Photo: Jakob Ebrey Photography
Jamie Chadwick won a single-seater race for the first time after taking victory in the BRDC British Formula 3 reversed-grid second race at Brands Hatch.
Douglas Motorsport driver Chadwick went from fourth to second at the start, following fellow third-row starter Pavan Ravishankar who moved into the lead before the first corner.
Ravishankar was soon handed a 10-second time penalty for a jump start, which enabled Chadwick to sit close behind for the remainder of the race and take the win.
The front two were able to build a comfortable margin over third-placed Arvin Esmaeili both before and after a lengthy safety car period for a lap-two incident that took pole-sitter Ben Hurst out of the race.
Esmaeili eventually succumbed to Krishnaraaj Mahadik, who then reduced a deficit of 2.5 seconds to Chadwick to just four tenths by the chequered flag but ran out of time to challenge for the win.
Just behind, Kush Maini completed the podium after making strong early progress from 10th on the grid.
Sasakorn Chaimongkol took fourth ahead of?Esmaeili, with Jusuf Owega in sixth, while Manuel Maldonado again passed muted Fortec Motorsports team-mate Tom Gamble to finish seventh.
Nicolai Kjaergaard finished ninth from 13th on the grid and will start race three from pole position courtesy of his fastest lap in race one, with the best race two times proving to be slower.
That didn’t stop some drivers from trying, with Billy Monger and Linus Lundqvist both dropping back from Kjaergaard at the restart before attempting quick laps.
Championship leader Lundqvist passed Monger and Sun Yue Yang late on to finish 11th, as Double R team-mate Ravashankar’s penalty put him 10th.
From the back of the grid, race one winner Jamie Caroline passed Lundqvist and his three Carlin team-mates on the first lap to get up to 11th, but a mistake on the second lap dropped him back to the back.
He eventually parked his car in the pits, seeing nothing to be gained with track conditions slower than in race one.
Race results (13 laps)
| Pos | Name | Team | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jamie Chadwick | Douglas Motorsport | 21m16.975s |
| 2 | Krishnaraaj Mahadik | Double R Racing | +0.439s |
| 3 | Kush Maini | Lanan Racing | +0.727s |
| 4 | Sasakorn Chaimongkol | Hillspeed | +4.001s |
| 5 | Arvin Esmaeili | Douglas Motorsport | +7.828s |
| 6 | Jusuf Owega | Hillspeed | +7.890s |
| 7 | Manuel Maldonado | Fortec Motorsports | +8.408s |
| 8 | Tom Gamble | Fortec Motorsports | +8.608s |
| 9 | Nicolai Kjaergaard | Carlin | +8.765s |
| 10 | Pavan Ravishankar | Double R Racing | +8.949s |
| 11 | Linus Lundqvist | Double R Racing | +10.227s |
| 12 | Sun Yue Yang | Carlin | +10.951s |
| 13 | Billy Monger | Carlin | +14.807s |
| 14 | Joshua Mason | Lanan Racing | +28.665s |
| Ret | Jamie Caroline | Carlin | |
| Ret | Ben Hurst | Hillspeed | |
| Fastest lap: Monger, 1m22.331s
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