ADAC German Formula 4
Australian Joey Mawson has maintained his advantage in the championship despite a mixed bag of results at Zandvoort.
Mawson scored victory in the opening race before finishing 27th and eighth in the remaining heats.
The wash-up to the weekend with one round remaining means Mawson holds a 39-point lead over Mick Schumacher at the top of standings with a maximum of 75 points on offer.
In Race 1, Mawson (Van Amersfoort Racing) dominated the 30-minute affair after starting from pole position.
Damage to his front wing while attempting a pass in Race 2 saw Mawson mired down the order which was not helped by a late Safety Car.
Race 3 began under a Safety Car before the field was let loose several laps in ahead of the Safety Car having to intervene soon afterwards.
A multi-car crash saw the race red flagged at the second attempt of a restart, with the heat declared after less than two laps of green flag conditions with half points awarded.
“I leave the weekend with very mixed feelings,” Mawson said.
“It was great to get the win in Race 1 but I wasn’t able to capitalise on our speed in races two and three.”
The final round of the championship will be held at Hockenheim from September 30-October 2.
Gold Rush Rally of Coromandel
Brendan Reeves and Rhianon Gelsomino continued their perfect record this season by winning the final round of the Brian Green Property New Zealand Rally Championship.
After only their second event this year, the pair tackled the event for the first time with their Force Motorsport-entered Mazda 2.
Reeves and co-driver Gelsomino prevailed after 10 stages and 120km of competitive distance, winning six stages to post victory by over a minute.
Changing weather conditions throughout the day saw some rain which saw Reeves experiment with different tyre compounds.
“We went out with the ambition to go fast on the softs as we weren’t sure what effect dust would have,” Reeves said.
“We ran on hards in the middle of the day but it rained so that backfired and we went back to the softs to finish the day off and get back some time.”
Matt Summerfield (Subaru) was 1:03.6s behind in second while Dylan Turner (Mitsubishi) claimed third ahead of Glenn Inkster (Skoda).
DTM
BMW driver Marco Wittmann has wrestled back the lead of the championship following a see-sawing weekend at the Moscow Raceway.
In the 40-lap second race, Wittmann beat Tom Blomqvist and Bruno Spengler.
BMW recorded the top four positions with Augusto Farfus finishing just off the podium.
After the first 22-lap race, Robert Wickens went to the points lead following a masterful win in the wet.
Wickens brought home a HWA Mercedes quinella as Paul Di Resta finished second with ART Mercedes’ Gary Paffett third.
The DTM continues with the next round scheduled for the Nurburgring from September 9-11.
Zandvoort F3 Masters
FIA European F3 star Joel Eriksson proved untouchable as he swept to a clean sweep of victories at the Zandvoort F3 Masters.
The 18-year-old Swede made the most of a lightning start to claim the lead from pole-sitter Callum Ilott at the start of Saturday’s qualifying race.
Once in front Eriksson controlled the race to take the chequered flag with a 1.4s margin over Ilott, while his Motopark team-mate Niko Kari was third.
Alexander Albon, Sergio Sette Camara and Pedro Piquet, the son of three-time F1 world champion Nelson Piquet, completed the top six.
Eriksson backed up his dominance in the final race by producing another lights-to-flag drive to score his second victory of the weekend.
The teenager led home a Motopark 1-2-3 as Kari and Camara secured spots on the podium.
Ilott came home in fourth ahead of Albon and Piquet.
Australia’s Thomas Randle impressed on his European F3 debut to end the weekend as the top rookie.
The Melbourne racer managed to guide his Double R Racing Dallara to 12th in Race 1 before finishing 11th in the finale.
Countryman Ricky Capo, competing in his first race meeting in Europe, finished 13th and 14th respectively for Fortec Motorsport.
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