Since 10-lap qualifying race on Saturday was to define the grid for the Grand Prix finale on Sunday every driver was obviously poised to improve his earlier position even just by one. As the red signals went out Kamui Kobayashi, who was starting tenth on the grid, could not move due to an engine failure, and Streit made a tardy start after suffering a stall. There was also a shunt with the leaders. Following Jarvis, and Asmer, who took lead from the pole man into Lisboa, Tsukakoshi was moving into the bend in third place, but got involved in a contact between Buemi and Eduardo Mortara, only to run wide to the run-off area with the 2 racers. That resulted in Asmer, Jarvis, Grosjean, Oshima, James Jakes and Sam Bird rounding out top six before the ASM racer hit the wall on the mountainside on the opening lap, causing a slow puncture and dropping himself down the order.

　 There were no positional changes for the leaders from the time safety car was called on lap three for removing a car that crashed at Mandarin on the opening lap until the race resumed by lap six, when Jarvis battled back with good slip-handling on the run down to Lisboa to retake lead from Asmer. Just behind them Nico Hulkenberg and Senna crashed with each other, allowing the late starting Streit, and Tsukakoshi, who had been demoted to the tail of the field after the shunt to make up lost ground. With three laps to go the qualifying race saw another crash at the exit of the final corner, which brought about a red flag, and thus brought the race to an end at the completion of lap seven. Jarvis took a win, with Asmer and Oshima completing top three. Amongst the other Japanese F3 drivers Streit and Tsukakoshi placed eighth and ninth respectively, and Izawa did 18th.

　Tom’s attracting attention with its impressive pace they showed in the morning warming-up the Polytec Formula 3 Macau Grand Prix started at 3:39 pm on Sunday. As the red lights went out both Oshima and Asmer made better starts than the front starter Jarvis, but the Brit accelerated himself to lead into Lisboa Bend. Oshima and Bird both moved past Asmer to enter the bend, with Stephen Jelly and Tsukakoshi completing top six.

　Bouncing up from ninth on the grid the Manor racer earned yet another one spot by shooting past Jelly on lap two. Asmer also moved past Bird to place third. When Streit passed the Carlin man on lap four to vault into fifth behind Asmer and Tsukakoshi the Japanese F3 contingent dominated top five with pole-winner Jarvis at the forefront with about 2 secs advantage over his team-mate Oshima. On lap seven there was a crash on the mountainside, which lead to a safety car interlude on lap eight. As the race restarted at the completion of lap ten Tsukakoshi slipped past British F3 champion Asmer, and then closed in on Oshima with good slip on lap 13 to successfully take lead into Lisboa from the Japanese F3 champion, muscling his way into the Tom’s 1-2 formation. The frontrunner Jarvis, however, retained his advantage to take the chequered flag, with Tsukakoshi, Oshima, Asmer and Streit completing the top five. Macau rookie Izawa improved his starting position to finish 16th.

　 ”In the closing stages Tsukakoshi’s orange machine was getting bigger in my mirror, but I pushed harder to pull away from him. I am happy about the Japanese F3 drivers dominating the grand prix. I am also happy that I took win at a global debut of the 1AZ-FE engine that we have been developing,” said Jarvis, who had gone into a winning run with his fist up in the air. Tsukakoshi and Oshima completed the podium in the blue riband event. In fact it was the first time ever for two Japanese drivers to dominate the podium for prestigious Macau Grand Prix. It was also the moment when Japanese F3 championship demonstrated its competitiveness to the world.

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