There was unbelievable confusion about what was the fastest timed lap around the 6.213 kilometre track on Saturday, with suggestions that the Confederation of Australian Motorsport had made a lap by Allan Simonsen set at a Drive Bathurst event last November official, meaning that the quickest time in race one of the Formula 3 series wasn’t below that two minutes and 4.9560 second mark.

However, whether or not Simonsen’s time was official became irrelevant yesterday morning because race winner James Winslow and second placed Chris Gilmour both posted two laps below the Dane’s time.

Gilmour had the honour of the quickest lap, with his time of 2:04.6187 posted on the final lap of the race getting his name in the record books.

“I really wasn’t going for it, but we made a few changes to the car after the first race and obviously they worked. When I did a 2:05.1 I thought to myself ‘I’m two tenths away from the record’ and the next lap around was a 2:04.7, so I knew that either myself or James had it,” Gilmour said.

“I thought I would keep pushing to see if I could do a mid-2:04 and came away with a 2:04.6.”

Gilmour was also hopeful of going quicker in the final race of the day yesterday afternoon.

“We made a fair few changes. We went back to settings we had run at previous race meetings,” he said,

“We had been trying to experiment a bit, but that didn’t work, but that’s one of the best drives of my F3 career. It’s also my first lap record, so you can’t ask for a better place to hold it.

“It’s a pretty good thing, but at the end of the day, it’s only a lap record and I was still going for the race win.

“I didn’t get there, but if the weather holds off, I think there is more in the car and I could go even quicker.”

While most of the focus was on Gilmour and his record breaking lap, it was Winslow who took the most points after snatching the lead from polesitter James Skinner before the first corner and going on to a comfortable win.

He came under threat from young talent Nick Foster in the opening laps when times were considerably slower after a serious crash in the earlier Aussie Racing Cars race left oil on the track.

Skinner passed Foster to get back into second, only to run wide on Hell’s Corner on the eighth lap and crash out of the race.

Gilmour also snuck past Foster to take second and while the gap between the leading pair was too big to see a battle for position, they did square off in terms of lap times.

Both drivers entered the 2:04 second mark on their second last lap and improved on it as they greeted the chequered flag.

Foster finished third while fourth went to John Magro, who had started from the rear of the grid after a flat tyre dropped him out of contention in race one.

Gilmour said his best move came when he got past Foster for second.

“You get a fair bit of tow. You pick up a couple of car lengths and probably about eight kilometres by drafting the person ahead. I made a brave move past Nick Foster on the outside for second,” he said.

“James [Skinner] got on the gas too early out of turn one. He didn’t learn his lesson from the lap before when he did the same thing.”