This
weekend at the 3.629-kilometre Nürburgring, the FIA Fórmula 3
European Championship is going to contest its ninth race meeting of
the 2014 season. Esteben Ocon, a protégée of the Lotus Fórmula 1
Team, travels to the Eifel as championship leader, with his lead over
second-placed Dutchman Max Verstappen amounting to 94 points.
Nonetheless, the two rookies mustn’t rest on their laurels as Tom
Blomqvist and Lucas Auer are determined to give their very best to
close in on Ocon and Verstappen and pass them in the overall
standings. Austria’s Auer wants to do so at the wheel of his
Dallara-Mercedes entered by Mücke Motorsport, the only German team
on the FIA Fórmula 3 European Championship grid.
In time
for the home race of his team, with 24 races contested, Lucas Auer
proved to be in good shape. In his own home event, at the Red Bull
Ring, the Austrian young gun secured two podiums, thus reducing the
gap to the leaders, Ocon and Verstappen. While Esteban Ocon
encountered a race weekend to forget, in Styria. For the first time
this year, he had to leave a race venue empty-handed. Max Verstappen
also failed to shine and had to settle for adding just 27 points to
his tally while Tom Blomqvist delivered in great style: the Briton
won a race and finished runner-up in the other two to pass Auer in
the overall standings for third position. Blomqvist’s entire team,
Jagonya Ayam with Carlin, was extremely competitive in Spielberg. His
team-mate, Antonio Giovinazzi, secured two poles and in race three,
the Italian celebrated his first FIA Fórmula 3 European Championship
race win.
Thanks to
this success and the 61 points scored by Blomqvist with his three
podiums, Jagonya Ayam with Carlin now holds second position in the
team ranking behind Prema Powerteam. Right behind the Britons, Mücke
Motorsport follows in third position. With its three drivers Lucas
Auer, Felix Rosenqvist and Roy Nissany, the Berlin based squad’s
gap to Jagonya Ayam with Carlin amounts to just 22 points.
Antonio
Giovinazzi was the seventh driver to have won a FIA Fórmula 3
European Championship race, this year. 26 drivers succeeded in
scoring points, among them Tatiana Calderón, the only girl racer on
the competitive grid. The Colombian who secured four top 10 results,
to date, secured her best result in the season so far by finishing
fifth at Spa-Francorchamps. She is determined to continue her upswing
and keep on adding points to her tally, in the Eifel.
Tatiana
Calderón, (Jo Zeller Racing): “I’m really happy with my season
so far. I had a difficult start as I joined Jo Zeller Racing really
late but from Spa-Francorchamps, things ran really well for me. I
scored my first FIA Fórmula 3 European Championship points at the
Belgian circuit and afterwards, I succeeded in demonstrating that
this success wasn’t a nine-day wonder. I’m delighted with having
secured my best grid positions in regular conditions, at the Red Bull
Ring, by qualifying 12th twice. I hope that I will be able to also
score points at the Nürburgring as it is one of my favourite
circuits. Last year, in the British F3 Championship, I even made it
to the podium, there. I hope to be able to repeat this feat, this
weekend - but to do so in a series as competitive as the FIA Fórmula
3 European Championship, everything must run absolutely perfectly”.
Photos: FIA F3 Euro Series
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