The opening weekend of the British F3 championshiop, 2017, took place at Oulton Park on the 15th and 17th April. All three races were run on the Monday and the Douglas Motorsport team can be happy with the results on the first day of competitive action.
Both Callan O’Keeffe and Petr Florescu secured a top 10 finish in race 1, with O’Keeffe making a great start from 12th on the grid to finally make his way to 7th place at the checkered flag, followed in 9th by Florescu. In race 2 O’Keeffe, after a first corner multi car collision which saw Petr Florescu’s race finished, a red flag meat a restart, but a spin of the wheels off the start allowed Enaam Ahmed past O’Keeffe. Despite this Callan managed to secure the final podium place.
The final race saw Florescu start with a poor grid position, despite this he managed to make up 5 positions to finish 11th, meanwhile Callan O’Keeffe narrowly missed out on a podium place, finishing in 4th, but giving him 3 top 10 finishes on the day.
