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F3 Masters Round 4 Pau Round-Up: Ratings

28.07.2018 - F3 Masters at Spa was a thriller, a battle for the lead, drivers getting brave around the high speed corners, but some got too brave and got into each other and crash into a wall, and has the championship standing battles heat up, here's another review after another fun meeting, another different style, this time it's a rating by 10

Harvey Evans: Qualified pole, won races 1 and 2
A clean sweep was desperately needed for the Aussie after a run of bad luck that went for too long, he might mathematically be out of the championship running but he'll be smiling after Spa treated him well, managing to hold off Drummond in both races and Zahara Starwing in race 2 makes it even sweeter.
Score: 10

Rafael Drummond: Qualified 2nd, 2nd in race 1, 3rd in race 2
He might not be the top man but he's done all he could to extend his title lead with nearest challengers Szybki and Palmu having a slight coming together in race 1, might have a shot in winning the title a race early but you never know at Macau.
Score: 9

Zahara Starwing: Qualified 6th, 3rd in race 1, 2nd in race 2
One of her strongest meetings where she's able to fight for victory, race 2 was noteable, have a pass and go battle with both Drummond and Evans before the pitstop got her frustrated, but kept her cool, got past Drummond and finished 2nd, not a bad day I reckon.
Score: 9

Jukka Palmu: Qualified 5th, 4th in race 1, 5th in race 2
The biggest moment for him was when Szybki got too close to him at the Kemmel Staright but nonetheless he did all he could as well, just a quiet and consistent meeting from the cool Finn.
Score: 8

Ludek Valenta Jr. Qualified 3rd, 5th in race 1, 4th in race 2
His meeting went so good for him all round but somehow he wasn't able to bring the fight against the leaders but nonetheless it was his best to date, still waiting for that podium duck to end.
Score: 9

Marc Vilanova: Qualified 9th, 6th in race 1, 9th in race 2
Got his best result of the season too and tied Szybki has the highest scoring U24 of the meeting too, good day for the young Spaniard as he's showing what's he's worth.
Score: 8.5

Bartek Szybki: Qualified 4th, 9th in race 1, 6th in race 2
He was due a bad meeting at one point and he kind of asked too much at keeping Palmu behind at the Kemmel Staright into Les Combes but instead he got mugged off not only by him but by some others too, at least it wasn't all to bad but he's kind of dropped behind coming into Macau and that's what he did not need right now.
Score: 7.5

Steve Wallace: Qualified 8th, 7th in races 1 and 2
Can't say anything else but 7th place seems to be a good place at where he's been finishing lately, just a very clean and consistent meeting by the young Brit
Score: 8

Josh Rush: Qualified 11th, 8th in races 1 and 2
Same as above
Score: 8

Vincent Ritter: Qualified 10th, 11th in race 1, 10th in race 2
Average weekend but provided with scraps, at least he's racked up some points at best.
Score: 7

Alex Reis: Qualified 7th, 10th in race 1, 12th in race 2
After a good qualifying, he got mugged off with no defence against the older guys with tougher racecraft in the Sprint but in the Feature, it didn't happen that much often but he's been good this meeting nonetheless and also he takes the U22 honours with Nannini's DNF and Solberg Jr being off the pace.
Score: 7.5

Zach Austin: Qualified 19th, 13th in race 1, 11th in race 2
Best qualifying of the season allowed him the key to points and just missed out on a top 10 in the feature and was fighting for a top 8 at one stage too, pretty much deserved after what has been pretty unlucky so far.
Score: 8


Dawid Melnarowicz Jr. Qualified 16th, 16th in race 1 and 14th in race 2
Bad meeting, only 2 points scored after he was fighting for either the dead end of the points or the first of non-points, will want to move on ASAP
Score: 6

Marc Montane: Qualified 13th, 20th in race 1, 13th in race 2/I]
Fastest man through sector 2 but it looked like he sarcificed sectors 1 and 3, meeting got ruined by Pietrzak, once again denied a big points shot.
Score: 6.5

Terry Fullerton: [I]Qualified 14th, 12th in race 1, 17th in race 2
Survived battles all meeting long until he got it wrong with Pietrzak.
Score: 5

Carl Pietrzak: Qualified 12th, 14th in race 1, DNF in race 2
Appauling driving in race 1 and he owes Montane and Nannini an apology in the steward's office. Cleaner race 2 got spoilt by Fullerton though.
Score: 3

Abel Kiraly: Qualified 21st, 17th in race 1, 16th in race 2
Close to points but he can have a shot again at Macau no doubt.
Score: 6

Csabi Szasz: Qualified 23rd, 19th in race 1, 18th in race 2
Clean sweep in the U19 battle but unforunately unlike Monaco, no points.
Score: 6

Mack Zaggro: Qualified 15th, 21st in race 1, DNF in race 2
Got taken out in race 1 and had to change his wing in the pits which ended his points challenge, charged through the field in race 2 with stunning overtaking with a 2 stop that worked but an unshedculed pitstop because of a loss of water pressure left him having a well awaited scrap with his arch-rival Fullerton who had his own problems before having to retire when problems worsened.
Score: 7

Honzik Volak Jr. Qualified 27th, DNF both races
Poor quali but both of his races ended when he got involved in collisions that weren't his fault but otherwise I doubt he would've made an impact on his ongoing results.
Score: 4

Bernardo Reckziegel Qualified 24th, DNF in race 1, 22nd in race 2
Shoutout to the young Brazilian who made a brilliant comeback in race 2, gaining 17 places.
Score: 7

Paolo Nannini: Qualified 17th, DNF both races
Poor Paolo, a disaster at Spa that he does not want to look back to.
Score: N/A

Thank you for reading the review, remember they're kind of based to the real life articles so :P Anyways before I go, there's stuff that you might want to look out for at Macau.
° Title fight and Drummond maybe winning the first ever Masters
° Battle for 4th
° Battle for 14th, been close for a while now.
° U19 battle
° It's Macau


See you guys next time!