By BAR Honda
November 4 2005

BAR Honda Young Driver James Rossiter secured four points in the first race of the final F3 Euro Series last weekend at Hockenheim. The Briton qualified 15th for the first race but battled his way through the field and again proved his wet-weather skill in the closing stages to take sixth place at the chequered flag behind team-mate Loic Duval. After the race, however, the stewards excluded Duval for ignoring the black and orange flag, which indicates that a driver's car is unfit to continue in a race – in Duval's case, the result of a collision with Paul di Resta. This promoted Rossiter to fifth place in the results and earned him an extra point.

These were to be his final points of the season as, starting from tenth on the grid, in race two Rossiter was only able to guide his Signature-Plus machine to ninth place overall. Series champion Lewis Hamilton confirmed his dominance by taking wins in both races at Hockenheim.

In the final F3 Euro Series standings, Rossiter placed seventh, just one point behind Duval.

F3 Euroseries Drivers Championship
Pos	Driver	Team	Points
1	Lewis Hamilton	ASM F3	172
2	Adrian Sutil	ASM F3	94
3	Lucas Tucci di Grassi	Manor Motorsport	68
4	Franck Perera	Prema Powerteam	67
5	Sebastian Vettel	ASL Mucke Motorsport	63
6	Loic Duval	Signature-Plus	52
7	James Rossiter	Signature-Plus	51
8	Guillaume Moreau	Signature	47
9	Giedo van der Garde	Team Rosberg	34
10	Paul di Resta	Manor Motorsport	32
11	Marco Bonanomi	Prema Powerteam	21
12	Kohei Hirate	Team Rosberg	18
13	Fabio Carbone	Signature	15
14	Maximilian Gotz	HBR Motorsport	13
15	Atila Abreu	ASL Mucke Motorsport	12
16	Esteban Guerrieri	Team Midland Euroseries	12
17	Gregory Franchi	Prema Powerteam	11
18	Hannes Neuhauser	HBR Motorsport	9
19	Richard Antinucci	Team Midland Euroseries	3
20	Ross Zwolsmann	Ross Zwolsmann	2
21	Alejandro Nunez	HBR Motorsport	1