The Components 3 dash race at Silverstone has been postponed to 6pm native time after excessive moist situations meant the race was unable to start out on schedule.
Race management took the choice to postpone the race fully somewhat than regularly delay the beginning as situations proved not protected sufficient to race in.
Steady rain in a single day and into the morning at Silverstone meant that the monitor was saturated within the lead as much as scheduled begin of the F3 race at 9:20am, the primary on-track occasion set to happen on Saturday.
F3 groups are positioned within the nationwide pit lane for the Silverstone weekend, located alongside the previous begin line of the circuit at Woodcote. Drivers need to journey from the nationwide pits to the worldwide pit lane previous to the beginning process of the race. Nevertheless, situations have been so moist for this half-lap journey that Alpine junior Gabriele Mini misplaced management of his automobile into Stowe and spun into the gravel, whereas a number of rivals additionally ran off monitor via the gravel.
Mini’s automobile needed to be faraway from the gravel by a restoration car, however he was in a position to be a part of the remainder of the sphere within the pit lane. Race management introduced that the beginning of the race could be delayed, with the Security Automobile being despatched out to evaluate the situations. Nevertheless, Security Automobile driver Bernd Maylander was visibly struggling across the soaked circuit and race management introduced that the pit lane could be opened at 9:30am, then delayed that to 9:45am.
After a closing tour of the monitor by the Security Automobile led to Maylander reporting that the situations have been nonetheless unsafe to start out, race management took the choice to postpone the race fully. The FIA later introduced that the dash race could be rescheduled to 6pm, following the qualifying session for the Porsche Supercup, the final deliberate monitor session of the day.
If the dash race nonetheless doesn’t start, no factors will probably be awarded to any drivers underneath the F3 laws.
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