Lee Farrell continued his love affair with the 3𝔉.2 kilometres of tarmac that make up the world-famous Adelaide street ciꦛrcuit 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 dominated 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 intervention mid race, held on to win ahe✅ad of a resurgent Daniel Schulz and Chris Gilmour.

"It's brilliant, I'm really happy the weekend is going to plan," 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 Gilmour for most of the rac🀅e - 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 hairpin I had a good margin to ge🧜t 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 great 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 sa🐽fety car period, a strong second in class elevating him 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 in 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-Te♚k F3 driver Chris Reindler two laps from home.

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

South Australian Samantha Reid was another to come unstuck withy a few laps to go, spinning her TanderSport car aಌt the fina﷽l corner after being caught up in the earlier incident.

I♍n the Formula 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 classes' leading story.

The 16 year-old M🔯elbournian's car had an engine failure on Saturday and his team went to extreme lengths - driving 18 houඣrs to pick a replacement engine - to get the car back on track.

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