Dutch youngster wins 2nd Euro F3 race

Dutchman Renger van der Zande won the 2nd F3 Euroseries race this weekend at Barcelona in convincing style in his Q-Dance Mercedes-Benz powered Dallara. After pole man and Red Bull protege Edoardo Piscopo stalled his car at the start, his stranded car caused a massive 9-car pile up. This obviously brought out the safety car for 6 laps before all the carnage was lifted away. Amongst the victims were yesterday's winner Edoardo Mortara and Jonathan Summerton from Kissimmee, Fl. in his VW powered Dallara.

At the restart van der Zande took the lead and never looked back, winning the race with an almost 6 sec lead from Frenchmen Tom Dillmann and Patrick Mailleux. Fourth place went to local hero, Spaniard Dani Clos in front of Czech driver Filip Salaquarda and Swiss driver Sebastian Buemi. Championship leader Nico Hulkenberg could only manage 8th this time. All these drivers were using the Dallara Mercedes-Benz combination. The only surviving VW powered Dallara car of Maxi Gotz finished in a creditable 10th position.

Pos Driver Car Time/Behind
1. R.van der Zande Dallara-Mercedes 40:34.663
2. Tom Dillmann Dallara-Mercedes + 5.560
3. Franck Mailleux Dallara-Mercedes + 6.515
4. Daniel Clos Dallara-Mercedes + 12.918
5. Filip Salaquarda Dallara-Mercedes + 19.596
6. Sebastien Buemi Dallara-Mercedes + 20.263
7. James Jakes Dallara-Mercedes + 20.374
8. N.Hulkenberg Dallara-Mercedes + 20.700
9. H.Schlegelmilch Dallara-Mercedes + 23.298
10. Maximilian Gotz Dallara-Volkswagen + 24.107
11. Yelmer Buurman Dallara-Mercedes + 24.949
12. Sergei Afanasiev Dallara-Mercedes + 28.736
13. Euan Hankey Dallara-Mercedes + 29.292
14. Yann Clairay Dallara-Mercedes + 1 lap

Not classified/retirements:

Driver Car Laps
Romain Grosjean Dallara-Mercedes DSQ
Kamui Kobayashi Dallara-Mercedes 1
Edoardo Piscopo Dallara-Mercedes 0
Edoardo Mortara Dallara-Mercedes 0
Tim Sandtler Dallara-Mercedes 0
Marco Holzer Dallara-Volkswagen 0
Cyndie Allemann Dallara-Mercedes 0
J.Summerton Dallara-Volkswagen 0
Michael Patrizi Dallara-Mercedes 0
Basil Shaaban Dallara-Mercedes 0
Jean-Karl Vernay Dallara-Mercedes 0