2007 F3ES Round1

Free Practice

1. Renger Van Der Zande (Prema) 1.33.536
2. Sebastien Buemi (Mucke) 1.33.541
3. Franck Mailleux (Manor) 1.33.883
4. James Jakes (Manor) 1.34.202
5. Yann Clairay (Signature) 1.34.240
6. Romain Grosjean (ASM) 1.34.298
7. Filip Salaquarda (HBR) 1.34.305
8. Cyndie Alleman (Manor) 1.34.461
9. Edoardo Mortara (Signature) 1.34.493
10. Nico Hulkenberg (ASM) 1.34.516

That is a very underwhelming grid.

Wow. Someone I've never heard of at the top (although looking at his racing history, he's got bags of talent). He beat Hulkenburg last year though, when they were both new to F3 Germany...

2007
Formula 3 Euroseries
Current position: no position
0 races. 0 wins. 0 pole positions. 0 podiums.
Team: Prema Powerteam
Car: Dallara F306 (Mercedes)

2006-07
A1GP
Championship position: no position
3 races. 0 wins. 0 pole positions. 0 podiums.
Team: Team Netherlands

2006
Formula 3 Germany
Championship position: 4 (89 points)
20 races. 0 wins. 1 pole position. 8 podiums.
Team: SMS Seyffarth Motorsport
Car: Dallara F306 (Mercedes)

2005
Formula Renault 2.0 Germany
Championship position: 5 (228 points)
14 races. 4 wins. 3 pole positions. 5 podiums.
Team: Van Amersfoort Racing
Car: Renault FR2000


Formula Renault 2.0 Netherlands
Championship position: 1 (203 points)
12 races. 4 wins. 4 pole positions. 9 podiums.
Team: Van Amersfoort Racing
Car: Renault FR2000


Formula Renault 2.0 Nordic
Championship position: 9 (31 points)
2 races. 0 wins. 0 pole positions. 2 podiums.
Team: Van Amersfoort Racing
Car: Renault FR2000

2004
Formula Renault 2000 Germany
Championship position: 26 (24 points)
4 races. 0 wins. 0 pole positions. 0 podiums.
Team: Van Amersfoort Racing


Formula Renault 2000 Netherlands
Championship position: 7 (103 points)
? races. ? wins. ? pole positions. ? podiums.
More details needed.

Qualify

1st ROUND HOCKENHEIM
Pos. No. Driver Lap Time Gap
1. 7 Buemi/SUI 17 1:33.702
2. 4 Jakes/GBR 17 1:33.967 00.265
3. 3 Mailleux/FRA 15 1:34.238 00.536
4. 16 van der Zande/NED 17 1:34.351 00.649
5. 19 Hülkenberg/GER 14 1:34.358 00.656
6. 9 Vernay/FRA 14 1:34.389 00.687
7. 6 Salaquarda/CZE 16 1:34.404 00.702
8. 23 Clos/ESP 16 1:34.438 00.736
9. 24 Mortara/ITA 16 1:34.457 00.755
10. 22 Buurman/NED 16 1:34.503 00.801
11. 2 Grosjean/FRA 15 1:34.595 00.893
12. 10 Clairay/FRA 17 1:34.713 01.011
13. 12 Sandtler/GER 17 1:34.839 01.137
14. 8 Piscopo/ITA 17 1:34.933 01.231
15. 1 Kobayashi/JPN 15 1:34.996 01.294
16. 26 Schlegelmilch/LAT 17 1:35.092 01.390
17. 5 Afanasiev/RUS 17 1:35.165 01.463
18. 14 Herck/MON 16 1:35.290 01.588
19. 21 Allemann/SUI 15 1:35.377 01.675
20. 18 Patrizi/AUS 17 1:35.399 01.697
21. 28 Holzer/GER 17 1:35.587 01.885
22. 30 Shaaban/LBN 12 1:36.138 02.436
23. 20 Dillmann/FRA 16 1:36.528 02.826

What the hell is Dillman up to? Driving in the world championship holding team, running almost 3 seconds off the place. Admitedly, he's inexperienced; but still, that's pretty poor.

Anyway, time for some interesting stats.

This years qualifying times are consistently around 0.05 - 0.10 seconds slower than last years qualifying times.

Last years pole: Guerrieri 1.33.651
This years pole: Buemi 1.33.702

Last years top three finishers in the championship qualified 5th, 7th and 2nd respectively.

Koyabashi has the dubious honour of having qualified 0.6 seconds slower this year, despite last year it being his first race in F3ES and driving the same spec car.

The top 9 qualifiers last year all finished in the top 13 in the championship. The top 5 qualifiers all finished in the top 7.

Wonder how much we can read into that :)

too early to read anything in it really. Just very happy to see Renger doing so well. Good bloke he is, known him for almost 4 years now. Didnt expect him to do so well so early on but for him, starting at a very familiar track won't hurt him!

i think DILEMANN had a serious Crash at Nogaro during Winter Testing, that is maybe the reason why he is so off the pace, he needs more time to recover i guess

Provisional Round 1 Result:
1. Buemi
2. Hulkenberg
3. Mailleux
4. Van Der Zande
5. Grosjean
6. Mortara
7. Vernay
8. Buurman
9. Clos
10. Kobayashi
11. Jakes
12. Schlegelmilch
13. Sandtler
14. Herck
15. Allemann
16. Patrizi
17. Afanasiev
18. Holzer
19. Shaaban
20. Salaquarda
21. Piscopo
DNF Clairay
DNS Dillmann

Buemi and Hulkenberg were rivals in Formula BMW in 2005, Buemi won the title after Hulkenberg was leading the championship almost for the whole year. But Hulkenbergs team filed a protest for an incident in the last weekend, won it and so Hulkenberg got the title after all. Guess Buemi is looking for revenge now, but there should be more guys able to win races just beside these two (Vernay, Buurman, Van Der Zande, Mortara, Kobayashi, Grosjean, Jakes, Mailleux, Clairay and Clos all should be able to get on the podium at least).

Super result for Mailleux, anyone know why Clairay DNF, cant find any info anywhere.

That was one dull race, the only interesting thing i can remember was Mailleux doing a 360°spin and Hülkenberg slipping through.

Why there was a rolling start in race 2?

Cracking race between Burmann and Buemi for second.

Race 2

1. Romain Grosjean (ASM) 25 giri
2. Yelmer Buurman (Manor) a 4.864
3. Sebastien Buemi (Mucke) a 5.455
4. Jean Karl Vernay (Signature) a 6.442
5. James Jakes (Manor) a 7.908
6. Franck Mailleux (Manor) a 8.658
7. Nico Hulkenberg (ASM) a 9.109
8. Edoardo Mortara (Signature) a 9.510
9. Dani Clos (Signature) a 16.230
10. Kamui Kobayashi (ASM) a 20.443

the complete result

http://www.f3euroseries.com/ergebnisse/2007-04-22-r2.pdf

Why there was a rolling start in race 2?

The TV commentators in the UK / Setanta reckoned it was because of the reverse grid and some of the slower cars being at the front. What I wondered was why the didn't have to form up two by two and started single file...

There was oil on the track from a previous race, so they wouldn't take any risk, so they made it a rolling start.

Shame that Van Der Zande's car broke down, he did very well yesterday. But Buurman did a great job today, great fight with Grosjean, but he was to quick, but he kept Buemi behind him, so 2nd is a very good result. I'm very dissapointed so far with Kobayashi, no points so far, but he hadn't the pace all weekend.

yeah a porsche engine blew up on the start/finish straight