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 Ryan
Lewis will start Round 21 of the Avon Tyres British Formula 3 Scholarship
at Spa this afternoon from pole position, his 12th of the season.
The 20 year-old newly-crowned champion clocked up a time of 2:19.459
to line up one tenth of a second ahead of Ronayne O'Mahony. The
session, which started on a damp track, saw Ryan running second
overall until the session was red-flagged to remove the Dallara
F301 of Stephen Jelley who crashed heavily at Eau Rouge.
As the track dried out, the quicker Championship cars improved to
push Ryan down to 18th overall and leading Scholarship car, although
the T-Sport driver was unhappy with the margin by which he secured
pole. After losing valuable time in yesterday's free practice session,
following a spin which beached him in the notorious Spa gravel,
Ryan was forced to use today's 45 minute qualifying as a test.
“I'm not particularly pleased with that, although I've got
pole, I'm only a tenth ahead of O'Mahony, which I'm really not happy
about, said Ryan. “I didn't perform as well as I should have
done, I should have gone a lot quicker really. This car's been a
lot quicker round here but with the time lost in yesterday's free
practice, I ended up using the qualifying session as a test. I had
spin early on in the session too, on the exit of Rivage I caught
a white line on the power and it just spun me right round, all the
kerbs where still quite wet. It started to dry out quite a bit during
the session and I probably should have pushed a bit harder but the
engine didn't feel quite right. Thankfully it was just a crank sensor
that was damaged, I think because we picked up a stone or something.”
Today's round 21 will take place at 15.55 and the results of that
race will determine the grid for Sunday's race (Round 22) which
takes place at 11.40.
Qualifying for Round 21
1. RYAN LEWIS BES Dallara F301 Mugen-Honda 2:19.459
2. Ronayne O'Mahony Dallara F301 Opel Spiess 2:19.593
3. Vasilije Calasan Dallara F301 Mugen-Honda 2:19.954
4. Adam Smith Dallara F301 Mugen-Honda 2:21.133
5. Stephen Jelley Dallara F301 Opel Spiess 2:27.695
Avon Tyres British Formula 3 Scholarship Points after 20 rounds
1. RYAN LEWIS 340 (Champion)
2. Stephen Jelley 226
3. Vasilije Calasan 144
4. Barton Mawer 134
5. Ronayne O'Mahony 78
6. Adam Khan 78
7. Ajit Kumar 70
8. James Winslow 27
9. Lars Sexton 23
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