2004 Macau Grand Prix

Race details
Date 21 November 2004
Official name 51st Macau Grand Prix
Location Guia Circuit, Macau
Course Temporary street circuit
6.120 km (3.803 mi)
Distance Qualifying Race
10 laps, 61.200 km (38.028 mi)
Main Race
11 laps, 67.320 km (41.831 mi)
Weather Qualifying Race: Sunny and dry
Main Race: Sunny and dry
Qualifying Race
Pole
Driver Poland Robert Kubica Manor Motorsport
Time 2:12.155
Fastest Lap
Driver United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton Manor Motorsport
Time 2:12.801 (on lap 9 of 10)
Podium
FirstUnited Kingdom Lewis HamiltonManor Motorsport
SecondGermany Nico RosbergTeam Rosberg
ThirdFrance Alexandre PrématASM Formule 3
Main Race
Pole
Driver United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton Manor Motorsport
Fastest Lap
Driver Poland Robert Kubica Manor Motorsport
Time 2:13.215 (on lap 9 of 11)
Podium
FirstFrance Alexandre PrématASM Formule 3
SecondPoland Robert KubicaManor Motorsport
ThirdBrazil Lucas di GrassiHitech Racing

The 2004 Macau Grand Prix (formally the 51st Macau Grand Prix) was a motor race for Formula Three cars that was held on the streets of Macau on 21 November 2004. Unlike other races, such as the Masters of Formula 3, the 2004 Macau Grand Prix was not a part of any Formula Three championship, but was open to entries from all Formula Three championships. For the first time in the history of the Macau Grand Prix, the race itself was made up of two races: a ten-lap qualifying race that decided the starting grid for the fifteen-lap main race. The 2004 race was the fifty-first running of the Macau Grand Prix and the twenty-second for Formula Three cars.

The Grand Prix was won by ASM Formule 3 driver Alexandre Prémat, having finished third in previous day's qualification race which was won by Lewis Hamilton of Manor Motorsport. Prémat took the lead of the Grand Prix when Nico Rosberg and Hamilton went too fast into a corner and slid into the tyre barrier at Lisboa corner and held it for the rest of the race to win after it ended early for a four-car pile up at Police Bend that made the circuit impassable on the thirteenth lap. Second place went to the other Manor Motorsport car of Robert Kubica while the podium was completed by Lucas di Grassi of Hitech Racing.

Background and entry list

The 2004 Macau Grand Prix was the fifty-first running of the event and the twenty-second time the race was held to Formula Three regulations. It took place on the 6.2 kilometres (3.9 mi) twenty-two turn Guia Circuit on 21 November 2004 with three preceding days of practice and qualifying.[1][2]

In order to compete in Macau, drivers had to compete in an Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA)-regulated championship meeting during the calendar year, in either the Formula Three Euro Series or one of the domestic championships, with the highest-placed drivers given priority in receiving an invitation to the race.[3] Within the thirty-two car grid of the event,[4] each of the three major Formula Three series were represented by their respective champion. Jamie Green, the Formula Three Euro Series champion, was joined in Macau by the British champion Nelson Piquet Jr., Japanese series victor Ronnie Quintarelli, Italian champion Matteo Cressoni and Asian series winner Christian Jones.[5] The sole driver to represent the German series in Macau was Ho-Pin Tung.[4] Five competitors who did not take part in any Formula Three championship throughout the year received invitations from race organisers to participate in the Macau Grand Prix.[3] They were Formula BMW Asia series winner Marchy Lee,[6] and Macau natives Jo Merszei, Michael Ho, Lei Kit Meng and Rodolfo Ávila.[4]

The Macau Grand Prix was started in 1954 by local car enthusiasts Fernando de Macedo Pinto, Carlos da Silva and Paulo Antas as a treasure hunt around the territory's streets.[7][8] Shortly after, it was suggested that the hunt's track could host a professional race for local motoring enthusiasts.[9] The race was first entered in the FIA's international motor racing calendar in 1960 and the regulations were amended to allow sports and grand touring cars to compete. The Grand Prix attracted further exposure amongst professional racing teams following the victory of Mauro Bianchi in the 1966 edition.[9] Formula Pacific regulations were introduced in 1974. Nine years later, organiser Barry Bland decided that since the category was becoming obsolete, the race would be held to Formula Three rules after a plan to run with Formula Two cars fell through.[10] This decision has seen the Grand Prix's reputation in the motorsport world increase rapidly; it attracts the best young drivers from around the world,[7] and they consider Macau a place where reputations are forged.[11] Macau is also considered a stepping stone to higher class racing categories such as Formula One,[12] and has been termed as one of the most "prestigious" motor races by the media.[13][14]

After the race was held over two legs since its establishment in 1983, the Macau Grand Prix Committee changed the format for 2004 onward to a ten-lap qualification race on Saturday afternoon which determined the starting order for the Grand Prix itself the day after. Furthermore, any driver who retired from the qualification race could start at the back of the grid for the main event and allow themselves a chance of winning. This was in contrast to previous years when any driver who failed to finish every lap of the first leg could not clinch the overall win.[2] Co-Coordinator of the Macau Grand Prix Committee João Manuel Costa Antunes said the changes were made to simplify the Grand Prix for motor racing fans, enhance tension over the weekend, and to provide a larger incentive for drivers to push hard without worrying about losing their chance of victory.[2]

Report

Practice and qualifying

Two practice sessions were held before Saturday's qualification race. The first session, held on Thursday morning, lasted thirty minutes, while the second identically timed session took place on Friday morning.[1] In the first practice session, ThreeBond Racing's Fábio Carbone set the fastest lap at two minutes and 15.216 seconds. Carbone was six-tenths of a second faster than Richard Antinucci in second and third-placed Lewis Hamilton. The latter's teammate Robert Kubica was fourth-fastest with Nico Rosberg and Kazuki Nakajima sixth and sixth. Quintarelli, Danny Watts, Alexandre Prémat and Naoki Yokomizo were seventh through tenth.[15][16] Hamilton's front wheel nut came loose which stopped him from glancing in his mirrors because of visibility problems. He entered the pit lane to have the problem corrected. Kubica then grazed the barrier at Lisboa corner after swerving to avoid ramming into Álvaro Parente. He later ran wide on cement that was laid to clear oil left from a support series and understeered into the Melco hairpin wall.[15]

Robert Kubica (pictured in 2005) claimed the first pole position for a Polish driver in the Macau Grand Prix in the final five minutes of the second qualifying session.

The qualifying period was split into two sessions; the first was held on Thursday afternoon and ran for 40 minutes with the second held on Friday afternoon and was similarly timed to the previous day's session.[1] The fastest time set by each driver from either session counted towards his final starting position for the qualification race.[3] The start of the opening qualifying session was delayed by fifteen minutes due to multiple accidents during practice for the GT Tires Asian Formula Renault Challenge event and the CTM Touring Car Cup race.[17] When it did begin under warm and sunny weather conditions,[17] Hamilton led early on and never ceded first as he continued improving his lap time and finished at two minutes and 12.344 seconds. He avoided wrecking his car in the wall after going wide onto some dust.[18][19] Green was consistently quick and his best lap came at his final attempt. It put him second but more than a second adrift of Hamilton.[19] 2003 pole sitter Carbone was third and Antinucci moved up the order in the closing minutes to place fourth.[17] Watts was as high as second early on but fell to fifth by the end due to him electing to save a set of tyres for Friday.[17][19] Rosberg finished sixth, ahead of Franck Perera and Nakajima. Both Quintarelli and Parente in the top five early on but they ended up ninth and tenth.[17] The fastest driver not to set a top ten lap was Adam Carroll and he was followed by his British compatriot James Rossiter. Prémat and Nokomizo were provisionally on the grid's seventh row and were joined in the order by Loïc Duval and Piquet. Rob Austin and Katsuyuki Hiranaka were next up ahead of Tung and Kubica. Ho was 21st, ahead of Cressoni, Daisuke Ikeda, Lee, Jones, Lucas di Grassi, Marko Asmer, Éric Salignon, Lei, Avila, Merszei and Giedo van der Garde.[18] Van Der Garde crashed on his out-lap at San Francisco Bend corner and removed two of his car's wheels.[17] The first red flag came a third of the way through when Salignon had an accident at Maternity Bend turn and needed extracting. After a short interval, Kubica, Lee, di Grassi, Ikeda and Asmer stopped at the Melco hairpin and their cars needed moving by marshals. A second red flag came with ten minutes left when Parente heavily damaged his car in an impact with the Teddy Yip Bend corner wall.[17][19]

In the second half hour practice session, Kubica was consistently fast and paced the field with a lap time of two minutes and 12.303 seconds. Hamilton made some changes to his car but was 0,646 seconds behind his teammate in second and Carbone was third. In fourth place was Antinucci, Prémat was fifth and Green came sixth. Perera was seventh-quickest, Rosberg was eighth, Rossiter placed ninth and Quintarelli completed the top ten ahead of second qualifying.[20][21] Although the session passed without any red flags being necessitated, three minor incidents were observed as Jones lost control of his vehicle at Moorish Hill corner and Van der Garde and Carroll were caught off guard at the same turn but all three did not sustain any signifiant damage to their cars. Nakajima crashed into the wall just before the entrance to the Melco hairpin.[21]

The start of the second qualifying session was disrupted when a car appeared to be grounded at the Melco hairpin which prompted everybody else to scramble for space on the narrow part of the track. Lei put his car into the wall at Faraway turn twelve minutes in and was about to recover when he was collected by Avila. This caused the session's first red flag since the circuit became impassable.[22][23] As drivers began improving their times, Salignon triggered the second red flags when he crashed into the wall at Maternity Bend corner while attempting to avoid Kubica.[22] The final red flag was caused by Nakajima who ran wide at the R-Bend turn, spun into the wall, ricocheted into the centre of the track, and littered debris. Hamilton was unable to improve due to the interruptions to the session and him causing a multi-car accident at the Melco hairpin.[22][23] His teammate Kubica became the first Polish driver to claim pole position in Macau in the final five minutes with a time of two minutes and 12.155 seconds.[23][24] Hamilton joined Kubica on the front row of the grid and Anuticci moved up one place at the session's end to start from third. Rosberg claimed fourth and Piquet moved eleven places from the first qualifying session to take fifth.[22][23] Although Green and Carbone improved their times, they fell to sixth and seventh. Prémat and di Grassi moved to eighth and tenth and separated Nakajima in ninth.[22] Behind them the rest of the field consisted of Watts, Duval, Perera, Parente, Quintarelli, Yokomizo, Rossiter, Carroll, Salignon, Hiranaka, Austin, Ikeda, Cressoni, Asmer, Lee, Van der Garde, Tung, Jones, Ho, Avila, Lei and Merszei.[24]

Warm-up one

A ten-minute warm-up session was held on the morning of the qualifying race.[25] Hamilton continued his strong form over the weekend and paced the session with a time of two minutes and 12.904 seconds having been more than two seconds faster than any one else in the session's early moments. His closest challenger was Carbone in second place and Kubica was third. Rosberg was fourth fastest, ahead of Duval and Watts. Di Grassi, Antinucci, Piquet and Nakajima followed in the top ten.[20][25]

Qualifying race

Lewis Hamilton (pictured in 2007) passed teammate Kubica on the first lap of the qualification race and led every lap to win it and started from pole position for the Grand Prix itself.

The qualifying race to set the starting order for the main race started under dry and sunny weather conditions at 14:00 Macau Standard Time (UTC+08:00) on 20 November.[1][20] Hamilton made a good getaway off the grid and clung onto the slipstream of his teammate Kubica who was on the inside line going into Reservoir turn. Hamilton steered left to the inside line and frightened Kubica into easing off the accelerator pedal. That put Hamilton into the lead on the approach to Mandarin Bend corner and he kept it entering Lisboa turn.[26] Further back, a series of incidents on the grid called for the safety car's deployment for four laps.[27] Antinucci was slow leaving his starting slot and Piquet went to the right to overtake him but the latter's manoevure ended up with him removing his car's left-front wheel.[28] A larger accident was triggered when Nakajima stalled in his grid slot and the rear of his vehicle was ran into by Salignon who then speared into the barriers alongside the track just after the start/finish line.[27][28] Tung glimpsed space to drive through but he was launched airborne after running into the rear of Lee's car who aggressively turned to the right while Avila got collected.[28][29]

With debris on the track, the remaining drivers were circumspect across the start/finish line and avoided sharp debris that would have punctured their tyres. Under the safety car, Piquet got back to the pit lane without his front-left wheel fully attached and he retired in the pit lane because his team could not make repairs before the end of the race.[28] Salignon was trapped in his car and required external assistance from course officials. This was attributed to the long period of time the safety car was on the circuit.[26][27][28] Later, he was transported to a local hospital for precautionary observations and was released with no major injuries. In the meantime, circuit marshals extracted the stricken cars from the track via crane and laid cement dust. Hamilton held the lead at the restart on lap five and Rosberg moved past Kubica entering Mandarin Bend corner. Carroll hassled Perera for eleventh and overtook him before the conclusion of the fifth lap. Carroll then set himself about drawing closer to Rossiter. Elsewhere, Green passed Carbone to claim fourth. Carbone tried to retake the position but could not do so as Green defended his line.[28] As he pushed hard, Prémat got close to the barrier at Maternity Bend and got past Kubica on the run to Lisboa turn on lap six.[26][28]

Duval led a pack of cars further down the order as Rossiter overtook Watts (who carried front wing damage) and the latter contended with Perera. Both slipstreamed each other on the circuit's main straights. But when Antinucci became involved, it went awry as Carroll got past Watts going into Lisboa corner on lap seven. Antinucci was caught off guard by this and had to venture into the turn's escape road. Antinucci tried to restart his car but was unsuccessful and it was extracted by marshals.[28] Hamilton set the race's fastest lap on lap nine at two minutes and 12.801 seconds and pulled out a lead of 2.2 seconds to win the race and pole position for the Grand Prix itself.[20][27] Rosberg was second and Prémat completed the podium in third. Off the podium Kubica withstood pressure from Green in the event's closing stages to claim fourth. Behind them Carbone, Duval, di Grassi, Rossiter and Watts rounded out the top ten.[26] Outside the top ten, Carroll finished eleventh ahead of Perera and Hiranaka. Austin, Yokomizo, Quintarelli, Parente, Ikeda, Asmer, Cressoni, Van Der Garde, Jones, Ho, Lei and Merszei were the final classified finishers.[27]

Warm-up two

A second warm-up session held over twenty-minutes took place on the morning of the main race.[1] Kubica recovered from his fourth place finish in the qualification race and was able to top the time sheets with a lap of two minutes and 11.485 seconds. Prémat was almost three-tenths of a second adrift in second and Hamilton was third. Fourth place went to Green, Rosberg placed fifth and Antinucci sixth. The rest of the top ten were Rossiter, Piquet, Watts and Yokomizo.[20][30] After warm-up, but before the Grand Prix, there was one less driver on the grid as the chassis of Salignon's vehicle sustained enough damage from his crash in the qualification race to warrant its withdrawal.[31]

Main Race

Nico Rosberg (pictured in 2007) took the lead from Hamilton at the start but lost his chance of victory when he ran wide into the wall on lap two.

The race began on 21 November at 15:45 local time under dry and sunny weather conditions.[1][20] On the grid, Hamilton was slow off the line and Rosberg moved into the lead going into Mandarin Bend corner. Behind the two Prémat held off an challenge from Kubica for third. Rossiter and his teammate Duval connected on the approach to Lisboa turn. Both went off into the corner's run-off area and their races ended early on the first lap.[31] At the start of the second lap, Rosberg was pushing hard in his attempt to give himself some space over Hamilton when he drove into Lisboa turn too quickly with his brakes locked and slid sideways on oil laid by the support races.[31][32] Rosberg ran into the tyre barrier with his car's front. Hamilton was also pushing hard when he ran wide. That rendered him unable to avoid piling into the rear of Rosberg's car.[31] They were joined by Watts who was alongside Carroll on the straight and braked late. He saw Hamilton's stricken car and ventured into the escape road.[33] Hiranaka then spun into Watts but the latter avoided any noticeable damage as he returned to the track but the former lost a lot of time restarting his vehicle.[31][33] Rosberg retired but Hamilton disentangled from his car and rejoined down the order.[34]

Hamilton and Rosberg's crashes promoted Prémat into the lead with Kubica second. That lap Prémat got sideways at Moorish Hill corner and clouted the wall heavily with his left-rear tyre. He avoided putting himself out of the race as there was no significant damage to his car. It did allow Kubica to close up but he could not affect an overtaking manoevure on Prémat.[35][36] Further back, Carbone bent the right-hand side of his front wing when he went into the rear of di Grassi's car and damaged the latter's diffuser. However, the collision did not appear to slow di Grassi. The safety car was dispatched on lap three when Parente crashed heavily at the Solitude Esses complex. His car required extraction by course marshals and debris needed clearing.[31][35] Under the safety car, Prémat checked his car's steering and found no problems with it. The race restarted at the start of the sixth lap and Prémat held his lead.[36] Kubica misjudged the timing of the restart and Green took advantage of this to slipstream past Kubica for second going into Lisboa corner. Kubica's tyres reached their optimum operating temperatures and he began challenging Green for second while di Grassi blocked his Brazilian compatriot Carbone from taking fourth.[31][35]

Alexandre Prémat (pictured in 2009) took the lead when Hamilton and Rosberg ran wide on the second lap and held it for the rest of the race to win.

Carroll challenged Perera but was unsuccessful. Carbone then slowed as Carroll was near him and it enabled di Grassi to pull away slightly. Perera reclaimed sixth from Carroll on lap eight and the former came under pressure from Austin.[31] That lap, Green's chance of victory was over when he picked up a left-rear puncture from possible debris. He lost time by running wide at Fisherman's Bend corner. Kubica overtook Green for second and he slowed on his way to the pit lane for new tyres.[33][36] It appeared that the finishing order had been settled by this point but Ikeda disrupted the rhythm when he went into the barrier and had to be extracted via crane. Avila and Jones collided at the Solitude Esses complex shortly after and the safety car was deployed at the end of the ninth lap since the track was temporarily blocked. Yokomizo went off the track under the safety car but this did not extend its on-track time as it was withdrawn at the end of lap eleven. Prémat maintained the lead at the restart.[31] As Prémat pulled away from Kubica,[36] Carbone took the opportunity to overtake di Grassi for third at Lisboa corner and the latter immediately planned a counter-attack.[31][35]

Carroll had another try at getting ahead of Perera but this did not succeed as he lost control of his car but kept off the barriers. In the meantime, Hamilton was trying to move past Nakajima when he went into the wall going uphill to Maternity Bend corner. Elsewhere, di Grassi sought to overtake Carbone only for the latter to block his manoevure.[31] On lap thirteen, Asmer spun across the track at Police Bend; it became impassable when the trio of Hiranka, Jones and Tung piled into the corner.[31][36] Officials elected to wave the red flags on the lap and the result of the race was counted back to the running order at the end of lap eleven.[37] This gave Prémat the victory and he became the third driver after David Coulthard (1991) and Takuma Sato (2001) to win the Macau Grand Prix and the Masters of Formula 3 in the same year.[31] Kubica was 0.675 seconds behind in second and Carbone's overtake on di Grassi was nullified because of the red flags and the latter took third. Off the podium, Carbone was fourth, Perera fifth and the British duo of Carroll and Austin sixth and seventh. Quintarelli placed eighth, Antinucci gained seventeen positions to finish ninth and Piquet rounded out the top ten. Asmer, Watts, Nakajima, Hamilton, Van Der Garde, Tung, Jones, Lee, Lei, Green, Merszei, Yokomizo and Hiranka were the last of the classified finishers.[35]

Classification

Qualifying

Pos No. Driver Team Q1 Time Rank Q2 Time Rank Gap Grid
1 22 Poland Robert Kubica Manor Motorsport 2:17.217 20 2:12.155 1 1
2 21 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton Manor Motorsport 2:12.344 1 2:12.415 2 +0.189 2
3 23 United States Richard Antinucci TOM'S 2:13.791 4 2:12.512 3 +0.357 3
4 6 Germany Nico Rosberg Team Rosberg 2:14.331 6 2:12.725 4 +0.570 4
5 7 Brazil Nelson Piquet Jr. Piquet Sports 2:15.297 16 2:12.834 5 +0.679 5
6 8 United Kingdom Jamie Green ASM Formule 3 2:13.372 2 2:13.051 6 +0.896 6
7 30 Brazil Fábio Carbone ThreeBond Racing 2:13.786 3 2:13.093 7 +0.938 7
8 9 France Alexandre Prémat ASM Formule 3 2:14.776 13 2:13.132 8 +0.977 8
9 24 Japan Kazuki Nakajima TOM'S 2:14.345 8 2:13.160 9 +1.005 9
10 26 Brazil Lucas di Grassi Hitech Racing 2:19.286 26 2:13.817 10 +1.662 10
11 25 United Kingdom Danny Watts Hitech Racing 2:14.161 5 2:14.285 11 +2.006 11
12 2 France Loïc Duval Signature Team 2:15.263 15 2:14.283 12 +2.128 12
13 14 France Franck Perera Prema Powerteam 2:14.336 7 2:14.900 13 +2.181 13
14 18 Portugal Álvaro Parente Carlin Motorsport 2:14.435 10 2:14.350 14 +2.195 14
15 4 Italy Ronnie Quintarelli Inging 2:14.400 9 2:15.377 15 +2.245 15
16 5 Japan Naoki Yokomizo Inging 2:14.849 14 2:14.435 16 +2.280 16
17 3 United Kingdom James Rossiter Signature Team 2:14.655 12 2:14.543 17 +2.388 17
18 11 United Kingdom Adam Carroll Menu F3 Motorsport 2:14.597 11 2:14.835 18 +2.442 18
19 10 France Éric Salignon ASM Formule 3 2:20.727 28 2:14.597 19 +2.442 19
20 15 Japan Katsuyuki Hiranaka Prema Powerteam 2:16.623 18 2:15.010 20 +2.855 20
21 12 United Kingdom Rob Austin Menu F3 Motorsport 2:16.088 17 2:15.167 21 +3.012 21
22 32 Japan Daisuke Ikeda Swiss Racing Team 2:18.588 23 2:15.230 22 +3.075 22
23 16 Italy Matteo Cressoni Ombra Racing 2:17.875 22 2:15.291 23 +3.136 23
24 19 Estonia Marko Asmer Carlin Motorsport 2:19.600 27 2:15.824 24 +3.669 24
25 33 Hong Kong Marchy Lee Promatecme 2:18.979 24 2:16.225 25 +4.070 25
26 1 Netherlands Giedo van der Garde Signature Team No time 32 2:16.712 26 +4.557 26
27 27 China Ho-Pin Tung Hitech Racing 2:16.993 19 2:16.744 27 +4.589 27
28 28 Australia Christian Jones TME Racing 2:19.280 25 2:16.871 28 +4.716 28
29 29 Macau Michael Ho TME Racing 2:17.814 21 2:19.482 29 +5.659 29
30 20 Macau Rodolfo Ávila Carlin Motorsport 2:22.576 30 2:20.074 30 +7.919 30
31 17 Macau Lei Kit Meng Ombra Racing 2:21.298 29 2:22.636 31 +9.143 31
32 31 Macau Jo Merszei Swiss Racing Team 2:24.250 31 2:23.963 32 +11.808 32
110% qualifying time: 2:25.390[20]
Bold time indicates the faster of the two times that determined the grid order.
Source:[20]

Qualifying race

Pos No. Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid
1 21 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton Manor Motorsport 10 33:16.057 2
2 6 Germany Nico Rosberg Team Rosberg 10 +2.284 4
3 9 France Alexandre Prémat ASM Formule 3 10 +3.982 8
4 22 Poland Robert Kubica Manor Motorsport 10 +4.984 1
5 8 United Kingdom Jamie Green ASM Formule 3 10 +5.454 6
6 30 Brazil Fábio Carbone ThreeBond Racing 10 +7.551 7
7 2 France Loïc Duval Signature Team 10 +17.289 12
8 26 Brazil Lucas di Grassi Hitech Racing 10 +18.888 10
9 3 United Kingdom James Rossiter Signature Team 10 +19.439 17
10 25 United Kingdom Danny Watts Hitech Racing 10 +20.513 11
11 11 United Kingdom Adam Carroll Menu F3 Motorsport 10 +21.685 18
12 14 France Franck Perera Prema Powerteam 10 +23.761 13
13 15 Japan Katsuyuki Hiranaka Prema Powerteam 10 +24.752 20
14 12 United Kingdom Rob Austin Menu F3 Motorsport 10 +25.335 21
15 5 Japan Naoki Yokomizo Inging 10 +26.494 16
16 4 Italy Ronnie Quintarelli Inging 10 +27.688 15
17 18 Portugal Álvaro Parente Carlin Motorsport 10 +28.012 14
18 32 Japan Daisuke Ikeda Swiss Racing Team 10 +31.813 22
19 19 Estonia Marko Asmer Carlin Motorsport 10 +31.990 24
20 16 Italy Matteo Cressoni Ombra Racing 10 +32.891 23
21 1 Netherlands Giedo van der Garde Signature Team 10 +34.658 26
22 28 Australia Christian Jones TME Racing 10 +55.774 28
23 29 Macau Michael Ho TME Racing 10 +58.889 29
24 17 Macau Lei Kit Meng Ombra Racing 10 +1:43.680 31
25 31 Macau Jo Merszei Swiss Racing Team 10 +2:01.384 32
Ret 23 United States Richard Antinucci TOM'S 8 Stall 3
Ret 7 Brazil Nelson Piquet Jr. Piquet Sports 1 Wheel 5
Ret 10 France Éric Salignon ASM Formule 3 0 Accident 19
Ret 20 Macau Rodolfo Ávila Carlin Motorsport 0 Accident 30
Ret 24 Japan Kazuki Nakajima TOM'S 0 Accident 9
Ret 27 China Ho-Pin Tung Hitech Racing 0 Accident 27
Ret 33 Hong Kong Marchy Lee Promatecme 0 Accident 25
Fastest lap: Lewis Hamilton, 2:12.801, 165.90 km/h (103.09 mph) on lap 9[20]
Source:[20]

Main Race

Pos No. Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid
1 9 France Alexandre Prémat ASM Formule 3 11 37:13.731 3
2 22 Poland Robert Kubica Manor Motorsport 11 +0.675 4
3 26 Brazil Lucas di Grassi Hitech Racing 11 +1.178 8
4 30 Brazil Fábio Carbone ThreeBond Racing 11 +1.422 6
5 14 France Franck Perera Prema Powerteam 11 +1.822 12
6 11 United Kingdom Adam Carroll Menu F3 Motorsport 11 +2.219 11
7 12 United Kingdom Rob Austin Menu F3 Motorsport 11 +3.464 14
8 4 Italy Ronnie Quintarelli Inging 11 +3.633 16
9 23 United States Richard Antinucci TOM'S 11 +4.301 26
10 7 Brazil Nelson Piquet Jr. Piquet Sports 11 +5.367 27
11 19 Estonia Marko Asmer Carlin Motorsport 11 +6.154 19
12 25 United Kingdom Danny Watts Hitech Racing 11 +6.463 14
13 24 Japan Kazuki Nakajima TOM'S 11 +6.780 30
14 21 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton Manor Motorsport 11 +7.267 1
15 1 Netherlands Giedo van der Garde Signature Team 11 +7.690 21
16 27 China Ho-Pin Tung Hitech Racing 11 +8.116 31
17 28 Australia Christian Jones TME Racing 11 +8.505 22
18 33 Hong Kong Marchy Lee Promatecme 11 +9.074 32
19 17 Macau Lei Kit Meng Ombra Racing 11 +12.197 24
20 8 United Kingdom Jamie Green ASM Formule 3 11 +12.235 5
21 31 Macau Jo Merszei Swiss Racing Team 11 +14.040 25
22 5 Japan Naoki Yokomizo Inging 10 +1 lap 15
23 15 Japan Katsuyuki Hiranaka Prema Powerteam 10 +1 lap 13
Ret 32 Japan Daisuke Ikeda Swiss Racing Team 8 Accident 18
Ret 20 Macau Rodolfo Ávila Carlin Motorsport 8 Accident 29
Ret 29 Macau Michael Ho TME Racing 8 Retired 23
Ret 16 Italy Matteo Cressoni Ombra Racing 2 Brakes 20
Ret 6 Germany Nico Rosberg Team Rosberg 1 Accident 2
Ret 18 Portugal Álvaro Parente Carlin Motorsport 1 Accident 17
Ret 3 United Kingdom James Rossiter Signature Team 0 Accident 9
Ret 2 France Loïc Duval Signature Team 0 Accident 7
DNS 10 France Éric Salignon ASM Formule 3 – Did not start –
Fastest lap: Robert Kubica, 2:12.527, 165.38 km/h (102.76 mph) on lap nine[20]
Source:[20]

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