Australian International John Martin continued his domination of the local F3 field with a second race win on the streets of Surfers Paradise. 

Martin, fresh back from a year in the tough British F3 series and Australia’s lead driver in the A1GP showed the gulf between himself and the local competition with a comfortable lights to flag victory on the narrow street circuit in his Dallara F307 Mercedes Benz.

“I nailed the start – yesterday I didn’t want to stall so I didn’t get a good getaway but today was much better and I was able to establish a good buffer in the opening lap,” said Martin.

Second was the Team BRM Dallara of new Australian Champion James Winslow. The Englishman again showed himself to be the class of the local series regulars but he had no answer for Martin.

While a battle for first did not eventuate, the huge crowd was treated to a final lap tussle for second and third.

Chris Alajajian of Astuti Motorsport and Leanne Tander of TanderSport swapped places on the final lap when Alajajian attempted a pass on Winslow but ran wide, giving Tander the inside run and third position.

Nathan Caratti again snuck in to finish in fifth for Team BRM, teammate Zahir Ali was sixth, and Mat Sofi finished in seventh for Astuti Motorsport after starting the race in 15th because of a crash in yesterday’s race.

Carlos Huertas had a terrific race yesterday on debut to be the best National Class runner of the day, but today he suffered mechanical problems and was stuck on the grid when the lights went out.

 Chris Gilmour picked up the honour of first National Class competitor with his eighth position, and Jesse Wakeman was the best Trophy Class finisher with a tenth place finish.

Once again Martin set a new  lap record, smashing yesterdays quickest time by almost an entire second to record a 1m47.9630 lap around the 4.47-kilometre track.

“I pushed on a little but in the end if you don’t give anything away you won’t get passed so I didn’t want to throw the race away.” Martin said.

With F3 Media Release