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12 September 2004 (me)
PRESS RELEASE Ryan Lewis
British Formula-3-Championship Round 22
Double top for Lewis at Spa

Ryan Lewis took his 15th Avon Tyres British Formula 3 Scholarship win of the series with a dominant lights to flag victory at the picturesque Spa-Francorchamps circuit today (Sunday). The 19 year-old, who wrapped up the title a fortnight ago with five races in hand, started from pole and was never headed on his way to a six second advantage at the flag.




At the start he made a great getaway to take two places but moved over to let Championship Class runners James Rossiter and Alexandre Negrao through dropping him down. With one eye on getting to the flag in one piece following yesterday's dramas, he drove a steady race at the head of the class to take win number 15 out of a possible 22. Fastest lap in the 11 lap race takes his total points score to 381.


“Everything went well from the start,” said Ryan. “I wanted to stay out of the way of James (Rossiter) as he's fighting for the overall championship so I wanted to give him plenty of room and let him through at the start. Then I just got my head down and got onto the back of Negrao but in hindsight, I should probably not have let so many of the championship cars through and could have finished a lot higher up overall but with all the dramas of yesterday, I just wanted to get to the finish without any damage. Generally it's not quite as rewarding to win when there hasn't been much of a challenge, like I had at Thruxton say, but then to be somewhere like Spa, my favourite track, well that is rewarding.”


The Championship concludes in three weeks time on the Brands Hatch Indy circuit in Kent where Ryan will be looking to finish the season the way he started it - with another double victory.


Results of Round 22
1. RYAN LEWIS BES Dallara F301 Mugen-Honda 25:10.015
2. Ronayne O'Mahony Dallara F301 Opel-Spiess 25:10.776
3. Vasilije Calasan Dallara F301 Mugen-Honda 25:17.616
4. Stephen Jelley Dallara F301 Opel-Spiess 25:18.013


Fastest lap: RYAN LEWIS 2:19.149 179.704 kmh


Avon Tyres British Formula 3 Scholarship Points after 22 rounds
1. RYAN LEWIS 381 (Champion)
2. Stephen Jelley 236
3. Vasilije Calasan 168
4. Barton Mawer 134
5. Ronayne O'Mahony 109
6. Adam Khan 78
7. Ajit Kumar 70
8. James Winslow 27
9. Lars Sexton 23

 

 




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