We had another weekend of running in the wets at Rockingham for rounds 7 and 8 of the British F3 International Series.

In the first race Atte Mustonen took the win, 2.9 seconds ahead of Marcus Ericsson and 6 seconds ahead of Jaime Alguersuari. Andy Meyrick won the National class.

Race 1 Top 10:
1. Atte Mustonen, Finland
2. Marcus Ericsson, Sweden
3. Jaime Alguersuari, Spain
4. Max Chilton, Great Britain
5. Sergio Perez, Mexico
6. Oliver Turvey, Great Britain
7. Seb Hohenthal, Sweden
8. Sam Abay, Australia
9. Walter Grubm?ller, Austria
10. Brendon Hartley, New Zealand

In race 2 Seb Hohenthal took the win after beating pole sitter Alguersuari at the start. Alguersuari hang on to second and Max Chilton took the final spot on the podium. Andy Meyrick won the national class again and was up there with the big boys in seventh.

Race 2:
1. Seb Hohenthal, Sweden
2. Jaime Alguersuari, Spain
3. Max Chilton, Great Britian
4. Atte Mustonen, Finland
5. Michael Devaney, Ireland
6. Nick Tandy, Great Britain
7. Andy Meyrick, Great Britian (National class)
8. Brendon Hartley, New Zealand
9. Oliver Turvey, Great Britain
10. Marcus Ericsson, Sweden

The Championship Top 10:
1. Sergio Perez 88
2. Atte Mustonen 78
3. Jaime Alguersuari 71
4. Sebastian Hohenthal 58
5. Oliver Turvey 57
6. Marcus Ericsson 54
7. Max Chilton 50
7. Brendon Hartley 50
9. Esteban Guerrieri 43
10. Michael Devaney 23

Ali Jackson had taken the place of Esteban Guerrieri for this round. Rumour has it that Guerrieri is WSbR-bound.

On another note there was actually a bit about Marcus Ericsson on a Swedish sports show the other day. Sweden never really has anything about motorsport in the sports news so this was a bit unexpected. They had a small interview with him at Monza and an interview with his two managers Kenny Br?ck and Eje Elgh (two of the biggest names in Swedish Motorsport). Marcus is part of the Brack Driver Development with the goal of giving him the best possible chances of becoming the first Swedish F1 driver since Stefan Johansson. In short it roughly means that Marcus will be able to focus on driving while Kenny Br?ck's old sponsors pays the bills for fast cars.