15 Apr 2002

Jesper Carlsen went into the second round of the championship at Donington Park last weekend as the Scholarship class leader. Two excellent podium positions with the fledgling Essencial Formula Three team in the first round proved the old cliche "to finish first, first you have to finish".

Jesper was sixth fastest in Thursday's test session, Clivio Piccione being the front runner in the proven Honda powered machine. Jesper's 2002 mount is the Essencial Motorsport Dallara powered by the as yet unproven Toyota engine.

Qualifying

Jesper was disappointed with his performance in both qualifying sessions although he found some improvement after set up changes in the second session.

Round 3 - 8th - 1m05.300
Round 4 - 6th - 1m05.121

Races

Jesper raced well in the two events - moving up from 8th place into fifth in the first race and from sixth to fifth in the second. Jesper clearly had the handling sorted for the second race and had the race been longer he would have almost certainly passed Karun Chandhok to take fourth place. A brace of wins for Adam Carroll saw him move into the lead of the Scholarship class with Jesper now in second place.