lots of people been negative about BF3 I felt i needed to defend the series and its drivers.

I hope your testing went well, what do you drive?

[CATMAN]

At least Hieatt's Double R outfit has taken away the unlucky 13 grid. I sure I read that the Ilyas car only arrived 3 weeks before the Oulton race and the Uhrane car less than a week before the first race.
They may not have been at the front end at the Oulton finishes but they didn't do to badly with such little track time with two drivers new to F3 cars.
Oulton is probably not the best track to start the season on for rookie drivers.
Jack Harvey had a nice win from the front, but even Carlin insiders were saying that he's OK at the front but he's lacking passing prowess. If he can set poles he will win, but he's expected to struggle if he can't improve his overall skill level.
Derani's win and Padayachee's pole start just show what a s_ _ _ format the reverse grid is. Reverse grid really does nothing for the hard working drivers, often points are just awarded to undeserving drivers.
The series would benefit from more race weekend practice and and a knockout quali system where the top drivers get two quali runs and the bottom half of the grid runners got a third quali run to even up their chances.

[Go_For_Pole]

Sorry but Jack was mighty in wheel to wheel action in F.BMW, if anything it's Sainz that is weak in this