00:00To the right of screen is Pedro Claro, to the left on pole position for the first time is Taito
00:04Cato,
00:04and the race to turn one begins here at the Imagering, and you can see Cato coming over to defend
00:09from Claro
00:09as he gets down the inside, and the roading motorsport driver is leading the way.
00:13One or two drivers having to take to the escape through the first chicane, and the yellow flags are out
00:17straight away.
00:18Just looking for Ugo, he's still in P4, second in the championship, but Pedro Claro leading the way,
00:24and we're side by side in the background as well.
00:26One of the Van Ammersports, Enzo Deligny, trying to make a place there on Jin Nakamura.
00:30Oh, and almost contact between them as they went through the chicane there might have been,
00:34and look at this, it's an absolute scrap as they go up towards the bunker,
00:37and Van Ammersports colliding in the circuit there, and we've got a roadblock,
00:40and now they've got, oh, a huge, huge crash for one of the ART cars.
00:45This could be a stop in the race.
00:46Look at that, and that is the sight of a lot of F3 cars.
00:51If you jump on board with our championship leader, a lot of drivers spitting water out the back
00:55because they were stationed on the grid, but no harm done there.
00:57Slater, three wide.
00:58Risky from Slater to stay along to that.
01:00That's where the contact was actually very early.
01:02So Slater, by the looks of it, he's already up for a scrap at this stage.
01:05Down towards turn one, there was more contact further back as well.
01:07Oh, yeah.
01:08That was smoking the right-hand side.
01:10Yeah.
01:11Perhaps some contact and a big lock-up in the process.
01:13That was one of the premiers.
01:13That was Jose Garfias probably getting to the back of Battle Ware.
01:16Now, this is the accident, so side by side.
01:18Oh, no, it was.
01:19It was actually contact between the two Van Ammersports that initiated it.
01:21I think it was Deligny who was exit out of the 5-6.
01:24Oh, my words.
01:25And then, oh, and then Mace Gwadish had nowhere to go.
01:27Airborne sideways in the air and comes to a starter bunker.
01:31Let's have a look on board Slater.
01:31He got a brilliant view of this.
01:32Watch the right-hand side.
01:33Oh, my goodness.
01:34Entering stage right comes Gwadish in the air.
01:38Somehow, somehow Slater has stayed out of trouble there
01:40just by more luck than judgment, I think.
01:43In the back, look at the right, left-hand side of shot.
01:44He turned into me, mate.
01:46Did you leave me space?
01:47I don't know.
01:48And then Gwadish, look at that.
01:51Gwadish goes flying through the air.
01:53Oh, my word.
01:54I think it was into the back of...
01:57What the f*** has it taken out?
01:59What have they done?
01:59Oh, my God.
02:00What are they doing?
02:01They're crazy, honestly.
02:02Man, what the f***?
02:04Pedro Claro now controlling the pace.
02:07When is he going to get going?
02:08He's got his foot down as we head up to the final corner.
02:10And we are back green here at the Madring
02:13as Claro takes us on to the start-finish straight
02:16to get this race back underway.
02:17This is feature race one at the season finale.
02:20Kato in second.
02:21Tapanen in third.
02:22Ugachuku second in the championship in fourth place.
02:25Already piling the pressure on Tapanen.
02:27Look for the number five trident of Slater.
02:29There he goes through shots.
02:30He is in P15.
02:31But Ugachuku still piling on the pressure.
02:33Look at that, Chris, at the bottom of shot.
02:35This is how things would stand as it goes into tomorrow.
02:37Yeah, and Ugachuku would be ahead
02:38due to the fact that he has a sprint race win.
02:41Freddie Slater and Ugachuku both have a feature race win.
02:44After that, it's decided on sprint race victories.
02:46And Ugachuku has one of those.
02:48So he will be in the championship lead
02:50going into the season finale tomorrow.
02:52On board with the championship leader, Freddie Slater, for now.
02:56Will he still be there come the end of the race?
02:59One point could make all the difference.
03:01Like we said, wants to try and get to that top ten.
03:04This is a really difficult situation for him, isn't it?
03:06Because he doesn't want to take a big risk
03:08and then affect his grip position for tomorrow.
03:10Yeah, absolutely.
03:11You can see pretty close, though, he is on the back.
03:12He may well actually be able to be close enough
03:14to affect a move, but actually he, Yamakoshi, ahead.
03:15Oh, no, Slater.
03:16And he tried to go around the bollard there.
03:18But then this is an example, Chris.
03:20Slater's now going to be slow all the way down
03:21towards her, all the way down towards her.
03:23Look at him, look at his mirror any second now.
03:24Because right behind, you'll have
03:26Kanato Lee, who'll be looking to put some pressure on.
03:29Let's keep an eye out for Slater when he comes through.
03:30There you can see Kanato Lee forcing Slater defensive.
03:33Now Slater's going to have a bad exit as well.
03:34So Kanato Lee is going to keep the pressure on towards the bunker.
03:36Oh, that's almost contact there.
03:39Yamakoshi almost going into the back of Kulnagi.
03:42Has Slater been able to take advantage?
03:43On board now with the championship leader
03:45and forcing a defence here from Yamakoshi.
03:48But Slater still unable to get through.
03:51The race continues on.
03:52We're approaching the second half.
03:54Oh, and an incident there.
03:55Is that Slater who spun round?
03:57The championship leader is out of the race.
04:00Oh, Hugh Sharama here at Madring.
04:02Our championship leader, Freddie Slater, is out of the race.
04:06Here we go through turn 19.
04:08Lost it quite early in the corner.
04:10So just tipped it in.
04:12I think maybe he was half a tyre wider than he wanted to be.
04:14Just off of the rubber in line.
04:15Well, he's actually on the racing line.
04:16But an aggressive turn in dirty air.
04:19Ultimately, lack of...
04:20Lapse of concentration there from Slater.
04:22That's how easy it is to make a mistake.
04:24Ultimately, not going to cost him any points.
04:26But again, confidence is going to be hurt.
04:27As Nakamura, once again, looking for a move side by side with Ugachuku.
04:30Oh, my word.
04:31They both go wide in the end.
04:32Ugachuku just about keeps it out of the wall.
04:34Alex Powell in the background going over the chicane as well.
04:37And Ugachuku just about holding on.
04:39And Campos can now take a breath.
04:41The safety car is out.
04:43We are back green here at the Madring as we go on to lap 12.
04:46And it's Clero who takes us down to the first corner.
04:48In the background, Red Bull Junior, Rivera, trying to get down the inside of Powell there.
04:52And taking a bit of a wide line in was one of the Campos drivers in the background as well,
04:56which was Nile.
04:57And now they're all heading down the straight towards turns 4 and 5.
05:00But a clean restart once again from Clero.
05:02Yeah, Clero did well again as now we've got side by side between Walsh and Nile down towards 4 and
05:055.
05:05How many times have we seen this play out already this weekend?
05:07Are we going to see a lock-up and a run-through?
05:09No, they got through cleanly.
05:10Just about running through goes Walsh.
05:11And he's going to be under pressure potentially from Yevon David behind us looking at the back of points now.
05:15David once again having a strong weekend being the standard AIX driver.
05:18And you can see how easy it is to find the wall.
05:20Make a mistake and a big slide there from Rivera.
05:22Yeah, that could be costly.
05:23Big slide through there.
05:23Put him out of position through one, which also meant that his exit from two is going to be hampered.
05:27DRS now enabled for Teofil Nile.
05:29We jump on board.
05:29You can see Rivera knows he's under pressure.
05:31Weaves left, Weaves right.
05:31He's going to go left, force Teofil Nile to go on the right-hand side.
05:34Who's going to break latest?
05:35There you go, side by side, Rivera.
05:36Can he stay on the second?
05:37Big lock-up.
05:38I think they both go through.
05:39I don't think Nile's going to be able to keep the plays, but Nile will keep the pressure on.
05:41This is the fight for third in the championship as well.
05:48Pedro Claro in Formula 3 as he crosses the line, puts Rodin Motorsport back on the top step at the
05:54podium.
05:54Taito Kato once again on the podium.
05:57You can't keep him off it until Katapanen finishing in third place.
06:00That's now 14 different winners in Formula 3 this season.
06:03Oh my God, I can't believe it, mate.
06:05I can't believe it.
06:06Oh my God.
06:07You're going to have a legend, mate.
06:08Thank you very much.
06:09Pedro Claro, take it now.
06:11That is something.
06:11Pedro Claro, yes.
06:12You are a winner in Formula 3, and you can hear what it meant to him.
06:16That's what it means to win in Formula 3, Chris.
06:19We've seen Pedro Claro's excellent racecraft, brilliant, bold moves around the outside of previous events this year,
06:24but now he shows he's got the pace and composure.
06:26Full result then.
06:27Pedro Claro can call himself a winner in Formula 3.
06:3014 different winners we have now.
06:32Taito Kato finishing in second place.
06:33Tuka Tapanen in third place.
06:35Ugo Ugachuku moves into the lead of the championship on countback ahead of Slater.
06:40The first ever feature race that we do in Formula 3 is won by Pedro Claro,
06:45and that's something he'll keep to himself for a very long time.
06:48Well done to him, and a well done to our winning team, Rodin Motorsport.
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