The cars arrived at the grid on slick tyres only for the heavens to open resulting in a scramble to fit wet tyres. Both Vervisch and Suzuki had too much wheel spin at the start and this allowed Howson to take a brave run around the outside at turn one to take the lead. Howson then went on to take a dominant win drawing away to take a thirty-nine second lead by the flag. It was a great display of wet weather driving and it was also the first Asian F3 victory for the PTRS team.
Meanwhile in his wake Frederic Vervisch was pushing hard to try and keep Howson within reach but fell off at turn one on the third lap handing second place to Rafael Suzuki. The Brazilian looked like he was going to take the second spot but he also went grass cutting at turn six on the seventh lap handing the place back to Vervisch. Despite going off two more times Vervisch was able to retain second place until the chequered flag.
Vervisch now has a 51 point lead over Howson in the Championship but with 127 still left to be won the title is no by means won.
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