Morgan Park a cleansweep for Gilmour Racing

Qualifying set the scene for therace weekend with John Magro toping the chart with a blistering qualifying timein the high 1m08-second lap which stands as the fastest ever ‘official’ laprecorded at Morgan Park, the North Queenslander going on to set a new lap recordin the first race as well. 

ChrisGilmour in the #17 Gilmour Racing/ Racecarparts.com.au qualified second and Bryce Moore third, with Guilianatopping Gersekowski in the battle for the Forpark Australia Scholarship. 

ChrisGilmour has returned to the winners list in the Formula 3 Australian DriversChampionship in a dramatic 12-lap sprint race today. The Brisbane real estateagent was able to use his customarily good start to jump pole sitter John Magroon the run to turn one and take a lead he would never lose, brining his #17Gilmour Racing / Racecarparts.com.au Dallara home for a triumphant victory.

The racebegan in dramatic fashion when Tasmanian youngster Josh Burdon rolled hisDallara F304 three times after contact with another vehicle as the cars raninto the quick turn one-two complex. 

TheDallara was tipped onto its side and the 18-year-old from Hobart was left apassenger as it completed three complete revolutions in the air before landingupright, but heavily damaged. Burdon climbed from the car under his own powerand emerged unscathed from the crash, though was clearly shaken by the dramaticaccident. 

The racewas held under safety car for six laps whilst the damaged car was removed fromthe outside of the first corner before Gilmour led them back to the green flagfor the sprint to the finish.

Gilmourbattled to hold the lead from Magro and Bryce Moore but as his tyres came up totemperature his race lead extended to eventually take the chequered flagunchallenged.

“My startwas really good and that was enough to get into turn one and control the racefrom there. I felt I had good cold tyre pace and was able to get a bit of a gapover Magro on the restart and do enough to get the win," Gilmour said.

Chris wentonto take out a clean sweep for the three races over the race weekend at MorganPark “It’s a great feeling and now we need to go on with it for thechampionship. Getting a win here was always a plan so it’s a great result andreally closes things up in the points. Magro was a solid second and, withMoore third, the championship now closes up dramatically with the top fourdrivers now split by just 15 points at the top of the standings.