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Dominant victory for Ilott on home soil

Callum Ilott has taken his first victory of the season in the final race of Silverstone for FIA Formula 3 European Championship. The Briton has dominate the race in front of championship leader, Joel Eriksson. Norris completed the podium.

It was a clean start of the race, Joel Eriksson (Motopark) took the lead ahead of pole sitter Callum Ilott (Prema Powerteam), third was Maximilian Gunther (Prema Powerteam) in front of Lando Norris (Carlin) who again has started really bad drop to fourth.

Then the Prema’s of Mick Schumacher and Guanyu Zhou went in trouble. The German driver went off while the Ferrari junior made contact with Ralf Aron (Hitech Grand Prix) and had to retire.

In the front of the race, Ilott overtook Erikson for the lead while Norris did the same maneovre on Günther for the last step of the podium.

The BRDC Super Star took his first win of the season and with Prema Powerteam ahead of Eriksson and Norris. In the points position finished: Günther, Dennis, Daruvala, Mazepin, Mawson, Newey and Aron.

In the drivers’ championship, Eriksson leads with 12 points of distance over Ilott, 13 with Norris.

Results:

Pos Driver Team Gap
1 Callum Ilott Prema Powerteam 19 Laps
2 Joel Eriksson Motopark 6.815
3 Lando Norris R Carlin 7.626
4 Maximilian Günther Prema Powerteam 10.974
5 Jake Dennis Carlin 11.755
6 Jehan Daruvala R Carlin 14.734
7 Nikita Mazepin Hitech Grand Prix 19.509
8 Joey Mawson R Van Amersfoort Racing 20.019
9 Harrison Newey Van Amersfoort Racing 24.171
10 Ralf Aron Hitech Grand Prix 26.587
11 Pedro Piquet Van Amersfoort Racing 28.376
12 Ferdinand Habsburg Carlin 31.240
13 Jake Hughes Hitech Grand Prix 33.082
14 David Beckmann Van Amersfoort Racing 40.611
15 Tadasuke Makino Hitech Grand Prix 41.086
16 Keyvan Andres Soori Motopark 41.578
17 Marino Sato R Motopark 48.201
18 Mick Schumacher R Prema Powerteam 51.382
Guanyu Zhou Prema Powerteam Not classified