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Lights to flag win for Norris in Zandvoort

31 Lando Norris (GBR, Carlin, Dallara F317 - Volkswagen), FIA Formula 3 European Championship, round 7, Zandvoort (NED), 18. - 20. August 2017 *** Local Caption *** Copyright (c) FIA Formula 3 European Championship / Thomas Suer

Lando Norris has claimed a dominant win, with no one able to fight him, on the first of three races in Zandvoort and gets closer to the championship lead. Eriksson and Günther have finished second and third.

Race started and Lando Norris kept his first place due to a superb start. The opposite thing happened to Ferdinand Habsburg, who fell from second to fifth place after being passed by Joel Eriksson, Maximilian Günther and Callum Ilott. Behind, Guanyu Zhou, Ralf Aron and David Beckmann collided on turn 1. The German driver ended up with his car upside down, he and Aron retired, Zhou was given a Drve Through penalty and the SC was deployed.

SC period enden and Habsburg recovered fourth position thanks to an overtake round the outside. Meanwhile, on top, Norris began to pull away from Eriksson and trying to win with no rival.

Nothing remarkable happened until the end and Norris won by more than 8 seconds to Eriksson, who has now finished second on the las three races. Günther has been third and still leads the championship standings. Habsburg, Ilott, Mick Schumacher, Pedro Piquet, Jake Hughes, Jehan Daruvala and Harrison Newey complete the Top 10.

As for the championship, Günther is still on top, with 281 points and followed closely by Norris, who has now 273. Eriksson is third with 258, followed by Ilott with 196 and Daruvala with 140; both of them already so far from the lead. Next FIA F3 race is set to be held tomorrow at 11:05 AM local time.