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F3 Macau GP
Macau GP: Ticktum avoids dog, wins qualifying race
Red Bull Junior Dan Ticktum took victory in Macau's qualification race to earn himself pole position for the Grand Prix and was untroubled from Lap 2 – apart from having to avoid a stray dog.
Marcus Simmons
Edited: Nov 17, 2018, 10:02 AM
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Callum Ilott managed to slipstream his way past poleman Ticktum around the outside of the Mandarin kink to take the lead after the start, and held on despite an oversteery moment at Lisboa bend that flicked his left-rear tyre against the barrier.
Ticktum stayed right on Ilott’s tail and was able to pass the Ferrari junior around the outside of Lisboa, and his Motopark Dallara-Volkswagen was already 1.341 seconds in front by the end of the lap.
On the third lap, Ticktum encountered the dog on the racing line at Dona Maria, flicking wide to avoid it, before the safety car was called out while the mutt was retrieved.
Ticktum made a great restart, and was 0.863s in front of Ilott’s Carlin car as they crossed the start/finish line.
Joel Eriksson had passed Sacha Fenestraz for third on the drag down to Lisboa after the start, but got boxed in, allowing Renault F1 junior Fenestraz to repass at San Francisco Bend.
At the restart, BMW DTM racer Eriksson got ahead of Fenestraz at Mandarin, and also got close to slipstreaming past Ilott too.
One lap later Eriksson squeezed inside Ilott on the run down to Lisboa, the Motopark-run Swede making minor contact with the barrier as he slipped through the tiny gap.
Eriksson was 1.675s adrift of Ticktum at the end of that lap, with four to go, but could not prevent Ticktum extending the gap to 2.247s as they started the final tour.
Ticktum then took it easy on the last lap to lead Eriksson in a Motopark one-two by 1.563s, with Ilott and Fenestraz – who tried a move on his Carlin teammate at Lisboa on the penultimate lap – next up.
Guan Yu Zhou ran a solid fifth for almost the entire race in his Prema Powerteam car from Hitech GP man Jake Hughes, only for the Chinese Ferrari junior to crash at the Solitude Esses on the final lap.
Hughes therefore took fifth from Prema’s F3 European champion Mick Schumacher.
From 14th on the grid, Motopark’s new Red Bull junior Juri Vips made superb progress – he passed Prema’s Marcus Armstrong after the Mandarin kink with three laps to go to win the battle of the Macau GP debutants and take seventh position.
Two more Prema cars rounded out the top 10, with Ralf Aron leading home Robert Shwartzman, who passed Marino Sato on the final lap.
The incidents that didn’t involve dogs were cleared up without need for the safety car. Apart from Zhou’s shunt, Sena Sakaguchi crashed at Maternity Bend on the opening lap, Ritomo Miyata hit the wall at Lisboa on lap seven, and Frederik Vesti also came to grief at Lisboa.
Race results:
Pos. No. Driver Car / Engine Time/Gap 1 1 Dan Ticktum Dallara/Volkswagen 23'41.034 2 2 Joel Eriksson Dallara/Volkswagen 1.563 3 18 Callum Ilott Dallara/Volkswagen 3.165 4 19 Sacha Fenestraz Dallara/Volkswagen 3.948 5 30 Jake Hughes Dallara/Mercedes 11.098 6 9 Mick Schumacher Dallara/Mercedes 11.878 7 3 Juri Vips Dallara/Volkswagen 12.518 8 11 Marcus Armstrong Dallara/Mercedes 13.713 9 10 Ralf Aron Dallara/Mercedes 14.199 10 12 Robert Shwartzman Dallara/Mercedes 16.535 11 6 Marino Sato Dallara/Volkswagen 18.374 12 16 Alex Palou Dallara/Volkswagen 19.602 13 5 Ferdinand Habsburg Dallara/Volkswagen 20.235 14 15 Yuhi Sekiguchi Dallara/Volkswagen 21.445 15 29 Enaam Ahmed Dallara/Mercedes 22.161 16 31 Sho Tsuboi Dallara/Toyota 24.244 17 17 Jehan Daruvala Dallara/Volkswagen 24.763 18 28 Charles Leong Dallara/Mercedes 27.513 19 25 Sophia Floersch Dallara/Mercedes 29.159 20 23 Keyvan Andres Dallara/Mercedes 30.851 21 22 Toshiki Oyu Dallara/Toda 32.442 22 27 Ukyo Sasahara Dallara/Tomei 33.995 23 33 'Dragon' Dallara/Volkswagen 1'58.193 24 8 Guan Yu Zhou Dallara/Mercedes 1 lap - 26 Frederik Vesti Dallara/Mercedes - - 32 Ritomo Miyata Dallara/Toyota - - 20 Y.Katayama Dallara/Volkswagen - - 21 Sena Sakaguchi Dallara/Toda -
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