22 Nov 2009: F3: Third for Bird as Mortara wins Macau
Britain’s Sam Bird worked his way through the field to take third place in the Macau Grand Prix, behind Signature team-mates Edoardo Mortara and Jean-Karl Vernay.
Britain’s Sam Bird worked his way through the field to take third place in the Macau Grand Prix, behind Signature team-mates Edoardo Mortara and Jean-Karl Vernay.
F3 Euroseries wrapped up its season at Hockenheim with wins for champion Jules Bianchi, who took a comfortable race one victory, and for Jean Karl Vernay on a challenging wet track in race two.
It’s less than a month to the Macau Grand Prix – an iconic motorsport event taking place in the far East that allows some of open-wheel racing’s most promising youngsters to strut their stuff.
Jules Bianchi won the F3 Euroseries title in Dijon and has been promoted to GP2 by his team ART, the same outfit that sent Lewis Hamilton, Nico Rosberg, Romain Grosjean and – probably – Nico Hulkenberg into Formula One.
Jules Bianchi, who blitzed the British F3 field into submission as a guest competitor at the Algarve circuit, returned to the F3 Euroseries to take a pole position and a win in Barcelona, extending his series lead to 23 points with four races left.
Brits Alexander Sims and Sam Bird had a great outing during their home event at Brands Hatch in Formula Three Euroseries as the Mucke Motorsport team-mates both made it to the podium in race two.
Alexander Sims has taken his first victory in Formula 3 Euroseries victory in a one-two for his Mucke Motorsport squad at the Nurburgring.
Championship leader Jules Bianchi won both F3 Euro Series races in Zandvoort, while Britain’s Sam Bird shrugged off qualifying 15th to score a point in the first race and take second place in the next.
JTR Racing’s Nick Tandy has announced he is leaving the British F3 International series with immediate effect to compete in F3 Euroseries instead.