Marcus Armstrong has finished on the podium in the second race of the fourth FIA Formula 3 European Championship round at Zandvoort in Holland.
For Armstrong’s team mate Ralf Aron (PREMA Theodore Racing), it was the perfect day: after victory in the tenth race of the season in the morning, the Estonian also won the eleventh race of the 2018 FIA Formula 3 European Championship in the afternoon. At the 4.307 kilometres long former Formula 1 track on the North Sea coast, Marcus Armstrong (PREMA Theodore Racing) and Guanyu Zhou (PREMA Theodore Racing) claimed second and third place respectively. With his result, Aron moved up into second of the drivers’ standings, he is currently 4.5 points down on Armstrong, who remains the championship leader.
“For me, the race included quite some action,” commented Armstrong. “The duel with Dan (Ticktum) reminded me of our accident at Budapest: I have learned from that. My goal was to score maximum points today, because I am only second to last on the grid for tomorrow, so scoring more points then will be rather difficult.”
Earlier in the first race Armstrong finished fourth behind Aron, Zhou and Mick Schumacher.
Armstrong had a one point advantage heading into the round over Brit Daniel Ticktum. Ticktum finished fifth and sixth in today’s races dropping to 13 points behind Armstrong while Aaron has moved up the leader board to second overall just 4.5 points behind.
Armstrong will start from 23rd position for the third and final race with Ticktum starting on pole. Clutch issues in qualifying will ee the Kiwi driver having to fight through the field.
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