Lee Farrell continued his love affair with the 3.2 kilometres of tarma༒c that make up the world-famous Adelaide street circuit after storming to an Opes Prime National Class victory in the opening race of this weekend's second 2008 Kumho Tyres Australian Formula 3 Championship.

Though not fastest in practice, Farrell dominꦅated qualifying and led his class lights-to-flag to record his second class win from two races this year, and extend his championship points lead to 18.

Farrell started from pole and, despite a safety car inꦕtervention mid race, held on to win ahead of a resurgent ღDaniel Schulz and Chris Gilmour.

"It's brilliant, I'm really happy the weekend is going to pl𝓀an," Farrell said. "I got an ok start - wouldn't say it's the best I have ever had - but I kept the lead and had a bit of pressure from Chris G🅠ilmour for most of the race - he was pretty close most of the way through which kept it interesting.

"After the safety car I was able to get a break, and with Daniel getting past Chris at the hairpꦅin I had a good margin to get to the flag and win. It's been fantastic here so far, I'm really enjoying it. The track is amazing to drive and it's been a greaꩵt weekend so far and hopefully we can keep the momentum up."

Schulz recorded his best finish of the season thanks to a pass with two laps to go, following the safety car period, a strong second in class elevating hi✃m to third in the championship with one race of round two remaining. Gilmour's third was a strong rebound from a persistent fuel pressure problem his Gilmour Racing team has been experiencing all weekend, second in the championship and the race for either $40,000 or a fully-funded Opes Prime Championship Class drive i☂n 2009 - the prizes for this years National Class champion.

Scud Racing's Mathew Radisich was able to finish 🎶fourth - 🥀taking advantage of an incident by R-Tek F3 driver Chris Reindler two laps from home.

Reindler, Local driver Troy Woodger and several other drivers were involved in an incident a🎶t turn one on the eighth lap, dropping down the order from the class top five.

South Aus🍷tralian Samantha Reid was aᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚnother to come unstuck withy a few laps to go, spinning her TanderSport car at the final corner after being caught up in the earlier incident.

In the For🐼mula 3 Trophy Class, Andrew Mill recorded his second win of the season - and 13th outright - but it was a stunning comeback performance from Scud Racing's Justin Tate which was the clas🍸ses' leading story.

The 16 year-old Melbournian's car had an 🦩engine failure on Saturday and his team w🐽ent to extreme lengths - driving 18 hours to pick a replacement engine - to get the car back on track.

Tate rewarded the team by driving to second position in class, a just reward for the hard work. Local Jesse Wakeman recovered fඣrom earlier dramas to finish thirꦏd in class.