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Tveter Fights Hard and Takes GP3 Podium Finish
Sunday at Silverstone

SILVERSTONE, England, July 8 — Ryan Tveter of Oyster Bay, N.Y. stood on the podium at Silverstone Sunday morning prior to the Formula 1 race after finishing third in the GP3 Series race there.

It was his first podium finish of the season with his No. 7, which carries the colors of The Disruptive, Stilo, and his charity partners — Right To Play, MTV Staying Alive, and the Lessons for Life Foundation.

Tveter had familiar faces around him, as two of his teammates, Pedro Piquet, son of three-time F1 champion Nelson Piquet, and Giuliano Alesi, son of former F1 driver Jean Alesi, were with him as the Trident team finished first, second and third.

Alesi started first and Piquet started second in the 15-lap race, but Tveter had to work harder for his podium finish after starting fifth. He and the drivers who are first and second in the point standings, Callum Ilott and Anthoine Hubert, passed the driver who started fourth, Dorian Boccolacci, on the first lap. Tveter was 0.6 of a second behind the third-place driver, Leonardo Pulcini, and 0.4 ahead of Hubert, the point leader, by the end of lap one.

Fields can tend to get spread out on Silverstone’s 3.66-mile road course. Both Tveter and Hubert wanted a podium finish badly, and they knew they had to strike fast to get it. While Hubert hounded Tveter for fourth and Tveter searched for a way around Pulcini for third, Tveter activated his DRS and was the fastest driver in the field on lap three. Two laps later his determination paid off when he passed Pulcini to take third place going into Stowe corner. Then the young American resisted all of Hubert’s best moves for the next 10 laps to post his first podium finish of the season. It wasn’t easy, as a full-course caution on lap 11 closed up the field and gave Hubert another shot on the restart on lap 14, but Tveter was not to be denied.

Tveter had excellent results in the first half of the GP3 series doubleheader here on Saturday too, as he started fifth and finished fourth in that 20-lap race.

He took fourth on the first lap by passing Alesi, set his fastest lap of that race on lap nine, and held off Boccolacci the rest of the way for the top-five finish.

The next doubleheader is at the Hungaroring in Budapest July 27-29.

“I’m elated with the weekend as a whole,” Tveter said on Sunday. “We had strong car balance and speed from the start. Some fine-tuning from practice to qualifying and then from Race 1 gave us a bit more. We couldn’t quite get on the same pace as the ARTs in yesterday’s race, but after another good start and a strong race, I’m very happy to share the podium with my teammates, Pedro and Giuliano, for a Trident one-two-three. We’re back to where we should be, and I’m feeling confident and focused to keep improving for the next round in Budapest. But first, I’m taking a little break to go home to New York after these intense last few weeks. Big thanks to the guys at Trident!”

For more information see RyanTveter.com and follow him on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube. The series' Web site, which hosts a live timing and scoring feed, is at gp3series.com. Trident's Web site is at tridentmotorsport.com.