Trulli Trounces Field
Hockenheim short circuit, 31 laps, 81.65 km
| Grid: | ||||||
| No. | Car | Driver | No. | Car | Driver | |
| 1 | 1 | Jarno Trulli | 2 | 4 | Marcel Tiemann | |
| 3 | 5 | Arnd Meier | 4 | 51 | Dominick Schwager (B) | |
| 5 | 8 | Manuel Giao | 6 | 3 | Nick Heidfeld | |
| 7 | 15 | Christian Menzel | 8 | 7 | Oliver Tichy | |
| 9 | 11 | Wolf Henzler | 10 | 2 | Tim Bergmeister | |
| 11 | 25 | Tim Verbergt | 12 | 18 | Max Wilson | |
| 13 | 6 | Rui Aguas | 14 | 9 | Sascha Bert | |
| 15 | 56 | Yves Olivier (B) | 16 | 53 | Jaroslaw Wierczuk (B) | |
| 17 | 22 | Vincent Vosse | 18 | 19 | Rolf Schuster | |
| 19 | 50 | Philipp Sager (B) | 20 | 21 | Markus Friesacher | |
| 21 | 54 | Tobias Schlesinger (B) | 22 | 23 | Andre Couto | |
| 23 | 52 | Johan Sureson (B) | 24 | 10 | Steffen Widmann | |
| NB - (B) Denotes Class B | ||||||
Jarno Trulli had a lights to flag victory in a largely
processional Formula 3 race. He started on pole, with Dominik
Schwager in a group B Dallara 394 an astounding 4th. A disappointing
12th was Max Wilson, winner of the non-points race here two weeks
previously.
The start was uneventful, except for a couple of
jumped starts, Vosse and Sager judging it hopelessly wrong. Nothing
troubled Trulli though, and he rapidly created a gap.
Things were rather static for the next ten laps,
with Trulli extending his lead, and the rest just following. However,
this all changed on lap 12 when Giao and Tiemann made contact
at the back of the circuit. Tiemann went out, while Giao limped
back to the pits and retirement.
By lap 20, Trulli was lapping backmarkers, but this
presented no problems to him. Then suddenly on lap 26, Max Wilson
woke up and started lapping distinctly faster than those in front
of him. This was the only interest in the closing stages of the
race (except for Sureson missing a right front wing), and it went
down to the wire. Wilson put in a desperate dive for the line
off the last corner, but had to settle for fifth behind Menzel.
Schwager finished an amazing 2nd.
Results:
| 1. Trulli | 2. Schwager | 3. Henzler | 4. Menzel | 5. Wilson | 6. Tichy |
Lap Chart
| Position | |||||||||||||
| Lap | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | |
| 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 51 | ||||||
| 2 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 51 | 11 | 2 | 25 | ||||
| 3 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 51 | 11 | 2 | 25 | 7 | 18 | ||
| 4 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 51 | 11 | 2 | 7 | 25 | 18 | 6 | |
| 5 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 51 | 11 | 15 | 2 | 7 | 18 | 25 | 6 | |
| 6 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 51 | 11 | 15 | 2 | 7 | 18 | 6 | 25 | |
| 7 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 51 | 11 | 15 | 2 | 7 | 18 | 6 | 25 | |
| 8 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 51 | 11 | 15 | 2 | 7 | 18 | 6 | 25 | |
| 9 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 51 | 11 | 15 | 2 | 7 | 18 | 6 | 25 | |
| 10 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 51 | 11 | 15 | 2 | 7 | 18 | 6 | 25 | |
| 11 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 51 | 11 | 15 | 2 | 18 | 7 | 6 | 9 | |
| 12 | 1 | 51 | 11 | 15 | 2 | 18 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 23 | 55 | |
| 13 | 1 | 51 | 11 | 15 | 2 | 18 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 23 | 55 | |
| 14 | 1 | 51 | 11 | 15 | 2 | 18 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 23 | 55 | |
| 15 | 1 | 51 | 11 | 15 | 2 | 18 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 23 | 55 | |
| 16 | 1 | 51 | 11 | 15 | 2 | 18 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 23 | 55 | |
| 17 | 1 | 51 | 11 | 15 | 2 | 18 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 23 | 55 | |
| 18 | 1 | 51 | 11 | 15 | 2 | 18 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 23 | 55 | |
| 19 | 1 | 51 | 11 | 15 | 2 | 18 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 23 | 55 | |
| 20 | 1 | 51 | 11 | 15 | 2 | 18 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 23 | 55 | |
| 21 | 1 | 51 | 11 | 15 | 2 | 18 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 23 | 55 | |
| 22 | 1 | 51 | 11 | 15 | 2 | 18 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 23 | 55 | |
| 23 | 1 | 51 | 11 | 15 | 2 | 18 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 23 | 55 | |
| 24 | 1 | 51 | 11 | 15 | 2 | 18 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 23 | 55 | |
| 25 | 1 | 51 | 11 | 15 | 2 | 18 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 23 | 55 | |
| 26 | 1 | 51 | 11 | 15 | 2 | 18 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 23 | 55 | |
| 27 | 1 | 51 | 11 | 15 | 18 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 23 | 55 | |
| 28 | 1 | 51 | 11 | 15 | 18 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 23 | 55 | |
| 29 | 1 | 51 | 11 | 15 | 18 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 23 | 55 | |
| 30 | 1 | 51 | 11 | 15 | 18 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 23 | 55 | |