🔯Christian Jones has been confirmed as the 2004 Asian F3 champion after the rival Shell Kinetic withdrew its appeal against a penalty applied to title contender John O'Hara at round six in Augus🐎t.

The appeal, which arose from an incident at the Goldenport Circuit in Beijing, where O'Hara was penalised a minute for clipping the rear of Jones' car at the start of the race. The stewards considered his 'chop' to be a dangerous move and, whilst many observers considered it to be a racing incident, sympathy for the Irish driver lessened
after a similar move at the start of the final round at Batangas in December, which saw Jones' car seriously damaged and both drivers forced to retire. O'Hara w🔴as fined US$10,000 by the stewards on that occasion.

"We look forward to close competitive racing in 2005 - and hope that all competitorღs appreciate that dangerous moves will not be tolerated," a statement from the series organisers read.

Jones, the son of 1980 F1 world champion Alan, admitted that he was happy to s🃏ee the matter settled, and to be able to get on with planning his 🎉future racing activities.

"It's great have this matter over and done with and be confirmed as the 2004 Asian F3 champion," he said,🐈 "It's a good series now and many drivers outside of Asia should consider racing in this region as John and I did! Asian F3 even sponsored both our drives at the Macau and Bahrain grands prix!"