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<body> <Table Width="550" border="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" cellpadding="0"><TR><TD Width="35"><IMG SRC="//www.totalmotorsport.com/images/spacer.gif" WIDTH="35" HEIGHT="1"></td><td> <CENTER><Table border="0" width="100%"> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="5">F-3</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="left"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="2">11/09/2004</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="4">Avon Tyres British Formula 3 Scholarship</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="3">Ryan Lewis On Pole</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="1">  </FONT></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="left"><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="2">Ryan Lewis will start Round 21 of the Avon Tyres British Formula 3 Scholarship at Spa this afternoon from pole position, his 12th of the season. The 20 year-old newly-crowned champion clocked up a time of 2:19.459 to line up one tenth of a second ahead of Ronayne O'Mahony. The session, which started on a damp track, saw Ryan running second overall until the session was red-flagged to remove the Dallara F301 of Stephen Jelley who crashed heavily at Eau Rouge. <BR> <BR> As the track dried out, the quicker Championship cars improved to push Ryan down to 18th overall and leading Scholarship car, although the T-Sport driver was unhappy with the margin by which he secured pole. After losing valuable time in yesterday's free practice session, following a spin which beached him in the notorious Spa gravel, Ryan was forced to use today's 45 minute qualifying as a test. <BR> <BR> “I'm not particularly pleased with that, although I've got pole, I'm only a tenth ahead of O'Mahony, which I'm really not happy about, said Ryan. “I didn't perform as well as I should have done, I should have gone a lot quicker really. This car's been a lot quicker round here but with the time lost in yesterday's free practice, I ended up using the qualifying session as a test. I had spin early on in the session too, on the exit of Rivage I caught a white line on the power and it just spun me right round, all the kerbs where still quite wet. It started to dry out quite a bit during the session and I probably should have pushed a bit harder but the engine didn't feel quite right. Thankfully it was just a crank sensor that was damaged, I think because we picked up a stone or something.” <BR> <BR> Today's round 21 will take place at 15.55 and the results of that race will determine the grid for Sunday's race (Round 22) which takes place at 11.40. <BR> <BR> <B>Qualifying for Round 21</B> <BR> <BR> 1. RYAN LEWIS BES Dallara F301 Mugen-Honda 2:19.459 <BR> 2. Ronayne O'Mahony Dallara F301 Opel Spiess 2:19.593 <BR> 3. Vasilije Calasan Dallara F301 Mugen-Honda 2:19.954 <BR> 4. Adam Smith Dallara F301 Mugen-Honda 2:21.133 <BR> 5. Stephen Jelley Dallara F301 Opel Spiess 2:27.695 <BR> </FONT></TD></TR> </TABLE><BR> </CENTER> <BR><CENTER><font size="1" color="#808080" face="Tahoma">Copyright ©2000-©2023 TotalMotorSport</font></CENTER> </td> </tr> </table> </body>