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Historic Monza plays host to British openwheel

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Published: Apr 12, 2012, 2:05 AM

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Pietro Fantin

British F3 men ready for the Italian job

A matter of days after a successful start to the Cooper Tires British Formula 3 International Series the teams and drivers are already en route for their second showdown of the season, at the Italian Grand Prix circuit of Monza.

Briton Jack Harvey leads the pack overseas thanks to a win and a second place in Saturday’s Oulton Park races, and the Racing Steps Foundation driver will be hoping to build on that success this weekend (14/15 Apr) - not least because Sunday will be his 19th birthday.

Jack Harvey

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His Carlin team-mates will be hoping to get in on the victory act too, not least because Pipo Derani and Felix Serralles shared the other Oulton wins to hand the Fortec Motorsport team an important early psychological advantage. Notwithstanding that, Carlin men Harvey, Jazeman Jaafar, Harry Tincknell and Carlos Sainz hold the top four positions in the championship.

The Oulton Park highlight for Carlin’s fifth man, Pietro Fantin, was a second-place finish in the reverse-grid race. The 20-year-old Brazilian is looking forward to the long straights of Monza, where a strong performance in qualifying is not so crucial: “At somewhere like Oulton Park, qualifying is all that matters; at Monza qualifying matters hardly at all. There, it is about having a good and consistent car and racing well.

“My main problem at the moment is with qualifying: I am struggling to put together the perfect lap. But for Monza this is not so important and I just need to race well and to focus and be consistent. My ambition is to win.”

Felipe Nasr

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Last year’s Monza rounds saw eventual champion Felipe Nasr bounce back from qualifying problems to claim twin wins. Fantin’s countryman started races one and three from eighth on the grid and battled through to win each by more than two seconds. Felipe was second in the reverse-grid race, too, to establish a championship lead he would never lose.

In the National class, Spike Goddard heads to Italy unbeaten for the T-Sport team and with the aim of extending his advantage over his class rival and fellow Australian Duvashen Padayachee (Double R).

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