F3 - Will Norris win the FIA F3 European Championship title early?

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Briton Lando Norris travels to the penultimate race meeting of the season with a 73-point lead over second-placed Maximilian Günther, his gap on Sweden’s Joel Eriksson amounts to 116 points and Norris’ compatriot Callum Ilott is fourth, 121 points behind the championship leader.

The maximum of points that can be scored on a race weekend is 75, thus Norris – who celebrated nine race wins in the 24 races contested to date – has to extended his advantage to more than 75 points following the three races at Spielberg if he wants to secure the title early. Norris would then succeed reigning champion Lance Stroll who was signed by the Williams F1 Team for 2017 after having won the FIA Formula 3 European Championship title last year. The only one of the four championship contenders who already has got a Red Bull Ring win under his belt is Callum Ilott who won the first race of the 2016 round at Spielberg.

In addition to the battle for the title, Ferdinand Habsburg (Carlin) will also take centre stage – after all, he is the great-grandson of the last Austrian Emperor, Charles I and the only Austrian on the competitive FIA Formula 3 European Championship grid. Habsburg, whose full first name is Ferdinand Zvonimir Maria Balthus Keith Michael Otto Antal Bahnam Leonhard, currently holds seventh position in the drivers’ championship. Two positions ahead of him is Jake Hughes (Hitech Grand Prix) in fifth place. The Briton stands for the progress of team Hitech Grand Prix, as he gave his squad the first race win in the 2017 FIA F3 European Championship season at the Nürburgring. Ralf Aron (Hitech Grand Prix) also made it to the Eifel podium while Tadasuke Makino (Hitech Grand Prix) came close with finishing fourth in the second race.

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