2005 Marlboro Masters of F3

[Marcel ten Caat]

With only 3,5 weeks left until the Marlboro Masters the provisional entry list was released today. For now 39 drivers are entered.

1 Lewis Hamilton (GBR) ASM F3- Dallara Mercedes-HWA
2 Adrian Sutil (GER) ASM F3 - Dallara Mercedes-HWA
3 Marko Asmer (EST) Hitech Racing - Dallara Honda-Mugen
4 Alvaro Barba (ESP) Hitech Racing - Dallara Honda-Mugen
5 Ferdinand Kool (NED) JB Motorsport - Lola Honda-Mugen
6 Ho-Pin Tung (NED) JB Motorsport - Dallara Honda-Mugen
7 Steven Kane (GBR) JB Motorsport - Lola Honda-Mugen
8 Mike Conway (GBR) Fortec Motorsport - Dallara Opel-Spiess
9 James Walker (GBR) Fortec Motorsport - Dallara Opel-Spiess
11 Ronayne O’Mahony (IRL) Fortec Motorsport - Dallara Opel-Spiess
12 James Rossiter (GBR) Signature-Plus - Dallara Opel-Spiess
14 Guillaume Moreau (FRA) Signature - Dallara Opel-Spiess
15 Loic Duval (FRA) Signature –Plus Dallara - Opel-Spiess
17 Fabio Carbone (BRA) Signature - SLCRI Opel-Spiess
18 Esteban Guerreri (ARG) Team Midland Euro Series - Dallara Toyota-Toms
19 Richard Antinucci (USA) Team Midland Euro Series - Dallara Toyota-Toms
20 Alvaro Parente (POR) Carlin Motorsport - Dallara Honda-Mugen
21 Christian Bakkerud (DEN) Carlin Motorsport - Dallara Honda-Mugen
22 Keiko Ihara (JPN) Carlin Motorsport - Dallara Honda-Mugen
23 Charlie Kimball (USA) Carlin Motorsport - Dallara Honda-Mugen
24 Lucas di Grassi (BRA) Manor Motorsport - Dallara Mercedes-HWA
25 Paul di Resta (GBR) Manor Motorsport - Dallara Mercedes-HWA
26 Giedo van der Garde (NED) Team Rosberg - Dallara Opel-Spiess
27 Kohei Hirate (JPN) Team Rosberg - Dallara Opel-Spiess
28 Maximillian Götz (GER) HBR Motorsport GmbH - Dallara Opel-Spiess
29 Hannes Neuhauser (AUT) HBR Motorsport GmbH - Dallara Opel-Spiess
30 Alejandro Nunez (ESP) HBR Motorsport GmbH - Dallara Opel-Spiess
31 Filip Salaquarda (CEZ) Team I.S.R. - Dallara Opel-Spiess
32 Bruno Senna (BRA) Double R Racing - Dallara Honda-Mugen
33 Dan Clarke (GBR) Double R Racing - Dallara Honda-Mugen
34 Sebastian Vettel (GER) ASL Mücke Motorsport - Dallara Mercedes-HWA
35 Atila Abreu (BRA) ASL Mücke Motorsport - Dallara Mercedes-HWA
37 Ross Zwolsman (NED) Ross Zwolsman - Dallara Opel-Spiess
38 Franck Perera (FRA) Prema Powerteam - Dallara Opel-Spiess
39 Marco Bonanomi (ITA) Prema Powerteam - Dallara Opel-Spiess
40 Greg Franchi (BEL) Prema Powerteam - Dallara Opel-Spiess
41 Stephen Jelley (GBR) Menu F3 Motorsport - Dallara Opel-Spiess
42 Ryan Lewis (GBR) T-Sport - Dallara Honda-Mugen
43 Thomas Holzer (GER) AM-Holzer Rennsport GmbH - Dallara Opel-Spiess

[Marcel ten Caat]

And here's the Time Schedule for the weekend.

Friday 10 June
12:20-12:50 Qualifying Shell Helix SEAT Cupra Cup
13:00-13:30 Qualifying McGregor Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge
13:40-14:10 Qualifying Formula Renault
14:20-14:50 Qualifying Dunlop SportMaxx Clio Cup
15:00-17:00 Race 1 Shell Helix SEAT Cupra Cup, race 1 (120 minutes)

Saturday 11 June
09:00-09:20 Free Practice Formula 3 Odd startnumbers
09:30-09:50 Free Practice Formula 3 Even startnumbers
10:00-10:20 Free Practice Formula 3 Odd startnumbers
10:30-10:50 Free Practice Formula 3 Even startnumbers
11:00-11:30 Qualifying Thoroughbred Grand Prix
11:45-12:25 Race 1 Formula Renault (12 laps)
12:40-13:10 1st Qualifying Formula 3 Odd startnumbers
13:20-13:50 1st Qualifying Formula 3 Even startnumbers
13:50-14:20 Lunch break
14:20-14:50 Qualifying Thoroughbred Grand Prix
15:00-15:40 Marlboro Demonstrations
15:50-16:20 2nd Qualifying Formula 3 Odd startnumbers
16:30-17:00 2nd Qualifying Formula 3 Even startnumbers
17:10-18:10 Race 1 & 2 McGregor Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge, (2x12 laps)

Sunday 12 June
09:15-09:45 Top 10 Qualifying McGregor Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge
10:00-10:10 Warmup Thoroughbred Grand Prix
10:20-10:35 Warmup Formula 3
10:45-11:25 Race 2 Shell Helix SEAT Cupra Cup (12 laps)
11:35-12:15 Race 2 Formula Renault, Race 2 (12 laps)
12:25-13:25 Race 3 & 4 McGregor Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge, (2x12 laps)
13:40 Startprocedure Formula 3
14:00-15:00 Race 7 Marlboro Masters of F3 (25 laps)
15:10-16:00 Marlboro Demonstrations
16:10-16:50 Race Thoroughbred Grand Prix (12 laps)
17:00-17:40 Race Dunlop SportMaxx Clio Cup (12 laps)

[flexible-flyer]

euroseries will blitz the field.

[bella]

perhaps for qualifying, but for the race i think it'll be close. not entirely sure who's going to provide the challenge from the bf3 field, but i think it'll be from a 2nd year driver rather than a first.

[flexible-flyer]

i personally reckon british f3 is at its lowest strengh (both drivers and teams) for years. i dread it happening but i can smell an all euroseries top ten...

[bella]

i think (hope) bruno senna might pull something unusual out of the bag, and if dirani's on the ball he should do well too. manor should be good, signature should be good, asm will be good, but below that... it's anyone's guess. that covers the top 6 or so.

[Emma]

Danilo's so gonna kick butt!
Well I'm hoping anyway.

[bella]

it's such a shame, but i don't think he will. can anyone be arsed to dig out the result from last years race?

[Marcel ten Caat]

1. Alexandre Prémat (F) 25 laps in 43:20.751
2. Eric Salignon (F) + 2.130
3. Adam Carroll (GB) + 4.105
4. James Rossiter (GB) + 9.334
5. Lucas Di Grassi (BR) + 13.270
6. Nico Rosberg (D) + 14.257
7. Lewis Hamilton (GB) + 15.103
8. Nelson Piquet (BR) + 18.903
9. Jamie Green (GB) + 21.295
10. Danny Watts (GB) + 21.507
11. Franck Perera (F) + 24.346
12. Daniel La Rosa (D) + 31.156
13. Giedo van der Garde (NL) + 32.139
14. Loic Duval (F) + 34.703
15. Roberto Streit (BR) + 38.337
16. Marko Asmer (EST) + 38.535
17. Danilo Dirani (BR) + 39.010
18. Charles Zwolsman (NL) + 41.797
19. Clivio Piccione (MC) + 42.633
20. Adrian Sutil (D) + 43.311
21. Alexandros Margaritis (GRE) + 48.783
22. Katsuyuki Hiranaka (J) + 49.227
23. Hannes Neuhausen (A) + 53.040
24. Marcus Marshall (AUS) + 53.333
25. Andreas Zuber (A) + 54.147
26. Ross Zwolsman (NL) + 57.758
27. Tom Kimber-Smith (GB) + 1:02.016
28. James Walker (GB) + 1:05.880
29. Greg Franchi (B) + 1:08.389
30. Bruno Spengler (CDN) + 1:10.845
31. Nicolas Lapierre (F) - 1 lap
32. Maximilian Gotz (D) - 4 laps
33. Andrew Thompson (GB) - 4 laps
34. Alvaro Parente (P) - 13 laps
35. Paolo Montin (I) - 23 laps
36. Fairus Fauzy (MAL) -25 laps
36. Ferdinand Kool (NL) - 25 laps

[bella]

thanks, stranger.

dirani managed 17th then... not looking promising (then again, adrian sutil finished 20th so there's hope yet...).

so there's more cars entered than last year? promising

[Marcel ten Caat]

Last year we had 42 cars taking part in qualifying.

[strider]

...but only 36/37 are allowed to start the race, so some pack their bags early.

[bella]

whoops, i stand corrected again...

[Marcel ten Caat]

Last year Cloosterman/Bonanomi (both Ghinzani), Nunez/Elkmann (both Swiss Racing Team) failed to qualify as well as Cressoni (Ombra).

[strider]

So do we guess who's not going to qualify or who's going to be on pole?!?

[bella]

the former is slightly easier, can we do that please

[strider]

Less unkind, too. I'll say Hamilton for pole, just to go for the obvious! These international races are strange, though. They don't always work out as the form book suggests, e.g. Jamie Green last year.

[SFonseca]

Originally Posted by flexible-flyer

but i can smell an all euroseries top ten...

You should believe in Álvaro Parente

[flexible-flyer]

well last year it was all about asm. i mean premat and salignon are decent drivers but they aint as good as some of those who finished behind them....carroll, rossiter...
green would have been up there but he didnt turn it on in qualifying and had a messy race fighting with piquet.

from what i remember, hamilton did very well last year topping the early sessions so it would be hard not to put your money on him when he is driving for the team that guarantees success. as for the british guys, always at disadvantage i would say dirani, parente and asmer are the main threats. p1 boss roly vincini said last year that considering carroll was the only driver who could see the asm cars as they went off into the distance, with more time to get used to kumho tires he would have won...and obviously i agree so now they know what kumhos are like! maybe dirani could win this!

[flexible-flyer]

oh and as for british drivers, wow last year had had 5 brits in the top ten. i guess that backs up my claim that british motorsport as far as driving talent goes is on a big high at the moment!

[Russfeld]

With Monaco this weekend (for Euro) it makes me wish it was an open event like Zandvoort and Macau. Imagine the madness of 40 guys trying to pre-qual at Monaco

[Emma]

Originally Posted by SFonseca

You should believe in Álvaro Parente

I'm with you on that Alvaro rocks
(and I'm not just saying that cause he's my friend either!)

For some reason I can see one of the BF3 boys not making it to the race...eeek.

[Monkey Head]

Originally Posted by foxy mole

So do we guess who's not going to qualify or who's going to be on pole?!?

Ho Pin Tung
keiko Ihara
Alvaro Barba
Filip Salaquarda

[Mathias]

I'm guessing that Monkey Head isn't thinking about pole there. Just a hunch.

[flexible-flyer]

Originally Posted by Russfeld

With Monaco this weekend (for Euro) it makes me wish it was an open event like Zandvoort and Macau. Imagine the madness of 40 guys trying to pre-qual at Monaco

bloody hell, yes! this is genius! tight schedule what with all the other racing taking place but a monaco f3 open event is enough to make the mouth water!