F3-the season ended almost as it started to Renault’s Danish akademikører Christian Lundgaard. Exactly as in the sæsonpremieren got a peculiar ruling from the race stewards an essential for the weekend.
the Goal before sæsonfinalen in Russia was, as a minimum, to keep in the total place; a dream weekend and the third place was within reach.
It all fell apart in a bizarre show due to one of the nearest rivals.
During an early safetycar in Saturday’s hovedløb was Lundgaard run of the track from behind by Red Bull-junioren Jüri Vips, which was one of the drivers who were within reach of the championship. As østjyden had snurret around and returned safely back on the track, he was down as 20’s.
Indirectly secured Vips with the action, its place in the championship. Under all the circumstances of the case blew all chances of his Danish rival.
Red Bull-junioren held its position and advanced to the third place. The judges handed out a ten-second penalty for Vips, which sent him down at the number-eight spot. For Sunday’s sprint race was starting the first eight in reverse order, which meant pole position for the driver, who had put his closest rival out of the game …
The bizarre element is that the perpetrator ends up with the optimal chances to win the weekend’s second race, which he did, while the victim was stand a chance. After the impact ended Lundgaard the main round as the 14’s and sprintløbet as nier.
It’s usually so sejrsvante ART Grand Prix team have been heels in this season compared with sovereign Prema Power Team. Christian Lundgaard, however, was clearly the best ART-running. Photo: Jan Sommer
– It really was a great weekend and a very annoying way to end the championship on. I could do nothing about the situation in Saturday’s race, where I was påkørt behind. And when you have to fight your way forward in the field and are located in the dirty air behind competitors, gets really destroyed his tyres. So it was really hard to win the rankings and it also destroyed Sunday’s race, says the 18-year-old østjyde.
He was overtaken in the overall standings and finish sixth in the new F3 championship, which was won convincingly by Ferrari-junioren Robert Shwartzman. Lundgaard finishes, however, still the season as the highest ranking running without previous experience from Formula 3 or GP3.
His next task will be the iconic street race in Macau this november, while his management will take the final decisions about the 2020 season. It points to advancement to F2, but another season in F3 can also be involved.
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the Judges were different strings during the Sunday sprint races in the F2, which was hit by yet another big accident.
Nobuharu Matsushita escaped unscathed from the violent clashes with Nikita Mazepin, but the drivers were kept in the dark for half an hour. The Tv showed no slow replays of the crash on the race’s first lap, which caused all concerned to fear the worst as a month ago at Spa, where their colleague and competitor Anthoine Hubert lost his life.
Subsequently gave the judges a harsh punishment for the billionaire-the son Mazepin at 15 locations to sæsonfinalen in Abu Dhabi, plus four penalty points on the license because he had shown a lack of care for his co-pilots, and had caused an accident, which could have ended much worse’.
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