These four will be hoping Mikola suffers a double non-finish which will probably be the only way to keep their championship aspirations alive. Both O’Hara and Winslow have won a race each this year, as has reigning champion Christian Jones. Tyson Sy and Dado Pena have both led races and both have stood on the second step of the podium. Sy is the man most likely to get that break through win, having qualified on pole position twice, but Pena has been thereabouts all year and is desperate to become the first Filipino to win an AF3 race since Pepon Marave back in 2003.
The champion will have a sponsored drive in the Macau F3 GP, subject to the Macau organizer accepting the driver’s entry, and whilst this looks likely to be Ananda Mikola the waters have become muddied due to Mikola possibly having an A1GP drive. The organizers of the latter have scheduled a race at the Sepang Circuit over the Macau weekend which means Mikola would be forced to miss Macau if his A1GP drive goes ahead. Why the A1GP people are holding an event in Sepang on the same weekend as the biggest Asian motor sporting event is a mystery that only they can answer.
The upshot is that second place in the Championship may have much more than its usual meaning – it may mean the lucky driver will be racing in Macau. However there is a big question mark as to whether the Macau Organizers will accept a championship runner up…….
Rodolfo Avila was pretty quick last time out and he will also be looking to beat Dado and Tyson to demonstrate he is the best of the young drivers. At the other end of the scale Pepon Marave seems to have gone off the boil so he is really going to turn up the heat if he is to worry any of the top runners.
Moreno Soeprapto has a 26 point lead over Greg Murphy in the Promotion Class with Lee Farrell a further nine points adrift. Both Murphy and Farrell non-finished last time out and they must really hope that Moreno does the same this
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